Jul 17, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Samuel Pearce was born on this day in 1766. As a young man he happened to be in a house where a man lay dying. The man in despair cried out, “I am damned forever.” The words filled young Samuel with terror. For more than a year, the death of that man and the...
Jul 13, 2025 | Sunday Evening
Our Bible’s translators show us that verse 4 into verse 10 is one sentence – one primary lesson. But, as we have already seen, there is a wealth of information here. There are three illustrations each split into two sections – one positive and one negative. This...
Jul 13, 2025 | Sunday Morning
Isaac Newton was an early English scientist, and probably a “genius” before the word had been defined. He was raised in the Anglican denomination, but he held to some unorthodox views about Christ. Because of those views, I can’t say that he was a Christian in the...
Jul 10, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Powell (not the actor of by-gone days, but William Rufus Powell), was born into a godly home in 1808, but he was not born again until many years later. At an early time in his life, his mother died, and other family tragedies sent him swinging back and forth...
Jul 6, 2025 | Sunday Evening
One of distinctives of a New Testament Baptist church is that its message and authority come from the scriptures. We have no loyalty to Rome, or Philadelphia, or wherever Southern Baptist Convention is headquartered. True Baptist churches believe what they believe...
Jul 6, 2025 | Sunday Morning
In the 1850’s England was at odds with Russia in what was called the “Crimean War.” At the “Battle of Balaclava” (1854), a British cavalry unit, the Light Brigade, charged into a valley surrounded by Russian artillery. The charge was the result of a...
Jul 3, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Barnas Sears was one of the great educators of this country, but that may not be his most important role in Baptist history. In 1825, he graduated with the highest honors from Brown University, after which he studied at Newton Theological Institution (both respected...