From Rage to Redemption – Matthew Lopez – The MakeReady Podcast #27

From Rage to Redemption – Matthew Lopez – The MakeReady Podcast #27

From The MakeReady Podcast by Bryan Sims

November 19, 2025 · 1h 6m · Season 1 · Episode 27

About this episode

Matthew Lopez shares his powerful testimony of overcoming childhood trauma and finding redemption through faith.

In this episode of the MakeReady Podcast, we sit down with Matthew Lopez for one of the rawest, most powerful testimonies you’ll ever hear. Matthew holds nothing back: growing up in violence, molestation as a child, 150+ fights, a double life, suicidal darkness, and the moment he finally fell into the arms of grace in 2016. He shares how God used a devastating fight with his own brother to break him, lead him to Regeneration at Watermark, and begin rewriting a story that once looked hopeless. Then, just when life was finally beautiful—marriage to an incredible woman of faith, a beautiful daughter and baby son on the way—his wife was diagnosed at eight months pregnant with an orange-sized, “worst-kind-on-the-planet” brain tumor. Matthew recounts the parking-garage prayer where he told God, “Take her if You must—You’ll still have my life,” and how, fifteen months later, there is no evidence of disease in her body. This conversation is equal parts gut-wrenching and glory-filled: childhood trauma, rage, forgiveness, redemption, miracles, and the kind of unshakable peace that only comes when you’ve been to the bottom and met Jesus there. If you need hope in the middle of chaos, if…

People in this episode

Guest: Matthew Lopez

Topics covered

  • childhood trauma
  • forgiveness
  • redemption
  • faith
  • miracles
  • mental health

Keywords

  • grace
  • suicidal darkness
  • marriage
  • brain tumor
  • hope

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Books & works: From Rage to Redemption

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