Jul 29, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
D. L. Mansfield was born in 1797, while his parents were living in the state of Kentucky . He was born again, much later. Through the ministry of a circuit-riding Presbyterian preacher, D.L. came under conviction of his sins, but he attended his first meetings of this...
Jul 21, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1567, when his mother, Mary, was forced to abdicate her throne, James Stewart became the King of Scotland. He was thirteen months old. Mary Queen of Scots was a Roman Catholic, but James was raised in the Scottish Protestant Kirk. When the Queen of...
Jul 15, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1782, the New England Baptist historian, Isaac Backus, was visiting in a home where he was introduced to Richard Lee. There were, at that time, many godly Baptist men preaching Christ, who were encouraged to serve the Lord by their churches, but who...
Jul 7, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On March 14, 1773 the Baptist Church in Charleston, S.C. ordained Edmund Botsford, who then became an evangelist and missionary on behalf of that church. During 1773 and 1774 his labors resulted in people’s salvation and many were baptized throughout South Carolina....
Jun 30, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
This little history staggers the imagination. The blessing of God in this history is beyond the belief of the unbelieving man. John Clough was born in New York in 1836, but he was raised in the Midwest. While in school in Iowa he was born again, and felt led of the...
Jun 23, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
As you know, the persecution of the saints at Jerusalem, in the day of the Apostles, encouraged the spreading of the gospel into other areas – Samaria, Syria, Joppa, and even Rome. Similarly, the persecution of God’s people in Virginia and North Carolina drove good...
Jun 16, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Luther Rice is as synonymous with modern Baptist missions as William Carey and Adoniram Judson, but Rice more of a missionary for missions than an actual foreign or home missionary. He was a man obsessed with the need of missionaries to preach the gospel to the...
Jun 10, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1776 the Virginia Declaration of Rights was adopted. But not until an amendment was made and accepted to the 16th article. The man pushing for the amendment was young James Madison. I’m going to read the original article and then its amendment. Listen...
Jun 3, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Nathaniel Williams was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1784. He was raised as a Unitarian, so he did not believe in the deity of Christ, and thus he was not a child of God. When still a young man, he was employed on one of his uncle’s ships which was sailing to...
May 27, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Gano was one of the Baptist pastors who fought for liberty in more ways than one. He was a chaplain in the Continental Army during the war for Independence, and prior to that he suffered for religious liberty while pastoring in North Carolina. John Gano was...
May 14, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On Easter, April 3rd 1594, seven Dutch Anabaptists, praying and studying God’s Word at Aldgate, in London were arrested for their worship. It was said that they were “licentious and fanatical sectaries, whose excesses afforded a plausible pretext for...
May 6, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Bates was born in Bugbrook, Northamption, England in 1805. When he was twenty-two and living in London he was converted to Christ. On December 25, 1829 he was baptized in the Eagle Street Chapel by the pastor and Baptist historian Joseph Ivimey. After serving as...
Apr 29, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
With only a few exceptions, Baptists were the only religious “denomination” or people who were firmly interested in – and dying for – independence from England. It was their hope that independence would also mean freedom to worship according to the...
Apr 22, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Life often has its shipwrecks, but just because we loose one ship, it doesn’t mean that we won’t reach port. Thomas Spurgeon, son of Charles, pastored in Australia for a few years and told this story. James Voller and his family set sail from England, called to become...
Apr 15, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
This historical vignette will be different from my usual, because it deals with an extra-biblical Baptist organization – the sort of thing I usually shun or ignore. But this is slightly different, because it was not designed to usurp the authority of Christ or His...
