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...
Aug 4, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Anyone who has a love for American history, knows the name Daniel Boone, or Dan’l, Boone. Far fewer people know the name “Squire Boone,” Daniel’s brother. On the first day of May 1769, Daniel and five other men set out from North Carolina to penetrate unchartered...
Jul 29, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
God’s providence and guiding hand are often wonderful things to behold – in looking back – but perhaps not so pleasant at the time. Jonathan and Deborah Wade were missionaries in Burma, where Brother Jonathan served for fifty-seven years, during which time he took...
Jul 21, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Aeltgen Baren, an elderly lady, and Meyken Wouters, a woman of about twenty-four, were brought to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, and were baptized by immersion upon their declaration of faith. This behavior could not be tolerated at that time by the Netherlands...
Jul 14, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
David George was born a slave in 1742. At some point another slave began to witness to him of the grace of God, and he came under deep conviction. Eventually, repenting of sin and putting his trust in Christ Jesus for deliverance and forgiveness, he became a child of...
Jul 7, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Edmond Botsford was born again under the ministry of Oliver Hart of Charleston, South Carolina. In March, 1773, he was ordained and shortly thereafter he began an itinerant ministry, preaching throughout the Carolinas and Georgia. On this day in that year (1773) he...
