About
About Testified
Real stories. No performance required.
Testified is an independent, listener-supported podcast about the roads people travel toward - and through - Christian faith. It is for the person who believes, the person who isn't sure, and everyone still carrying questions they have never said out loud.
Each episode is a long-form conversation, not a testimonial set piece. Guests are not asked to perform certainty or deliver a sermon. They are asked to tell the truth about who they were, what broke open, and what it has cost to keep walking.
Wherever you are on that road - whether you have surrendered your life to Christ or are still weighing what to believe - you are welcome here. None of us has finished the work. We are all fallen, we still stumble, and walking with the Lord means choosing faith again in ordinary, complicated life.
The room
How the conversation works
The hosts go first. The guest steps into a room already in motion.
Mike and Brendon do not interview from a distance. They lead with their own experience - belief and doubt, confidence and resistance - including doubt that returns after years of Christian faith. Then they open the door for the guest. That posture matters: it signals that struggle is welcome here, not a problem to be corrected before the microphone turns on. None of us has arrived.
Salvation is not treated as a single lightning strike. The show makes room for the arrival and the years after - doubt that returns, faith that has to be chosen again, ordinary life that does not stop being complicated.
A question that surfaces across conversations, shaped to the guest's season: “What hope are you holding fast?” It is not a prompt to perform certainty. It asks what hope you are willing to name - even while you are still wavering - and leaves space for an honest answer.
Every episode
The arc of every episode
Five movements - conversation, not a checklist.
Who You Were
The world before faith - character, longing, and life without sermon language.
The Softening
What softened your heart and began to reshape your faith journey - the moment, person, or experience that started opening you to something new.
The Moment of Salvation
When you chose to accept the Lord as your Savior - or when you sensed the Lord choosing you. Particular, disorienting, and hard to perform.
Life on the Other Side
Honest resolution: faith that has to be chosen again in an ordinary, complicated life.
Direct Address
A word to the listener still in the in-between - the reluctant seeker, the believer whose faith is being tested, anyone who knows the journey is not finished.
The name
Why “Testified”
The name points to a confession of hope - and the long work of holding it.
The title comes from Hebrews 10:23. The call is to hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, because the one who promised is faithful. To testify is to say that hope out loud: not a polished certainty, but an honest account of what you have seen and what you are still trusting.
That is different from a finished testimony. The verse does not say we never struggle. It says the promise holds when we do. Testified holds both - the confession of hope, and the slow work of keeping it in an ordinary, complicated life.
Most guests on this show are telling a version of that arc. Many listeners are still somewhere in the middle - holding hope through loss, through questions, through an encounter they cannot yet name. The name is an invitation to say what is true rather than rush past it.
Get involved
You're welcome here whether you want to listen, share your own story, or encourage someone you know - someone with a compelling story worth telling - to step forward.