Dave grew up poor in a small Indiana town, raised by a single mom who never had time to take him to church. So neighborhood pastors did. That pattern followed him for decades. He went to church because it was Sunday, because his wife went, because that's what you did. Even after a tour in Vietnam and years of sitting in the pew, faith stayed something he'd checked off a list rather than something real.

The real shift didn't come from a sermon. It came during one of the loneliest stretches of his life, when a new job left him isolated and targeted by people who wanted him gone. And then, out of nowhere, a call from a complete stranger let him know that he wasn't alone after all.

This episode traces his entire faith journey: a childhood spent chasing approval, a career built on self-doubt and cold calls, a string of churches that never  ...