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...
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...
