In the shadowy dim light of 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 post Episode 22 – Mel Trotter appeared first on Forgotten .
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... The post Episode 21 – The Bible on the Bounty appeared first on Forgotten .
One name, for the most part lost to our collective consciousness, is a thrilling example of the unbounded potential that lies not only in the human will and intellect, but in the divine strength supplied to the human heart. The story of Lott Carey is the story of when a black Virginia slave met a... The post Episode 20 – Lott Carey appeared first on Forgotten ....
Although his name is largely forgotten more than 200 years after his birth, if your had been living 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 post Episode 19 – Uncle John Vassar and the Infidel appeared first on Forgotten ....
As the sails filled with the ocean breeze, and the boards creaked with troubling of 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... The post Episode 18 – Johann Leonhard Dober appeared first on Forgotten ....
It is impossible to estimate the impact that one godly Christian can have on another individual’s life. One cannot look through time and see to what degree the course of a life has been changed by the kind and Christ-like influence one person can have on another. In many respects, the world as we know... The post Episode 17 – Anthony Ashley Cooper 7th Earl of Shaftesbury appeared first on Forgotten ....
What Joseph Mohr didn’t know is that the lyrics to the little poem he had penned two years earlier would forever become part of the 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 for the Saviour-King, born in... The post Episode 16 – Joseph Mohr appeared first on Forgotten ....
Most people never even realize how near they come to the experience of death. But there is at least one instance in history where, 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... The post Episode 15 – Ira Sankey and the Confederate Soldier appeared first on Forgotten ....
Jerry was one of those back alley homeless and nameless people that shop owners and townspeople wish would vanish into thin air. 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. This episode is dedicated to Travis Sharpe... The post Episode 14 – Jerry McAuley appeared first on Forgotten ....
Sampson Occom, a prolific pastor, educator, and author was betrayed, maligned, and exploited most of his life and largely by people who claimed to worship and believe the same God as he. They were to be thought of and considered his brethren, men of the same family of God. Yet truthfully, in their eyes, he... The post Episode 13 – Sampson Occom appeared first on Forgotten ....
Satan knows the curiosity of man; and uses it to distract the human mind from occupying itself with the truth of God, by 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... The post Bonus Episode – The Old Epworth Rectory appeared first on Forgotten ....
He was scared, the kind of scared that makes you feel as though you are going to vomit at any moment. But yet he could not show it. That’s the hardest thing in the world to do: Be terrified and not show it… The post Episode 12 – Kiyoshi ‘Uncle John’ Watanabe appeared first on Forgotten .
AJ stood firmly planted in rational thinking. If there was a God, he wound up the universe eons ago, and simply walked away. No was personal God, no life after death, no final judgment, no heaven, or no hell. To believe any other way was foolish superstition. That is until one fateful sleepless night, where... The post Episode 11 – AJ appeared first on Forgotten ....
The 18 year old Scottish girl by the name of Margaret Wilson had taken a lonely road for most of her formative years. Living in wilderness caves, trying simply to survive when she was only in her teen age years. And all that time, she never lost sight of to whom she belonged. Even in... The post Episode 10 – Margaret Wilson appeared first on Forgotten ....
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 to the world an Olympic champion, what very few realize is that his ultimate surrender... The post Episode 09 – Eric Liddell appeared first on Forgotten ....
Success is defined as a person or thing that achieves desired aims. One way or another we all want to be successful. But what if we have it all wrong when it comes to the measure of success? What if success or failure as a child of God is not left in our hands or... The post Episode 08 – Robert Jermain Thomas appeared first on Forgotten .
History has given us many examples of what it means to be a servant of God. Great men that have led dynamic, spoken to large crowds, written great books, and took memorable stands. But there are a select few that have paid for the privilege of leading their flock with their life’s blood. Shepherds who... The post Episode 07 – Dr. Rowland Taylor appeared first on Forgotten ....
His prayer ministry was so isolated and so discreet, that he is all but forgotten in Christian history. He was a man who was considered by the evangelist that he worked with, the indispensable element of an effective crusade to reach lost souls. As his small grave stone reads, in understated words: Daniel Nash, Mighty in... The post Episode 06 – Daniel Nash appeared first on Forgotten ....
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... The post Episode 05 – Watchman Nee appeared first on Forgotten .
An event took 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. An event that not only had a profound effect on the local area of Logan County Kentucky, or the frontier... The post Episode 04 – The Red River Meeting House appeared first on Forgotten ....
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... The post Episode 03 – Frowning Providence appeared first on Forgotten ....
When the curtain of time lifted on young 19 year old William Hunter’s path in the spring of 1555, his parents were watching as their son was walked to the center of Brentwood England, they were watching as he was chained to a wooden post, and they were watching as he was set ablaze. They... The post Episode 02 – William Hunter appeared first on Forgotten ....
Some times 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... The post Episode 01 – Gladys Aylward appeared first on Forgotten .
