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The Transformation Podcast
by Justin Mayfield
A podcast full of miraculous stories about the shocking goodness of God. A lot of people believe humans were created by God. Not many realize we were created to be with Him. Without acknowledging this reality, we're like cosmic orphans or like ICU patients without life support. We need God like we need oxygen. These stories testify to that truth. The mission of this podcast is to put a microphone in front of the witnesses of Jesus' glory and be a loud voice for reporting on the news that really matters: God's miraculous deeds that happen all around us--but often lack the platform to be shared. Lives transformed by the Gospel, miraculous healing, God providing in radical ways, long-time believers who have seen God do wondrous things as their faith is stretched, even the inspiring testimonies of people who lived long ago: these are samples of what you'll find in these episodes.
Episodes
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Ep. 36: A Look Ahead for the Podcast and Break Announcement
Celebration three-dozen episodes and taking a look ahead to see what's in store for future episodes. Justin also announces a short break for the podcast and shares a little backstory for it. One final announcement is the podcast will be moving onto Youtube in the not-too-distant future, Lord...
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Ep. 35: Brian Barcelona on the Jesus Movement Growing in High Schools
Brian Barcelona had a radical encounter with God as a young adult. Not too long after, this led to Brian preaching the Gospel in high schools. The first Jesus Club had 30 kids, but as Brian preached straight down the middle with the unadulterated Gospel message, the club soon grew to 600 kids...
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Ep. 34: In the Mission Dojo: Derrick Rhayn's Updates from the Field
In Episode 9, Derrick Rhayn shared the incredible story of how God led him to Himself. In this episode, Derrick is back, sharing from under 24/7 quarantine in Paris. Derrick has been trying to live as all-in as he can to the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. Even though he is only a little more…
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Ep. 33: The Roots of an Evangelist: Josh McDowell's Origin Story
The stats wouldn't have predicted Josh McDowell would turn out to be one of the world's most famous evangelists. Josh's early life seemed headed for destruction. His dad was drunk just about 24/7 and a man who lived in Josh's childhood home repeatedly sexually assaulted Josh for much of his young...
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Ep. 32: Called Inland: The Life and Legacy of Hudson Taylor (with Scotty Kessler)
Hudson Taylor is one of the most famous missionaries of the modern era––and for good reason. By the end of Hudson's life, countless Chinese Christians owed their spiritual salvation to God working through Hudson Taylor's willingness to venture where few would dare. Born to a Christian family,...
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31: Christ Saves the Napalm Girl From Communism: Part 2 of Kim Phúc's Testimony
In last week's episode, we heard the gripping story of Kim Phuc's life before being saved by Christ. We heard about her idyllic childhood being traumatically altered by the napalm attack which was captured in the world-famous "Napalm Girl" photo. We heard how her only dream was to be a doctor so...
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30: Christ Saves The Napalm Girl: Kim Phúc's Testimony
On June 8th, 1972, Vietnamese AP photographer, Nick Ut, snapped a photo that would become what is thought to be one of the most memorable photographs of the 20th century. The photo, which was later dubbed "The Napalm Girl," captured a heart-wrenching scene that took place just after a Vietnam-War...
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29: The Roots of a Church Planter: Dan Hegelund's Encouraging Story
Dan Hegelund was born to the radical Jesus-Movement leader, Linda Meissner. Linda had been used as a powerful evangelist, seeing tens of thousands of people come to Christ. At one point, Linda was preaching the Gospel on the streets of Scandanavia and felt led to move into an abandoned military...
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28: The God Who Never Sleeps: Tiffany Bluhm's Incredible Adoption Story
Tiffany Bluhm was abandoned as an infant on the streets India and later adopted by a family in the United States. She never forgot the feeling of abandonment or of being a little different than her peers. These things might have been good enough reasons to compel her to never consider adopting a...
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27: Jesus Club! (How Countless Kids are Getting Saved at a Local High School w/ Mark and Stephanie Kram)
Stephanie Kram never expected to be leading a high school ministry, but God unmistakably called her to it. The fruit of the ministry testifies to that well enough: the meetings are overflowing capacity and tons of kids have decided to follow Jesus. It all started one day when when Stephanie was...
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26: "To The Prayer-Hearing God:" The Incredible Life of George Müller (with Scotty Kessler)
Few men have impacted the world as George Müller of Bristol did. He was counted as a main inspiration for legendary contemporaries like C.T. Studd and Hudson Taylor. His witness was even the sole inspiration for the 1859 revival in Ireland, which itself was a large inspiration for the famous 1904...
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25: Racism, Humility and the Gospel: The Life of William J. Seymour Part 2 (with Jordan McCloud)
In part 2 of our focus on the life of William J. Seymour, Jordan McCloud and Justin finish William's story by reflecting on how William handled difficult situations. The short answer: with humility and a heart to glorify God. Jordan and Justin reflect on how lessons from Seymour's life are...
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24: "The Meekest Man I Ever Met:" the Life of William J. Seymour (with Jordan McCloud)
Though William J. Seymour was about as culturally disenfranchised as an American could be at the dawn of the 20th century, and though the time of influence was relatively short, he had the distinct honor to be the central figure in one of the largest movements in the last hundred years. The son…
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23: Merry Christmas! Our Gift to You is a Dozen Awesome Testimonies
Merry Christmas! Our gift to you is more than a dozen encouraging testimonies we've been collecting over the past few years. The stories range from helping people in need, to people being miraculously healed, to God saving folks from perilous circumstances. Justin has been walking around with a...
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22: Life Between Ten and Forty Degrees North: Tyler Connell and the Ekballo Story
Tyler Connell didn't know what he was supposed to do with his life. He wanted to serve God but he needed God to tell him how. So he instinctually drove to the International House of Prayer in Kansas City. He heard they prayed a lot there and he figured he needed a lot of that himself. During the...
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21: The Simple Way of an Indian: A Third-World Pastor Living Only for the Kingdom
Paul Ebenezer is a born-and-raised Indian. His mom, who is a Christian, was widowed when Paul was young but she forsook remarrying so she could focus on raising Paul Ebenezer in the Lord. In spite of her noble efforts, Paul initially wandered off into a life of heavy drinking. But his mom was...
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20: A Courageous Parent and a Resolute Man by the Power of God: The Tale of Isaac Tolpin
Isaac Tolpin is today known as Resolute Man, one half of Courageous Parenting, husband of Courageous Mom, Angie Tolpin, and a home-church shepherd. Yet, his early life started out in an unbelieving household of a single, working mom. God didn't leave himself without a strong witness, though. At…
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19: A Surprise Answer to a Desperate Prayer: How God Rescued Nateh Godo Out of a Life of Selling Cocaine
Nateh Godo, brother of Episode 2's Tapeh Godo, moved to the United States from the Ivory Coast as an adolescent. The family grew up with faith in Christ but the culture shock incited a rebellion within the Godo brothers which would last into Nateh's adulthood. At one point Nateh almost converted…
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18: Jesus Was Plan A: Brad Summers is Rescued from the Bottom of a Bottle
Brad Summers truly hit rock bottom when he found himself on the floor of a Fred Meyer's, trying to saw through a liquor bottle just for a drop to please his addiction. It was a long road of broken childhood and adolescence that basically left him without much to live for but the bottom of a…
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17: The Wild Adventures of Bubba the Okie: How God Led Bubba Jennings to Himself
Today, Bubba Jennings is pastor of Resurrection Church, in Tacoma, WA, but it was a long journey to get there. Bubba was born to teenage parents. In spite of partying and bouts of poverty, his parents did provide a loving atmosphere in his home during his pre-tween years. However, after a long…
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16: Stories From the Street: Miraculous Healings and Conversions
In this week's episode, Josh Acosta and Michael Louderback are back to share a collection of miraculous stories from their street evangelism ministry. Like the stories they each shared at the end of Episode 15, these stories are very encouraging and faith-building. The guys share multiple stories...
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15: Bedrock Below, Miracles Above: Two Destitute Men Are Freed to Serve the God of Wonders
This week's guests, Josh Acosta and Michael Louderback, both share come from hard beginnings. Josh grew up in a dysfunctional and abusive home. He found himself addicted to drugs, alcohol, and lust as a teen. He tells the story of his mom, who was at this point a believer in Jesus, being led by…
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14: The God Who Pursued the Million-Felony Man: Brian Headrick's Transformation
Today Pastor Brian Headrick is a passionate minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but for 24 years of his life he was a severe criminal and drug addict who estimates he may have committed over a million felonies in his lifetime. Brian started life in a tough situation. He was the son of a…
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13: How The Great Revival in Wales Transformed an Entire Country (w/ Jon Osterman)
115 years may seem like a long time, but in many ways Christians in the Western world were facing many of the issues believers face today. This is especially true when it comes to all the distractions the wealth of the modern world brings. This period of history was just at the point when the 1st...
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12: Ancient Truth and Ancestral Demons: How Angus Musselman was Released from Demonic Possession
Angus Musselman didn't have much of an understanding about the spiritual realm, but that all changed as he started to look into things like witchcraft and demonic activity. What seemed to Angus as a harmless curiosity about supernatural things, led to his life being turned upside down after he...
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11: A Beauty Queen Turned Heroin Fiend Finds Her Freedom in Jesus: The Story of Erika Wilfong
Erika Wilfong grew up in what many might call almost idyllic circumstances. Her loving family, who started one of the largest churches in her town, not only loved her well but set an excellent example for her. Unfortunately, instead of inheriting the real faith of her parents, she saw church, and...
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10: From Hard Beginnings to Training Conquerers: Dr. Ted Roberts Shares His Powerful Life Story
Today, Dr. Ted Roberts leads a ministry that has impacted over a million men, but it was a long climb–and required a healthy dose of God's grace–to get to that point. Growing up with an alcoholic mom and being at the mercy of seven abusive stepfathers, Dr. Roberts was full of pain but no godly...
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09: Forty Years 'Til Freedom: God's Deliverance of Derrick Rhayn
God's providence was clearly shown in Derrick Rhayn's life from the moment he left the womb and was good as dead. Miraculously, Derrick, being a twin, was not only six weeks past his due date, but, being a twin, was well past when twins are expected to leave the womb. This turned out to be God's...
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08: From the Streets to the NFL to Jesus: the Heartening Saga of DeQuin Evans
DeQuin Evans started on the streets of Compton as a gang-banger and quickly found himself in juvenile detention. What DeQuin didn't know is that he was destined to meet someone in that prison that would forever altar the course of his life. That someone? None other than Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson,...
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07: "Wuzza": The Extraordinary Life of C.T. Studd (with Scotty Kessler)
It's probably no exaggeration to say that C.T. Studd was the Babe Ruth of England. He was more than a generational talent within his sport of choice, Cricket. Yet, he shocked the world and sparked a revival when he announced he was leaving it all behind to become a missionary to China with Hudson...
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06: Testify! to the City: a Powerful Outdoor Testimony and Worship Event
Last week, over 60 people gathered in the middle of the city to, in the words of the psalmist, "make known his deeds among the peoples," and to "sing praises to him." (Psalm 105:1-2) We set up a stage and a sound system in the middle of a downtown plaza and many people began to share testimony...
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05: Life by a Thread: How God Blessed a Woman Medical Science Couldn't Understand
Mandy Young is the only one on the planet with a previously-unknown genetic condition that has caused a lifetime of severe medical issues. It took the doctors 23 years to diagnose her and, in the meantime, she was subjected to countless hospital stays and being an object of medical research.…
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04: From Sojourner to Refugee, a Pakistani Girl Finds Her Hope
Mary was born and raised in a relatively liberal town in Pakistan. Even so, Mary asked us to not use her real name because, on account of the story she shares here, there is a real fear for her life from members of her community and even her own family. After a lot of hard work, Mary was chosen…
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03: The Applied Physics of Eternal Sanctification: How Christian Endurance Got Internet on Airplanes
If you've ever used internet while flying on an airplane, you may want to send a word of thanks Geoff White's way. Or, how he tells it, God's way. Geoff led an experimental research group at Boeing in the 80's and 90's that created the prototype antenna that enabled the transmission of internet...
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02: Then the Light Came: A Father's Liberation from Serial Adultery
Tapeh Godo encountered God as a teenager. He decided he wanted to follow Jesus, but he had some other distractions that he wanted to divulge in first. "I'll get back at you later, God," he recalls saying at the age of 15, as he left a church meeting where he had professed to want to know and…
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01: From the Grammys to the Altar, the Transformation of Kid Sensation
Xola Malik, perhaps better known as Kid Sensation, is a platinum-selling artist who started his career as Sir Mix-a-Lot's right hand man. After supporting Mix-a-Lot on his debut platinum album, Xola struck out on his own to try his hand as a solo artist. Though his career was what would…
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00: The Roots of Transformation: What's This About?
Why transformation? And why a podcast? Get to know the host, Justin Mayfield, as he dives into the nitty gritty of what inspired this podcast and what you can expect in every episode. Justin first plays clips from upcoming episodes that give a sample of the type of guests and stories you will…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast full of miraculous stories about the shocking goodness of God. A lot of people believe humans were created by God. Not many realize we were created to be with Him. Without acknowledging this reality, we're like cosmic orphans or like ICU patients without life support. We need God like we need oxygen. These stories testify to that truth. The mission of this podcast is to put a microphone in front of the witnesses of Jesus' glory and be a loud voice for reporting on the news that really matters: God's miraculous deeds that happen all around us--but often lack the platform to be shared. Lives transformed by the Gospel, miraculous healing, God providing in radical ways, long-time believers who have seen God do wondrous things as their faith is stretched, even the inspiring testimonies of people who lived long ago: these are samples of what you'll find in these episodes.
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Justin Mayfield
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A podcast full of miraculous stories about the shocking goodness of God. A lot of people believe humans were created by God. Not many realize we were created to be with Him. Without acknowledging this reality, we're like cosmic orphans or like ICU patients without life support. We need God like we...
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