Nov 6, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I recently read an article describing the moral decadence of the 17th and 18th centuries, and it surprised me. Christians today think that our society is the worst of all time, but that may not be an accurate perception. Through George Whitefield and Jonathan...
Oct 30, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Daniel Marshal is a name that Baptists ought to know or learn. He was a friend and relative of Shubal Sterns and a member for some time of the Sandy Creek Baptist Church in North Carolina. He was acquainted with John Gano. It was Marshal who carried the gospel into...
Oct 23, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Lewis Lunsford was born in Stafford County, Virginia in 1753. Early in his life, while listening to the preaching of William Fristoe, the Lord gave him faith to believe on Christ as his Lord and Saviour. After being baptized by Fristoe, the young man began to preach...
Oct 16, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Last week, I mentioned the 1803 Louisiana Purchase which greatly expanded the territory of the United States. The purchase was almost a gift from Napoleon who was afraid it was going to fall into the hands of the English. Iowa was a part of that purchase. In 1834...
Oct 9, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
There are “foreign mission fields,” even on the North American Continent. Baptist churches, their preachers and missionaries are “foreign” to the Roman Catholics of Quebec even today, and this is somewhat true in Louisiana as well. The Louisiana Purchase of 1803...
Oct 2, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1772, Stephen Smith Nelson was born in Middleboro, Massachusetts. At the age of fourteen he was converted to Christ – after which he became a member of the Baptist church in that city. At the time, the Middleboro Baptist Church was pastored by Isaac...
Sep 25, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1930 Charles Evans Hughes joined one of the Baptist churches in Washington, D.C., but sadly I’m not sure which. Much earlier, Charles had graduated from Brown University, the Baptist’s first school of higher learning in this country. He went on to...
Sep 19, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
As far as we know, the first Baptist church in Sweden was formed in Landa Parish, Halland, on this day in 1848. In the evening of that day four men and one woman were baptized in the waters of Vallervik Bay, and in a nearby farm house, the small church was organized....
Sep 4, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Knibb was born on this day in 1803. His father made no profession of faith, but his mother did, and she did her best to see that her children attended the Independent chapel in Kettering, England. It was there that the gospel seed was planted. Over time, it...
Aug 28, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Adoniram Judson was one of America’s first Baptist missionaries. As you may know, as Anne and Adoniram were sailing to India to do mission work for the Congregationalists, they began to see Baptist doctrine in the Word of God. Upon their arrival they were immersed...
Aug 14, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Leland was a man greatly used by God throughout his life – even in his “old age.” When he was 77, he recorded God’s blessings on his ministry – on July 11, 1831 he baptized 10 new converts, and 4 the next week, 2 the following week and 4 the next (July31). One...
Aug 9, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1567, Christian Langedul, Cornelis Claess, Mattheus de Vick, and Hans Symons, were arrested on suspicion of being Anabaptists. Each confessed his faith in Christ alone for salvation and they were jailed. After a month of confinement and horrendous...
Aug 1, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
When George Fownes became the pastor of the Broadmead Baptist Church in Bristol, England, he knew he was stepping into danger. His immediate predecessor had been imprisoned many times between 1671 and 1678. And that man’s predecessor had even died as a result of the...
Jul 25, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Here is a bit of local history. How many can picture the location of Dayton, Washington? It is about 150 miles southwest from Post Falls and 41 miles north of Walla Walla on highway 12, resting under the shadow of the Blue Mountains. Today it has a population of...
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...
