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The Unfolding

Ryan Steck: "I Threw This Bible Across the Room and Said, 'God, If You're Real, Why Won't You Talk to Me?' | Unfolding Short Stories"

The Unfolding

Northwestern Media

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9867 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

"I threw this Bible across the room and I said, 'God, if you're real, why won't you talk to me?'" 

He writes fiction stories about danger and survival, but this story is real. Years before the books and the success, Ryan Steck's life unraveled into silence, weakness, and a single cry to God. 

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0:00.0

My grace is all you need.

0:01.4

My power works best and weakness.

0:03.5

In that moment, I just thought to myself, there's going to be a lot of power because I am super weak.

0:08.2

God's story?

0:10.1

Your life.

0:13.1

Unfolding short stories.

0:17.8

Ryan Steck spends his day's writing, Edge of Your Seat Thrillers,

0:22.0

stories about danger, courage, and survival.

0:25.0

But long before he wrote those books and experienced success,

0:28.9

Ryan faced a different kind of battle,

0:31.3

one that led him to a quiet room with a single desperate question.

0:36.6

So I grew up in a Christian home where I think it was just expected that you were going to live a Christian lifestyle.

0:45.5

And being a really rebellious kid, I think I tested my parents' limits a lot.

0:50.9

And as a young kid, I was like on fire for the Lord.

0:53.7

I was witnessing to people, even at a young

0:55.7

age, wanted to get baptized very early. But I went to this school that was supposedly a Christian

1:01.2

private school. And what I found was the people who claimed to be Christians there were nothing

1:08.4

like the Christians I met when I read the Bible. I found it to be full of

1:13.9

judgment, double standards where teachers and administrators, kids were getting away with things

1:20.5

that were really awful and the rest of us were talked down to. And what happened is it created

1:25.9

this just bitterness inside me to the point where I hated

1:31.0

the school. I wanted to get taken out. And it took an altercation between me and the superintendent

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