A Stronger Faith

When he was 30 years old, Joe Pritchard’s six year old daughter asked him a question about her eternal future that he couldn’t answer. This set in motion a course of events that would lead Joe into a vibrant relationship with the God that he had little real knowledge about just a few months earlier, and even more surprisingly, into an eventual call to become a pastor. You won’t find a more genuine...

After a life filled with clubs, alcohol, depression, loss, condemnation, and the death of her mother, Shelly Johnson made a decision early one morning to fully give her life to God for one year to see if He was the answer she needed to escape her depression and the struggles that had haunted her since she was a teen. Today she tells us the story of God's extraordinary movement in her life fro...

How can someone speak to sickness and cause it to go away? Scripture tells us that Jesus did it routinely. Is that something we can all do? Steve Russell will tell you that it is, and that as a believer, you have gifts of the power of God available to you that you may not realize are already at your fingertips. Steve Russell has a gift of being able to describe his own spiritual awakening in a way...

Steve Russell went decades with no faith and no relationship with God even into his early ‘40’s. But in desperation for his wife’s life, he pleaded with God to intervene, and He did. From that point, God led him into spiritual discovery, relationship, rebirth, and a baptism in the Holy Spirit where Steve now actively acts as an agent for spiritual deliverance, physical healing, and other gifts of...

Mark Seals lived a life of faith, obedience to God, and even had worldly success in business. As he was beginning work on his doctorate so he could spend his retirement teaching at his local university, he was shocked by a late-stage cancer diagnosis. The spiritual awakening he experienced is a message I believe the Holy Spirit intends for all Jesus followers. Today, Mark Seals shares that critica...

Today’s episode is part 2 of our conversation with deliverance minister Pete Browder. This conversation aims to help inform our listeners about the truth of demonic oppression and deliverance from that oppression to spiritual freedom. When we think of deliverance from demonic oppression, it seems like we think of people overrun with or fully possessed by demons. I think we think of the movie The E...

Today’s episode aims to help inform our listeners about the truth of demonic oppression and deliverance from that oppression to spiritual freedom. When we think of deliverance from demonic oppression, it seems like we think of people overrun with or fully possessed by demons. I think we think of the movie The Exorcist with the bloody-faced, demon-eyed, clearly possessed girl whose head spins compl...

Ken and Janell Urban each received healings they recognize as supernatural in nature that they will tell you came from God through the intercessory prayer and support of many other people. Much of that is detailed in episode 73 from last week, which you should listen to if you haven’t already. And from those personal healings came a calling from God to be ministers of God’s healings of others. Tod...

Like a large percentage of Christians today, Ken and Janell Urban were what’s known as cessationists, meaning that they had been taught and believed that God used miracles, prophetic gifts, and healings in the early days of the church as a launching point for the Christian faith, but that those things ceased as the apostles died off. Ken and Janell Urban were cessationists, until each of them expe...

Last week we started a conversation with Robby White where he spoke in powerful detail about encounters he personally had in the spiritual realm that will raise the hair on your arms. If you haven’t listened to it yet, consider going back to episode 71. There are some segments in this episode that refer to the first part of our conversation in episode 71. But today, we rejoin our conversation with...

Robby White reached a point in his faith journey where he laid aside all preconceived ideas of who God was, and asked God to give him everything He had for him. From that point on, everything Robby thought he knew about faith changed as doors to richer levels of spirituality began to open in front of him, and he began to experience things he didn’t think were possible or real. Things like demonic...

On September 6, 2014, 15 year old Jacob Browder suffered a severe traumatic brain injury in a bull riding accident that by all accounts could have killed him, and at best should have left him non-functional for the rest of his life. As the days turned into weeks after the accident with no movement or response to stimuli, Jacob’s prognosis worsened. Today Jacob joins us with his mother Susan to det...

Mike Puglise, a highly successful attorney, found himself in the grips of a life of deep sin that he couldn’t escape. His life began to change after a near death experience placed him at the gates of hell. Power, success, wealth, sexual sin, spiritual warfare, a near death experience, salvation, and ultimately disciple-making are all packed into this one. So pull up a chair. Mike Puglise is an acc...

Today’s episode is part 2 of our conversation with Nathaniel Blackburn. If you haven’t listened to Part 1 which is conversation 67, I encourage you to check it out as it will give you some important perspective to what will be discussed today. Some of you may remember Nathaniel Blackburn as Nathan from MTV’s The Real World: Seattle back in the late 1990’s. In the first part of our conversation, Na...

Fame at the age of 21 pulled Nathaniel Blackburn into a life that filled all of his sensual and ego-driven desires. And lacking any sort of true understanding of God, it easily lead him toward destruction through addiction and the real possibility of suicide. So how does God pull someone like that into connection with Him and ultimately into a ministry? That’s what Nathaniel and I talk about today...

Robby Seidel had the hand of God reach down and give him an experience of such profound magnitude, that it changed his life forever, and set him and his wife Correll on a path of purpose that fills their souls. Today, they share their incredible story. Robby and Correll Seidel lost their sixteen year old daughter, Kaitlin to sudden cardiac arrest on July 30, 2006 just three weeks after she had com...

At an early age, Brian Summerall knew religion. He could say the prayers, find the scripture, and recite creeds. But it wasn’t until he experienced the indwelling of Christ in people he met at college that he realized that he had missed something. He discovered that Christian faith is not a religion, it’s a relationship. Today, he explains. Amazon link to Brian's Book - Telling Stories: God&a...

Kim Marsh encountered God visibly and audibly during a time of pronounced suffering as she battled a brain tumor and the brutal effects of treatment. The encounter turned her life around. But when asked about why she believes in God, her response goes well beyond her amazing experience. For more episodes, to recommend a guest, or to support this ministry, please visit www.astrongerfaith.com. Books...

Anthony Lerew was a professional baseball player who got sucked into a life of recklessness as alcohol took control of his life. It was at his lowest, as he was faced with nearly losing his leg after an alcohol-induced accident, that God broke in and showed him the way home. Anthony is now a different person. And in today’s conversation, he shares his story with us.

On Christmas Eve, 2012, Amy and Davey Grote and their families experienced one of the most horrific days any of them could ever imagine as they witnessed the sudden and traumatic loss of their daughter, Ann Reese. In times like these, one wonders how anyone can emotionally survive it, much less speak of the immediate presence and goodness of God. Today, as they approach the 10 year anniversary of...

Rebecca LaMoreaux had no faith. But about a year into her second marriage on a Christmas night, she called out to God in utter desperation. Not only did God manifest His presence to her that night and in the weeks to come, but Rebecca claims that God has given her the gift of vision into the spiritual realm, and has pulled her into Heaven on multiple occasions since that time. She’s our guest toda...

When he was a senior in high school with his future securely laid out for him, Drew Oakley heard the audible voice of God calling him in a different direction. Drew fled from that course, back to safety. Today, Drew shares how God steered him away from the path of safety and back into the life of fulfillment God prepared for him. For more episodes like this one, to recommend a guest, or to support...

Three years ago Jared Case and his family launched a ministry called Quiver Ranch whose mission is to protect and prepare potentially aborted children until God launches them into the world. In today’s conversation, Jared describes how, over several years, God called and prepared him and his family to do a work he could have never anticipated. For more information about Quiver Ranch, please visit...

Jared Case fully turned his life over to God at 19 years old. Shortly after that, God changed the course of his life forever with just a taste of the joy and fulfillment that comes from obedience to God. You won’t be able to miss the energy of the Holy Spirit when you hear Jared Case speak of faith. For more episodes, to recommend a guest, or to donate to this ministry, please visit www.astrongerf...

On a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 2012, John Southall went fishing in his new boat. The events that unfolded that afternoon forever changed the way John sees the spiritual life and his role in it. For more conversations, to recommend a guest, or to support this ministry, please visit www.astrongerfaith.com