May 22, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Michael Sattler was born in Germany about 1490. At an early age he entered a Benedictine Monastery where he learned Greek and Latin, and where he studied Paul’s Epistles. Through the Word of God, the Holy Spirit brought Michael to the truth of the gospel, after...
May 17, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1794, three Baptist families and one lady became determined to leave England for America in search of religious freedom. They formed themselves into a Baptist church and called one of their men, John Healy, to be their pastor. After spending about six months in New...
May 8, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Hart was a resident of Hopewell, New Jersey, before the Gano family moved to the area. In my book on the Ganos, I mentioned Brother Hart, but I didn’t call him a Baptist, as is often implied in other histories. He appears to me to be a Presbyterian. He was...
May 1, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In Great Britain during the 17th century, God’s Baptist people were brutally persecuted. Toward the end of that period, Edward Terrill, a member of the church in Bristol, kept a journal, from which we can glean an insight into the dangers of that period. 1682. Jan....
Apr 24, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Rarely do we get to follow the chain of faith which has led to our salvation. We may know the person who led us to the Lord, but rarely do we know who was instrumental in that person’s salvation, and beyond that we know even less. Ultimately, this is to the Lord’s...
Apr 17, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Keen was born on this day in 1820 in Washington County, Tennessee. At the age of twenty-one, after a period of severe conviction for sin, he was born again. During special meetings at the Fall Branch Baptist Church he, along with seventy-five others, were...
Apr 10, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The first translation of the complete Bible from the original Greek and Hebrew into German was not made by the Protestant Martin Luther, but by the Anabaptists Ludwig Hetzer and Hans Denck. Historian Ludwig Keller, wrote in 1914, “The fact is by no means yet...
Apr 3, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Thomas Ansley was born on this day in 1769. He was sprinkled and raised in the Church of England. Following the Revolutionary War, his family moved from New York to New Brunswick, where he continued in his Protestant church, but with a growing spiritual...
Mar 27, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Absolom Backus Earle was born in 1812 in Charlton, New York. He was converted to Christ at the age of sixteen and two years later he began preaching the gospel before being ordained at the age of twenty-one. For the next five years he labored as a church planter in...
Mar 20, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1660 the “Vestry Law” was adopted in the Colony of Virginia. It, in effect, described how vestries were to be organized throughout the region for the primary purpose of collecting taxes for the support of the officially recognized religion. Members of...
Mar 13, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I have conflicting information about the birthday of Thomas Hume, Sr. One article begins by saying he was born on March 16, 1812 and then later says on this twenty-first birthday, March 17, 1833 he became pastor of the Baptist church in Portsmouth, Virginia. When I...
Mar 6, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Hickle was born on this day in 1807. When quite young he put his faith in Christ and soon joined the Little Flat Creek Baptist Church in Tennessee. When he was twenty, and newly married, he surrendered to the Lord’s call to preach the gospel, and he faithfully...
Feb 27, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
A few months ago, I shared with you the salvation testimony of Samuel Houston. It is from this man that the city of Houston derived its name. Sam Houston is revered by most Texans, but he should also be honored by the children of God around the world. Sam was born...
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...
