"God put on my heart to go for a walk every day for 100 days. And, to journal what happened along the way. I had no idea what it would lead to!" ---------- Hi, Trapper Jack here. Ever get that weird nudge from God that makes zero sense? Like, “Hey, go do this totally random thing”—with no instructions, no context, and definitely no heavenly user manual? Yeah, Cindy got one of those. God told her to walk. Every day. For 100 days. Talk to strangers. Be encouraging. Journal about it. That’s it. Wri...
May 25, 2025•35 min•Ep. 368
The soundtrack that plays in Trapper’s head has been uncomfortable. God seems to be revealing His opinion on a topic Trapper would rather not discuss. ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. I've heard a bazillion opinions out there on the papacy of Pope Francis, and what is about to come with Pope Leo. In this episode, we might have the opinion of the only One that matters. It's time to finally crawl out of the belly of the whale—seaweed hairdo and all. Like Jonah, I tried to outrun a message God wan...
May 18, 2025•28 min•Ep. 367
Andrew, an atheist, cried out to God, "Help me if you are real. If you are really there, please show me." God answered. ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. What if the voice that led you to God… wasn’t even sure God existed? Today’s guest, Andrew, thought he was an atheist — just like his dad. Then one day, while listening to a Joe Rogan episode, he hears Canadian psychologist, Jordan Peterson. A man not preaching. Not quoting Scripture. Just speaking the truth. A truth so raw, so honest, and so n...
May 11, 2025•36 min•Ep. 366
"From my passenger seat, I literally grab the steering wheel from my husband. I yanked the steering wheel to the right, taking the exit. He yelled, ‘Are you nuts?’ I thought I was nuts. But the Voice said, ‘Exit at the McDonald's.’ I wasn't hungry, I didn't have to go to the bathroom. But the Holy Spirit wanted me there for a reason I did not yet know." ---------- You are about to meet Claire, who suddenly felt an overwhelming urge to force her husband off the highway toward a McDonald’s. No hun...
May 04, 2025•37 min•Ep. 365
"I wasn't even sure I believed in God. But when I saw the miracle of the sun with golden raindrops falling from it, and my friend Bill saw the exact same thing. I started to cry; I knew that God really did exist. And, that He loves me." ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. I get to put on the referee uniform again this week. These vertical stripes are so slimming! We have puzzle pieces to look at regarding the upcoming conclave in Rome to choose a new pope. Songs have been bubbling up in my head se...
Apr 27, 2025•39 min•Ep. 364
"It was Jesus. I was on my knees in front of Jesus. He looked at me with such love, love that I have never ever seen in this world." ---------- Happy Easter! Let's go back many years to a very special Easter weekend. It was episode 104. Melody was about to meet Jesus, a man she had no belief in. For decades, she had worshiped the Earth, in a pagan belief known as Wicca. Melody believed there was no God, no heaven or hell. Then, came her dream. In the dream, she saw a man with long hair, being le...
Apr 20, 2025•34 min•Ep. 363
I just kept praying, ' God, let my husband come home. Let my husband come home.' I have heard God's voice three times. This would be the first. ---------- Katrina—yes, spelled like the hurricane, and she’ll tell you the personality matches—is a fiery force of faith navigating through one of life’s messiest middle chapters. Unlike the usual Touched by Heaven story arc, this one doesn’t wrap up with a pretty bow. At least, not yet. Katrina has heard ‘The Voice’—a man’s voice, unmistakably divine—m...
Apr 13, 2025•33 min•Ep. 362
" My whole body is shaking. I'm full-blown sobbing. I run out of the church, leaving my mom, son, and girlfriend flipping out because they know that I just saw something in church." ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. While recording episode 357, I had no idea how deeply it would affect listeners. One of them, my friend, Doug George, had to stop listening—it hit too close to home. Like Tom, Doug saw his deceased father… in church, bathed in light. In that moment, he felt it all—closure, forgivenes...
Apr 06, 2025•33 min•Ep. 361
"Medjugorje, to me, is the holiest place on earth. I've been to Lourdes, which was beautiful, but I cannot wait to go back with you, Trapper and Elizabeth, to Medjugorje." ---------- If you’re searching for a place to begin again in your spiritual life—a place of renewal, restoration, and undeniable fruit—look to Medjugorje. Elizabeth and I will be leading a pilgrimage to Medjugorje, October 6th through the 13th. Here is a link to get the details: https://www.cognitoforms.com/CorporateTravelServ...
Mar 30, 2025•33 min•Ep. 360
“My vision isn’t all that great anymore, but I got in the pool, went underwater, and I could hear the voice saying, ‘go a little left, go forward, a little more left,’ I reached out and found it in six seconds. Even I couldn’t believe it.” ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. A local priest sometimes likes to comically reflect on how we seem to invite people to a lackluster God. ‘Come to church. It’s good for you, you know, like broccoli.’ The Touched by Heaven podcast reminds us that we have nothi...
Mar 23, 2025•35 min•Ep. 359
I asked St. Thérèse to send me red roses if she approved of my boyfriend becoming my fiancé. At the grocery store, right next to the pop I was about to buy, was a dozen red roses that someone had obviously dumped. ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. We have some very cool stories of saintly intercession! This episode emphasizes that the Saints are not objects of worship, but heavenly friends who pray for us. Elizabeth and I are still scratching our heads on how a particular ring found its way back...
Mar 16, 2025•37 min•Ep. 358
"He had threatened to kill us. He died an alcoholic. And there he was at church, looking so remorseful." ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. in this episode, Chris and Tom share a powerful story of remorse and forgiveness. Tom grew up in a difficult home, scarred by his father’s alcoholism. There were even serious threats on the family's lives. Years later, at a baptism, he experienced a profound encounter that gave him long-awaited closure. Was his father there, seeking forgiveness? And what abou...
Mar 09, 2025•30 min•Ep. 357
"My grandfather was the one who welcomed me into the afterlife. He said, ‘Look over there.’ I saw a great white light. He said, ‘See how it shimmers? It's heaven. Rene, you're in heaven!’" ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. Renee lost her sight rapidly due to diabetes and faced the emotional and physical challenges of blindness head-on. What stands out is not just her inspiring Touched by Heaven moments but how she teaches us all to confront life’s challenges with faith and determination. Rene de...
Mar 02, 2025•38 min•Ep. 356
"My three-year-old daughter walked toward the window and placed her hands on the screen. She then pushed out the screen and began her 40-foot fall.” ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. Where do I start with Monica’s story? What if a photo from heaven fell right before your eyes? Monica shares her incredible story of how, after her father’s passing, a long-lost picture of the two of them mysteriously floated down from nowhere—just when she needed a sign the most. But that’s not the only miracle in ...
Feb 23, 2025•35 min•Ep. 355
“She didn't know it was coming. We got to the top of Cross Mountain, with her mom secretly about to take the photo of the proposal. I dropped to one knee to ask her to marry me." The next few things that happened are hard to explain to anyone who hasn't been to Medjugorje. ---------- A couple of weeks ago, we talked about how bad things can happen in the blink of an eye. But what about when miraculous things happen just as fast? Enter Nate Wine, a man who never expected his life to change in an ...
Feb 16, 2025•29 min•Ep. 354
"My college roommate had a picture on her dresser of a guy with long brown hair and a beard. I asked, 'is that your boyfriend?' She looked at me like I was crazy. She said, 'his name is Jesus, and yes, he's my boyfriend.'" ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. In this episode, I sit down with Debbie Herbeck to hear her incredible story of transformation. Raised in a devout Jewish home on the South Side of Chicago, Debbie grew up surrounded by family, friends, and an entire community that was almost ...
Feb 09, 2025•46 min•Ep. 353
“I was thrown a couple of hundred yards away from the vehicle. When I woke up, I heard a voice saying, ‘It’s okay. they’re looking for you.’ ” ---------- Hi, Trapper Jack here. It’s one thing to hear from the book of Romans, ‘God works for the good of those who love Him.’ It’s quite another to hear someone living it. In the blink of an eye, Susie’s life was changed forever. So was her marriage and family life. But Susie and Eric highlight what can happen when we invite God into the darkest of si...
Feb 02, 2025•31 min•Ep. 352
“I heard my son scream. The dart had ricocheted and hit Kyle directly in the eye. I began to negotiate with God.” ---------- Hi there! Trapper Jack here. John and Shanita had their plans in place. Fame and fortune, along with a few kids, would be the goal for a successful life. But everything changed, literally in the blink of an eye. The eye belongs to their six-year-old son Kyle. A freak accident threatened to take away the vision of their boy. Shanita began negotiating with God. Does that wor...
Jan 26, 2025•36 min•Ep. 351
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 rule,’ and it now becomes OK to eat. But there is another five second rule. While talking to Jenny,...
Jan 19, 2025•41 min•Ep. 350
"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. She assumed that Jesus was not offering His help because she did not deserve God’s love. Tiffany soon...
Jan 05, 2025•39 min•Ep. 349
"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 her. It let her down a particular path into substance abuse and paralyzing screaming nightmares with...
Dec 29, 2024•37 min•Ep. 348
"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 was lost for months. It only took a few minutes. St. Anthony continues his remarkable track record! --...
Dec 22, 2024•28 min•Ep. 347
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 seems virtually impossible. The stars within the image indicate that the Church and this age are jus...
Dec 15, 2024•34 min•Ep. 346
"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 joins a resistance organization that is attempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler. While the pastor beli...
Dec 08, 2024•30 min•Ep. 345
" 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 such. The 102 souls who ventured from Europe for religious freedom. It gave me an opportunity to shar...
Dec 01, 2024•36 min•Ep. 344
“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 hear her thoughts. As she wonders, 'Can you read my mind? 'I'm holding hands with a god.' Spirituali...
Nov 24, 2024•32 min•Ep. 343
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 Donald Trump, but divine intervention would lead to an election victory. I kept wondering in that epi...
Nov 17, 2024•29 min•Ep. 342
"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 shall leave his mother, and a woman shall leave her home.’ It’s called The Wedding Song. When we arrived...
Nov 10, 2024•42 min•Ep. 341
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 and I assume that we are inside the house, right? Well, that crowd had the same assumption. That big ...
Nov 03, 2024•30 min•Ep. 340
“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 the CBS television hit series Ghost Whisperer, would join me on the radio. We would take calls from l...
Oct 27, 2024•38 min•Ep. 339
