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Blurry Creatures

There is more going on than what you can see.

Blurry Creatures is the podcast that takes the strange, the unexplained, and the flat-out weird seriously, and asks what the Bible actually has to say about it. Every week, hosts Luke Rodgers and Nate Henry dig into the topics most people are afraid to touch. UFOs and UAPs. Cryptids and creatures. The Nephilim, the Watchers, and the sons of God. The divine council, cosmic geography, and the spiritual war happening just past the edge of our vision. Rooted in a biblical framework, the show pulls ancient texts, real witness testimony, and honest questions into the same conversation.

This is not fringe for the sake of fringe. It is graduate-level theology, academic discussion, and real-world testimony made for regular people, with room for wonder, a healthy dose of humor, and a refusal to pretend the supernatural stopped being real. Whether you are a lifelong believer, a curious skeptic, or someone who has seen something you cannot explain, there is a seat for you here.

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Yesterday · 13 min
EP: 478 The Two Sams: The Demon Who Stole His Wife’s Identity *members only trailer
Peter Jackel was a young church leader when he married Samantha out of duty, not love, after a pregnancy that turned out to be a lie. What followed was a year of blazing midnight fights, threats, and chaos so total he couldn’t remember what the arguments were even about. Then one day he pointed at her in the kitchen and rebuked her in the name of Jesus, and she spun around with a different set of eyes and a man’s voice. That was the cork out of the bottle. Over the next three days, Peter cast spirit after spirit out of his wife, until he hit one that would not leave, one that answered every time he called Samantha’s name. It had taken her identity. It was her. This is one of the most remarkable deliverance stories the show has aired, and it does not end where you think. Peter walks Luke and Nate through the childhood vow Samantha made as a desperate little girl, the way the spirit had formed her personality so completely that once it was gone she didn’t know what foods she liked or what made her laugh, and the slow rebuilding of a woman who would one day be named Mother of the Year. It is a raw account of oaths, chaos, the limits of counseling and medication, and the authority of Christ over powers the modern church would rather not name. This story lives in The Vault, and members are the reason we can give testimonies like Peter’s the room they deserve. Join us at blurrycreatures.com/members for the full episode, early and ad-free releases, the community, and ticket discounts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tuesday · 2 hr 6 min
EP: 477 The Lost Holy of Holies: A Stunning Discovery at Shiloh with Dr. Scott Stripling
What if archaeologists have uncovered the very place where the presence of God once dwelled? Deep beneath the ancient city of Shiloh, renowned biblical archaeologist Dr. Scott Stripling and his team have unearthed a mysterious structure surrounded by extraordinary clues: priestly ornaments, thousands of sacrificial animal bones, and evidence of a destruction that appears to align with the biblical record. Could these discoveries point to the long-lost tabernacle and even the Holy of Holies? Dr. Stripling joins Blurry Creatures to reveal what his team has found, why these discoveries are challenging long-held assumptions, and what could still be buried beneath the soil of Israel. From the controversial Mount Ebal curse tablet to the lost Ark of the Covenant and an unexplained sighting over Bethlehem, this conversation takes us to the intersection of archaeology, biblical history, and the supernatural. This Episode is Sponsored By: Ready to be seen? Check that appointment off your to-do list with Zocdoc : https://zocdoc.com/blurry #sponsored http://blurrygold.com/ - Get a FREE Gold & Silver Kit while supplies last! https://livemomentous.com - Get up to 35% OFF your first order with code BLURRY - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
October 22 · 14 min
EP: 476 The 40 MPH Creature and the Blood Altar in the Woods *members only trailer
The ground vibrated, his brother yelled something he never said, and when Jared looked out the window, something was sprinting up the driveway at a speed no man could run. Hunched forward, impossibly long arms held up like a raptor, a thick mane of hair down its back. His only reference was a video game. It looked like Blanka from Street Fighter, and in seconds it vanished into the Florida tree line. Years later, his brother-in-law, who had never heard the story, described seeing the same thing at the top of the street, along with a feeling of spiritual dread. But the creature is only the doorway. Jared tells Luke and Nate about the years he spent living like a hermit in the mountains above Boulder, where his real encounters began. Blood-red quartz altars kept clean in the deep woods. A twenty-foot stone table with no dust on it, stones set to the compass points, that his dog refused to go near. A voice that told him a child of light was not welcome. It is a sprawling, firsthand account of cryptids, high places, and the sense that the ancient evil the prophets confronted never actually went away. This story lives in The Vault, and members are the reason we can give listener stories like Jared’s the room they deserve. Join us at blurrycreatures.com/members for the full episode, early and ad-free releases, exclusive community groups, access to event tickets, and so much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
October 21 · 2 hr 16 min
EP: 475 Ancient Portals, DMT and the Gates Being Opened in Silicon Valley with Darren Stott
A portal is just a doorway, a point of spiritual access, and Darren Stott says far more of them are standing open than people realize. Pastor, podcaster, and author of Exposing Portals, Darren joins Luke and Nate to argue that the psychedelic boom sweeping through podcasts and Silicon Valley is not cutting-edge medicine at all. It is an ancient gate, the same one the serpent offered in Eden, repackaged as healing. DMT, ayahuasca, and the rest do not take you into a hallucination, he says. They take you out, through a door into a real realm, to meet real entities, and the people who go keep coming back with the same testimony. It opened me, and it left me open. From there the conversation runs wide, from the cosmic serpent that coils around ayahuasca users and feels like deliverance, to the comedian whose vision never fully closed, to the disruptors who credit their biggest breakthroughs to supernatural encounters. Darren is honest about why this is a hard conversation, especially for veterans and others who found real relief, and he keeps pointing to the catch underneath every counterfeit freedom. Something moves in, and it does not leave when you ask. It is a sobering, wide-open talk about portals, pharmakeia, the second heaven, and the only gate Darren says can be trusted. This Episode is Sponsored By: http://blurrygold.com/ - Get a FREE Gold & Silver Kit while supplies last! https://fondregenerative.com/ - Use the code BONEZONE for 15% off your order of real, nourishing bone broth and more! https://preborn.com/blurry - Visit the PreBorn! website or dial #250 and use keyword BABY to donate today. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
October 15 · 13 min
EP: 474 How False Prophets are Deceiving the Church with Michael Miller *members only trailer
A prophet appears out of nowhere and starts stunning crowds, calling out strangers by name, naming their cities, their children, their illnesses. It looks undeniable. Then it comes out that he was mining Facebook the whole time and grooming his own staff behind the scenes. Michael Miller brings that story and several like it to this members-only conversation with Luke and Nate, and uses them to answer a question most Christians get wrong. What actually makes someone a false prophet. The answer, he argues from Scripture, is not a blown prediction. It is where they lead you, and who they lead you to. Pastor of Reclamation Church and co-host of Remnant Radio, Michael has spent years holding the charismatic pulpit to account alongside people like Mike Winger. Here he gets into the mechanics of the con, why abusers in power instinctively protect one another, how narcissists hunt for the wounded and loyal, and the strange research on what praise and unchecked power do to the human brain. He is honest about his own story too, the abuse he walked through and why he refuses to let it take his faith. This one goes places the main feed could not. The full episode lives in The Vault, where the show can name names and go deep. Become a member at blurrycreatures.com/members for early, ad-free episodes, the community, and discounts on live show tickets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
October 13 · 1 hr 33 min
EP: 473 The Gifts of the Spirit, Real and Counterfeit with Michael Miller
The gifts of the Spirit are real, and so are the fakes. That tension sits at the center of this conversation with returning fan favorite Michael Miller, pastor of Reclamation Church and co-host of Remnant Radio. Prophecy, tongues, healing, discernment of spirits. The modern church mostly ignores them, partly out of fear of looking charismatic and partly because the people shouting the loudest about them are so often the ones abusing them for status, money, and fame. Michael walks Luke and Nate through what Scripture actually says, and why the greatest argument against the gifts is not theology but bad charismatics. Then he backs it with stories that are hard to explain away. A woman who secretly begged God to have a visiting preacher call her by a fake name, and then heard Michael say it out loud. A man who understood a prayer spoken over him in a language no one in the room knew. Endometriosis and decades of back pain that lifted after a prayer of deliverance. Then it gets personal and practical, especially on Freemasonry. Michael explains why he believes Masonic oaths bind families for generations, cursing descendants from the waist up with conditions that keep surfacing until someone finally breaks them. He names the spirits he says sit behind the lodge, including a syncretic god called Jabulon stitched together from Jehovah, Baal, and Ra, and he walks through the exact prayer he uses to renounce the oaths, reject both the curses and the hidden blessings, and command those spirits out. This is a grounded, honest look at real power, real counterfeits, and how to tell the difference. This Episode is Sponsored By: https://rocketmoney.com/blurry - Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster! https://homechef.com/blurry - Get 50% off plus free shipping on your first box & free dessert for life! http://blurrygold.com/ - Get a FREE Gold & Silver Kit while supplies last! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
October 8 · 15 min
EP: 472 The Adopted Twins Raised to Worship Satan *members only trailer
Nancy Storm is carrying her new seven-year-old son down the street, tickling him, when the giggling stops. Out of a tiny boy's vocal cords comes a booming chorus of grown men's voices, deep as a hundred-foot well, telling her to let him go. She does not need the gift of discernment to know what she is dealing with. Nancy and her husband Dan adopted twins out of a home of starvation, torture, and ritual abuse, children so hard to place that four families had already given them back. They expected broken minds. What came home with the kids was something far older. What follows is nearly two decades of war. A husband diagnosed with brain cancer three months after the adoption. A daughter who flips into a physically impossible backflip and slithers across the floor. Checks arriving from strangers to cover the rent as everything else falls apart. And a mother who keeps singing hymns over a raging child because she made a vow she will not break. This is one of the most harrowing and honest stories the show has ever aired, a story about what love actually costs when the enemy refuses to leave, and it does not resolve the way you want it to. This story lives in The Vault, and members make it possible to give accounts like Nancy's the time and care they demand. Join us at blurrycreatures.com/members for the full episode, early and ad-free releases, the community, and ticket discounts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
October 6 · 1 hr 56 min
EP: 471 The Seven Kings of the Antichrist with Ryan Pitterson
What if the Antichrist is not waiting in the future, but has already walked the earth seven times? In this live-in studio episode, Ryan Pitterson opens Revelation 17 to a prophecy most teachers skip: the one God himself flags with the words Here is the mind that has wisdom. His claim is staggering. A single fallen spirit, Apollyon, the angel of the bottomless pit, has possessed one world ruler after another across history, each a rehearsal for the Antichrist to come. Nimrod. Pharaoh. Nebuchadnezzar. Sennacherib. Antiochus. Domitian. Seven kings, one spirit, one agenda, running roughly every few hundred years. From there it turns current fast. Ryan traces the same pattern straight into the present, where the image of the beast looks less like a golden statue and more like an artificial intelligence that is alive, aware, and able to know who worships it and who does not. Brain chips that promise godlike powers. A one-world language unlocked by AI translation. The groundwork of Babel, poured all over again. Recorded live in the Blurry Basement in front of a studio audience, this is Ryan at his deepest, pulling ancient texts and forgotten nineteenth-century church writings into a single thread that runs from Genesis to Revelation. Our next live in-studio taping is November 7th in Franklin, Tennessee, with Timothy Alberino on the Book of Giants, and only 30 seats fit in the room. We record these just once a quarter, and members get first access to tickets before they are gone. Join at blurrycreatures.com/members to get in the room on November 7th. This Episode is Sponsored By: https://livemomentous.com - Get up to 35% OFF your first order with code BLURRY Treat, don’t trick, your teeth this month and go to shopremi.com/BLURRY and use code BLURRY at checkout for 50% off with Remi Club. https://brooklynbedding.com - Get 30% off sitewide during the Labor Day Sale when you use promo code BLURRY at checkout! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
October 1 · 18 min
EP: 470 The Night the Sky Turned Orange *members only trailer
The sky should not have been orange. Glen Smith is a small boy in 1982, awake while his father works nights, when he pulls himself onto the kitchen counter and sees the whole farm lit up through the window like he is looking through a tinted lens. His dad stands beside him, transfixed, and says it gets that way sometimes when it storms. It does not. What happens over the next few hours stays locked in Glen's mind for three decades, surfacing only when an inverted photo negative drops the first clue in his lap. What he remembers is almost too much to hold. Men who arrive as men and leave as something gray and tall. His mother pleading, not my daughter, take me. A beast that shakes the house hard enough to crack the ceiling, a detail his mother independently confirms years later. Glen brings it all to Luke and Nate for the first time outside his family, and he refuses to end on the horror. He ends on sovereignty, on the God he says never left that room, and on why he finally decided this story needed to be told. This is the kind of testimony that reminds people they are not alone in what they have seen. This one is for members, and members make episodes like this possible. Join The Vault at blurrycreatures.com/members to unlock the full conversation, hear episodes early and ad-free, join the community, and help keep these stories coming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 29 · 1 hr 40 min
EP: 469 Rat Temples, Mormon Gods, and a Death Cult on the Ganges with Jeremy Jenkins
Here is the uncomfortable thing nobody in church wants to say out loud. The spells work. The witch doctor heals. The rituals deliver. Jeremy Jenkins has spent years studying the world's religions and standing inside their holiest places, and he is done pretending the power is not real. A world religions expert, pastor, and professor, he sits down with Luke and Nate to explain why everything that works is not good, and why that single idea changes how you read every faith on earth. From the Hindu death cult of Varanasi, where bodies burn on the Ganges around the clock, to the rat temples, to what Mormons truly believe about a man becoming a god, Jeremy traces the same pattern through all of it. Every system runs on a transaction, a treadmill of works and offerings to something on the other side that wants to be worshiped. He ties it to the divine council, the principalities and powers, and a night in India when something holds him down and chants over him until he calls on Jesus. If you have ever wondered what the church is actually fighting, this is the map. Jeremy Jenkins is a regular contributor to Stranger Theology, the theological project from Blurry Creatures and Dr. Joel Muddamalle that digs into the deep end of the Bible the church tends to avoid. If this conversation scratched an itch, that is where the itch gets scratched every week. Subscribe to the Stranger Theology Substack for essays, deeper dives, and more from voices like Jeremy, and join the community thinking seriously about the supernatural world Scripture actually describes. This Episode is Sponsored By: http://blurrygold.com/ - Get a FREE Gold & Silver Kit while supplies last! https://preborn.com/blurry - Visit the PreBorn! website or dial #250 and use keyword BABY to donate today. https://homechef.com/blurry - Get 50% off plus free shipping on your first box & free dessert for life! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 25 · 1 hr 36 min
EP: 468 The Church is Afraid of the Supernatural with Jon Moffitt
Jon Moffitt is a Reformed pastor, and in his world, you do not talk about this. Demons, principalities, the divine council, the unseen war Paul describes in Ephesians. It is not that the Reformed church calls it heresy. It is that the Reformed church is so afraid of looking charismatic that it simply goes quiet. Jon lives in that silence for years, until he sits down to preach the Lord's Prayer and gets stuck on one line. Deliver us from the evil one. He realizes he has never heard a single sermon on it, and pulling that thread unravels everything he thought he was allowed to say. What follows is a conversation about the half of the Bible the modern church keeps skipping. Jon tells Luke and Nate what happens when he starts talking openly: the church members who finally admit the things they have seen, the eight-year-old with a possession story, and the businessman who hides a UFO encounter for twenty years because he is too ashamed to say it out loud. He also brings the discipline his tradition is known for, drawing a hard line between experience and Scripture and refusing the lazy answer that everything is a demon. This is the supernatural handled by a man who is not looking for a monster under every rock. Get Jon's book here: The Bible According to Jesus Want more Blurry? A Blurry Creatures membership unlocks a vault of 100+ members-only episodes you can't hear anywhere else, plus every single main feed episode completely ad-free. You also get access to a vibrant community of fellow seekers, exclusive drops, and perks built for people who can't stop digging. Come see what happens when we keep the mics rolling. Check it out at https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 24 · 12 min
EP: 467 My Dad Was at the Marilyn Monroe Crime Scene with Tom Doyle and No Longer Nomads *members only trailer
This is a side of Tom Doyle that very few people know. A fan-favorite Blurry Creatures guest, Tom is known for his accounts of Muslim dreams about Jesus and more than thirty years on the mission field in the Middle East. What people do not know is how he grew up. His father was an FBI agent and organized-crime specialist in Rat Pack Las Vegas, and one morning he stands at the Marilyn Monroe crime scene as the world wakes up to the headline. He sees who shows up, and it is someone far above a governor. J. Edgar Hoover calls the house personally. Frank Sinatra sends the family a gold watch. This is not the usual Blurry Creatures episode, and that is exactly the point. For one night Tom sets the supernatural aside and cracks open his own family's government files. What spills out is a front-row seat to the biggest conspiracies in American history. Marilyn Monroe and the phone calls to the White House. The Kennedys in Las Vegas the weekend before Dallas. Frankie Sinatra's kidnapping and the watch Tom still owns. Roswell, from a man who knew the people who were there. Josh and Tommy Doyle (Tom's sons) from No Longer Nomads pull up to the table as the Doyle family tells stories they almost never tell in public. And it all bends toward one unlikely ending, how a kid raised around guns and secrets grows up to smuggle Bibles into Iran. This one is for members, and members are what make episodes like this possible. Join us at blurrycreatures.com/members to unlock the full conversation, early and ad-free releases, the community, and ticket discounts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 22 · 1 hr 38 min
EP: 466 Inside Hollywood's Babylon System from a Child Actor Who Escaped with Todd Coconato
The stage where they hand out the Oscars sits on a plaza built to echo the Court of Babylon. Todd Coconato has been inside that world since he was eight years old, a child actor on studio sets who grew into the LA club scene and all the money and access that came with it. He says there is a reason so many of the people he ran with died young or lost their minds. Hollywood sells itself as the definition of success, and Todd got close enough to see what actually fills that void, and what never can. Then came the night that changed everything. Stabbed nine times, once in the heart, he heard the audible voice of God on the way to the hospital and walked out a different man. Today he pastors a church in Nashville and pulls back the curtain on the industry that raised him. Luke and Nate get into the studios and the gatekeepers, Operation Mockingbird and predictive programming, the cost of refusing to play along, and why a remnant armed with nothing but a small stone still terrifies the giant. It is one of the most candid Hollywood conversations the show has hosted and one of the more remarkable testimonies of God's redemption you will ever hear. This episode is sponsored by: Taking care of your health just got easier - start here with Zocdoc: https://zocdoc.com/BLURRY #sponsored http://blurrygold.com/ - Get a FREE Gold & Silver Kit while supplies last! https://rocketmoney.com/blurry - Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 17 · 17 min
EP: 465 The Blue Lady: The Painting That Would Not Burn with Rick Hansen *members only trailer
A man sits down to paint, and something takes his hands. For hours, he cannot stop, and when he finishes, he is staring at the most beautiful thing he has ever made. He also knows it is not his. It is the blue lady, and it wants to be worshiped. This is where Rick Hansen's family story turns, the moment his father crosses from curiosity into two years of worshiping Satan. Rick wrote a book about it, because he watched the aftermath play out in his own living room for the rest of his childhood. The painting later refuses to burn. Cut with a razor, the blue lady's face becomes Rick's mother's face, and tears rise on the canvas. His father eventually casts twelve demons out of himself and becomes the exorcist that frightened pastors keep on speed dial. Rick walks Luke and Nate through it all: the deliverances, the manifestations, and the entity that keeps trying to find a new host. It is one of the wildest testimonies we have ever put on this feed. You can only hear the whole thing as a member. Join at ⁠blurrycreatures.com/members⁠ and unlock a vault of 100+ members-only episodes you can't hear anywhere else, plus every main feed episode completely ad-free. You also get a vibrant community of fellow seekers, exclusive drops, merch discounts, and perks built for people who can't stop digging, all while supporting the stories nobody else will tell. ⁠https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members⁠ Find Rick's book here: The Blue Lady: My Personal Encounter with Dark Angels, Demons, and Spiritual Warfare Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 15 · 1 hr 51 min
EP: 464 Dynasty of Slaves: Finding the Exodus in Ancient Egypt with BLK SHP Scott
For a century, scholars have searched for the Exodus and found nothing. Scott from Black Sheep Bible Talk says they are looking in the wrong century, at the wrong pharaoh, for the wrong catastrophe. Move the lens two hundred years earlier, to 1446 BC, and the evidence starts clicking into place like a key in a lock. A pharaoh named Amenhotep II whose mummy is scarred with boils. A successor who was never the rightful heir and had to carve a monument explaining why he sits on the throne. A missing generation of firstborn sons. The story the Bible tells was never absent from the record. We were standing in the wrong room. From there, Scott lays out a chain most people have never heard. A pharaoh who marches into Canaan and drags back the largest slave haul in Egyptian history, because he suddenly needs to refill cities that just emptied. A tomb painting at Beni Hassan of shepherds from the east that may put a face on Abraham himself. A governor named Salatis in Egypt's own king list who lines up name for name with Joseph. Nate and Luke go two hundred years deep with a guest who has spent years building the case, and by the end the Exodus looks less like myth and more like history hiding in plain sight. This Episode is Sponsored By: https://fondregenerative.com/ - Use the code BONEZONE for 15% off your order of real, nourishing bone broth and more! http://blurrygold.com/ - Get a FREE Gold & Silver Kit while supplies last! https://livemomentous.com - Get up to 35% OFF your first order with code BLURRY - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 10 · 16 min
EP: 463 There Are Two Powers in Heaven with Dr. Joel Muddamalle And Doug Van Dorn *members only trailer
In some corners of the church, what Joel Muddamalle and Doug Van Dorn argue in this episode gets called heresy. Their claim is simple and enormous. The Angel of the Lord who stands before Joshua, speaks from the burning bush, and accepts worship without correcting it is the preincarnate Christ. The rabbis saw the tension too. They called it the Two Powers in Heaven, and they could not explain how two Yahwehs show up in the same verse. Doug wrote the book on this figure. Joel is the theologian in the room. Together, they build a case that Jesus is the general of the armies of God long before Bethlehem. The evidence stacks fast. A commander who tells Joshua to remove his sandals on holy ground. A Word, a Name, a Glory, and a Wisdom that all keep behaving like a person. Play devil's advocate for a moment, and the only alternative to the Son of God is a lying entity stealing worship for itself. Recorded in Texas, on set for the brand new Grey Havens Report in honor of Michael Heiser, this fan-favorite lineup goes further than the show has ever gone on this question. The full conversation lives behind the members' wall, where the deepest episodes are found. Become a member and hear it all at blurrycreatures.com/members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 8 · 2 hr 28 min
EP: 462 Werewolves, a White Pony, and a 100 Year Promise with Marcus Young
Marcus Young grows up in a family that hunts werewolves. This is not folklore, and it is not a campfire story. His great-uncle Harold empties both barrels of buckshot into a creature swaying on a log, and it screams, bleeds a river, and vanishes without a trace a mile and a half into the jungle. His grandfather keeps a matchbox of the hair as proof. Then one night the creatures come for Marcus. Two of them materialize in his bedroom, red eyes and long claws, and one turns to the other and asks whether they should take him now or wait. The monsters are only the doorway. Marcus carries one of the most remarkable missionary lines in modern history, running four generations deep into the borderlands of Burma and China. A white pony leads twelve men through weeks of jungle to a well. A tribe waits three hundred years for a white man with a white book. A great-grandfather makes a promise that reaches across a century and lands on Marcus himself. And the same bloodline that hunts monsters now pulls children out of cartels and trafficking rings, where the evil is not blurry at all. Today, Marcus runs InFire, the nonprofit he founded to rescue children from trafficking, cartels, and extreme poverty across Southeast Asia and Latin America, and you can check out and support the work at in-fire.org. This episode is sponsored by: https://shopremi.com/blurry - Get 50% OFF your new night guard with code BLURRY https://brooklynbedding.com - Get 30% off sitewide during the Labor Day Sale when you use promo code BLURRY at checkout! http://blurrygold.com/ - Get a FREE Gold & Silver Kit while supplies last! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 4 · 19 min
EP: 461 The Cellar Cult: Bloodshed, Black Rituals, and Cursed Soil *members only trailer
Where do you go when the church cannot help you? Tisha lived that question. She and her husband moved into their first home, a little 1901 house on Spokane's South Hill, just before their baby was born, with no idea what was buried beneath it. A man was once shot and dragged inside to die. A girl was badly burned. Innocent blood has been spilled on that plot of earth, going back further than the records reach. And something bound to that land, there long before Tisha arrived, begins to make itself known through nightmares, apparitions, and a presence that seems fixed on her and her child. When she finally works up the courage to ask for help, she discovers the most frightening part of the whole ordeal. Nobody knows what to do. Her pastor turns her away. The exorcist route dead ends. Desperate and out of options, Tisha turns to psychics and paranormal teams against everything she believes, and things only get worse until she finally learns where real authority over the darkness comes from. This is one of the most harrowing and hopeful testimonies we have ever put in the vault, a curse on the land that becomes a rescue. If you have ever wondered whether deliverance is real, this is the one. Find it at blurrycreatures.com/members. This episode is just the beginning. Blurry Creatures members unlock a vault of 100+ members-only episodes you can't hear anywhere else, plus every main feed episode completely ad-free. You also get a vibrant community of fellow seekers, exclusive drops, and perks built for people who can't stop digging. Come see what happens when we keep the mics rolling. Join us at https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 1 · 2 hr 5 min
EP: 460 What REALLY Happened On The Mountaintop with Robby Gallaty
The Transfiguration might be the strangest scene in the Gospels. Jesus climbs a mountain, his face lights up, and two men who have been dead for centuries, Moses and Elijah, are suddenly standing there talking with him. Most sermons rush right past it. Robby Gallaty wants to stop and sit in the weirdness. Robby is the senior pastor of Long Hollow Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee, the founder of Replicate Ministries, and a preacher with a PhD who has given his life to making disciples. And he says that to understand the Transfiguration, you have to understand the mountain. Set against Mount Hermon, a place the ancient world treated as thick with supernatural meaning, the scene becomes a window into the enchanted world Jesus actually lived in. Robby argues that the modern church has a truncated view of the supernatural, and that we have traded the awe that changes us for the amazement that only entertains us. He unpacks the rabbi culture behind the words come follow me, the difference between knowing about Jesus and being known by him, and the single comma in a 1611 Bible that he says kept the church in a coma for four hundred years. This episode is part Bible study, part testimony, and part invitation to wonder again. Maybe the real question is this. When was the last time you sat long enough to be in awe of God? This Episode is Sponsored By: https://rocketmoney.com/blurry - Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster! http://blurrygold.com/ - Get a FREE Gold & Silver Kit while supplies last! https://homechef.com/blurry - Get 50% off plus free shipping on your first box & free dessert for life! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 28 · 1 hr 39 min
EP: 459 The Rebellion Before The World Began with Dan McCarthy
Before the world was made, there was a war. Dan McCarthy comes into the basement to trace it back to its source, the moment pride welled up in the highest angel, and he reached for the throne of God. The author of Satan's War Against God argues that most Christians have the enemy all wrong. We shrink him down to a tempter and an accuser, when Scripture describes a full rebellion, a mutiny that has never stopped and now runs as an organized kingdom of darkness carving up the territories of the earth. Dan lays out the enemy's real agenda, why humanity enraged Satan before we ever drew a breath, and how the powers and principalities took their thrones after Babel. Then he gets practical. He explains why the church is not a fan club but an army, why our bond with Jesus is fealty to a warrior king rather than friendship with a buddy, and what it actually means to take back territory. It starts before time, and it lands right in the middle of the war you are standing in today. https://ruffgreens.com - Get a free Jumpstart Trial bag with discount code BLURRY at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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