Paths to Glory

The most surprising thing in the Bible is not a miracle. It is not a sea that parted. It is not a bush that burned without being consumed. It is not the stone that rolled away from the tomb. It is a single sentence — spoken early, into the leaves of a garden, to a man who was hiding from Him behind a tree. Where art thou? He is looking for them. Before they can find their way back to Him — before...

Some testimonies are about one search. This one is about two. This week on Paths to Glory, we replay an episode from Season 3 — a story that has quietly become one of the ones our listeners return to more than almost any other. It is the testimony of a little boy born on a Hawaiian island and given up for adoption almost as soon as he arrived. Raised in the islands by a Puerto Rican father and a p...

Some testimonies you produce and move on from. Others follow you for years. This week on Paths to Glory, we replay one of the most impactful stories we have ever brought to this podcast — an episode from Season 4 called Bonus Time. It is the story of a little girl who answered the door when two strangers came knocking, asking if any of the kids in the house wanted to come to church. It is the stor...

Some prayers are quiet. Some are broad. Some are the sort any of us might pray on any given Sunday. This one was none of those. This week on Paths to Glory, we sit with a woman who prayed a single specific request from a hospital bed at twenty-one years old — and has spent the last twenty-five years watching God answer it in front of her family, in front of her husband, and in front of every last...

This week on Paths to Glory, we sit with a young woman who was baptized in the name of Jesus Christ before she could tie her own shoes, and received the Holy Ghost when she was five years old. She did not need to be rescued from the streets. She did not need to be rescued from a jail cell. She needed to be rescued from something the world was never going to see — a slow bleeding on the inside of a...

Most testimonies are the story of one life turning. This one is the story of four generations of a family that would not stop reaching for the next one. This week on Paths to Glory, we sit with a man whose ministry has now spanned fifty years — and every one of those years traces back to a brush arbor meeting in a field in Indiana almost a hundred years ago. Two great-grandmothers who came home fu...

There is a moment in almost every man's testimony when he has to be told a sentence he cannot forget. Sometimes it comes from a judge. Sometimes from a father. Sometimes it comes from a pastor, late in the game, after years of drift. This week on Paths to Glory, we sit with a man whose whole life has been shaped by two of those sentences — spoken years apart, by two very different men. Born i...

Most testimonies follow a familiar shape — someone was lost, someone was found. But some lives don't divide that cleanly. This week on Paths to Glory, we sit with a young man in his early twenties whose story is not about how he was rescued from the world — it is about what held inside him when everything he had leaned on was suddenly taken away. Born into a family that prayed through togethe...

Some testimonies arrive with fire and thunder. Others arrive with the quiet hum of a vacuum cleaner. This week on Paths to Glory, we sit with a man born two blocks behind the church he would spend thirty years running from. Probation by the age of eleven. Three prison sentences. A father figure murdered when he was eight, a mother taken, and a moral compass he tried for decades to drown out. And u...

We tend to picture grace as a single open door — offered once, taken or missed. But some testimonies reveal a God far more patient than that. This week on Paths to Glory, we trace the life of a woman who walked past that door for the better part of a lifetime. From a one-room house and a barefoot childhood in the Philippines. Through a Pentecostal couple on a crowded street, a missionary family wh...

Every journey has a destination. But for the believer walking the path to glory, the destination is not simply a place on a map — it is a becoming. A conformation, as Paul described it in Romans 8:29, to the image of the Son. And it is also a place — a prepared, specific, glorious home promised by the Lord Jesus Himself in John 14. This week on Paths to Glory, we ask the question the last several...

Every path requires provision. Not just at the beginning, when the road is new and the faith is fresh — but in the middle of the journey, when the supply looks low and the distance still looks long. This week on Paths to Glory, we open the Word and look at what God's provision has always looked like in the lives of those He has called — from the manna in the wilderness to the widow's oil...

Every path to glory runs through one. You may have called it a hard season, a difficult stretch, or simply the longest year of your life — but Scripture calls it by its name: the wilderness. Jacob wrestled in one. Israel wandered through one for forty years. Jesus was led into one by the very Spirit that had just descended upon Him. And in Deuteronomy 8:2, Moses looked back over forty years and to...

Every path to glory has one thing in common — someone went first. Someone moved through the wilderness ahead of you, marked the trees, and made a way where there was no way. In the language of exploration, that person is called a pathfinder. In the language of the church, we call them a soul winner. Solomon said it plainly in Proverbs 11:30 — He that winneth souls is wise. And centuries later, the...

Some gifts travel farther than the hands that carry them. When a small group from Valley Pentecostal Church in Glendale, Arizona answered a call to minister at a National Ladies Conference in Bungoma, Kenya, they went believing they had something to offer. What they discovered on the other side of the world was that God had already been at work — long before their plane ever left the ground. In th...

We are sharing our experiences as we travel to Kenya for the National Ladies Conference. We've arrived in Kenya and discuss first impressions. If you’re enjoying Paths to Glory , be sure to check out our two other podcasts! Paths to Glory Kenya shares powerful stories of faith and transformation from the heart of Africa — voices of hope, revival, and purpose. And for the young — and the young...

Some stories are told after they happen. This one begins before we ever arrive. In this episode of Paths to Glory , we invite you into a moment that is still unfolding. As three generations prepare to travel to Kenya for a women’s conference, this is not a story of what God has already done—but of what we believe He is about to do. With humility, we reflect on the weight of being entrusted with th...

Some lives are measured by what they achieve. Others are remembered for how they lived. In this special Season 8 premiere of Paths to Glory, we honor the life and legacy of Sis. Nadine Thames—a woman whose quiet strength, unwavering faith, and deep love for her family left an imprint that continues to speak. Through reflections of her life—her love for poetry, her gift of bringing people together,...

Season 7 has been a journey through anger, searching, loss, waiting, healing, and fulfillment. Different stories. Different lives. One unmistakable thread. Nothing was wasted. In this closing episode of Paths to Glory, we step back and look at the paths we’ve walked this season — lives redirected from the edge, truth that settled after years of seeking, promises fulfilled after long waiting, gener...

Some journeys are not marked by rebellion or sudden turns. They are shaped by patience, longing, and a quiet refusal to stop searching. In this episode of Paths to Glory, we follow the story of a woman whose life was grounded in faith from an early age—yet carried an unanswered hunger for deeper understanding. Raised in church and devoted to God, she spent years faithfully serving, studying, and s...

Some stories end with answers. Others end with awe. In this episode of Paths to Glory , we follow the long arc of a life shaped by anger, abuse, loss, and generational brokenness—and transformed by mercy, deliverance, and faith. It is not a story of instant change, but of patient redemption, where survival slowly gives way to surrender. As the journey unfolds, the weight of the past meets the fait...

Every journey has a beginning. Some beginnings become stepping stones. This episode returns to one of the earliest stories shared on Paths to Glory—a testimony that helped shape the heart and direction of this podcast from the very start. Before the format was fully formed, before the path was clearly marked, this story stood as a reminder that God is still at work in unexpected places and lives....

Some lives are not measured by the number of years lived, but by the depth of faith they leave behind. This special Paths to Glory tribute honors the life of a young lady whose quiet strength, sincere faith, and gentle spirit touched everyone who walked beside her. Though her time on earth was brief, her path was clear—and it continues to guide others forward. This episode is not a retelling of il...

Some lives don’t unravel all at once. They drift—slowly, quietly—until direction is lost. In this episode of Paths to Glory , we trace the journey of a man whose early years were marked by restlessness, discipline without understanding, and a growing resistance to anything that felt confining. Raised in a structured home yet unable to find his place, he spent years searching for meaning through mo...

Some promises are spoken quietly. Others take years to reveal what they truly mean. In this episode of Paths to Glory , we follow the journey of a man shaped by childhood trauma, domestic violence, and fear—who learned early how to survive in silence. Raised in a broken home and carrying wounds that could have hardened his heart, he instead chose a different path: leaving the door open when bitter...