The Remnant Society Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:00:00 -0400 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2633984 en-us © 2026 The Remnant Society yes 2612afa2-55f4-53cc-a7ee-6861439bf46a pathstoglorypodcast@gmail.com Robert Johnson episodic false The Remnant Society is a weekly serialized mystery for teens, young adults, and the families who listen together. When six cousins bury their great-grandfather — Harry Sikes, nobody quite got to know — he leaves them a letter, a locked trunk, and a strange charge: finish what he started. What he started turns out to be a trail of mysteries hidden across their family and their faith: a torn journal, a scratched-out photograph, a hymn with a secret, a room in an old church sealed for forty years. Every case is real, with clues to catch and red herrings to dodge, and every answer points to something worth more than any treasure. Told in the King James tradition and unashamed of what this family believes, but built first as a story you won't want to pause — six cousins who bicker, wonder, doubt, and work it out together. From Paths to Glory Publishing, sister series to The Jones Family Chronicles. Hosted and narrated by Robert Johnson. New episode every week. There is a remnant according to the election of grace. (Romans 11:5, KJV)

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Robert Johnson pathstoglorypodcast@gmail.com https://storage.buzzsprout.com/5gjq3jlu5hc7b01isv5uzrnxreii?.jpg The Remnant Society https://www.buzzsprout.com/2633984 A Respected Man A Respected Man A prayer request at Wednesday night service tells the whole county what the six cousins have been careful never to say out loud, and by Saturday a kind man in a good suit has driven out from the district office to ask them, gently, to stop. He means every word. Then the piece Papa Harry promised would find them turns up in the last pair of hands anyone expected, with the answer Peter gave the council — and Jenna, who has been learning the old crossing hymn the real way, down the side, finds the one name nobody thought to look for.

“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”

Acts 4:12 (KJV)

]]> A prayer request at Wednesday night service tells the whole county what the six cousins have been careful never to say out loud, and by Saturday a kind man in a good suit has driven out from the district office to ask them, gently, to stop. He means every word. Then the piece Papa Harry promised would find them turns up in the last pair of hands anyone expected, with the answer Peter gave the council — and Jenna, who has been learning the old crossing hymn the real way, down the side, finds the one name nobody thought to look for.

“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”

Acts 4:12 (KJV)

]]> Robert Johnson Buzzsprout-19920281 Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:00:00 -0700 2113 1 11 full false The Winter They Crossed the Road The Winter They Crossed the Road The trail has gone cold — the baptism register gave up its names and nothing more — until Rion sees a row of stitches nobody else looked at twice. Hidden in the binding of the church's own book is the piece Papa Harry said would make them angry: his account of the one winter a friend used a pulpit to wonder a good man into ruin, and why Harry kept walking that road toward the people who had turned away from him. An old widow tells them what it cost. And Harry tells them why he never lifted a hand.

“LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. ... He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.”

Psalm 15:1–4 

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]]> The trail has gone cold — the baptism register gave up its names and nothing more — until Rion sees a row of stitches nobody else looked at twice. Hidden in the binding of the church's own book is the piece Papa Harry said would make them angry: his account of the one winter a friend used a pulpit to wonder a good man into ruin, and why Harry kept walking that road toward the people who had turned away from him. An old widow tells them what it cost. And Harry tells them why he never lifted a hand.

“LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. ... He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.”

Psalm 15:1–4 

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]]> Robert Johnson Buzzsprout-19869807 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:00:00 -0700 2158 1 10 full false The Baptism Record The Baptism Record The next piece of the truth was never hidden at all — it has been sitting in plain sight, in the crossing church's own baptism register, for fifty years. With Brother Williams and Bishop Garrett standing guard, the six cousins open the great book and find the day Papa Harry baptized half the county in the name of Jesus, the doctrine written plain, and two names nobody was ever supposed to read again. And beside one of them, in a different hand, the coldest word in the book.

“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

Acts 2:38 (KJV)

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]]> The next piece of the truth was never hidden at all — it has been sitting in plain sight, in the crossing church's own baptism register, for fifty years. With Brother Williams and Bishop Garrett standing guard, the six cousins open the great book and find the day Papa Harry baptized half the county in the name of Jesus, the doctrine written plain, and two names nobody was ever supposed to read again. And beside one of them, in a different hand, the coldest word in the book.

“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

Acts 2:38 (KJV)

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]]> Robert Johnson Buzzsprout-19853499 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0700 2121 1 9 full false The Hymn with No Name The Hymn with No Name Papa Harry hid the next piece of his story in the one place the man who buried it would never destroy — a hymn, sung every Sunday for fifty years by the very congregation that forgot the truth. Up in the dusty church loft, the six cousins find the hymnal Harry bound with his own hands, and the secret he set to music: a grief he could not speak, carried in plain sight by everyone who ever sang it. 

And while they read it, a polite man in a nice coat walks in the church door downstairs.

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]]> Papa Harry hid the next piece of his story in the one place the man who buried it would never destroy — a hymn, sung every Sunday for fifty years by the very congregation that forgot the truth. Up in the dusty church loft, the six cousins find the hymnal Harry bound with his own hands, and the secret he set to music: a grief he could not speak, carried in plain sight by everyone who ever sang it. 

And while they read it, a polite man in a nice coat walks in the church door downstairs.

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]]> Robert Johnson Buzzsprout-19810657 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0700 1919 1 8 full false The Scratched Photograph The Scratched Photograph The cousins have a photograph of three young men at a river in Kenya, and one of them has been scratched down to the paper. Determined to give Sonny Sharpe his face back, they take the picture to Brent and Jenna's father, who can sharpen almost anything, and learn the hardest truth of the hunt: some things a man destroys are gone for good. But Papa Harry left a mark of his own on the back of that photo, and it leads them to the water, and to the next page of a story someone spent a lifetime trying to drown.

“Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”

John 3:5 (KJV)

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]]> The cousins have a photograph of three young men at a river in Kenya, and one of them has been scratched down to the paper. Determined to give Sonny Sharpe his face back, they take the picture to Brent and Jenna's father, who can sharpen almost anything, and learn the hardest truth of the hunt: some things a man destroys are gone for good. But Papa Harry left a mark of his own on the back of that photo, and it leads them to the water, and to the next page of a story someone spent a lifetime trying to drown.

“Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”

John 3:5 (KJV)

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]]> Robert Johnson Buzzsprout-19774651 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0700 1895 1 7 full false The Name in the Margin The Name in the Margin A single name, written in Papa Harry's own hand in the margin of his Bible, leads the six cousins to the last person alive who was there in the beginning — a ninety-year-old woman who loved Harry, remembers the church he gave away, and has been keeping something for him for longer than the cousins have been alive. The trail stops being paper and becomes a person. And for the first time, someone who was there says out loud that Harry's best friend came home from Kenya changed.

“The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.”

Proverbs 10:7 (KJV)

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]]> A single name, written in Papa Harry's own hand in the margin of his Bible, leads the six cousins to the last person alive who was there in the beginning — a ninety-year-old woman who loved Harry, remembers the church he gave away, and has been keeping something for him for longer than the cousins have been alive. The trail stops being paper and becomes a person. And for the first time, someone who was there says out loud that Harry's best friend came home from Kenya changed.

“The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.”

Proverbs 10:7 (KJV)

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]]> Robert Johnson Buzzsprout-19732318 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0700 1987 1 6 full false Who He Was Who He Was Back at the little church Papa Harry built with his own hands, the six cousins pry loose the second piece of the torn journal and finally meet the man behind the legend — not a saint born holy, but a soldier who ran from God as far as a boat would carry him, all the way to Kenya, and was undone the night the Holy Ghost began to pour out. This is who Harry was. And after this, the Society stops being a game.

“Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.”

Psalm 139:7–8 (KJV)

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]]> Back at the little church Papa Harry built with his own hands, the six cousins pry loose the second piece of the torn journal and finally meet the man behind the legend — not a saint born holy, but a soldier who ran from God as far as a boat would carry him, all the way to Kenya, and was undone the night the Holy Ghost began to pour out. This is who Harry was. And after this, the Society stops being a game.

“Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.”

Psalm 139:7–8 (KJV)

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]]> Robert Johnson Buzzsprout-19693835 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0700 1906 1 5 full false The Watcher The Watcher A car sits too long outside Nana's house with its lights off, and just like that the hunt stops being a game. Following Papa Harry's trail to the little crossing church he helped raise, the six cousins come face to face with the polite stranger who's been calling the family — and learn he got to the church before they did. With a retired sheriff's hard-won wisdom and a tired country pastor's help, they have to decide how you keep chasing the truth when the truth is being watched.

“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”

Matthew 10:16 (KJV)

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]]> A car sits too long outside Nana's house with its lights off, and just like that the hunt stops being a game. Following Papa Harry's trail to the little crossing church he helped raise, the six cousins come face to face with the polite stranger who's been calling the family — and learn he got to the church before they did. With a retired sheriff's hard-won wisdom and a tired country pastor's help, they have to decide how you keep chasing the truth when the truth is being watched.

“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”

Matthew 10:16 (KJV)

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]]> Robert Johnson Buzzsprout-19661255 Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0700 1955 1 4 full false The First Clean Cut The First Clean Cut At dawn the six cousins drive out to the old Sikes home place to dig up the first piece of Papa Harry's torn journal — and find they aren't the first ones to come looking. With help from a retired sheriff who knew Harry better than they did, they finally learn the truth the family had wrong for years: Papa Harry was never a missionary. He crossed an ocean to Kenya as a worker, a teacher, a soul winner — and the first recovered pages show them exactly who he was.

Anchor verse: Proverbs 11:30 (KJV)

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]]> At dawn the six cousins drive out to the old Sikes home place to dig up the first piece of Papa Harry's torn journal — and find they aren't the first ones to come looking. With help from a retired sheriff who knew Harry better than they did, they finally learn the truth the family had wrong for years: Papa Harry was never a missionary. He crossed an ocean to Kenya as a worker, a teacher, a soul winner — and the first recovered pages show them exactly who he was.

Anchor verse: Proverbs 11:30 (KJV)

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]]> Robert Johnson Buzzsprout-19628157 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0700 1861 1 3 full false The Locked Trunk The Locked Trunk The trunk is open — and the most important thing Harry Sikes ever wrote is missing. What the six cousins find inside isn't a book; it's the hollow cover of one, its pages torn out and scattered, with a single card in their great-grandfather's hand pointing them toward the first piece. 

Their first real case as the Remnant Society: where do you start looking for something a man hid on purpose — and why is someone else already asking the family what they've found?

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]]> The trunk is open — and the most important thing Harry Sikes ever wrote is missing. What the six cousins find inside isn't a book; it's the hollow cover of one, its pages torn out and scattered, with a single card in their great-grandfather's hand pointing them toward the first piece. 

Their first real case as the Remnant Society: where do you start looking for something a man hid on purpose — and why is someone else already asking the family what they've found?

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]]> Robert Johnson Buzzsprout-19593461 Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:00:00 -0700 1993 1 2 full false The Reading of the Letter The Reading of the Letter Six cousins come home from their great-grandfather's funeral to a letter he wrote before he died — one that names them, quotes an old verse over them, and hands them a locked trunk with no key. 

Harry Sikes spent his last years hiding something, and now he's asking the six of them to find it together. 

The Remnant Society begins where every good mystery does: with a door that won't open, and one clue nobody else noticed.

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]]> Six cousins come home from their great-grandfather's funeral to a letter he wrote before he died — one that names them, quotes an old verse over them, and hands them a locked trunk with no key. 

Harry Sikes spent his last years hiding something, and now he's asking the six of them to find it together. 

The Remnant Society begins where every good mystery does: with a door that won't open, and one clue nobody else noticed.

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]]> Robert Johnson Buzzsprout-19585190 Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:00:00 -0700 1947 1 1 full false