Coincidence or God? | Miracles, Christian Encouragement & Faith-Building Podcast

In this informative episode of Coincidence or God? (formerly When You Look), Marit Welker shares her powerful family estrangement Christian testimony — from the excruciating pain of being cut off by her estranged son, to collapsing on the floor in prayer, to the instant peace God gave her and the eventual reconciliation that made them family again.If you are walking through estrangement from an estranged child, estranged adult children, or adult child estrangement, this story will give you hope. Marit shares what helped her survive the silent grief no one brings casseroles for and she reveals how God carried he...

James was thrown from the Temple after sharing one last Passover meal. What did that meal reveal?

In this episode of Coincidence or God? (formerly When You Look), host Mick Wienholt sits down with Dr. Lon Wiksell and Ryan Wiksell, authors of The Last Seder of James: A Journey Through Passover, to uncover the Jewish roots of Christianity and what most Christians miss about the Last Supper.

Lon and Ryan share how God brought them together at the exact right time to write this book, why understanding the Passover Seder unlocks deeper...

After years of infertility, Kim Patton finally became a mom through adoption — then God asked her to do the impossible: become a foster parent to teenage girls. This is a powerful Christian testimony about surrender, struggling well, and trusting God when His plan makes you want to cry.

In this episode of Coincidence or God? (formerly When You Look), host Mick Wienholt sits down with author, speaker, and former foster mama Kim Patton. Kim shares her raw journey from infertility and denial, to the miracle adoption of her two daughters (biological sisters, 15 months apart), to...

Dan Nichols was 20 weeks into celebrating a baby boy when the doctor told him and his wife Joy, prepare to lose this baby.

Landon was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome — functionally half a heart. Three open-heart surgeries: at 5 days old, at 6 months, and at 3 years. He flatlined twice. After the first, he spent more than 36 hours on ECMO.

In this episode of Coincidence or God? (formerly When You Look), Dan shares the full miracle testimony — what the doctors said when Landon came off ECMO, what happened in the minutes before the second flatline, and what...

She Hated God and Partied for 10 Years — Then Jesus Set Her Instantly Free. "I was so far gone... I literally hated God until I met Him. He met me and rescued me."

In this episode of Coincidence or God? (formerly When You Look), Kristin Kurtz shares her powerful Christian testimony of instant deliverance from addiction. From self-described "professional party girl" — drinking, drugs, smoking 2 packs a day — to Christian life coach, podcaster, author and speaker. If you think you're too far gone for church, this story is for you.

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After 35 years of marriage, Mark Osborne almost lost everything to an emotional affair — until his wife gave him an ultimatum: I'm not moving forward unless we give it all to God.

In this powerful episode of Coincidence or God?, Mark shares his testimony including how pride, ego, and a fitness obsession left him empty. Following a mild heart attack at 48, God used his broken marriage to bring him to full surrender. Mark shares how that surrender led to marriage restoration and a new mission mentoring men through his podcast, The Valiant Forge.If you need hope for you...

Jessica DeYoung was the perfect Christian girl — until a secret pregnancy and abortion left her wearing shame like a scarlet letter. She thought, if anyone found out, all hell would break loose.

In this powerful episode of Coincidence or God? (formerly When You Look), Jessica shares her powerful Christian testimony, where God met her in her shame with one sentence: "Sweet daughter, I don't know what you're talking about." Hear how forgiveness set her free, how she founded the Made Whole Movement to help other women heal, and the incredible moment when her obedience at...

"My doctor said it was like having a grenade go off between my ears." Tim Malm had no scratch, no broken bone — but his brain was bleeding to death.

On June 16th, 2010, Tim was steer roping when the rope jerked tight and snapped his head. His brain slammed from one side to the other, causing massive internal bleeding. For two weeks in ICU, "the lights were on but nobody was home."

Hundreds of people filled the waiting room praying during emergency brain surgery. Doctors said he would never walk again, ne...

Jenn Robb's 16-year-old daughter should have died that night. The doctor said there was no reason she should be alive.

This Christian testimony with author and nurse practitioner, Jenn Robb, is for every parent praying for a teen in crisis. When Jenn's daughter Chloe (16) was found unresponsive on April 4th, doctors told her Chloe's blood alcohol level was four times the lethal limit. What happened next changed Jenn's faith forever.

In the shower afterward, while bathing her daughter, Jenn heard God say: "As much as you love her, I love her more. You have to...

He put a .45 in his mouth and pulled the trigger — and by God's grace, it didn't go off.

Matthew Headden spent over two decades trapped in alcohol, cocaine, meth and nicotine addiction. He describes himself as rebellious, arrogant and self-centered, drinking 30-40-50 drinks at a time, using 2 1/2 eight balls a week, and once waking up on a plane to Cancun with no memory of how he got there.

Five years before his surrender, at his lowest point, Matthew put his 1911 .45 in his mouth. "I can still taste that st...

17 and pregnant! Shara Goswick was the good girl — in church every week, the one everybody trusted. Then she became a pregnant teenager with no job, no money, and no plan other than keeping her baby. The rest of her story includes being continually met with grace instead of gossip and how that was God showing up in her life!

This episode of Coincidence or God? (formerly When You Look) is filled with incredible outcomes. Shara shares about a phone call to a landlord, a job in Big Spring, Texas, and a name that could no...

Radio veteran Gary Scott Thomas expected to watch a routine C-section — and instead walked into every parent's worst nightmare. His newborn son Jackson wasn't breathing. The doctor was doing chest compressions, trying to bring him back to life.

In this powerful Christian testimony, Gary shares what happened next: the fear of brain damage, the transfer to Stanford's Lucille Packard Hospital, and the prayers that followed Jackson from the delivery room to the NICU.

Today Jackson is 14 — fully healed with zero brain damage. God moved.

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Those four little chambers of her heart were totally still. At 37 weeks, Val Kleppen went to the hospital in labor - only to hear the doctor say seven devastating words: "I'm so sorry, there is no heartbeat." At 12:16am on April 10, 2013, she delivered her daughter Harlan into a silent hospital room.

In this powerful Christian testimony, Val shares her faith story of stillbirth, grief, and how God met her in that hospital room and in the 13 years that followed. From HELLP syndrome and a traumatic NICU stay with her first daughter, to founding Harlan's...

At 100+ MPH, Wade Fransson's car went THROUGH a freeway light pole — and the pole was never touched. He should have died at 19. Instead, he walked around that pole, looked at the impossible evidence, and gave his life to the God he'd been running from.

This is a real near death experience testimony about a car crash that changed his life. Kidnapped to Sweden by his father at 9, raised inside a rigid church, hooked on drugs and alcohol by 19 — Wade's life was on a collision course. Then one 100+ mph night on an Alaskan highway changed ever...

My 2-year-old stopped walking after COVID — then doctors said “this could be cancer.” At age 2, Alex was diagnosed with Stage 4 neuroblastoma.

Registered dietitian and mom of 3, Tveen Verano shares how her family went from a stubborn fever to a terrifying diagnosis — and how thousands of prayers and an outcome doctors called “highly remarkable” became their miracle.

This is Alex’s story — from Stage 4 cancer at age 2 to walking miracle.

👇 Have you seen God turn a diagnosis into a miracle? Share your story in the comments — we read...

Doctors said it was medically impossible. When the surgeon opened her up, both cancerous tumors were already dead. Was it coincidence — or was it God?

In this powerful episode of Coincidence or God?, former law enforcement officer Pat Welsh shares his remarkable life story — from being left at an orphanage in Dublin at just 3 days old, to training for the priesthood, to a career in law enforcement, and to the holy moments that proved God was writing his story all along.

Pat opens up about:

✨ The miracle that s...

Your kid just asked a question about God you weren't ready for. Don't panic — how you respond can either push them away or draw them closer.

In this episode, author Cathy Colver Garland shares the exact response that kept her from walking away from faith as a teenager — and how to answer your child's hardest questions in an age-appropriate way.

In this conversation, you'll discover:

⏱️ The #1 mistake parents make when their kids question faith

⏱️ How to model authentic faith — not perfect faith

⏱️ How to answer hard que...

🔥 A cruise ship erupts in flames. A typhoon nearly swallows a lifeboat. And one man screams at God in the middle of it all — then hears an answer that changes everything.

John Graham has faced violent death a dozen times, climbed Denali's deadly Wickersham Wall, and reported on wars across three continents. But nothing prepared him for what happened in 1980 when the Holland America cruise ship Prinsendam caught fire in the Gulf of Alaska.

In this episode of Coincidence or God? (formerly When You Look), John shares with Mick Wienh...

Nicole Anderson grew up in church, knew God — but she was running. In this powerful testimony, Nicole shares how she tried to fill a void with alcohol, drugs, and the thrill of the motorcycle lifestyle. She had no regard for her own life.

Then God tapped her on the shoulder.

Hear how a moment of divine intervention changed everything, how Nicole discovered her true purpose, and why she wrote "Running from the Sower" to help others find their way back to God.

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Dr. Hal Bradley was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed underboss of the Sinaloa drug cartel — running a quarter-ton of cocaine through the Pacific Northwest. Then on October 19, 1994, at 3:30 PM he met Jesus in a prison cell.

Dr. Hal Bradley was the primary target of Operation Northern Exposure — a high-ranking cartel underboss who trafficked cocaine across the Pacific Northwest for the most dangerous organization on earth. By age 30, he was staring down men he describes as having "no souls" — faces where darkness replaced the person.

Arrested, sentenced, and dying of liver failure in a f...

What if God is speaking to you in the most ordinary moments — and you're just not listening?

Jennifer Bosma spent 23 years as a teacher before God called her into full-time ministry. But the moment that changed everything didn't happen in a church. It happened in an amusement park parking lot, with three little girls in a minivan and two empty spots right at the gate. That's where God showed her what obedience really looks like — and why most Christians miss their "front parking spot" entirely.

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What happens when a man who's been running from God his entire life gets arrested by the FBI — and hears a voice that changes everything?

Stephen Jenkins' story begins where many wouldn't dare to share: molested at 12 years old by a trusted counselor, then told by his church to hide his struggle with homosexuality. He ran from God for a decade. But when the FBI and ATF showed up, the chase was finally over — and God met him in the last place he expected: a jail cell.

In this powe...

She was told she wasn't qualified. She didn't have the PhD. The university press said no.

But God had already started writing a different story.

In this episode of Coincidence or God?, Mick Wienholt sits down with Shama Stock — founder of Revelation for Kids, author, and cyber missionary — whose journey proves that God doesn't call the qualified; He qualifies the called.

Shama grew up on the mission field (Korea, Singapore, Zimbabwe), became a dietician, and settled into life as a stay-at-home mom...

What would you do if you woke up at 2:30 AM with a voice telling you to run — right now?

Mista Yu spent nearly 10 years inside an Islamic community he joined as a teenager searching for brotherhood and belonging. But after witnessing a brutal beating and having his own life threatened, he knew he had to escape.

In this powerful Christian testimony, Mista Yu shares the full story: growing up fatherless in Brooklyn, being drawn into what he now calls a cult, the terrifying night he fled in the dark, an...

What happened during Shannon Michelle's near-death experience? After a devastating motorcycle accident left her in a **2-month coma** with a traumatic brain injury, Shannon says she remembers something she could never forget—what happened between life and death.

In this episode of **Coincidence or God? (formerly When You Look)**, Shannon shares her incredible Christian testimony of surviving catastrophic injuries, losing nearly all of her memory, experiencing a profound encounter surrounded, and making the decision to come back. She also opens up about her battle with breast cancer, rebuilding her life from the ground up.

What if most Christians misunderstand God's will for their lives?

In this powerful episode of Coincidence or God? (formerly When You Look), Pastor Matt Heard joins Mick Wienholt to unpack one of the most important questions in the Christian life: Why is God's will not necessary always something that makes us happy? Drawing from Ephesians 2:10, the Gospel of John, and his book Life with a Capital L, Matt explains why God's plan isn't always comfortable, why "good works" don't necessarily mean easy or happy circumstances, and how true fulfillment comes from following Jesus rather than asking Him...

What would you do if your baby was dying... and God spoke to you?

When Heather Bradley's 4-month-old son stopped breathing, she found herself living every parent's worst nightmare. The fear was overwhelming. What happened next would change her life forever.

In this emotional episode of Coincidence or God? (formerly When You Look), Heather shares the devastating loss of her son, the questions that followed, and the eight words she believes God spoke that transformed her pain into purpose. Years later, the impact of that moment is still rippling through her family, her faith, and...

What happens when curiosity about the spirit realm turns into something terrifying?

In this episode of Coincidence or God (formerly When You Look), Jai Roza shares his unbelievable journey from childhood trauma, New Age spirituality, and hearing demonic voices to a supernatural encounter that changed everything.

After years of experimenting with meditation, the “third eye,” spirit communication, and dark spiritual practices, Jai became trapped in a world he could no longer control. Battling depression, suicidal thoughts, and terrifying spiritual experiences, he reached a breaking point the night he planned to end his life. But then the...

What happens when you walk away from God—and then discover He never stopped pursuing you?

In this powerful episode of Coincidence or God? (formerly When You Look), Desiree Taylor shares her incredible story of growing up with progressive hearing loss, battling loneliness and depression, walking away from her faith, and finding herself pregnant, overwhelmed, and completely out of options.

At one of the lowest moments of her life, Desiree cried out to God. What happened next changed everything.

She shares the deeply personal encounter that led her back to faith, the unexpected wa...

After years of living a double life, Jim Domen found himself at rock bottom. His gay partner emptied their bank accounts, kicked him out, and left him with nothing but the clothes on his back. Alone on the floor of a small apartment in Palm Springs, California Jim prayed a simple prayer that would change the course of his life forever.

The next morning, a mysterious $5 bill on the sidewalk became the beginning of an extraordinary journey of redemption, restoration, and hope.

In this powerful conversation, Jim shares his story of same-sex attraction, life in...

What started as a fresh start after divorce turned into a nightmare Kimberly Haar never saw coming. After ending a 23-year marriage and finally finding love again, Kimberly’s ex-husband broke into her home in the middle of the night with a gun. Hours later, she heard three gunshots outside the house of the man she believed she would marry. That man survived being shot 10 times.

In this powerful episode of Coincidence or God? (formerly When You Look), Kimberly shares the unbelievable true story of trauma, survival, healing, forgiveness, and the unmistakable presence of Go...

What happens when someone reaches the absolute end of themselves and God intervenes at the exact right moment?

In this powerful episode of When You Look, Mick sits down with Eric Stephens to unpack a story of addiction, rejection, suicidal thoughts, spiritual warfare, and radical transformation through Jesus Christ.

After years of chasing the “bad guy” lifestyle—alcohol, drugs, lust, violence, and self-destruction—Eric found himself sitting with a loaded gun to his head, convinced his life was beyond repair. Then the phone rang.

What followed changed everything.

Eric sha...

What do you do when the love of your life takes his last breath… and your whole world changes overnight?

Michelle Bader Ebersole became a widow in the early morning hours after walking her husband through a 17-year battle with rare cancer. But her story didn’t end in that room. In the middle of unimaginable grief, Michelle experienced a supernatural peace, powerful encounters with God, and a calling that would change not only her life — but the lives of thousands of widows around the world.

In this deeply moving...

In this powerful and deeply emotional conversation, country music artist Walker Hayes shares the darkest night of his life—the night he buried his daughter… and nearly destroyed everything.

After years of addiction, pain, and searching for meaning, Walker found himself at a breaking point. Grief, anger, and hopelessness collided in a moment that could have changed the course of his life forever. What happened next is incredible.

This episode explores:

• The reality of grief after losing a child

• Addiction, sobriety, and the temptation to relapse

• The moment that stopped hi...

What happens when you finally get everything you thought you wanted and it still leaves you empty?

In this powerful episode of When You Look, author Tindell Baldwin shares her raw and unfiltered story of chasing popularity, partying, relationships, and approval—only to find herself battling addiction, depression, and suicidal thoughts by the end of high school. From the outside, it looked like she had it all. On the inside, she was falling apart.

This is a story about the illusion of popularity, the hidden cost of chasing the wrong things, and the moment everything ch...

What would you do in your daughter’s final moments?

After years of battling a mysterious illness that was later diagnosed as Lyme disease, Jody Hudson found herself standing beside her 22-year-old daughter’s bed faced with a challenging direction.

In this deeply emotional and faith-filled conversation, Jody shares the moment she felt prompted to do something no parent ever wants to do—give her daughter permission to let go. What happened next changed her faith forever and revealed a perspective on grief, God, and purpose that will stay with you long after this episode ends.<...

What happens when an MIT-trained atheist sets out to disprove God using science… and the math refuses to cooperate?

In this powerful episode of When You Look, Mick sits down with former MIT student, attorney, and author Douglas Ell, who spent years believing that science had all the answers—and that belief in God was intellectually weak.

But everything changed when he started asking deeper questions.

After a moment in church stirred something unexpected, Doug began a personal investigation into cosmology, molecular biology, and physics. What he discovered challenged everything he thought he knew...

What happens when spiritual disciplines move from theory to daily practice? In this powerful episode, Kathleen Johnson shares how the power of spiritual disciplines transformed her life from fear, anxiety, and chronic pain into peace, strength, and deep faith.

After walking through heartbreak, health challenges, and emotional struggles, Kathleen discovered that practices like scripture meditation, prayer, fasting, and surrender weren’t religious routines — they were pathways to spiritual renewal. As she began strengthening her spirit instead of relying on willpower alone, everything started to change: her mindset, her emotions, her home life, and even her physical health.

What started as four ordinary conversations turned into something far greater!

A failing business.

A desperate prayer for a job.

A meeting at church.

A conversation at a birthday party.

Individually, they seemed to mean nothing.

Together… they changed everything for Ryan!

In this episode of When You Look, you’ll hear how four completely separate moments connected in a way that feels impossible—from a job offer that came out of nowhere, to a man struggling to rebuild his life who found...

What started as a routine family road trip in the middle of the night turned into a moment this family would never forget.

At 4AM on a dark, empty highway, Roger’s family ran out of gas with no stations open and no help in sight. Stranded on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere, his mother prayed a simple prayer asking God to see them and help them.

Seconds later, the CB radio crackled to life.

A truck driver was right behind them — hauling 9,000 gallons of gasoline.

In t...