Posts

Episode 16 – Joseph Mohr

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…

Read More

Episode 15 – Ira Sankey and the Confederate Soldier

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…

Read More

Episode 14 – Jerry McAuley

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…

Read More

Episode 13 – Sampson Occom

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…

Read More

Bonus Episode – The Old Epworth Rectory

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…

Read More

Episode 12 – Kiyoshi ‘Uncle John’ Watanabe

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…

Read More

Episode 11 – AJ

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…

Read More

Episode 10 – Margaret Wilson

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…

Read More

Episode 09 – Eric Liddell

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…

Read More

Episode 08 – Robert Jermain Thomas

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…

Read More