Forgotten

As Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was falling from the sky about to crashing 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. Below is a photo of Andy Meakins serving the people of Ethiopia that he loved so much. The post Episode 28 – Andy Meakins and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 appeared fi...

Is God big enough to bring the name of Jesus to the heart of a man that has responded in thirst to the witness of creation and conscience even when he lives in the secluded isolation of a South American rain forest? The answer to this question is a resounding, “Yes!” Sound track list: Kai Engel – Realness Kai Engel – Take a Look Around You Kai Engel – Better Way Kai Engel –...

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 are a few instances, where poetic justice is not reserved for some far off day before the throne of God...

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 to look at her bridegroom and know it to be true. Sound track list: Liam Higgo – Unlikely Inspiration Liam Higgo –...

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 I’m An Islander – Ve’ Bånsøj (At Bottom Lake) The post Ep...

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. To be counted as Christ’s. The call of a disciple is a call to stand up for Jesus. Sound track list: Marcel...

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 counter and said, “Give me a drink! I’m dying for a drink!” Sound track list: myuu – Collapse myuu...

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 t...

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 Jewish Carpenter known to set captives free. The post Episode 20 – Lott Carey appeared first on...

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 dusty pages history, we do see a man who is the epitome of the One who came to seek and to save...

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 willing to endure for the sake of the call of the Gospel. Sound track list: L...

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 it today would be very different without the Christian influence of a godly housekeeper on the yo...

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 a Bethlehem stable. The post Episode 16 – Joseph Mohr appeared firs...

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 a His lamb from the jaws of certain death. The post Episode 15 – Ira Sankey and the Confederate Sol...

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 and the Team at Unsheltered.org The post Episode 14 – Jerry McAuley appeared first on Fo...

Samson 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 was always seen as something less. The post Episode 13 – Samson Occom appeared first on...

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 there could have led the them into all kinds of speculations about ghosts, hauntings, and supernatur...

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 haunting voice of a dying man, pushed him from a calloused skeptic to a convinced serva...

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 final moments of her life, when it seemed that all the world was against her, she spent the last breaths of her...

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 was as a missionary, telling others of the God he loved so much. The post Episode 09...

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 cannot be measured or equated from our finite vantage point?  To all outward indication, the death of a 27 year old missionary before he...

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 have literally laid down their lives for their sheep. Dr. Rowland Taylor exhorted and encouraged...

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 Prayer. 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 our world, and like a flash stretch forth His mighty power to put to naught the evil that threatens us. And all this right in front...