Episodes
In the 1960s, Tom Tarrants was a young man on a mission - to save America from Communism, Marxism, and desegregation. He was prepared to do anything, including joining the Ku Klux Klan, drive-by shootings, or even dying for his cause. Yet God had a far greater plan for this would-be revolutionary.
Show notes @ https://compelledpodcast.com/episodes/tom-tarrants
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Compelled is a seasonal podcast using gripping, immersive storytelling to celebrate the powerful ways God is...
Published 10/01/24
Brian Lynn grew up inspired by missionaries like George Mueller. But, as an adult, he was blindsided by a painful divorce and became a single dad. After struggling with self-pity and anger, Brian realized that God had called him to live out a counter-cultural lifestyle that he never thought possible.
Show notes @ https://compelledpodcast.com/episodes/brian-lynn
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Compelled is a seasonal podcast using gripping, immersive storytelling to celebrate the powerful ways God is...
Published 09/17/24
Wendy grew up in a broken home and was always searching for the truth. But as she grew older she fell into rebellion and numbed her pain with drugs and alcohol. In desperation, she decided to get sober and began reading the Bible. What she discovered would change her life.
Show notes @ https://compelledpodcast.com/episodes/wendy-zaeringer
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Compelled is a seasonal podcast using gripping, immersive storytelling to celebrate the powerful ways God is transforming Christians around...
Published 09/03/24
1. Today, we're launching the Proclaim Podcast Network. Learn more at Proclaim.fm
Listen to our other network shows at:
StoryPartners.org
ExemplaPodcast.com
GodOutLoud.com (and listen to the 2nd half of their season premiere episode immediately!)
2. Radio Fundraising Update: We've raised around $19k of our $80k goal.
If you'd like to give toward the radio initiative, you can do so at CompelledPodcast.com/donate
3. Hang with us at the SING Conference
If you're at the conference and want...
Published 08/27/24
At birth, Dean was abandoned by his mother. By 13, he had begun dealing drugs, and soon after moved into a party house in Hollywood Hills with the bad boys of rock & roll, Guns N’ Roses. But the year Guns N’ Roses began to chart at number 1, Dean met the *true* number 1 of his life.
Show notes @ https://compelledpodcast.com/episodes/dean-clark
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Compelled is a seasonal podcast using gripping, immersive storytelling to celebrate the powerful ways God is transforming...
Published 08/20/24
Kim Bigler was going about just another day at home when her teenage son, Phoenix, collapsed in an alleyway, his heart stopped beating, and he died. But as Kim began to pray fervently, asking God to intervene, the God of Heaven heard her cry and met her need.
Show notes @ https://compelledpodcast.com/episodes/kim-bigler
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Compelled is a seasonal podcast using gripping, immersive storytelling to celebrate the powerful ways God is transforming Christians around the world.
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Published 08/06/24
Alex Nsengimana grew up in Rwanda during the 1990s, surrounded by racial tension and anger that eventually boiled over into full-scale violence. As a child, Alex witnessed the unimaginable horrors of the Rwandan Genocide, but after being exposed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Alex was challenged to do the unthinkable... to forgive the unforgivable.
Show notes and book drawing @ https://compelledpodcast.com/episodes/alex-nsengimana
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Published 07/22/24
Compelled returns with Season 8 on Monday, July 22nd!
Our season premiere is with Alex Nsengimana, who grew up in Rwanda during the 1990s, surrounded by racial tension and anger that eventually boiled over into full-scale violence, now known as the Rwandan Genocide.
As a child, Alex witnessed unimaginable horrors, but after being exposed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Alex was challenged to do the unthinkable... forgive the unforgivable.
But if you can't wait until then, then join...
Published 07/16/24
Compelled returns with Season 8 on Monday, July 22nd!
But if you can't wait until then, then join our exclusive Season 8 Premiere Preview on The Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio on Wednesday, July 17th at 10am CT.
Find station listings near you at AFR.net.
See you there!
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Published 07/15/24
In our last episode, we heard Part 1 of Jeff Parker's story. Jeff was the Vice President of a thriving Christian media company, but he secretly harbored a gambling addiction. This is the 2nd part of his story, so if you haven't heard the 1st half, stop right now and go listen to that.
To fund his secret gambling addiction, Jeff began taking shocking measures to hide his activity.
Jeff knew he should submit his life to Christ, but the chains of sin ran far deeper than even he realized. The...
Published 06/18/24
Jeff was the successful Vice President of a Christian media company. Their products were used in churches around the world every Sunday and the company was thriving. Yet Jeff was carrying a secret. A secret that no one in his church, small group, or work could know about, but that ultimately could destroy him. Would Jeff continue on his secret path of destruction, or would he confess and repent of his sin, before it was too late?
Show notes @...
Published 06/11/24
In 2005, Jim deployed to the Middle East as part of a Navy SEAL platoon, alongside 15 of his closest friends and brothers-in-arms. Partway during their deployment, his team suffered devastating losses in the mountains of Afghanistan in an incident detailed in the best-selling book and hit movie “Lone Survivor”.
As Jim grappled with crippling grief, it was all he could do, to cling to the One who offered any glimmer of hope.
Note: We’re re-releasing Jim’s story today in honor of Memorial...
Published 05/27/24
Lee Strobel was a committed atheist and Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist for the Chicago Tribune. When his wife became a Christian Lee was disgusted and set out to prove her beliefs about Jesus to be untrue. But along the way, he was going to find more than he'd bargained for.
Show notes and book drawing @ https://compelledpodcast.com/episodes/lee-strobel
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Published 05/14/24
Anna had been seeking spiritual answers for years. But after finally finding those answers in the Bible and joyfully sharing them with her husband, Anna realized her husband didn’t want anything to do with it. And if that was the case… how would Jesus want her to respond?
Show notes @ https://compelledpodcast.com/episodes/anna-chatelain
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Compelled is a seasonal podcast using gripping, immersive storytelling to celebrate the powerful ways God is transforming Christians around...
Published 04/30/24
Troy Gause was a drug dealer who thought he was invincible. But then he was shot, paralyzed, and placed in a suicide cell where he thought he would lose his mind. Then one day… out of nowhere… he heard a still, small voice…
Show notes @ https://compelledpodcast.com/episodes/troy-gause
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Compelled is a seasonal podcast using gripping, immersive storytelling to celebrate the powerful ways God is transforming Christians around the world.
These Christian testimonies are raw, true,...
Published 04/16/24
Cortney Bruketta felt trapped in a web of addiction and secrecy. She wrestled daily with pornography and the guilt of living a double life. And no matter where she turned, she couldn't find a way out. Could anyone, set her free?
Show notes @ https://compelledpodcast.com/episodes/cortney-bruketta
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Compelled is a seasonal podcast using gripping, immersive storytelling to celebrate the powerful ways God is transforming Christians around the world.
These Christian testimonies are...
Published 04/02/24
SURPRISE! We're releasing our next episode of Compelled an entire week early, available right now on The Girl Defined Show!
Synopsis: Cortney Bruketta felt trapped in a web of addiction and secrecy. She wrestled daily with pornography and the guilt of living a double life. And no matter where she turned, she couldn't find a way out. Could anyone set her free?
Listen to the full episode right now by searching on your podcast app for "The Girl Defined Show", or by using one of the links...
Published 03/25/24
Jerry Dugan’s life was a clash between spiritual curiousity, complete ambivolence, and intellectual skepticism. But, when he faced the prospect of dying on a battlefield in Iraq, he found an unexpected answer to the prayer he never thought he would pray.
Show notes @ https://compelledpodcast.com/episodes/jerry-dugan
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Compelled is a seasonal podcast using gripping, immersive storytelling to celebrate the powerful ways God is transforming Christians around the world.
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Published 03/19/24
James Omondi grew up in total poverty in a small village in Kenya. His village viewed illness and misfortune through a lens of fear and mysticism which left James and his family labeled as cursed. His childhood was shrouded with judgment, rejection, and isolation. But when all hope seemed lost, God intervened.
Show notes @ https://compelledpodcast.com/episodes/james-omondi
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Compelled is a seasonal podcast using gripping, immersive storytelling to celebrate the powerful ways God...
Published 03/05/24
Frank Loria was a self-righteous "good guy" who thought he could earn God's favor by following the rules. Annette, on the other hand, barely stopped to think if God had rules at all, and instead indulged in whatever she felt like. Both of them had defined God to be whoever they thought He was… but they’d soon find out that He was entirely different.
Show notes @ https://compelledpodcast.com/episodes/frank-annette-loria
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Published 02/20/24
Hayden Jernigan grew up in a home marked by chaos. Unsure of who loved him or who wanted him, Hayden pursued everything he thought would bring him happiness, including girls, alcohol, and drugs. Yet he was unaware that actually, his entire life, there was someOne, who was pursuing him.
Show notes @ https://compelledpodcast.com/episodes/hayden-jernigan
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Compelled is a seasonal podcast using gripping, immersive storytelling to celebrate the powerful ways God is transforming...
Published 02/05/24
Join us for our first-ever behind-the-scenes episode with the Compelled team!
Highlights:
Paul and Sarah Hastings share their personal testimonies
The story of how Compelled got started
Listen to the Season 7 Premiere of Compelled on the Culture Proof podcast next Thursday, February 1st! (cultureproof.net)
We've finished raising 68% of our 2024 Goal, with $16,000 remaining. If you'd like to donate towards our episodes for 2024 then visit compelledpodcast.com/donate
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Published 01/25/24
For years, Laura Perry rejected God and hated her own body. Laura thought she would find answers by transgendering herself into a “man”. She had numerous hormone injections and extensive surgeries, removing every female organ in her body.
But after living as a transgender “man” for almost 10 years she encountered the love of Christ and was confronted with a difficult choice. Laura’s mother, Francine Perry, joins us as well to share her perspective throughout Laura's journey.
Watch Laura's...
Published 01/15/24
As a young man in New Zealand, Ray Comfort had everything he could want: a thriving business, a beautiful wife, and a successful career in front of him. But when he recognized the brevity of life and the finality of death, he began to despair.
Show notes @ https://compelledpodcast.com/episodes/ray-comfort
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Published 11/14/23