ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Faith isn't fragile - and neither are the people who live it. This podcast dives into the hard seasons, fierce battles, and defining moments that shaped the lives of everyday Christians. These are stories of grit, surrender, and victory that prove struggle doesn't break faith - it builds it.
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Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
237 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
15 episodes
since March 17, 2026
episodic
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Colby Allen was half a mile from home when the call came out, and
he recognized the address before dispatch finished reading it. It
belonged to a family friend, someone he had known his whole life.
What Colby found when he arrived that day would change the course
of his career in law enforcement, a…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
He loaded a gun, brought it to his head, and heard an audible voice say one word: stop. Justin Carter, a 13-year veteran firefighter, sits down with Dan Black to talk about a broken engagement that sent him spiraling into alcohol and pill addiction, a near-fatal highway collision on the job, and th…
Before the invasion of Iraq, Chris Ostberg made God a promise on a rooftop in Kuwait: if he survived, he'd go to church every Sunday. He survived. He didn't go back for 20 years.
Chris sits down with Dan Black to walk through a homeschooled childhood in small-town Massachusetts, a fast rise throug…
Antwon Murchison hid a fifth of vodka and a twelve-pack a day behind four different liquor stores so no one would notice the pattern, until a DWI with both of his kids in the car finally caught up with him. Antwon sits down with Dan Black to walk through a fractured childhood in Midway, North Carol…
Army officer Nick Merritt spent years hating himself for something God and his ex-wife had already forgiven, and it took one sermon on forgiving himself to finally set him free. Nick sits down with Dan Black just 48 hours after Dan felt led to ask him, no prep, no back and forth, both men going int…
His blood alcohol content was 0.46 the night an SRT team pulled him off his couch, and by every medical rule he should not have survived it. Efren Garcia spent over 23 years between the Air National Guard and the Army as a Cavalry Scout, an 82nd Airborne paratrooper, and a retired Sergeant First Cl…
He went back into the Navy to become a hospital corpsman. He didn't realize until years later that he actually went back to get saved. Phil Bivins served three separate enlistments in the United States Navy spanning Vietnam all the way to Desert Storm, and this conversation with Dan Black covers al…
Jose Alvarez closed the garage door, started the car, and decided he was done. A few
minutes later he heard a voice inside him say "It is done. It's done. Let it go." --
and that was the night God got his attention for good.
Jose was born in Quito, Ecuador, the oldest son in a family shaped by har…
Justin Koch spent twenty years in the Army, much of that as a Green Beret, and most of his life convinced he had his faith handled. He had been saved at thirteen. He knew the right answers. He could quote the right verses. What he could not do — and would not admit for two decades — was actually le…
Hunter Gochenour spent 30 years doing it his way — and it nearly cost him everything. He grew up in a Luray, Virginia mountain town with a mother unraveling into meth addiction and a father who was barely present. By 18 he was in Myrtle Beach selling cocaine and Adderall, driving Corvettes, and wat…
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