Aug 29, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Sarah Hall was born in 1803. As a teenager she came under the conviction of the Holy Spirit and was born again. Soon she joined the First Baptist Church of Salem Massachusetts, and immediately became obsessed with the spiritual needs of others. Providentially...
Aug 22, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
From 1813 to 1815, Vermont was unique among American states, because both its governor and lieutenant governor were diligent and doctrinal Baptists. Aaron Leland was born in Massachusetts in 1761. The Lord saved his soul, and he became a member of the Baptist church...
Aug 15, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1846 the United States, under General Stephen Kearny, took possession of New Mexico. Almost immediately, H.W. Read and Samuel Gorman, Baptist missionaries, arrived in Santa Fe. Read had the joy of leading twenty-one-year old Blas Chavez to Christ, and...
Aug 8, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
he formal ministry of William Evander Penn didn’t begin until he was nearly fifty, but he had already been a dedicated servant of Christ for decades. William Penn, the Baptist not the Quaker, was born on this day in 1832 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. At the age...
Aug 2, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
George Webb Slaughter deserves a full-length biography. His life was filled with excitement and Christian service. I am not sure when he became a child of God, but it appears to have been early in his life. Having moved from Louisiana to Texas, he became one of Sam...
Jul 26, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Perhaps this is a day which should go down in infamy. History records that at least twice, some of our Baptist forefathers were arrested on this day prior to being punished for their faith. In 1768 four gospel preachers were arranged in Orange County, Virginia for...
Jul 18, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Now here is some history you did not hear while in school. Peter Foulger, at the age of eighteen crossed the Atlantic, settling in Massachusetts, where he became a teacher and land surveyor. The Lord eventually led the young man to Newport, Rhode Island, where he...
Jul 11, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Taylor Jones provided a great service to the people of Siam (today’s Thailand), when he translated the New Testament into their language. But it may have been the sacrifice that his wife made which was the initial catalyst toward the salvation of many of the...
Jul 4, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The first Baptist church in Groton, Connecticut has a long and storied history, revolving, for more than a century, around the name “Wightman.” Edward Wightman was burned at the stake in Litchfield, England, in 1612, for no other reason than that he was a Baptist...
Jun 27, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1775, Caleb Evans, the president of the Bristol Baptist College sat down at his desk and wrote a letter to a young graduate of the college named John Sutcliff. Sutcliff had been a good student, and Evans felt that he would be a blessing to many...
Jun 20, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in1738 Samuel Medley was born. When the war began between England and France, Samuel joined the British navy. During the Battle of Cape Lagos, he had a large portion of one leg blown away. Soon gangrene began to set in, and the ship’s surgeon told him...
Jun 13, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1816 Mary Carey (no relation to Harry Caray) wrote to her brother, missionary William Carey in India. The primary subject of the letter was to inform him of the death of their father. But I have more interest in Mary than in that letter or her father....
Jun 7, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Morgan Edwards was born in Wales in 1722 and was educated in England at Bristol College. Upon the recommendation of John Gill, the Baptist Church in Philadelphia invited Edwards to become their pastor. He and his wife emigrated to this country, where the Lord greatly...
May 30, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Last week, our subject was Joseph Craig. Joseph was the brother of Lewis and Elijah Craig, Baptist preachers of Virginia and Kentucky. This week our subject is Elijah. Elijah Craig was brought to Christ in 1764 through the ministry of David Thomas, a Regular Baptist...
May 24, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Toliver Craig and his wife were the parents of three sons, all of whom became Baptist preachers. Elijah and Lewis Craig were often incarcerated in Northern Virginia jails for preaching Christ without a state licence, although they were usually charged with being...
