Jun 30, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The work of planting Baptist churches in America’s Midwest was difficult. That was due in part to the cosmopolitan makeup of the settlers and the nature of the terrain along the lakes. Michigan, for example, was described by America’s surveyor-general as low and...
Jun 23, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Most people have heard about the infamous, 1692, witchcraft trials of Salem Massachusetts. Two, often highly respected names, Increase Mather and his son Cotton, were at the epicenter of that horrible travesty. “If a woman was seen to gather herbs to boil, she was...
Jun 16, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I am told that the Severns Valley was blessed to have the first Baptist Church in what was to become Kentucky. It was established on this day (June 18) in 1781 between today’s Louisville and Elizabethtown. Eighteen rough frontiersmen and women constituted the original...
Jun 8, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Hervey Jenks was the son of Godly parents. But like so many others, he grew up with his father’s religion, but not his Saviour. With plans to become a lawyer, he began attending Brown University, America’s first Baptist school of higher education. During his final...
Jun 1, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In September 1772, William Elliot married Dorothy Merrill, the daughter of the pastor of the local Congregational church. Into this family six children were born, and as you might guess, they were all christened as babies. But as William continued to read and study...
May 25, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Richard Curtis was born in Virginia on this day in 1756. Sometime after the Lord saved him, he began to have a burden to live in Mississippi. With that in mind his church licensed him to preach and began to encourage him in prayer. At that point, the Curtis family...
May 18, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1882, while razing an old adobe church building in Santa Fe, New Mexico – a building which had been used by the Presbyterians for years – the demolition team found the original cornerstone. On it, along with other information, was the date May 21, 1853. It proved...
May 12, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Evan Jones was born on this day in 1789. We don’t have any information on when he was born again. In 1821, after he moved from England to this country, he and his wife began a ministry as missionaries to the Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. For ten years prior to...
May 4, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Elias Morris was born into a family of slaves on this day in 1855. At the close of the Civil War, his parents moved from Georgia to Tennessee and then on to Alabama. There Elias learned the shoemaking trade, and his natural organizational skills resulted in turning...
Apr 27, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Early in its history Connecticut was known as a place of severe persecution against anyone who was not a part of their official Congregational denomination. As a result, the first known Baptist baptism took place in 1767, when Abigail Dorchester testified of her faith...
Apr 20, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1528, a report was presented to Emperor Charles V by the Council of the Archbishop of Cologne about the growing number of Anabaptists. The document stated that the Anabaptists call themselves “true Christians,” that they practice baptism by immersion, and they hold...
Apr 13, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Moore was born in 1821. Following his conversion to Christ, his call to the ministry, his marriage, and his ordination, he and Mrs. Moore set sail for Assam on this day in 1849. They served in that country and in Burma for five years before Brother Moore...
Apr 6, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Calista Holman was born on this day in 1807, and she was born again as a teenager. Throughout her life she was often sick, and during one of those illnesses, when it was feared that she would die, she insisted on being baptized. On a cold day in March she was carried...
Mar 30, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The Metropolitan Tabernacle, also known as Spurgeon’s Tabernacle was opened on March 18, 1861. A few weeks later, on this day, there was a fellowship meeting of Baptist pastors from London and across Britain. In greeting those preachers, Spurgeon made the following...
Mar 23, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
David Thomas was an early Baptist preacher who spent most of his ministry in Virginia, experiencing the hatred and persecution of the religious unbelievers in that area. Thomas endured their attacks willingly, having made the deliberate choice to move to Stafford...
