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...
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...
