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  1. Monday, September 29, 2025

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    09/29/25
    14 mins
    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we go to Washington, D.C., to consider one of the world’s most famous cathedrals.
    Monday, September 29, 2025

  2. Jeremiah 20:7-18 When Emotions Collide. Chris Lizotte sings "Open the Skies"

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    09/26/25
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    In this passage Jeremiah is enthusiastically praising God, then cursing the day he was born, then speaking as a warrior, then speaking fearfully.
    Jeremiah 20:7-18 When Emotions Collide. Chris Lizotte sings

  3. Lamentations 3:1-33 Jeff Anderson sings "Great Is Thy Faithfulness"

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    09/19/25
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Chad tells us the story behind this timeless hymn, and we also look into the struggles of the great prophet Jeremiah.
    Lamentations 3:1-33 Jeff Anderson sings

  4. Psalm 31 (our very first episode of Hidden Streams featuring Kris Winrich singing "Waiting for My Deliverance"

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    09/12/25
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Waiting on God, Who alone is our only hope in this life and will safely guide us to be with Him for eternity.
    Psalm 31 (our very first episode of Hidden Streams featuring Kris Winrich singing

  5. Jeremiah 18:18-23 Colin Heinrich sings "Hear Me, Lord"

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    09/05/25
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    This episode deals with the all too familiar situation known as "No good deed goes unpunished".
    Jeremiah 18:18-23 Colin Heinrich sings

  6. Jeremiah 17:14-17 Mikaela Adams sings "Christ Have Mercy"

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    08/28/25
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    We've all been wronged, sometimes by those closest to us, or those who we trust the most. So, how do we respond, especially when we know that we can't truthfully claim our own righteousness and demand God's wrath against those who have hurt us. Oftentimes we hold our feelings inside, keeping our thoughts to ourselves, which only makes things worse.
    Jeremiah 17:14-17 Mikaela Adams sings

  7. 405: Barfield - Myth is the Ghost of Concrete Meaning

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    08/22/25
    9 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Little Plastic Castles. In this episode, we read the first Inkling, Owen Barfield, as he defends the use of old words, old stories, and old ways of expressing what’s good, beautiful, and true against modern proponents that argued for more modern “scientific” ways of judging language, esp., poetics and myth, as well as religion and culture.
    405: Barfield - Myth is the Ghost of Concrete Meaning

  8. Lamentations 1:1-11 JOHN ANDREW SCHREINER sings "How Lonely Lies the City"

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    08/21/25
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Broken lives, broken spirits, broken hearts; the ravaging results of sin in our lives and the world we were born into.
    Lamentations 1:1-11 JOHN ANDREW SCHREINER sings

  9. 404: Auden - A Litany and the Horae Cononicae

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    08/16/25
    9 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Liturgy Amongst the Rubble. In this episode, we read poems by W.H. Auden about pulp fiction, ancient myths, conversion, liturgy, poetics, and how industrialization and corporatism build a new Babel inside and around the churches.
    404: Auden - A Litany and the Horae Cononicae

  10. Izzi Ray sings "I Lift Up My Eyes" Psalm 123

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    08/14/25
    4 mins
    By Chad Bird
    The great prayer of the church- "Have mercy upon us, O Lord". A beautiful reflection from Chad, a beautiful song from Izzi Ray.
    Izzi Ray sings

  11. Jeremiah 15: verses 10-21 Markita Knight sings "Always For Me"

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    08/07/25
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    For the next few weeks we will be exploring the rich laments of the prophet Jeremiah. Rich, because we can relate to the prophet's complaints, and also be encouraged that God gives us a script in His holy Word to speak to Him about the things that vex us.
    Jeremiah 15: verses 10-21 Markita Knight sings

  12. Jeremiah 12: 1-6 Mikaela Adams sings "I Want To Run With The Horses"

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    07/31/25
    7 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Jeremiah's laments have so much in common with the laments found in the Psalms.
    Jeremiah 12: 1-6 Mikaela Adams sings