Feb 1, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In February 1755, George Whitefield, preached in New Bern, North Carolina. He later wrote that his hearers were totally indifferent. His time there appeared to be wasted, but it did give him fuel to pray that God would miraculously intercede on the city’s behalf. It...
Jan 25, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
You have heard me speak of Shubal Stearns several times. That man was born on this day in 1745. He was raised in the Congregational religion, but he was saved through the influence of the one-eyed, Anglican Methodist, George Whitefield. Eventually he came to...
Jan 18, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1788, four ministers met together at the Baptist church in Northamptonshire, England, for a day of prayer and fasting. They shared a longing for God’s glory in themselves, in their ministries and throughout the world. John Ryland, recorded the events...
Jan 11, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Picket was born on this day in 1744. As a young man he became addicted to pleasure, sports and gaming of every kind. Becoming a dancing instructor, and in pursuit of that vocation, he moved from Virginia to Pee Dee, North Carolina. In his new home he came under...
Jan 4, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Carey took his wife and family with him to India, where he and his team became pioneer missionaries. Carey had four sons. Three of them were saved by God’s grace and had begun to serve their Saviour – two of which were missionaries themselves. However their...
Dec 28, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Oliver Hart was born in 1723. As a young man he was born again and joined the Baptist church in Southampton, Pennsylvania. When he was twenty-five, he surrendered to the will of the Lord and was ordained to the gospel ministry. Shortly after that he traveled to...
Dec 21, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Josiah Goddard was the son of a missionary couple. He was born in Singapore in 1840. When he was thirteen, he was sent to America for training at Worcester College in New York, but before he arrived it had closed its doors, and this young teenager was left on his own,...
Dec 14, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
One of the large, early earthquakes in American history occurred on this day in 1811. Its epicenter was under the Mississippi River, but it was felt as far away as Boston. Jacob Bower, living in Kentucky at the time, was so startled by the quake that he cried out,...
Dec 7, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Dutton Lane sounds like it could be the title to a 1967 Beatles’ song, but it is actually a man’s name. After settling in North Carolina and establishing the Sandy Creek Baptist Church, Shubal Stearns and Daniel Marshall began to minister and preach the gospel in...
Nov 30, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
There is a registered historical home near Fairfax, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. Interestingly, it has a few graves in its backyard. One historian wrote of the house: “the significance of the Hutcheson House lies in the fact that it is one of the few…...
Nov 24, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On September 6, 1732, John Newton was born – (not that John Newton, but this one). The place was Kent County, Pennsylvania. Like the other John Newton, this Newton was raised in the Church of England. But when he was about twenty-years-of-age, he was born again,...
Nov 17, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In Barnstaple, England, there lived a nineteen-year-old man named Charles Veysey. Through reading the New Testament he came under deep conviction for his sins, and trusting the Lord Jesus alone, he was given the peace of salvation from sin. Seeing from the Bible that...
Nov 9, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Bunyan had been married for several years, and that dear lady gave him four children, including one blind little girl. Three years after his wife’s death, he married Elizabeth. She willingly took on the responsibility of loving and caring for the Bunyan children,...
Nov 3, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1855 William Bagby was born. He was born again under the ministry of the pioneer Texas Baptist, Rufus Burleson, and he was educated under the ministry of B.H. Carroll. In January 1881, Brother Bagby and his wife sailed from Baltimore toward the Bay of...
Oct 26, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Harris most likely would not be called “a great preacher.” He wasn’t an orator, or filled with lots of education, or even blessed with a good imagination. But he was always close to his Saviour, and he was blessed with the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Brother...
