From Darkness to Light: Finding Healing and Faith in Jesus
What happens when everything you once believed collapses, and you encounter Jesus in the middle of grief and despair?
In this episode of Honest Christian Conversations, I sit down with Audrey Dutton to talk about loss, healing, and the transforming power of encountering Christ. Audrey shares her journey of moving from atheism and spiritual searching to discovering peace, truth, and identity in Jesus after a season of profound heartbreak.
This conversation isn’t about sensational experiences or chasing the supernatural. It’s about learning to let go of performance-based faith and discovering that salvation, healing, and growth are gifts of grace—not something we earn or control.
Throughout the episode, we explore thoughtful and grounding questions:
• What does genuine faith look like when it’s no longer about proving anything?
• How does grief open the door to more profound spiritual truth?
• What happens when we stop striving and allow Jesus to lead?
Audrey’s story reminds us that faith is not built on our ability to perform or understand everything—but on trusting the One who meets us in our darkest moments and gently leads us into the light.
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Ana is the host of the Honest Christian Conversations podcast and a prodigal saved by God’s unending grace.
She grew up in a legalistic Christian home where asking questions often felt wrong. In her early twenties, overwhelmed by confusion and hurt, she walked away from her faith. Yet even then, God’s love never stopped pursuing her. At thirty years old—and after a painful second divorce—He brought her back to himself, and she has never looked back.
As Ana returned to Christ, she began rebuilding her faith from the ground up and asked the questions she once feared to ask. Along that journey, she discovered inconsistencies, misplaced teachings, and even lies woven into the Christianity she grew up with. Instead of destroying her faith, this only deepened it. Out of that discovery, she founded Honest Christian Conversations. Ana's heart is to help others navigate the same tension she once lived with: wanting to know the real Jesus while sorting through the noise of deceptive teachings, spiritual manipulation, and “wolves in sheep’s clothing.”
Everything she creates flows from gratitude for the God who rescued her, restored her, and continues to shape her into who He intended her to be.
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