In this deeply vulnerable episode, Maranda steps out from behind the framework she has been teaching and opens her own life with honesty, tenderness, and truth. This is her story—unfiltered, unpolished, and told for the one woman listening who feels like she is sitting in the dark with no way forward.

Maranda shares her journey from a childhood marked by quiet searching, to a college crisis that shattered her world, to homelessness, pregnancy, and survival. She recounts working two fast‑food jobs, sleeping on an empty apartment floor, and walking through abusive relationships—yet seeing God’s unseen hand guiding her long before she knew His name.

This episode traces the moment everything changed: the Sunday she walked into a church broken, exhausted, and out of options—and encountered a love that asked nothing of her except honesty. It is the story of hope being reborn, of a life redirected, and of God doing “the rest” in ways she never imagined.

Episode 6 is for the woman carrying shame, for the one who has buried her pain, and for the one who believes she is too far gone. Maranda speaks directly to her with compassion, truth, and the reminder that in Christ, old things are passed away—and all things are made new.

This is Part 1 of her testimony. Part 2 continues in Episode 7.

Episode 5: How Are You Different Now? — The Evidence of a Transformed Life

Transformation is not an event. It is a process.

In Episode 5 of Sharing The Gospel Of Jesus Christ, host Maranda Forney arrives at the final and most revealing question of the series — How are you different now? Not different in theory. Not different on paper. Different in the way you love, the way you respond when life falls apart, and the way you carry a purpose that no career, achievement, or personal ambition could ever produce.

This is the episode where the Gospel proves itself — not through argument or theology, but through evidence.

Maranda opens Chapter Three with one of the most honest things a person of faith can say: I have not arrived. Growth is not always comfortable, not always visible, and not always linear. But something is unmistakably, undeniably different — and that difference has a name.

In this episode Maranda shares a personal testimony that will stop you in your tracks. When her newborn daughter Johanna fell from a shopping cart and was rushed to the hospital with a cracked skull and bleeding on the brain, Maranda walked into that waiting room a mess — terrified, barely holding herself together, watching her other children watch her face. And then her husband Mike walked through the door. What happened next involved a prayer, a nursing staff that waited in silence, and two medical films that told two completely different stories. The doctor's own words? "This is a miracle. You can take your baby and go home."

Today Johanna is a junior in college on the dean's list.

This episode walks through five questions that will help you identify and articulate the transformation already at work in your own life — the peace that shows up inside the storm, the first instinct that has shifted from handling to praying, the people you can love now that you could not have reached before, the story God has already used in someone else's life, and the honest, humble acknowledgment of where He is still working.

Because the most powerful thing you can offer someone who is searching is not a polished version of your faith. It is the truth of what God has done in the middle of your mess.

This episode is for you if:
You wonder whether your story is significant enough to share. You know something is different in you since Jesus but have never found the words for it. You are in the waiting room right now — holding the first film, praying for the second one. You want to share the Gospel but are not sure where the evidence of transformation is in your own life.

"We are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."
— 2 Corinthians 3:18

Listen to Episode 5 of Sharing The Gospel Of Jesus Christ wherever you get your podcasts.
Have a testimony to share? Send it to [email protected] — you could be our next guest.

Episode 4 — What Changed?

What was the moment everything shifted for you?

In this episode of Sharing The Gospel Of Jesus Christ, Maranda Forney reads Chapter Two of her book and walks through the second of three life-defining questions: What changed?

This episode unpacks the Gospel itself — not as religion or a self-improvement program, but as a rescue. Maranda shares how betrayal she never saw coming brought her to a place with no strategy, no backup plan, and no strength left to draw from — and how God met her not with answers, but with an inexplicable hope that whispered, this is not the end.

She breaks down what actually changed in the aftermath: the restlessness that quieted, the shame that lost its grip, the identity that was rebuilt, and the purpose that replaced years of confusion.

Whether you're walking through betrayal, shame, or a season where everything you built has collapsed, this episode is for you. The same hope that found Maranda in her darkest moment is available to you right now, exactly where you are.

In this episode:

• The true meaning of the Gospel, explained simply
• Maranda's personal testimony of betrayal and restoration
• Five reflection questions to help you identify your own "what changed" moment
• A closing word for anyone who feels they have to "clean up" before coming to God

Scripture featured: Jeremiah 29:11, 2 Corinthians 5:17

Listen now and come back for Episode 5, where we ask the final question — How are you different now?

Episode 3: What Was Your Life Like Before Jesus? — The Question That Unlocks Your Testimony

Before you can share where God has brought you, you have to be willing to look honestly at where you started.

In Episode 3 of Sharing The Gospel Of Jesus Christ, host Maranda Forney opens Chapter One — the chapter that asks the hardest question first. What was your life like before Jesus? Not the cleaned-up version. Not the version you share at church when someone asks how you are doing. The real one.

Because here is what Maranda wants you to understand: your before is not something to be ashamed of. It is the first and most essential chapter of the most powerful story you will ever tell.

In this episode Maranda walks you through the searching — that restless, nameless longing that no achievement, no relationship, and no amount of forward motion could quiet. She opens up about the broken places: fractured relationships, financial anxiety, and the deepest wound of all — not knowing who you are because you have been looking for the answer in all the wrong places. And she brings you to the moment of turning — the revelation that the thing you were searching for had already been searching for you.

What you will take away from this episode:

The restlessness you feel is not a flaw — it is a signal. Saint Augustine wrote nearly sixteen centuries ago that our hearts are restless until they rest in God. That truth has never expired. The gnawing sense that there must be something more is not evidence that something is wrong with you. It is evidence that you were made for something your current circumstances cannot contain.

You were made for God Himself — not religion, not ritual, not a checklist of behaviors, but real relationship with the One who knew you before you were formed in the womb.

Maranda closes the episode with five reflection questions designed to help you excavate your own before — and she issues a listener challenge: write your answers in a journal this week. Do not edit. Do not perform. Just tell the truth.

Because your story — exactly as it happened — is exactly what someone out there needs to hear.

This episode is for you if:
You have ever felt like your testimony is not dramatic enough to matter. You have spent years running from your before instead of letting God redeem it. You want to share the Gospel but do not know where your story begins. You are ready to stop performing and start being honest about where you have actually been.

"God saw you in your before. He loved you in your before. And He came for you in your before. That is the Gospel."
— Maranda Forney

Listen to Episode 3 of Sharing The Gospel Of Jesus Christ wherever you get your podcasts.
Have a testimony to share? Visit marandaforney.com/testimony — you could be our next guest.

In Episode 2 of Sharing The Gospel Of Jesus Christ, host Maranda Forney reads the Introduction to her book — Sharing The Gospel Of Jesus Christ: Your Story Is Someone Else's Miracle — and shares the real reason she wrote it.

This episode introduces the three powerful questions that form the foundation of the entire series:

🔹 What was your life like before Jesus? 

🔹 What changed? 

🔹 How are you different now?

Maranda also shares a powerful personal testimony about her son Michael — diagnosed with epilepsy at five years old — and how a passage in Mark 9 led her and her husband to fast and pray for his complete healing. Michael never had another seizure.

This episode will challenge the way you think about evangelism and remind you that your story — exactly as it is — is exactly what someone else needs to hear.

"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony." — Revelation 12:11

Sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ is a podcast dedicated to one simple truth:
Your story is someone else’s miracle.

In this space, we open the pages of testimony, transformation, and the unchanging power of Jesus Christ.
Not religion.
Not performance.
Not perfection.
But the living Gospel — the kind that reaches into the darkest places and brings light, hope, and new life.

Each episode, I’ll be reading from my book, Sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ… a journey through the questions that shape every believer’s testimony:
Who were you before Jesus?
What changed when He found you?
And who are you now because of His grace?

My prayer is that as you listen, you won’t just hear my story — you’ll begin to recognize your own.
Because the Gospel is not distant.
It is not complicated.
It is not reserved for the qualified.
It is for you.
Right now.
Exactly where you are.