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Facing Our Bears – Jim VanSteenhouse

July 21, 2025

Sometime in our lives we will come face to face with a bear in our lives. That bear might come in the form of a serious illness, a broken relationship, a financial struggle or maybe even a real bear. Whatever it is that you come up again, You can call on God to see you through.

Today, we’ll hear the remainder of Jim Vansteenhouse’s story of being attacked and nearly killed by the giant grizzly. Jim tells how God spared his life, after the bear tore him apart. Then he shares how God used him to share a story of redemption to ten’s of thousands of others that are coming up against their own bears in life.

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Past Episodes

Every one of us will someday come up against something in life that istoo big for us to get past. For some it might be a relationship issue,a financial issue or a medical issue. Whatever that is that stands infront of you and stops you in your tracks, you can overcome it on yourown.On today’s program we will hear about someone that came up againsomething that not only stopped him, but it nearly killed him. When ahunter comes face to face with a giant grizzly bear at 5 feet, his wholeworld will be turned upside down.
July 14, 2025
I have had several people tell me in the last few years that giving the real to key to living. If you want a blessed life, the best way to do that is to be willing to give whenever you have the opportunity. Today’s guest has an amazing history of giving to others. As a teacher he taught thousands of young men and women to not only do woodworking and building, He taught them biblical truths and the blessing of giving.We’ll hear how he introduces students to the outdoors through building outdoor equipment,
July 7, 2025
In the Bible it tells us not to stop gathering with other believers in Jesus Christ. Now I know we generally read this concerning gathering in our churches, but often as we gather outside of church with men and women that have a faith in Jesus Christ, we grow closer to Him and other others as well.On today’s program we will meet a man that saw a need during covid, for men and women to get out and get together. He came out with the idea of having a Christ based outdoors event where people could gather with others of faith and the Good News of Jesus Christ could be shared as well.
June 30, 2025
We all go through seasons in life. There are some that have drastic swings in theseasons they go through, and others seem to gently slide from one season to another.God has a plan in each and every season and transition we go through. Even beforewe turned our lives over to Him, He’s already placing things in our lives to direct us towhere He will use us later in life.
June 23, 2025
Our world has done its best to destroy authentic manhood and strong fatherhood. It might have started about when TVs first came into homes. When Jackie Gleason played Ralph Kramden on the Honeymooners we saw the husbands and father becoming buffoons instead of strong men and it’s has spiraled right up until today. In our country today there are 15 million households without a full-time father caring for his kids. Worse is that 32% of boys don’t have their biological father in the home, that’s 12 million boys with their father to teach them what it means to be a man. On today’s show we’ll talk about what it means to be a real man in our world.
June 16, 2025
There is an amazing beauty of a traditional bow being drawn back and releasing an arrow at a target. There is a great lesson in the shooting of bow and arrows. It can be a photo of God often pulling us back and putting pressure on us before releasing us toward the target that He has instore for us. Being drawn back can be painful for us, but when we’ve been released it is freeing and exciting. The further back we’re drawn and the longer we’re held that more powerful and stronger our flight towards what God wants us to hit.
June 9, 2025
There is something about the sight of an arrow release from a bow and watching it arc through the air on its path to a target. Most everyone that has shot arrows from a bow has been drawn in by the beauty and art of archery. For many hunters it is the challenge of archery that draws them in. Our host shot his first bow at about 5 years old and he has never lost the joy of the sight of an arrow in flight.
June 2, 2025
The history of archery goes back to the beginning of time. It was first mentioned in the Bible in Genesis, when it mentioned that Ishmael became an archer. With that first mention of archery, 6000 years ago, the story began.Today we will learn about the history of modern day bowhunting in North America. From one man with a passion to shoot bows came a worldwide hunting craze today. Archery gear has evolved from a stick and string to a mechanical wonder today.
May 26, 2025
We live in a world today that is far from wise. The lack of wisdom is very evident. The gibberish we hear that passes for wisdom to some contains no real wisdom.On today’s program we will meet and visit with a man that has changed to world in many ways. He’s a man that didn’t have a lot of use for normal school type of learning, but God gave him a desire to create. Then one day he began praying for wisdom and God opened the doors to the things that changed the world of archery and even music.
May 19, 2025
There isn’t any of us that hasn’t made a bad decision from time to time in our life. Some of us can look back and see that there were stretches where we made a long series of bad decisions that caused us to freefall into a deep pit. Many people never found their way out of the depth of pit, living their entire lives there.Others didn’t live through the effects of the freefall. Then there are some that grabbed ahold of the hand of God when He reached down to lift them out of the mess, they had gotten themselves in. Today we will meet a man that today is a living testimony of 3 decades of bad decisions. At one point he says, “I was the undisputed king of bad decisions.”
May 12, 2025

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About Dean Hulce

Dean Hulce was born and raised in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where he spent every weekend in the woods or on the water with family and friends.  After graduation he married his highschool sweetheart Linda.  They have two boys and 5 grandchildren. 

Dean has written for several hunting and fishing magazines over the last 25 years. He has guided  hunters and fisherman as well as run hunting fishing camps from South Texas to Alaska and many states and provinces in between.  In the last 10 years Dean has written a daily devotional that goes out to thousands each day. He had published 5 devotional books, using hunting stories to bring a message to people.  He has traveled across the USA speaking to groups, spreading the gospel through outdoor experiences.

Dean has no doubt that God has prepared him his entire life for his position with God's Great Outdoors Ministry 

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