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Episode 26 – The Godly Woman of Chipping Sodbury

The term poetic justice is a literary construct that is defined as the moment in the plot where virtue is ultimately rewarded and vice 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…

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Episode 25 – John Brown of Priesthill

Rare is the pastor who had just performed a wedding and then tell the bride on her wedding day that she has married a great man. Be sure to keep a death shroud close by because, for when you least expect it, you husband is going to be killed.” Even rarer still is the bride…

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Episode 24 – Marinus of Caesarea

Down through the centuries, many people have made this difficult choice to forsake all and follow Jesus, but few so brilliantly reveal the cost of that following like that of a young Roman soldier named Marinus of Caesarea. Sound track list: So I’m An Islander – Bræuw fra æ Bjæuw (Letters From the Mountains) So…

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Episode 23 – Dudley Tyng

The words of Jesus were clear: In order to be included as 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 be identified with Christ. To endure shame and ridicule as one of his own….

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Episode 22 – Mel Trotter

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…

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Episode 21 – The Bible on the Bounty

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…

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Episode 20 – Lott Carey

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…

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Episode 19 – Uncle John Vassar and the Infidel

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…

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Episode 18 – Johann Leonhard Dober

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…

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Episode 17 – Anthony Ashley Cooper 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

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…

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