Jun 1, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In September 1772, William Elliot married Dorothy Merrill, the daughter of the pastor of the local Congregational church. Into this family six children were born, and as you might guess, they were all christened as babies. But as William continued to read and study...
May 25, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Richard Curtis was born in Virginia on this day in 1756. Sometime after the Lord saved him, he began to have a burden to live in Mississippi. With that in mind his church licensed him to preach and began to encourage him in prayer. At that point, the Curtis family...
May 18, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1882, while razing an old adobe church building in Santa Fe, New Mexico – a building which had been used by the Presbyterians for years – the demolition team found the original cornerstone. On it, along with other information, was the date May 21, 1853. It proved...
May 12, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Evan Jones was born on this day in 1789. We don’t have any information on when he was born again. In 1821, after he moved from England to this country, he and his wife began a ministry as missionaries to the Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. For ten years prior to...
May 4, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Elias Morris was born into a family of slaves on this day in 1855. At the close of the Civil War, his parents moved from Georgia to Tennessee and then on to Alabama. There Elias learned the shoemaking trade, and his natural organizational skills resulted in turning...
Apr 27, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Early in its history Connecticut was known as a place of severe persecution against anyone who was not a part of their official Congregational denomination. As a result, the first known Baptist baptism took place in 1767, when Abigail Dorchester testified of her faith...
Apr 20, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1528, a report was presented to Emperor Charles V by the Council of the Archbishop of Cologne about the growing number of Anabaptists. The document stated that the Anabaptists call themselves “true Christians,” that they practice baptism by immersion, and they hold...
Apr 13, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Moore was born in 1821. Following his conversion to Christ, his call to the ministry, his marriage, and his ordination, he and Mrs. Moore set sail for Assam on this day in 1849. They served in that country and in Burma for five years before Brother Moore...
Apr 6, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Calista Holman was born on this day in 1807, and she was born again as a teenager. Throughout her life she was often sick, and during one of those illnesses, when it was feared that she would die, she insisted on being baptized. On a cold day in March she was carried...
Mar 30, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The Metropolitan Tabernacle, also known as Spurgeon’s Tabernacle was opened on March 18, 1861. A few weeks later, on this day, there was a fellowship meeting of Baptist pastors from London and across Britain. In greeting those preachers, Spurgeon made the following...
Mar 23, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
David Thomas was an early Baptist preacher who spent most of his ministry in Virginia, experiencing the hatred and persecution of the religious unbelievers in that area. Thomas endured their attacks willingly, having made the deliberate choice to move to Stafford...
Mar 16, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Many of my references to the early Baptists in Virginia point to the persecution they endured. Forty-four were incarcerated for preaching without permission from the government and the Episcopal church. But the fact is there were other preachers whom the Lord...
Mar 10, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Pownal is a small community in the southwest corner of Vermont. In 1772 Benjamin Garner arrived in Pownal from Massachusetts, and a Baptist church was formed. During the following year some sort of disease swept through the area, and the Lord used it to awaken...
Mar 2, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Thomas van Imbroek of Cologne, Germany was arrested for his Christian faith in 1557. For nearly a year he was kept under guard, during which time religious and state officials tried to persuade him to change his mind about salvation and infant baptism. Thomas’...
Feb 23, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Picket was a Baptist preacher who ministered in Virginia just prior to the Revolutionary War. There were times when he would invite neighbors to meet him in a grove of trees or in an open field, and he would preach the gospel to them. On those occasions if the...
