Join me as we walk alongside fascinating Christians of bygone days and discover how the past can hold strength for the present.
Down through the annals of recorded history, tucked away within its dusty pages, are hidden gems; breathtaking accounts that put on display happenings so astonishing that their only explanation is the intervention of the Divine. In his book, Church History in Plain Language, author and historian Bruce Shelly states that “Christianity is a historical religion, and its history is the story of God’s interactions with humanity.”
These interactions are the driving passion behind the Forgotten Podcast. Join me, your host, Ronnie Brown, as I delve deep into the lives of those who have faded from the conscious memory of the Christian church, yet still brilliantly display the power of God doing extraordinary things through the lives of ordinary people. From accounts of inexplicable providences, and stories of powerful conversions, to moving testimonies of selfless sacrifice and service, each audio journey peers through the lens of Christian history to uncover the mysteries of faith. Every episode of the Forgotten Podcast will rouse your courage, challenge your complacency, and strengthen your resolve to trust God down every avenue of your own life’s journey.
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Join me as we walk alongside fascinating Christians of bygone days and discover how the past can hold strength for the present.
Down through the annals of recorded history, tucked away within its dusty pages, are hidden gems; breathtaking accounts that put on display happenings so astonishing that their only explanation is the intervention of the Divine. In his book, Church History in Plain Language, author and historian Bruce Shelly states that “Christianity is a historical religion, and its history is the story of God’s interactions with humanity.”
These interactions are the driving passion behind the Forgotten Podcast. Join me, your host, Ronnie Brown, as I delve deep into the lives of those who have faded from the conscious memory of the Christian church, yet still brilliantly display the power of God doing extraordinary things through the lives of ordinary people. From accounts of inexplicable providences, and stories of powerful conversions, to moving testimonies of selfless sacrifice and service, each audio journey peers through the lens of Christian history to uncover the mysteries of faith. Every episode of the Forgotten Podcast will rouse your courage, challenge your complacency, and strengthen your resolve to trust God down every avenue of your own life’s journey.
Subscribe now on your favorite podcasting app or visit us online at forgottenpodcast.com.
The words of Jesus were clear: to be his disciple, one must take up their cross and follow him. He calls us to take up our own personal death, death to ourselves, our will, our desires, and to be identified with Christ. He calls us to endure shame and ridicule as one of his own, to be counted as Christ’s. The call of a disciple is a call to stand up for Jesus.
The music for this episode is listed below and was adapted for length under a Creative Commons License
Marcel Pequel – December
Marcel Pequel – November
In the dim light of the room, Mel reached a trembling hand down, down into the coffin, and slipped the tiny shoes from the body of his two-year old son. With shoes in hand, he quickly made his way out of the parlor, down to the nearest saloon, and slapped the little shoes down on the counter and said, “Give me a drink! I’m dying for a drink!”
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myuu – Collapse
myuu – Disintegrating
Jack desperately rummaged through all that was taken off of the ship. It seemed like he had done this a thousand times; and each time he did, in his mind he could see the flames of the ship rising higher and higher. It seemed like such a good idea at the time. He along with all the others, thought that they had found paradise. But the island that they all thought they wanted to spend the rest of their lives on was becoming a nightmare. Something had to change!
Though his name is rarely remembered today, his story is one of strength, that kind of strength that is given by God. The story of Lott Carey is the story of a man enslaved in Virginia who met the One known to set captives free.
Although his name is largely forgotten more than 200 years after his birth, if your had lived in rural America in the mid to late 1800’s, chances are you would have recognized his name. John Ellison Vassar was one of the most widely known evangelists in the United States. As we encounter him on the dusty pages of history, we see a man who walked in the way of the One who came to seek and save the lost.
As the sails filled with the ocean breeze, and the boards creaked from the waters below him, it was time to go. Whatever lay ahead, whatever the cost, whatever indignities and want that he may experience in trying to reach the impoverished and oppressed African slaves on St. Thomas, Johann Leonhard Dober was willing to endure it all for the sake of the Gospel.
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Liam Higgo – Epic Rise
Liam Higgo – Cascading
It is impossible to overestimate the impact that one godly Christian can have on another individual’s life. In many respects, the world as we know it today would be very different if one godly housekeeper had not influenced a young son of an English Lord.
Joseph Mohr didn’t know that the lyrics to the little poem he had penned would forever become part of Christmas celebrations, not only in his small Austrian alpine village, but around the world. This gentle song would become the centerpiece of reflection and worship of the Saviour-King, born in a Bethlehem stable.
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Kevin MacLeod - Silent Night
Most people never realize how near they come to the experience of death. But on a clear moonlit night, the life of a relatively unknown Union soldier was spared, only to find out a decade and a half later that the Great Shepherd had rescued his lamb from the jaws of certain death.
While Jerry was living in the back alley, the shop owners and townspeople wished he would just disappear. He was a misfit, a thief, and all around menace to society. He thought that somehow he had outstretched the bounds of the love of God.
Samson Occom, a prolific pastor, educator, and author, was betrayed, maligned, and exploited most of his life, largely by people who claimed to worship the same God as him. They were supposed to be his brethren, men of the same family of God. Yet in their eyes, he was always seen as something less.
Satan knows the curiosity of man and uses it to distract the human mind from occupying itself with the truth of God, leading it down a path of lies and deceptions. That could have easily been the case with the Wesley family while living at the Epworth Rectory. The unusual events that took place there could have led the them into all kinds of speculations about ghosts, hauntings, and supernatural occurrences. But it didn’t.
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Myuu – Deadly Sorrow
Myuu – Lost World
AJ stood firmly planted in rational thinking. If there was a God, he wound up the universe eons ago, and simply walked away. No personal God, no life after death, no final judgment, no heaven, and no hell. To believe any other way was foolish superstition. That was until one fateful sleepless night, when the haunting voice of a dying man pushed him from a calloused skeptic to a convinced servant.
There are those times when we as believers long for God to come and show His power for all to see. We want the equivalent of a high noon, center of town, in the middle of the street showdown. There are moments when we want the great God of heaven to enter the scene of our world, and like a flash stretch forth His mighty power to put to naught the evil that threatens us. And all this right in front of the eyes of a gawking world. We want moments like the account from the life of Chinese evangelist Watchman Nee in the early 1920’s. God worked in such a mighty fashion that an entire pagan society was shaken to its core.
There is Someone behind the scenes working circumstance to His infinite wisdom. God is doing this in your life, right now. Every detail, every instance, every crossed path, and every dead end. But that is not so easy to see. One must look from the distance of history in order to see the finger-print of divine design. Here are just two. Two that shine brightly and vividly to reveal a God who works in us to reveal His good pleasure.
When the curtain of time lifted on 19 year old William Hunter’s path in the spring of 1555, his parents were watching. They watched as their son was walked to the center of Brentwood England, they watched as he was chained to a wooden post, and they watched as he was set ablaze. They watched helplessly as their teenage burned at the stake for the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Eric Liddell was an Olympic sprinter that gave his all in every race. But this characteristic not only followed him on to the fields of competition, but on the fields of commission. Although the fleeting spark of fame would show the world an Olympic champion, what very few realize is that his ultimate surrender was as a missionary, telling others of the God he loved so much.
An event took place at this log cabin out in the middle of nowhere, on the far edge of fledgling nation, in a region of the country filled with criminals and fugitives that defies the imagination. The event that not only had a profound effect on the local area of Logan County Kentucky, or the frontier state as a whole, but left its mark on succeeding generations in the states of Tennessee, Georgia, Ohio, Virginia, and the Carolinas. And to some extent, it altered the heart and conscience of America while it was still in the cradle of its infancy.
Sometimes we don’t attempt things for God. We don’t boldly stand for God because we are just not sure that His hand will be there to protect us. Sure, God did that in the Bible, but would he protect me? Would he protect me in a car driving down the high way? Would he protect me on the streets of a foreign land? Or would he protect me, as in the case of Gladys Aylward, hiking through the jungles of China with nearly 100 orphan children, surrounded by Japanese soldiers with orders to shoot on sight? I’m glad to say, “Yes! He can.”
Join me as we walk alongside fascinating Christians of bygone days and discover how the past can hold strength for the present.
Down through the annals of recorded history, tucked away within its dusty pages, are hidden gems; breathtaking accounts that put on display happenings so astonishing that their only explanation is the intervention of the Divine. In his book, Church History in Plain Language, author and historian Bruce Shelly states that “Christianity is a historical religion, and its history is the story of God’s interactions with humanity.”
These interactions are the driving passion behind the Forgotten Podcast. Join me, your host, Ronnie Brown, as I delve deep into the lives of those who have faded from the conscious memory of the Christian church, yet still brilliantly display the power of God doing extraordinary things through the lives of ordinary people. From accounts of inexplicable providences, and stories of powerful conversions, to moving testimonies of selfless sacrifice and service, each audio journey peers through the lens of Christian history to uncover the mysteries of faith. Every episode of the Forgotten Podcast will rouse your courage, challenge your complacency, and strengthen your resolve to trust God down every avenue of your own life’s journey.
Subscribe now on your favorite podcasting app or visit us online at forgottenpodcast.com.
