📝 28 million Bibles. Hundreds of millions of animated streams. Partnerships with Sony, HarperCollins, Time-Life, and Warner Brothers. But today Don Wise — creator of The Beginner's Bible, the #1 bestselling children's story Bible in the world — isn't talking about the brand. He's talking about the moments with God that nobody saw coming.

Rick Osborne and Don Wise met at NRB and immediately recognized each other as brothers on the same mission. Today Rick puts Don in the interview chair — and what comes out is two of the most unexpected, beautiful, and deeply human prayer stories you'll hear all year.

Story 1 — Go Encourage People Today

One morning Don heard a simple directive from God: go encourage people today. No agenda. No plan. Just a still small voice and a willing wife named Chris. What followed was a day that took them to a greeting card warehouse, a 200-year-old mansion where a groundskeeper had just told God "if you want me to serve junior high kids, send someone to me right now" — and ultimately to a rest home where Don's friend Ben was dying, eyes rolled back, barely breathing, being neglected by staff who had grown too accustomed to death to recognize it. Don demanded they call 911. The ambulance came. Ben survived. And for the next two and a half years he never missed a single grandchild's game, recital, or performance. One whispered directive from God changed a whole family's story.

Story 2 — The Night at the Church Doors

At 19 years old, Don walked away from a band house full of darkness with nothing — no car, no clothes, no plan. Just a decision: I have to go find out if God is real. He walked to a Church of Christ in Miami at 2 AM and knocked on 14-foot doors. Nobody answered. But sitting in the parking lot he received a vision of what the church could look like — families in every parking space, ordinary people ministering to one another in simple, powerful ways. He walked around to a tiny building out back, saw a light on, knocked — and found a nurse ministering to a young man named Paul at two in the morning. They took him in, fed him, gave him a place. Two weeks later a scholarship arrived. "Faith," Don says, "is just taking one step in the direction of God. That's all it is."

Don closes with a prayer for every listener that they would hear their own assignment — at whatever age, in whatever season — and take that one step.

Connect with Don: 📧 jdWise@me.com 🌐 Fathered.us — Don's new podcast where people share stories of fathering and being fathered

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What does it really mean when we pray, “For Yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever”?

In this episode, Rick unpacks the powerful final line of the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:13) and reveals why this is not just a closing statement—but a declaration of victory, authority, and identity in Christ.

Jesus said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.” If that’s true, then the enemy has none. So what does that mean for how we pray?

You’ll discover:

1. Why the kingdom has already been reclaimed by Jesus
2. What it means to be delivered from the domain of darkness
3. How believers are seated with Christ in heavenly places
4. Why we pray from a position of authority—not helplessness
5. What “Christ in you, the hope of glory” really means

Drawing from Colossians, Ephesians, Acts, Romans, and John, this teaching shows how the Lord’s Prayer ends with a triumphant reminder: we pray from within Christ’s finished victory—empowered by His Spirit and called to demonstrate His glory.

If you’ve felt overwhelmed by circumstances or powerless in prayer, this episode will remind you that you are not under authority—you are seated in Christ’s authority.

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📝 For the first time in TranzformU history, Rick Osborne turns the tables — and puts his own team member in the interview chair.

Wally Kassebaum is the man behind the scenes who, as Rick puts it, "works hard to make almost invisible things work well." A degreed accountant from Southern Illinois University, former CEO, COO, and President across manufacturing, engineering, and technology — Wally founded Seven Mountains Consulting Group, turned around companies headed for collapse, consulted at the United Nations, and spoke on national radio. Then God dropped a single word into his spirit: idol. And nothing was ever the same.

In this remarkable conversation, Wally shares:

• 🙏 His intimate moment with God — the morning of the book launch, when God interrupted his prayer routine, filled him with joy, and told him simply to thank Him rather than pray for success. A quiet, unexpected affirmation that moved Wally deeply.
• 📖 The revelation that started with one word — how a single TranzformU lesson on idols triggered a download that grew into a full book. Wally had been seeking God for years about why people pray and don't see results — and God answered through neuroscience, Scripture, and his own life experience.
• 🧠 The premise of "Reality" Is Not the Truth — that an idol in the New Testament isn't a statue you bow to. It's anything you're raising higher than what God says is true. Accepting the way things appear — a diagnosis, a financial crisis, a broken relationship — above the Word of God is a subtle form of idolatry. And the brain's neuroplasticity means you can actually rewire those pathways through the renewing of your mind.
• 🌍 A prophetic word about the book — God told Wally years ago that he would be a conduit to nations. That morning, God confirmed the book would carry that same assignment globally. Wally's response? "He said 'just watch.' I said, 'okay, I'll watch.'"
• 🏔️ Faith moves boundaries — using Caleb and Joshua as the example, Wally explains why God is calling every believer to come to Him first — not as a last resort when everything else fails.

Rick and Wally also reflect on Wally's journey as TranzformU's very first unofficial student — and how years of listening, recording, and serving behind the scenes quietly transformed the man who was making everything else work.

"Reality" Is Not the Truth is available now in paperback and ebook on Amazon, and includes an eight-week small group study guide.

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