Mike describes himself as a lukewarm Sunday Christian — church on Sunday morning, football on Sunday afternoon, a construction superintendent running 35 houses at once with no time for God. Then came his son's wedding weekend in Ventura. Two hours of home run derby with the kids in the park, and by that night he was sick — he figured the flu, and toughed it out through the rehearsal dinner with a 104 fever rather than be a distraction at the wedding. It was a ruptured appendix, and it nearly cost him his life. In his telling, as they slid him onto the surgical table, he looked to his right and Jesus walked through the operating room door. What happened when he took His hand is where this conversation goes.

Mike walks Kyle through his near-death experience as he remembers it — grass he could count blade by blade, a white curtain pulled back on a city wrapped in fog, light breaking over the trees like white fireworks — then the crash cart bringing him back to a room full of shaken nurses. He describes Jesus returning to his hospital room and sitting with him for three hours, telling him, "I had to get you flat on your back away from all the distractions so you could hear me." From there the conversation covers the eight years he kept the story quiet, a childhood prayer he says God answered 40 years later, hearing God's voice, and what a near-death experience does to how a man prays. If you have questions about NDEs, heaven, or whether God still speaks, this episode sits right in the middle of them.

The line I haven't been able to shake is "He didn't say so you WOULD hear me — He said so you COULD hear me." How much of my own life is too loud for that? If that's you tonight — busy, capable, and nowhere near still — my prayer is that you won't need to be flat on your back before you listen. Lord, meet the person hearing this exactly where they are, and give them one quiet moment with You this week.

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And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. — Revelation 12:11

Steve Kang was born into a Buddhist home in South Korea and moved to the United States at nine, and in his telling the faith was planted deep long before that — grandparents on both sides, an aunt who became a monk and left her family, a book of chants he read every morning as a kid. He describes spending entire weekends at the temples, even back in Korea during high school, trying to get a Buddhist statue to say something to him, to wink at him, to say hello Steve, and says never once did they ever talk to him. The monks gave him 36 rules; he says he broke them every day, that there was not one day he looked at those laws and said, I live the perfect life. Their remedy was more chanting — sometimes eight hours a day, he says, producing spiritual highs that would just disappear like three minutes later. He had a prestigious college behind him and law school ahead. Then, at nineteen, came the near-death experience he says landed him somewhere he had never believed existed.

Kyle and Steve walk the whole arc in order: what karma and reincarnation actually felt like to live under, the conflicting counsel he says he got from the monks — one calling a nightmare a blessing, another calling the same dream a curse — the cousin who told him they had to kill ants so the ants could move on to their next life, the drug use he describes through 1998, and the night his mother, out of options, called a Christian friend. He describes what he says he saw and knew while unconscious, in detail, including what he calls the total absence of hope there. Then the voice, the years that followed, and where he is now: full-time pastor from 2004, missionary work in China, seminary at Talbot, travel to India, Korea, Burma, Indonesia, Cambodia and the UK, and today bi-vocational — IT sales plus ministry — preaching openly at restaurants, at Costco, at the gym. If you came looking for an ex-Buddhist testimony, a near-death experience and hell testimony, a Korean American conversion story, or a first-person account of spiritual warfare in a family that had never heard the phrase, this is that conversation. Steve closes the episode praying for whoever is listening.

The line I keep coming back to is Steve at the temple as a teenager, waiting for the statue to say his name, and it never did. He wasn't lazy about it. He was all in — eight hours of chanting, thirty-six rules, weekend after weekend — and the thing he was talking to had nothing to say back. My prayer is simple: that whatever you are chanting at, striving toward, or trying to earn your way out of, God would interrupt it the way Steve says He interrupted him — not with a rule, but with His own voice. That you'd be met, and not measured. That the hope Steve says is missing in one place would find you where you are.

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By testimony, we overcome. — Revelation 12:11

Michael Ray Lewis grew up in a home where everyone would have said they believed in God, and nobody ever talked about him. There was a Bible under a bed somewhere. Nobody opened it. The only Christians he ever actually met were on street corners with picket signs, telling him where he was going.

So he became an atheist — and a good one. He enjoyed it. Hard questions were easy to ask and Christians rarely had answers, and between Bill Maher and Zeitgeist he had all the material he needed.

Then his wife came home and told him she felt Jesus calling her back. He started going to church to prove it was nonsense. He started reading to prove it was nonsense. Three years later he was sitting in a theologian's living room with five pages of questions, checking them off one by one — and when he got to the end, the man closed his Bible and asked him a question back.

In this conversation: what it's like to discover the problem was never the evidence, the drive home where the fog lifted, the hospital room where he had everything to say and said nothing, and the documentary he made so that nobody else would have to search as long as he did.

The part that stays with me isn't the conversion. It's the hospital. He'd found the answer, he believed it completely, and when it mattered most he couldn't get the words out — and then it was too late. I think most of us have a version of that room. I'd love to know if this one lands the same way for you.

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"By testimony, we overcome." — Revelation 12:11 (KJV)

Criselle Mendoza was baptized at twelve, and in her telling it was not really a choice. She grew up in Iglesia Ni Cristo — the Church of Christ, a predominantly Filipino denomination based in the Philippines — where, she says, her whole family on both sides was baptized, her grandfather was a minister, and the teaching was that you had to be in that specific denomination to go to heaven. She describes name tags flipped at a registry every service, Christmas and Easter and Halloween treated as pagan, dating outside the church punished with expulsion, and the names of the expelled read out publicly. Of her own baptism she says simply, "I did it for my mom... I'll do it for you. I love you." At fifteen or sixteen she told her sister, three years younger, that she thought their dad had been right about that church all along, and her sister started crying and said she didn't want to go to the lake of fire. The two of them told their mother they were done. Years later, in college, Criselle says she started feeling empty inside and couldn't name what was missing — so she told the man who is now her husband that she thought they should pray every night. From 2023 on, they did.

The conversation walks through what it costs to leave a high-control church and then learn the faith from the beginning. Criselle describes the Acts 20:28 translation question she researched once she had decided to leave, the year her mother spent attending a locale an hour away after submitting letters of forgiveness, and what she and her husband found when they started going to Shoreline City in Dallas. From there it follows them to Wyoming, her work at a tribal health center, the sudden death of her husband's childhood best friend and the passage from John 11 he read in a Denver hotel the night they were stranded on the way to the funeral, and the pull they both began to feel to go back to Dallas. If those are the words you would type: leaving Iglesia Ni Cristo, ex-Church of Christ testimony, religious shame and public expulsion, anxiety and prayer, and the parable of the prodigal son.

The line I keep hearing back from this conversation is Criselle saying, "I don't even deserve to be your son." She wasn't describing the world doing that to her. She was describing church doing it — being told you're not worthy and you have to work your way back to worthy. And then she turns straight to the father running out to the prodigal, the robe and the ring and the feast. If you're listening and something in you is still keeping a ledger of what you owe God, I'm praying you sit with that image for a minute. Not the ledger. The father.

Criselle mentions her TikTok and Instagram during the episode — she gives the handle as Crissel 1045. She did not share a website, ministry page or any other links in this conversation, so there are none to list here.

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And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. — Revelation 12:11

Sy Garte was a third-generation atheist. His grandparents were atheists and communists; his parents were atheists and members of the American Communist Party in the thirties. He grew up in Brooklyn knowing only that God did not exist and that religion was a tool for oppressing the working class. He became a chemist, then a biochemist with a PhD, and built his life on the conviction that science would eventually explain everything. Then quantum physics told him it wouldn't. Then the genetic code raised a question he couldn't answer. Then, in his late forties, a woman told him he had to forgive the people who had beaten him as a boy — and a man who had almost never cried in his life started crying. Years later he was driving from New York to Pittsburgh, six hours alone, when something happened that he can only call a vision.

In this conversation, Sy walks through all of it: the atheism he inherited, the cracks that physics and biochemistry opened in what he calls his wall of disbelief, two dreams he has never forgotten, the first church he ever walked into at nearly fifty, and the moment on a Pennsylvania highway when he pulled the car over and said out loud that he believed. He also talks about what it has been like to be a working scientist and a Christian at the same time — and why he thinks that supposed conflict is a recent invention rather than a historical fact.

The line I keep coming back to is the one he said inside the vision: that if Jesus can love even him, there is no one he can't love. Sy has spent his whole life being precise about things, and that was the least hedged sentence in the whole hour. There's a pause about halfway through where he tells me he still can't get through the story of the second dream without getting emotional — this is a man in his seventies, decades past it, and it still catches him. That's what I'd want you to listen for. If you're carrying something you're sure disqualifies you, I'm praying that line finds you the way it found him.

Sy's website is sygarte.com, where you can find his books and contact him directly. He writes a Substack called Faithful Science. His most recent book is Beyond Evolution: How New Discoveries in the Science of Life Point to God, published by Tyndale in 2025. His first book, The Works of His Hands: A Scientist's Journey from Atheism to Faith, tells this story in more detail. He has also written Science and Faith in Harmony.

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

Mike Shreve was a Kundalini yoga guru with 300 students across four Florida universities, rising at 3:30 every morning and spending 14 hours a day in mantras, meditation, and breathing exercises, chasing God consciousness. Then a newspaper wrote a story on the strange new guru in Tampa — and a local prayer group pinned that article to their board and began interceding for him every hour of every day. Three weeks later, Mike gave Jesus exactly one day to prove Himself. By nightfall he was hitchhiking to teach a yoga class when a Volkswagen van pulled over, and what was taped to the dashboard changed everything.

In this conversation, Mike walks through his Catholic upbringing, the drug-induced near-death experience at 18 that left him terrified of eternity, his rise from ashram student to guru, and the roadside prayer that ended it all overnight. He also unpacks what yoga actually is beneath the surface, why he calls chanting om an open doorway, the philosophical collapse of pantheism and the "we are God" mindset, and how to speak the truth in love to Hindus, Muslims, and New Agers.

There's a line from this conversation I can't shake: "I was more committed to the wrong path than most people are to the right one." Fourteen hours a day of total devotion — and still lost. If that's you right now, sincere but searching, my prayer is that this testimony does for you what Larry's letter did for Mike: plants the one question that leads you home.

Mike's resources are at thetruelight.net, where his booklet The Highest Adventure is free in 15 languages, along with his books In Search of the True Light, The Beliefs of the Catholic Church, and Who Am I?, and his publishing house Deeper Revelation Books.

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

She walked into a rosary to pray her family out of deception — and walked out into seven days of zero sleep, demonic manifestation, and a realm she never knew existed. The church called it mental illness. Her own husband was terrified. This is Michelle King's testimony.

A former worship leader and Young Life leader, Michelle was stripped of every position and ostracized when she came back talking about demons. What followed was years of isolation, a roadside prayer tent in Oregon, and a deliverance ministry born out of her own freedom — plus the radio interview that finally convinced her deputy husband she was never crazy at all.

This is one of those conversations I won't forget for a long time. Michelle is honest about the cost — the loneliness, the rejection, the marriage that had to grow through it — and about the God who met her in the middle of all of it. If you've ever felt like the only one who could see what was really going on, this one is for you.

Raw. Unscripted. Real deliverance. No hype.

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"By testimony, we overcome." — Revelation 12:11

At 17, under a beach house with a party raging above him, Braelen Poston encountered something he had never felt in thousands of church services — God arrested his heart and transformed his life on the spot. No pastor. No altar call. Just God.

Braelen grew up as a pastor's grandson living a double life — drugs, alcohol, sexual addiction, and spiritual bondage from age 13. In this episode of The King Is Coming Show, he shares his raw, unfiltered testimony of how Jesus met him at his last party and radically saved him.

This one is for the skeptic, the seeker, the new believer, and the disciple ready to go deeper into what spiritual transformation actually looks like.

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"Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul." — Psalm 66:16

In this powerful episode of The King Is Coming Show, host Kyle Lauriano sits down with Mary Ann from the UK for a raw, unfiltered conversation about supernatural transformation that defies explanation.

🎯 What You'll Hear:

• How university "freedom" became spiritual bondage through partying and addiction

• The moment a friend mocked her faith – and what happened next that silenced the critics

• A supernatural encounter in Nigeria that left doctors speechless

• The shocking revelation about marine spirits and spiritual husbands most Christians never learn about

• How God manifested without anyone laying hands – even skeptics can't deny this

• The dangerous truth about how drugs open spiritual doors the enemy uses to destroy lives

• From weed addiction to preaching – a transformation so dramatic friends couldn't believe their eyes

⚡ Prepare Your Heart: This isn't your typical church testimony. Mary Ann shares the raw reality of deliverance ministry, supernatural manifestations, and life-changing encounters that will either challenge your faith or strengthen it forever.

🌍 Global Impact: What started as one girl's personal breakthrough has now reached millions worldwide, proving that your testimony has the power to transform nations.

⚠️ Content Warning: Contains mature themes including addiction, spiritual warfare, and supernatural manifestations. Listener discretion advised.

Host Kyle Lauriano brings you the most powerful testimonies from around the world, featuring real people who've experienced life-changing encounters with Jesus Christ. No religious fluff – just authentic stories of transformation, deliverance, and divine intervention.

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PASTOR'S DAUGHTER REBELLION: From Class Clown to Jesus Girl

This raw, emotional testimony will shatter your heart then rebuild your faith completely.

Kome Alele shares her shocking transformation from living a double life as the "class clown" who cursed in hallways to becoming "Jesus Gurley" who transforms her entire school through radical encounters with Jesus Christ.

MOST POWERFUL MOMENTS:

• "No one took me seriously, they just saw me as the funny black girl"

• The devastating double life: "On Sundays I'm hearing the choir singing, on Monday I'm cussing at my friends"

• COVID breakthrough: "Let me brand myself differently"

• Becoming "Jesus Gurley": "I hosted Bible studies during school"

• The boldness challenge: "If you're embarrassed of Jesus NOW, He'll be embarrassed of YOU in heaven"

THIS TESTIMONY COVERS:
Pastor's kid rebellion to authentic personal faith | Identity crisis transformation | Divine encounters | Bold evangelism starting salvation in classmates | Nigerian heritage and cultural challenges | God's perfect timing during COVID isolation | Walking in Kingdom purpose through social media ministry

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