Dec 1, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Nathaniel Chambles was born in 1762 in Sussex, Virginia. Even though his parents were faithful and godly Baptists, Nathaniel didn’t see himself as an unworthy sinner and in need of Christ until he was twenty-six. After his conversion he was received into the...
Nov 24, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Lee Compere and his wife were British missionaries in Jamaica before the climate drove them out and up to Charleston, S.C., where they met Richard Furman. After some time in the Carolinas they moved to Alabama to work among the Creek Indians. It was there that their...
Nov 17, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
1527 was, in many ways, not a good year for the Anabaptists of Europe. George Wagner, of Emmerich, Germany, was charged with the crime that he did not believe that water baptism possessed any saving power. He was bound and thrown into a bonfire on February 8. Melchior...
Nov 3, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Elijah Baker was born and raised, and born again, in Lunenburg County, Virginia. After his salvation, he fearlessly began preaching Christ where the government and state-sanctioned church forbade him. While many of his Christian friends were moving into Kentucky, the...
Oct 27, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
David Barrow was born on this day in 1753. He was raised on a Virginia farm and was not privileged to have much formal education. But the Lord saved him at the age of sixteen. He was baptized and immediately started exhorting his friends to come to Christ. After...
Oct 20, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1800 many churches in Kentucky were blessed with a soul-stirring revival. When pastor and historian Lemuel Burkitt heard of it, he traveled from North Carolina to experience and record what the Lord was doing. On this day in 1801, he wrote: “The first appearance...
Oct 13, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Gottlob Bruckner was born outside of Berlin, Germany in 1783. When he was twenty years old he moved to the big city to find work, and there he met a preacher whose sermons brought him to the cross for salvation. Becoming a new creature in Christ, Gottlob desired to...
Oct 6, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
This little vignette is not about Christiania Polk, but I mention this extraordinary woman because she married Isaac McCoy, who was perhaps America’s the most important missionary to this country’s Indians. That Christiania was an important part of McCoy’s ministry is...
Sep 30, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1919, just before a large convention of Baptists was to take place, the Canadian Baptist, that country’s largest Baptist journal, published an article entitled: “The Inspiration and Authority of Scripture.” The worthy title belied its true purpose: to...
Sep 22, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The name, Luther Rice, should be held in high esteem among missionary-minded Baptists. Appropriately, engraved over his burial place are the words, “Perhaps no American has done more for the great missionary enterprise.” Sadly that name has been...
Sep 15, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Alexander Campbell is most infamously known for teaching that baptism is a condition of salvation. This ultimately helped to found the Disciples of Christ denomination and indirectly others as well. But baptismal regeneration was not his only attack upon the truth. He...
Sep 1, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
With this little biography I am going to tie together two consecutive days. Henry Jessey was born on September 3, 1601. He died a day after his sixty-second birthday on this day in 1663. Henry was the son of a Church of England clergyman, and he followed his father...
Aug 25, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Rather than give you another anecdote about the Culpeper jail, in which Anderson Moffett (born on this day in 1746) was incarcerated, I’ve decided to share another birthday, but it is not of a Baptist preacher. George Pillsbury was born on this day in 1816 in Sutton,...
Aug 18, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1773, Nathaniel Saunders, the pastor of the Mountain Run (Baptist) Church was arrested in Culpeper County Virginia, charged that he did “Teach & Preach contrary to the Laws and Usages of the Kingdom of Great Britain, raising Sedition and Stirring up...
Aug 11, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
There may be several things about the following document I don’t particularly like, but it also contains some interesting information about one of our Baptist forefathers. In the records of the First Baptist Church of Salem, New Jersey… “Be it remembered that on...
