Jun 27, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Sutcliff was a pupil of Caleb Evans at Bristol Baptist College. Sutcliff was a good student, but not a great orator, and after graduation and the beginning of his first pastorate, he became disheartened and wondered whether or not he should be in the ministry....
Jun 20, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Samuel Medley was born on this day in 1723. At age 16 he was an apprentice in the cloth trade when war broke out between England and France. He was permitted to leave his apprenticeship, if he agreed to serve on one of his majesty’s ships. With the thrill of the fight...
Jun 13, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Baynham was born into a wealthy Virginian, Episcopalian family. At the age of 21 he earned his degree, intending to practice medicine. Then during the summer of 1834, through the preaching of William Broaddus, he was converted to Christ. It is reported that...
Jun 6, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day (June 9) in 1865 several members in good standing were released from three different churches in Charleston, SC in order to form the Morris Street Baptist Church. Their first pastor was Jacob Legare, who served the church for the next twenty years,...
May 30, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Two weeks ago our history involved Lewis Craig who led his church to move from Virginia to Kentucky, settling eventually at South Elkton. Today marks the anniversary of the ordination, in 1770, of his brother Elijah Craig. Elijah was born again in 1764 under the...
May 16, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1662 the “Act of Uniformity” received royal assent, after being passed by the Anglican-dominated British Parliament. It required that every minister in England had to receive episcopal ordination, and before August 24 of that year they must...
May 9, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
If there ever was ever a “Bible belt” in Canada it was in the Maritimes, but unfortunately it lasted for only a short time. I understand that there are former Baptist churches empty all over the eastern provinces today. One of the men of God working in the...
May 2, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Many religionists are content in gathering only two or three times a year. Some of the more faithful try to come together at least once every week. The true children of God, however, love their Lord enough to want to worship and learn of Him more frequently than once...
Apr 25, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Thomas T. Martin was born on this day in 1862. The place was Smith County, Mississippi. His father was a Baptist preacher and college professor, but T.T. wanted to become a lawyer. That was not the Lord’s will. God had given him several special gifts, and He intended...
Apr 18, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
This little note ties in with one of the articles in this week’s church bulletin ([email protected]). On this day in 1867 a note in the church minutes of the Kiokee Baptist reads, “The Baptist Church of Christ at Kiokee met and proceeded to the...
Apr 11, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Dorothy Kelly was an English Puritan, living in Bristol. She desired to see the Church of England reformed – cleansed from the wickedness and laxity found in its members and clergy. On Sundays, after attending the services of her church, she would join others in...
Apr 4, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The Metropolitan Tabernacle is best known as the site of C.H. Spurgeon’s ministry, but he did not start that church. Several important men pastored there before him. Benjamin Keach was ordained and began his pastorate there in 1668. John Gill was an elder in that...
Mar 28, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Abraham Marshall followed his father in becoming the pastor of the Kiokee Baptist church in north east Georgia. After more than forty years of bachelorhood, Abraham determined that the Lord wanted him to marry, providing him with someone “to divide the sorrows...
Mar 21, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day (March 24) 1809 Grover Comstock was born in Rochester, New York. Although he was the son of a Baptist preacher, he was not converted until after he had become a successful lawyer. In 1831 a blessed rival swept through Rochester and Comstock along with...
Mar 14, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Jacob Dirks and his two adult sons, Andrew and Jan, became believers in the Lord Jesus Christ through the work of Anabaptist ministers. Mrs. Dirks and the other children remained Roman Catholics. When Jacob heard that an arrest warrant had been written against him, he...
