Feb 5, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I mentioned George Blaurock a few weeks ago. Let me add a little more about the man. He was born in a small village in Switzerland in 1491 under a different name. His family intended for him to become a priest, but he chose rather to marry and further his education in...
Jan 30, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Isaac Johannes Dermout was born on this day in 1777 and eventually became the Protestant chaplain to the King of the Netherlands. He and Anne Ypeij, Professor of Theology in Gronigen were commissioned by the King to investigate the history of the Dutch Baptists. The...
Jan 18, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day (January 24) in 1774, James Madison, a citizen of Orange County, Virginia wrote a letter to a friend named Bradford in Philadelphia. The future president of the United States wrote: “I want again to breathe your free air. I expect it will mend my...
Jan 16, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
As far as recorded history is concerned, we first hear of George Blaurock in a debate about infant “baptism.” It occurred in Switzerland on this day (January 17), 1525. Brother Blaurock had been a Roman Catholic monk, but through Bible study, the Holy...
Jan 9, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1886 an Anglican Bishop in Burma requested permission to reprint Adoniram Judson’s translation of the Bible. But he wanted to make one change. On this day in 1887 the Baptists who then owned Judson’s copy-right replied – “We understand that you ask our...
Jan 1, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
“Historians” – I wish that there was a better name or classification for these people, because many of them are more like editors of history, re-writers and redactors of history, than they are recorders of historical facts. It doesn’t matter what country,...
Dec 25, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
B.H. Carroll was born on this day (December 27) in 1843. The place was Carroll county Mississippi, and there must be a special correlation between those names. His father was a Baptist pastor and his mother was a devoted Christian. As a young teenager, B.H. knew the...
Dec 18, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
This a rather incidental note in Baptist history, but it is a part of a much more significant and, sadly, forgotten piece of American history. John William Jones was born in Virginia on September 25, 1836. He was born again as a teenager. In 1855 he entered the...
Dec 11, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I don’t usually include “recent” Baptist history in these little vignettes, but today I’ll make an exception. On this day in 1870 Edward Pierce was born into a godly home in Gates County, North Carolina. At the age of sixteen, after the Lord saved him,...
Dec 4, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Samuel Fletcher was born in Middlesex, Massachusetts in 1747. He was born again twenty years later, and in 1777, he began to preach the gospel of Christ whenever and wherever there was a need. He was ordained to the ministry on this day in 1781, and became the pastor...
Nov 27, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The clerk of the Broadmead (Baptist) Church took his job very seriously, keeping an historical record of the ministry of the church along with the official records. He has told us that Pastors Thomas Ewins, Thomas Hardcastle and George Fownes were all imprisoned for...
Nov 15, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In October 1822, Isaac McCoy, a Baptist missionary to the natives, entered the wild, wild west of what is now Michigan, preaching the Lord Jesus Christ. On this day in 1824 he baptized a number of Indian converts in the St. Joseph River. Soon, more and more whites...
Nov 6, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Every professing Christian should be made aware of the persecutions which have been brought upon God’s saints. They began during the days of the Book of Acts, and they have continued to various degrees and strengths ever since. There have been the persecutions of the...
Oct 30, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The Jersey Baptist Church in North Carolina was established, in part, through the early ministry of John Gano, sometime before the Revolutionary War. The church went through many ups and downs, when on this day in 1874 it called J. B. Richardson as its pastor. Over...
Oct 23, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Thomas Waford and Allen Wyley lived in or near Culpeper County, Virginia, at about the time of the Revolutionary War. They were both Baptists, but neither considered himself a pastor, and neither was ordained, but they were willing to suffer along with their pastors...
