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Episode 39 – Jim Elliot’s Last Christmas

January 8, 2018 Ronnie Brown 0:16:53 8 Comments

With his heart filled by the joy of the Christmas story, and the gift of a Saviour, Jim Elliot (as well as his four friends) had no idea that a few days hence they would pay the ultimate price for their desperate attempt to make the good news known to all people. Sound track list:…

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Episode 34 – James Abbes

September 22, 2017 Ronnie Brown 0:10:14 0 Comments

Not much is known about James Abbes. He is described as young man, with a zeal to share to the story that the monarchy desperately longed to stamp out: the plain teaching of salvation by grace through faith alone. This teaching was considered heresy and punishable by death and in 1555 the list was long…

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Episode 33 – Genesius of Rome

September 3, 2017 Ronnie Brown 0:15:55 0 Comments

In AD 303, God confronted a most vile and blasphemous young man who had strayed far from the instruction of family and He did so at not a more inconvenient time. Sound track list: Liam Higgo – Forgotten Liam Higgo – Journey

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Episode 31 – William Tyndale

August 7, 2017 Ronnie Brown 0:14:46 0 Comments

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, something that they had applied to his hands years ago. But scrape…

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Episode 30 – Maeyken Wens

July 28, 2017 Ronnie Brown 0:18:15 7 Comments

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…

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Episode 26 – The Godly Woman of Chipping Sodbury

May 22, 2017 Ronnie Brown 00:11:06 0 Comments

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

May 8, 2017 Ronnie Brown 00:18:31 0 Comments

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

April 24, 2017 Ronnie Brown 0:12:36 1 Comment

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 07 – Dr. Rowland Taylor

August 19, 2016 Ronnie Brown 0:20:35 7 Comments

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…

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Episode 02 – William Hunter

July 8, 2016 Ronnie Brown 0:11:48 2 Comments

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…

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