SINKING - A Swimmer's Near-Death Experience - TBH 408
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
Philip Keller
4.8 • 720 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary

Mary, a varsity college swimmer, shares her Near-Death Experience -- the moment she slipped beneath the pool water during a competition, saw the face of her grandmother, and heard the unmistakable voice of God behind her.
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We open with that powerful encounter.
But the story doesn't end in the pool.
Years later, after attending one of my talks at a local parish, and initially brushing off the podcast, Mary tuned back in -- and suddenly the message wasn't just interesting. It was personal. And Convicting.
Sometimes God lets you drift for a season. And sometimes He brings you back to face the one thing standing between you and freedom.
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| 0:00.0 | Near-death experiences. |
| 0:08.5 | I swam varsity, women's swim team. |
| 0:11.9 | I was in the middle of a race. |
| 0:14.4 | I don't see the pool. |
| 0:15.8 | I feel the water. |
| 0:17.0 | I don't see the pool anymore. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm in this whiteness. I was standing before God, but my back was turned to him. |
| 0:24.6 | And the voice was so unique. |
| 0:28.6 | This is touched by heaven. |
| 0:30.6 | Everyday encounters with God, those moments when heaven and earth collide. |
| 0:36.6 | And we see God in these encounter stories that involve |
| 0:39.8 | angels, divine intervention, prophetic dreams, visions, and yes, today, near death. I'm your host, |
| 0:45.4 | Trapper Jack. Welcome. Near death experiences, always interesting, right? In their similarities, |
| 0:51.5 | in their differences. The difference in this one is how active this race is going on in the midst of a swim meet in college. |
| 1:00.5 | She has this moment. |
| 1:02.5 | But we go now to Mary in her home, and she lives here locally. |
| 1:05.6 | She actually came to one of my talks a while back. |
| 1:08.2 | It was a wonderful presentation because I think after I heard you speak, I listened to one or two |
| 1:15.0 | your podcasts and I just said, not for me. |
| 1:20.0 | It happens. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm always skeptical about what I hear, especially when it comes to religion. |
| 1:25.8 | And for some reason, it just didn't hit me at that time. |
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