Feb 20, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
James Smith Coleman was born on this day in 1827. He was born again early in life and at the age of eleven was received into the Beaver Dam Baptist Church in Kentucky following his immersion. When he grew into maturity, he was elected the sheriff of his county, but...
Feb 14, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Joseph Davis was born into a Puritan home in seventeenth century England. Joseph’s father, because of his nonconformist stand, lost all his possessions, and his son was forced to grow up in godly poverty. While apprenticed to a silk dealer in Coventry, he learned...
Feb 6, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Some great soldiers for Christ were actual soldiers. Major General Henry Havelock was one such man. Henry Havelock and his siblings were raised under the influence of the Word of God; his mother read the scriptures to her children every day. But the family grew up...
Jan 30, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Benjamin Stinton was born on this day in 1676. He became an important Baptist pastor in London at the turn of the 18th Century. But he is not as well-known today as three of his relatives – partly because he died suddenly at an early age. Benjamin had a sharp mind,...
Jan 23, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Johann Oncken was born on this day 225 years ago. After he began his life of Christian service his motto became “Every Baptist a missionary,” and those were not just words. By 1850 the Baptist church he started in Hamburg supported three missionaries, established...
Jan 16, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1873, Baptist pastor, Noel, passed away at the age of 74. (I wonder how he pronounced his name. Was it “Noll” or “No-ell”?) I mention that because his name is almost a play on words. Noel was not born a Baptist, but rather as an Anglican. His family...
Jan 2, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Some of our brethren, confused by the current popularity of the Reformed Baptists, claim that Protestantism has always been friendly toward the Baptists and their predecessors. History proves otherwise. For example, Felix Manz was born an illegitimate son of a Roman...
Dec 26, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Philip Bliss should be a familiar name to Christians today, because our hymnals are filled with his songs. He was raised in a farm home where the Word of God was respected and music filled the evenings. In his twelve year, he was converted and joined the Baptist...
Dec 19, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On the fifty-first birthday of Adoniram Judson, another eventual missionary was born in Carleton County, Ontario. In his fifteenth year John McLaurin was saved by God’s grace, and at the age of twenty-two he was called into the ministry, entering Woodstock Institute...
Dec 12, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Leonard Verduin is the author of “The Reformers and their Step Children.” It is a book to which I have referred many times over the years. Verduin was not a Baptist but a part of the Christian Reformed Denomination, and yet his honest histories strengthen the...
Dec 5, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Morgan John Rhees was born on this day in 1760 in Glamorganshire, Wales. The Lord became his Saviour when he was quite young, and when the Lord called him into His ministry, he made preparations by attending the Bristol Baptist College. After his graduation, he became...
Nov 28, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Mason Peck and his wife left their home in the East to travel into the wilderness of the American Midwest. On his day in 1817, after 129 days of travel by wagon, on foot and by boat, they reached St. Louis, Missouri. The trip had taken its toll on the future...
Nov 21, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Many of God’s greatest preachers and pastors were supported by unnamed or unsung women – their patient wives. Susanna Mason was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in about 1725. Her family had been Baptists for several generations, going back to the old country. ...
Nov 14, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1843 Joseph G. Binney and his wife Juliette set sail from America to give their lives for the salvation of souls in Burma. The life of a “missionary wife” was severe, and in time Mrs. Binney’s health began to fail. Anticipating her departure to Heaven,...
Nov 7, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Like our subject from last week, William Cate was born and raised in East Tennessee, apparently in Sevier County. On this day in 1837, he and his wife, after their public professions of faith in Christ, were immersed and joined the local Baptist church. Three years...
