Sep 17, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Unlike New England, the Colony of Virginia nodded towards the Church of England as the only legal religious denomination within its borders. But the priests and prelates in Virginia arrived with the same hypocrisy and licentious behavior which drove the Puritans from...
Sep 14, 2020 | Sunday Evening
This chapter begins on the first day of Tishri – the Jewish New Year according to one calendar – and the seventh month of the year according to the other. It was also the first day of three important Festivals – Trumpets, Tabernacles and the Day of Atonement. On this...
Sep 10, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Taylor Jones was born into a Massachusetts Congregational family. While he was attending Andover College in preparation of becoming a Protestant minister, the Lord taught him the truth, and he began to attend the Baptist’s Newton Seminary. He was baptized and...
Sep 4, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
At the close of the Revolutionary war Robert Carter was one of the wealthiest men in Virginia, owning 70,000 acres. He was a friend of other rich and powerful people including Thomas Jefferson. On this day (September 6) in 1778, Carter faced an audience of about 400...
Aug 31, 2020 | Sunday Evening
This will be a relatively short but somewhat convoluted message this evening. I approach it with some trepidation, because I’m venturing into territory in which I have never felt particularly comfortable. But I’m hoping that it will be a blessing to you. Prior to the...
Aug 27, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Historians are pretty-well agreed that an Anglican from Gloucester, England, named Robert Raikes, started the first Sunday school. It is also well-known that it had nothing to do with the Bible. At a period when there were no child labor laws, Sunday was the only...