May 7, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Alfred Bennet was born in 1780. Twenty years later he was born again and joined the Baptist church of Hampton, Connecticut. After his marriage to the deacon’s daughter, the young couple moved to the unbroken wilderness of central New York, where Alfred began his...
May 3, 2026 | Sunday Morning
The Canadian author Alan Bradley has written eleven books. His first two didn’t amount to much. But then in 2009 he came up with a delightful new character. Flavia de Luce is a precocious thirteen-year-old who stumbles onto mysteries which she then solves – despite...
Apr 30, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Berry Meachum was born on this day in 1789 in Virginia. He was a slave, but also a Baptist preacher. Given the opportunity he worked hard and eventually purchased his freedom. Saving his income, he then purchased the freedom of his father, who also was a...
Apr 26, 2026 | Sunday Evening
John the Apostle, as he was moved the Holy Spirit, wrote five books of the New Testament. And when you stop and think about it, three of them are about as different as they possibly could be. The Gospel of John introduces us to in the incarnate Son of God. The Book of...
Apr 23, 2026 | Lessons on Bible Trivia, This Sunday in Baptist History
“Uncle” Harry was a slave to Thomas L. Cowan. On one occasion Mr. Cowan was present for a funeral where Uncle Harry was to preach. He was tremendously impressed with the man’s understanding of the scriptures, which led him to ask his lawyer to draw up some legal...
Apr 19, 2026 | Sunday Morning
Earlier, we read the account of the rich, young ruler who came to Christ Jesus one day. He asked: “Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” The Lord answered by taking him to the second half of the Ten Commandments: “Do not kill; do not steal; do not...
Apr 16, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Cape May is a community at the most southerly point in New Jersey – on the north side of the mouth of Delaware Bay. Ships headed toward Philadelphia, which for a time was a more important port than New York, all passed by Cape May. Today that county is about half...
