Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God

I was listening to Fr. Mike Schmitz talking about the five second rule in regard to food on the floor. But, at the same time I was reading a book about a different five second rule that can literally change your life, in five seconds. ---------- Hi there! Trapper Jack here. You are familiar with the five second rule, right? It's when you drop a piece of food on the floor and proclaim, 'five second...

"I'm starting to see my guardian angels. My four-year-old said, 'Mommy, what are those fireflies?' I said, 'you see them too?'" -------- Hi there. Trapper Jack here. At age 36, Tiffany was living in a world of daily drug usage, nightmares, and demons, with only a small bit of relief by praying for the intercession of the archangel Saint Michael. Tiffany's prayers to Jesus seemed to go unnoticed. S...

"For the first time I called upon St. Michael, the Archangel. There was a sudden bright light, and I heard a loud 'whoosh'! It was like the entire house rumbled!" ---------- Hi there! Trapper Jack here. I have found this to be an eye-opening, game changing interview and episode. It's totally altered how I pray. At age 4, Tiffany saw something that she could never un see. It changed her. It scared...

"It's an abandoned house. There is nothing inside. But on the day that I sent my guardian angel to my husband, a Christmas angel ornament appeared out of nowhere." ---------- Hey there! Trapper Jack here. I can't say I've ever tried sending my guardian angel to anybody else. Anne gave it a try with spectacular results! Also spectacular… St. Anthony, famous for finding things, found an item that wa...

Social Media: "The gentleman walked up to me and said, 'That was…spine tingling! It seems mathematically impossible for that to appear on the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.'" ---------- Hi there! Trapper Jack here. A 500-year-old miraculous tilma continues to come up with something new to say to us, even now. An Italian scholar has noticed something new in the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe that...

"I can feel the coldness of the jail cell bars on my hands. I feel the concrete beneath my knees as I kneel. I am going to be executed for my faith. I hear footsteps coming for me. They are at my door." Tammie's original conversion story: https://touchedbyheaven.net/th e-view-from-the-cross-tbh-96 ---------- Hi there! Trapper Jack here. Have you seen the movie Bonhoeffer? A WWII Methodist Pastor j...

" The lady in blue was seen bilocating more than 500 times from her cloistered convent in Spain, to the indigenous people of what is now Southwest America. More than 60,000 were baptized here." ---------- Hi there! Trapper Jack here. How did this one slip by the historians? As we gathered around the Thanksgiving table this year, somebody brought up the original Thanksgiving story of Pilgrims and s...

"When my father was seeing another woman, God allowed my mother to hear everything my dad said or even thought." ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. Movie watching has led to our topic this week. The music that has bubbled up in my head comes from the movie Superman with Christopher Reeve. It's a particular piece of music that plays while Superman is taking Lois Lane on a flight over Metropolis. We...

What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? They pass through each other. Here, the Trump prophecy of 60 weeks ago passes through the 'why' he was saved. ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. I said some crazy prophetic type of stuff 60 plus weeks ago in episode 280. The podcast mentioned how the music that bubbles up in my head led me to the possibility of an assassination of D...

"We have to remember what Jesus said, 'Unless we are like a child, we cannot enter into heaven.'" ---------- I literally just walked our daughter, Carolyn, down the aisle to her wonderful new husband, Daniel. My wife, Elizabeth, and I were just reflecting on a particular Sunday morning, five years ago, while we were headed home from Sunday mass. There was a song playing in my head, 'For a man shal...

The Virgin has told us that the chastisement for the world is coming, as the world is not changing. The cup is filling up ~ Garabandal visionaries ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. Have you ever pondered the gospel where Jesus has locked up the house that is headed for heaven. In this parable, the crowd arrives and says, 'open up,' but Jesus says, 'I do not know you. Go away you evil doers.' You a...

"The caller on my radio show said that she always felt a presence in the car on her way into work. Maryann then said, 'Yes, he's in the back seat. He's looking at your blue butterfly clip that holds your ponytail.' The caller let out a huge scream!" ---------- I wasn't sure if I believed in ghosts or not. Then, I met Maryann. For 25 consecutive Halloween mornings, Maryann Winkowski, who inspired t...

I had some knock down drag out arguments with God. 'Where's my husband? Everyone else is married.' That's when I had two dreams about my future husband. ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here.  I remember reading a much-publicized Newsweek article, almost 20 years ago, that said single women over 40 were more likely to be killed by a terrorist then to find a mate. Cheery thought, yes? Fortunately, it wa...

"As soon as I turned the corner and saw it behind the glass, the hair stood up on the back of my neck and I felt this incredible warmth. It was like 'whoa!'" ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. As I think about it, it's really a rather simple story. Rich wanted something. He prayed for it. He got it.  Did Rich pray directly to anyone of the three in the Trinity? No. The one he approached for his int...

Hi! Trapper Jack here. Many of our podcast guests have included their own Medjugorje stories of repentance, conversion, miraculous healings, and an overall turning back to the will of God. It is even more remarkable how many of these same guests have also experienced what is known as the warning, or the illumination of conscience. This is a period of several minutes where every sin ever committed...

Hi! Trapper Jack here. Did you know there is a cosmology crisis? I thought those were the people who do hair and makeup. I have a couple of links here in the show notes to videos that speak to this crisis. There is enough evidence to believe that God has placed us in the middle of the entire universe. Doesn't that just sound crazy! Listen to my explanation, then take a look, and listen to those br...

Hi! Trapper Jack here. Spoiler alert. In this podcast episode, we have three seminarians telling the exact same story of being young, strong swimmers, plunging into the ocean and being carried out to a watery grave by a strong riptide.   If this sounds a bit familiar, the Holy Spirit is going to build on this recent topic. In all three drowning seminarian stories, frantic prayers were prayed, and...

Hey there! Trapper here. Apparently, it's time to don my football referee uniform and do a prophetic thing. I'm not the prophet here, just the messenger. Last fall, I was given a dream in which I saw a referee running for a touchdown. Then, I heard the word, 'impartiality.' The key to a good ref is that he is impartial. There is to be no rooting for one side or the other. It's a case of, 'just the...

Hi! Trapper Jack here. Happy birthday Mary! The mother of our Lord is about 2038 years old and doesn't look a day over 1873. How does she do it!? I have a very special devotion to the mother of Jesus, since all the signs indicate that she was the one to come after me. She is the one who turned me back to God some 25 years ago.   September 8th is the traditional day that we celebrate Mary's birthda...

Hi! Trapper here. My conversation with Marie, who now lives in London, was eye-opening! She can probably thank her mom for all the incredible experiences that she has received. Marie's faith wavered until her mother's persistent encouragement brought her back to the church. Marie had never heard of our Lady of Fatima and yet dreamt about her and was given a message to share. Marie began reciting t...

Hey there! Trapper here. Apparently, it's a thing. My son informs me that it's a trendy thing among podcasters to take several episodes that are related and stick them altogether into one extra extra long podcast. The theory being that if you are interested in that topic as a listener, you will be thrilled and happy to listen to the long form podcast episode. Well, let's test the theory. I have in...

Kelley's daughter may be one of the few who remembers being in heaven before being born. At age 3, she crawled up on her mom's lap and began to tell Kelley what she saw from heaven, before she was born into this world. She could look down to earth and see all the beautiful lights. They were not the lights of cities. She was seeing the light of God in people. That's when she saw a particularly brig...

I have two wonderfully entertaining guests in this TBH episode. I revisit episode 172, as Kim and Shannon give us a boatload of divine interventions. Kim was grabbed by both of her shoulders from someone in the back seat of her car, causing her to step on the brake. The angelic encounters saved her life. Shannon was dazzled as she watched her dad, in his hospital bed, point at those who were waiti...

Trapper Jack and Father Michael Denk discuss what it takes to heal your 'predominant fault.' You know, that thing that is most wrong with you! Trapper Jack shares his personal experience of overcoming fear through prayer and renouncing lies. They also discuss the importance of sharing stories of miracles, which draw us closer to Jesus. The conversation highlights the ongoing presence of miracles a...

Lisa shares a story of a supernatural encounter with a tall biblical figure who saved her and her young son from a pack of angry animals. Was he an angel, or maybe her favorite saint?   Later, a midnight ghost tour in New Orleans released the demonic against her husband. In fact, the only one in the tour that was unaffected by the evil darkness was Lisa, who was clutching her rosary.   Through all...