Mar 13, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Samuel Heaton was born into a Presbyterian home in Wrentham, Connecticut in 1711. When they became of age, he and three of his brothers moved to Morris County, New Jersey, where they began an ironworks business. Samuel married a good Baptist woman named Abby. When...
Mar 6, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Joseph Islands was born a Creek Indian in the Colony of Georgia. He grew up wild and sinful. But when a friend of his died during one of their drunken revelries, Joseph was heart-broken. The next day when his friend was to be buried, “Old Billy,” a local...
Feb 20, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Today’s little vignette reminds us that not all of God’s servants are as notable and memorable as others. And yet the Lord knows those who are His, and He has a ministry for everyone who is willing to serve Him. On this day in 1817, in Nelson County, Virginia, Thomas...
Feb 13, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The first record in the books of the First Baptist Church of Boston reads: “The 28th of the third month, 1665, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the Church of Christ, commonly, though falsely, called Anabaptists, were gathered together, and entered into fellowship...
Feb 6, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
It was on this day in 1801 that George Boardman was born. The place was Livermore, Maine and his father was the Baptist pastor in that community. George was ordained to the gospel ministry in 1825 and later that year, along with his wife, Sarah, he set sail for the...
Jan 30, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Ulrich Zwingli was a Protestant reformer living in Switzerland. In 1523 he publically stated that it was better to baptize children when they became old enough to understand what they were doing, because, as he said, there was no clear utterance in the New Testament...
Jan 23, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Hans Hut was a sixteenth-century Anabaptist who was martyred for his faith. He had been led to Christ through the ministry of Hans Denck, and the change in his life was immediate and obvious, touching the lives of many others. He was immersed on May 26, 1526, and soon...
Jan 16, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Samuel Howe passed into the presence of his Saviour on this day in 1641. For seven years he had been the pastor of the church that met in Deadman’s Place, London. One has to wonder how that name came to be.) With very little formal education, Pastor Howe had a notable...
Jan 9, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Thomas Jefferson Fisher died on this day in 1866 at the early age of 56. Fisher was born in Kentucky and born again there in his sixteenth year, after which he joined a Presbyterian church. He quickly learned his mistake, and a year later he was immersed and joined...
Jan 2, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Staughton was born on this day in 1770 in Coventry, England. He had a brilliant mind and became a published author of poetry when he was but twelve-years old. He was born again early in his life and graduated from Bristol Baptist College in 1792. He knew...
Dec 31, 2014 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The work of foreign missions must be the most difficult of all Christian ministries. Probably no American Christian can fully understand the work and responsibility which falls on that servant of God laboring in a strange culture and strange field. On December 26,...
Dec 25, 2014 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The First Baptist Church in Boston was born in the midst of persecution. Its first pastor, Thomas Goold was in and out of prison for more than ten years. He was robbed of his home, property and health. He may not have been beheaded or burned at the stake, but he died...
