Feb 6, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
George Wagner was arrested in Munich, Bavaria, because he held to four particular articles: Priests cannot forgive men of their sins; no man can bring God down from heaven; Christ is not to be found in religious bread and wine; and water baptism does not save from...
Jan 30, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The Civil War was one of the most horrendous periods in American history, but God can, and does, bring good things out of bad. While many thousands of lives were lost, there were also thousands of soldiers on both sides of the conflict who threw themselves on the...
Jan 23, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Hans Hut was led to the Saviour through the ministry of Hans Denck. On May 26, 1526, he testified to his faith by receiving believer’s baptism. Immediately his manner of life changed; he was a new creature in Christ. Soon he was traveling about Bavaria and Austria,...
Jan 15, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
For seven years, Samuel Howe pastored the church that met in “Deadman’s Place,” London. To earn a living and pay the bills he worked as a cobbler, as did William Carey before he went to India. Howe published a book called “The Sufficiency of the Spirit’s Teaching,”...
Jan 8, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Thomas Jefferson Fisher made a profession of his faith in Christ when he was sixteen. He was baptized and joined the Baptist church at David’s Fork, Kentucky. At the age of twenty-two he was ordained, but he quickly found that he didn’t have the gift of pastoral...
Jan 1, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Staughton, born on this day in 1770, had an extremely sharp mind. At the age of twelve a publishing company was asking to print his poetry. He was saved early in life, dedicating his God-given talents to his Saviour. While a student at Bristol Baptist...
Dec 26, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
One of the missionaries working with William Carey was a physician named John Thomas. It was Thomas who won the first Hindu in India to Christ, after years of fruitless labors. A man, named Krishna Pal, fell and broke his arm, and Dr. Thomas was sent to set it. When...
Dec 11, 2025 | Lessons on Bible Trivia, This Sunday in Baptist History
Students of Baptist history have always found it interesting, if not confusing, that many early Welsh preachers had the same, or very similar, names. Abel Morgan seems to have been one such name, because it is applied to one Baptist preacher born in this country and...
Dec 5, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Thomas Moor Rice was a Baptist preacher for two short years. He was born in Kentucky on this day (December 7) in 1792 to a Baptist mother and a Presbyterian father. His dad was a farmer who also ran a still. After only ten months of formal education Thomas was put...
Nov 27, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
There are many Baptists these days who seem to love the Reformers, even to the point of claiming a kind of kinship with them. I am afraid that many of them know neither the history of their own doctrines nor the practice of those Protestant Reformers. On this day in...
Nov 20, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1853, in Roman Catholic France, the account of an exhumation was published, stirring a variety of emotions. Close to the holiday residence of Napoleon III was a small village in which the well-to-do Andru family lived. A Baptist, J. B. Cretin had...
Nov 13, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Abraham Marshall, the son of Daniel Marshall, who was our subject a few weeks ago. On this day in 1786 he returned to his Georgia home after journeying by horseback to Connecticut to take care of some his deceased estate. Everywhere he stopped on that trip he tried...
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...
