Jul 17, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Samuel Pearce was born on this day in 1766. As a young man he happened to be in a house where a man lay dying. The man in despair cried out, “I am damned forever.” The words filled young Samuel with terror. For more than a year, the death of that man and the...
Jul 10, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Powell (not the actor of by-gone days, but William Rufus Powell), was born into a godly home in 1808, but he was not born again until many years later. At an early time in his life, his mother died, and other family tragedies sent him swinging back and forth...
Jul 3, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Barnas Sears was one of the great educators of this country, but that may not be his most important role in Baptist history. In 1825, he graduated with the highest honors from Brown University, after which he studied at Newton Theological Institution (both respected...
Jun 26, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Isaac Sawyer was born in rural New England in 1770. When he was a baby his village was attacked by Indians, and his father and all the other men were taken captive, leaving the women and children to fend for themselves. On the eleventh night of their captivity,...
Jun 19, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Thomas Armitage quoted an article, written by a historian named Some, which described the persecution of the Baptists in England at the end of the 16th century. Mr. Some records that the charges against our forefathers were that they “insisted on maintaining all...
Jun 12, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Edward Jerome was born on this day in 1826. While at Yale college studying to become a lawyer, the Lord graciously saved his soul. With his new life in Christ, he was determined to be the best lawyer he could possibly be. While still attending a Congregational...
Jun 5, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Robert Robinson was on his way to becoming a minister in the Church of England when the Lord interrupted his plans. After the death of this father there was no money to continue his education, although he did what he could to expand his mind. In 1752 he went to hear...
May 29, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Samuel Stennett is perhaps the most well-known member of a family of early English Baptists. His great-grandfather, Edward; his grandfather, Joseph; and his father, Joseph, were preachers, as were his brother, Joseph, and his nephew, Joseph. Confused? Samuel was...
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...
