Creek Stewart’s story is the kind of testament our country needs right now — a reminder that faith, family, and a willingness to get back to basics can fix what money and fame cannot. Once a high-profile survival expert with bestselling books and TV appearances, Stewart publicly credits a wilderness encounter with God for rescuing his soul and restoring his marriage, a powerful rebuke to the hollow promises of secular success.
CBN recently joined Stewart in the Red River Gorge of Kentucky as he filmed the first episode of his new show God in the Wild, where everyday Americans are taken off-grid for several days to wrestle with hard questions and rediscover faith in Creation. The episode profiles a middle-aged man carrying heartbreak and illness through his family, and Stewart says the simple act of starting a fire became a perfect metaphor for spiritual renewal.
This isn’t some feel-good stunt dressed up as reality TV; Stewart is a respected wilderness instructor and media veteran who has built a career teaching practical preparedness and resilience. His new series and movement build on decades of credibility — from hosting shows to writing survival guides — and now he’s intentionally folding faith into the work he’s always done.
What makes Stewart’s testimony compelling is that it came at the pinnacle of his public success, when everything from the outside looked perfect while his marriage and soul were crumbling. He has said he admitted he was lost, repented, and allowed Christ to restore him and his family, turning his platform into a mission to help others who are drowning in the noise of modern life. Those are hard-earned lessons; they aren’t the manufactured pieties the cultural elites peddle from comfortable stages.
God in the Wild is being positioned as a revival series — the production explicitly aims to bring real spiritual encounters into the public square and to reach people who “may never shadow the door of a church.” That missionary focus matters, because our institutions have too often ceded the hearts of men and women to the dull machinery of consumerism, distraction, and a poisonous secular ideology. Stewart’s program is a reminder that revival often starts in the quiet places where a man or woman faces themselves and the Maker.
Stewart also runs hands-on Wild God survival courses that teach not just shelter and fire, but stewardship, responsibility, and spiritual honesty — virtues our culture used to prize and desperately needs again. This blend of rugged self-reliance and unapologetic Christian faith is the antidote to a generation taught to outsource courage to government programs or celebrity influencers.
Hardworking Americans should take this story as an invitation and a challenge: get off the screen, get into the woods, and stop letting the modern world tell you that success is measured only by fame, followers, or a balance sheet. Real restoration — of marriages, souls, and communities — comes when we face our failures honestly, turn to the God who made us, and rebuild our lives on timeless truths. The wilderness has always been where the brave meet God; Creek Stewart is simply reminding us to go back and listen.
