May 21, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1786 James Lemen, with his wife and family, along and several others, settled in Illinois. A few weeks later Mrs. Lemen’s sister and her husband were killed by Indians and their two children were taken to Wisconsin, where one died and the other was eventually...
May 14, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Charles Luther was born on this day in 1847. Luther was a Baptist even before his conversion. That is the church in which he was raised. But just because someone is a professing Christian that doesn’t make him one. Charles was later born again just prior to, or...
May 7, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Alfred Bennet was born in 1780. Twenty years later he was born again and joined the Baptist church of Hampton, Connecticut. After his marriage to the deacon’s daughter, the young couple moved to the unbroken wilderness of central New York, where Alfred began his...
Apr 30, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Berry Meachum was born on this day in 1789 in Virginia. He was a slave, but also a Baptist preacher. Given the opportunity he worked hard and eventually purchased his freedom. Saving his income, he then purchased the freedom of his father, who also was a...
Apr 23, 2026 | Lessons on Bible Trivia, This Sunday in Baptist History
“Uncle” Harry was a slave to Thomas L. Cowan. On one occasion Mr. Cowan was present for a funeral where Uncle Harry was to preach. He was tremendously impressed with the man’s understanding of the scriptures, which led him to ask his lawyer to draw up some legal...
Apr 16, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Cape May is a community at the most southerly point in New Jersey – on the north side of the mouth of Delaware Bay. Ships headed toward Philadelphia, which for a time was a more important port than New York, all passed by Cape May. Today that county is about half...
Apr 9, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Screven emigrated to Boston from Somerton, England about the year 1668. Desiring to start a Baptist church, he was informed that he would be violating the law of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, so he moved to Kittery, Maine. But then Massachusetts acquired...
Apr 3, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Brisbane was born into aristocracy near Charleston, S.C. Despite his wealth and position, the Lord eventually saved his soul and used him for His glory. William’s early education was through a Roman Catholic priest. After that he attended Beaufort College...
Mar 27, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
While visiting Kiokee, Georgia, and the first Baptist church in that state, I was not looking for the burial place of Jabez Marshall. I was searching for the better known names of Daniel and Abraham, but Jabez was there in the graveyard next to that ancient building...
Mar 19, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Gill was born on November 23, 1697, at Kettering, Northamptonshire. Early in life, he displayed a keen mind, and before he was eleven years old, he was reading Latin and Greek. He was so thirsty for knowledge that the owner of the local book store permitted him...
Mar 12, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Those of you who have read the book “Grace Unto the Third and Fourth Generation,” might remember some of the glorious history of the Baptist Church at Hopewell, New Jersey. It was organized in 1715 with fifteen members, and for the next thirty-two years it met in...
Mar 6, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In our book “One Hundred Testimonies,” we have the account of the conversion of Rolly McIntosh, one of the wealthy and powerful chiefs of the Creek Indian nation. Today’s account is of the salvation and ministry of the man who was instrumental in McIntosh’s...
Feb 26, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Fristoe was a member of a Baptist church in Todd county, Tennessee, when he moved to Missouri and where he began preaching the gospel. He was privileged to lead a few people to Christ, and with that he invited a pastor friend of his to come and baptize the...
Feb 19, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Lady Deborah Moody was the widow of Sir Henry of Garsden in Wiltshire, England. Her wealth and position didn’t protect her from the religious persecution in her homeland, so she emigrated to Lynn, Massachusetts. There she stepped beyond her fellow Puritans embracing...
Feb 12, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Cuba has long been a place plagued with political instability – due in part to its lack of a gospel ministry. During the insurrection of 1868, when Cuba first sought independence from Spain, three ladies made their way from Cuba to Mississippi. There they were met...
