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.
Stuart had been up all night. He had tossed and turned unable to sleep. All he could hear in the back of his mind were the words of that country preacher about standing before God and giving an account for his life. And his life was a mess. His drinking had taken over. If he landed in jail one more time, he could lose everything. But all of his popularity and fame, all his money wouldn’t change the fact that he was unprepared to meet God.
The music for this episode is listed below and was adapted for length under a Creative Commons License
myuu – Edge of Life
myuu – Lament
It was a Christmas memory, of all things, that first breathed life into “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” This memory has since become a treasured part of countless Christmas celebrations, including ours in that little mountain church on the side of the road so many years ago.
The music for this episode is “O Little Town of Bethlehem” by Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and was adapted for length under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED).
Samuel and Joanna Evans held in their arms the child that would bear the name of the day of his birth. They did not know it, but through heartache, pain, poverty, and suffering, Christmas Evans would leave in the wake of his life a myriad of changed lives and a lasting mark on the country of his birth.
The thing that got me was that they scraped his hands. They took a piece of glass or a knife and with the edge, scraped the heel and palm of his hand down to his finger tips. They were trying to remove something. But scrape all they might, but they would never undo what those anointed hands had already done.
The music for this episode is listed below and was adapted for length under a Creative Commons License
Liam Higgo – Dawn
Liam Higgo – Mostly Good Memories
The famed pastor RG Lee said, "Some of the most beautiful and spiritually fragrant flowers that blossom in God’s Kingdom gardens, some of the most luscious spiritual fruit that ripens in God’s Kingdom orchards, and some of the most potent streams that flow out to make gardens out of desert spots of the world are realities because of woman’s chastity, faith, service, sacrifice, and devotion.” This is true of the life and testimony of Maeyken Wens.
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Chris Zabriskie – NirvanaVEVO
Chris Zabriskie – There’s Probably No Time
In 1932, crime bosses that had a stranglehold on power through criminal activity were in cities all over America. Chattanooga, Tennessee, was no exception. It had its own crime boss that kept his finger on the pulse of a dark underworld in this sleepy southern town. Chattanooga had its king of crime, until one summer night when the King of Chattanooga was over thrown by the King of kings.
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Chris Zabriskie – John Stockton Slow Drag
Chris Zabriskie – That Kid in Fourth Grade Who Really Liked the Denver Broncos
As Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was falling from the sky about to crash into the Indian Ocean in the worst terrorist strike before 9/11, Andy Meakins risked his own temporal safety so that others might have eternal safety.
Is God big enough to bring the name of Jesus to the heart of a man seeking him, even if he lives in the secluded isolation of a South American rain forest? The answer to this question is a resounding, “Yes!”
The music for this episode is listed below and was adapted for length under a Creative Commons License
Kai Engel – Realness
Kai Engel – Take a Look Around You
Kai Engel – Better Way
Kai Engel – Oecumene Sleeps
"Poetic justice" is a literary term defined as the moment in the plot where virtue is ultimately rewarded and vice is punished. Although we rarely see such scenes of poetic justice in life, we know that in the end God will make every wrong right in the day of judgment. Yet there are a few instances, where poetic justice is not reserved for the far off day before the throne of God, but is played out right before our eyes on earth. Such was the case with the godly woman of Chipping Sodbury, England.
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Marcel Pequel – Two
Marcel Pequel – Eight
The pastor had just performed a wedding when he told the bride that she had married a great man. But the pastor next said "Be sure to keep a death shroud close by because, when you least expect it, you husband is going to be killed.” The bride looked at her bridegroom and knew it to be true.
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Liam Higgo – Unlikely Inspiration
Liam Higgo – Streets
Through the centuries, many people have made the difficult choice to forsake all and follow Jesus. Few lives so brilliantly reveal the cost of that sacrifice than that of a young Roman soldier named Marinus of Caesarea.
The music for this episode is listed below and was adapted for length under a Creative Commons License
So I’m An Islander – Bræuw fra æ Bjæuw (Letters From the Mountains)
So I’m An Islander – Ve’ Bånsøj (At Bottom Lake)
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.
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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!”
The music for this episode is listed below and was adapted for length under a Creative Commons License
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.
The music for this episode is listed below and was adapted for length under a Creative Commons License
Kevin MacLeod - Silent Night
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.
