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🗓️ 9 February 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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"My college roommate had a picture on her dresser of a guy with long brown hair and a beard. I asked, 'is that your boyfriend?' She looked at me like I was crazy. She said, 'his name is Jesus, and yes, he's my boyfriend.'"
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Hi! Trapper Jack here. In this episode, I sit down with Debbie Herbeck to hear her incredible story of transformation. Raised in a devout Jewish home on the South Side of Chicago, Debbie grew up surrounded by family, friends, and an entire community that was almost exclusively Jewish. She had little exposure to Christianity and virtually no understanding of who Jesus was.
That all changed when she went off to college at the University of Michigan. For the first time, she encountered Christians—not just in passing, but as roommates, classmates, and friends. One of them stood out—a vibrant, confident Catholic student who lived her faith boldly. That friendship, combined with an unexpected assignment on the Book of Romans, opened the door to questions Debbie had never considered.
But what truly shifted everything for her was not just intellectual curiosity—it was a series of personal encounters with Jesus himself. First, in a vivid dream. Then, in a powerful, tangible experience that left no doubt in her mind that God was real, active, and calling her into something greater.
Enjoy the podcast!
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0:00.0 | I remember very distinctly, this shows you kind of my ignorance of all things Christian. |
0:13.0 | She had a five-by-seven picture of a guy with long brown hair, a beard, and asking her, is that your boyfriend? And I remember she looked |
0:22.9 | at me like, are you crazy? Like, you don't know who this is? I said, no, I don't really know who that is. |
0:28.7 | And she said, well, his name is Jesus and he is my boyfriend. This is touched by heaven. Everyday |
0:34.4 | encounters with God, because God is speaking to you. And me and the church |
0:39.4 | in the world, and here we get to listen in on those conversations through these encounter stories |
0:44.0 | with angels, divine intervention, prophetic dreams, visions, near death experiences. I'm your host, |
0:49.1 | Trapper Jack. Welcome. Met Debbie Herbeck recently on the Good News Cruise I've mentioned before, she and her husband, |
0:55.5 | Peter Herbeck. |
0:57.0 | Remarkable, there were a group of us in what's called the windjammer, meaning another place |
1:01.8 | to eat. |
1:03.2 | And we're all gathered around, and Debbie starts telling her story, growing up Jewish. |
1:07.5 | She was south side of Chicago. |
1:08.8 | Her world was pretty much all Jewish, whether it was |
1:11.5 | at school or wherever she went. That was her world. Her knowledge of Christianity was pretty much |
1:17.0 | zilch, right? And then came, she went off the University of Michigan, and suddenly she's got a |
1:23.0 | roommate who's a Christian, and there's that Sarah down the hall. She's singing her Christianity and she's just walking into it. |
1:30.4 | She's watching movies that have to do with Jesus. |
1:32.8 | And then Jesus himself introduces himself to her. |
1:38.4 | And I hear a voice call out to me, who do you say that I am? |
1:42.6 | And whoa. |
1:43.6 | And we'll tell you that story just just a moment here, or she will. |
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