Dec 29, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Daniel Marshall arrived in the Colony of Georgia on this day in 1771. He was originally from New England, but he had been serving the Lord with Shubal Stearns in North Carolina for a while before feeling led of the Lord to move south. Stearns and Marshall were...
Dec 22, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Ashmore was born on this day in 1821. After the Lord redeemed him, he graduated from the Covington Theological Institution in Kentucky, and in 1848 he was ordained by the Baptist Church in Hamilton, Ohio. Two years later, he and his wife sailed for Hong Kong,...
Dec 16, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Courtney was born in 1744. His family was Virginian and Episcopalian, but through a Separate Baptist preacher the Lord saved him, and in time called him into the ministry, after which he became the first pastor of the Rehoboth Baptist Church in King William...
Dec 8, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The Jeffersonton Baptist Church began its life on this day in 1773. It is the second oldest Baptist church in Culpepper County, Virginia. The first members were members of the Carter’s Run Baptist Church, but they lived too far from the meeting house and...
Dec 1, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Nathaniel Chambles was born on this day in 1762. The place was Sussex, Virginia. His parents were godly Baptists, but Nathaniel was not converted until sometime during his 26th year. He was baptized and received into the High Hills Baptist Church. Nearly twenty years...
Nov 24, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Ebenezer Lee Compere, was born in 1833. He was the son of English former missionaries to Jamaica who, because of health problems, moved to Charleston, S.C., but then on to work among the Creek Indians in Alabama, where he was born. After E.L. was converted to...
Nov 17, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
1527 was a glorious year for the Anabaptists in Europe. On February 8, George Wagner was executed by fire in Munich for saying that baptism did not save souls. The same was true of Melchoir Vet. In May a former Catholic priest, named Michael Sattler had his tongue...
Nov 11, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Edward Mote was born in London during the year 1797. His parents ran a public house, and true to their character, Edward had no religious education whatsoever. “So ignorant was I that I did not know there was a God.” After he became apprenticed to a...
Nov 3, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Elijah Baker was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia in 1742. He was converted to Christ under the ministry of Jeremiah Walker and was baptized by Samuel Harriss in 1769. Soon after that, Brother Baker became an itinerant evangelist with God greatly blessing his...
Oct 27, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1753, David Barrow was born. The place was Brunswick County, Virginia. He was saved by the grace of God in his seventeenth year, and when he was eighteen, he began preaching Christ. He was ordained in 1774 and soon became the pastor of three churches in...
Oct 16, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In a letter to a friend, written on this day (October 23) in, 1801, a man named M’Gready described the revival which had gripped the Baptist churches in Logan County, Kentucky. When Pastor Lemuel Burkitt, of North Carolina heard of the pouring out of God’s...
Oct 13, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day William Ward was commissioned to become the Lord’s printer in India, primarily helping William Carey. But this little vignette is not about William Ward. It is about a Baptist missionary on the Island of Java. I have read that there are more professing...
Oct 6, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1825, the area which became known as Chicago, heard its first sermon in the English language. It was delivered by a man whose ministry was spent primarily among non-English-speaking people. Despite criticisms of some of his social policies, Isaac McCoy...
Sep 30, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day (October 2) 93 years ago, the Canadian Baptist contained an editorial entitled, “The Inspiration and Authority of Scripture.” It reads, “Some fifteen or twenty years ago the question of the inspiration and authority of the Scriptures...
Sep 22, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Luther Rice died on this day in 1836. His Christian service began on board a ship bound for the mission field of India with Adoniram and Ann Judson. On the long voyage east, the three decided to read the New Testament in Greek, and in the process they discovered that...
