Why an Atheist Began to Pray - TBH 366
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
Philip Keller
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🗓️ 11 May 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Andrew, an atheist, cried out to God, "Help me if you are real. If you are really there, please show me." God answered.
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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 needed — about suffering, about Christ, about living as if God is real — that something inside Andrew cracks open.
Peterson isn’t a pastor. He doesn’t claim to be a believer. But he points to Christ as the highest ideal. He says He’s the one to model your life after. And that kind of message — coming from someone outside the Church — somehow hit Andrew right in the soul. Because for the first time, he didn’t feel preached at… he felt invited.
So, there’s Andrew, driving down the road, praying. Not because he believes in God… but because he wants to. “God, if You’re real — show me.” That moment became the turning point of his life.
This episode is about the unexpected bridges God uses. And sometimes, He builds them with voices that don’t even know they’re echoing heaven.
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| 0:00.0 | I had cried out on a Sunday in my car. |
| 0:10.8 | It was raining and it was dark and I was speeding and I was crying out to God. |
| 0:16.9 | In a fit of tears, help me if you're real. |
| 0:20.6 | If you're really real, if you're really there, |
| 0:23.6 | please show me that you're real. |
| 0:27.3 | And that was my prayer. |
| 0:29.3 | That's Andrew. |
| 0:30.5 | And an hour before Andrew said that prayer, |
| 0:34.2 | he would have told you that he was an atheist. |
| 0:37.2 | There was no God, and you best believe that I'm going to let everybody know that there is no God, |
| 0:41.7 | and if you think that there is a God, you're an idiot. |
| 0:44.4 | So what happened? |
| 0:46.0 | This is touched by heaven. |
| 0:47.3 | Everyday encounters with God, those moments when heaven and earth collide. |
| 0:52.3 | And we hear that collision and we see God |
| 0:54.5 | through these encounters with angels, |
| 0:57.2 | divine intervention, prophetic dreams, visions, near-death experiences. |
| 1:00.8 | Welcome, I'm your host, Trapper Jack. |
| 1:03.8 | And Andrew's bright. |
| 1:06.0 | He's very bright. |
| 1:07.4 | This so much, this episode, I love this episode already. |
| 1:09.8 | And we're just getting started. |
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