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Our Baptist Heritage
God So Loved the World
Clarence Sexton (2010-08-04)
You have arrived on planet Earth, but you will not stay here forever. Light can travel around Earth’s equator seven times in one second. One of these seconds will be our last second on earth—then where will you be?
Let There Be No Strife, I Pray Thee, Between Me and Thee
Clarence Sexton (2010-08-04)
God has given His children His great work to do worldwide. We are to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Strife is a hindrance to world evangelism which we often fail to recognize. It is a hindrance that robs us of God’s power and blessing.
Soul Winning...Every Christian's Job
Curtis Hutson (2010-08-04)
“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.” Proverbs 11:30 I’ve often thought about how the soul-winning crowd changes. The same people come continually; then new people will come, and the old people will drop out. They go through a cycle, they come in and then they go out. It shouldn’t be that way. Every believer ought to be a soul winner all the time. Lyman Beecher, the great preacher, once said, “The greatest thing is not that one should be a scientist, important as that is; nor that one should be a statesman, vastly important as that is; nor even that one should be a theologian, immeasurably important as that is. But the greatest thing of all is for one human being to bring another human being to Christ.”
Friendship
Clarence Sexton (2010-08-04)
"...I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you." - John 15:15 One of our favorite hymns is entitled “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”. The man who penned the words to this hymn was Joseph Scriven. Mr. Scriven was born in Ireland and immigrated to Canada. Many people think of this hymn as an American hymn, but it was not written by an American. Mr. Scriven left Ireland after he was engaged to be married and his wife-to-be drowned in an accident, breaking his heart. He moved to Canada a number of years later, met another young lady, and they fell in love. Just weeks before they were to be married, she became very ill and died. He was twenty-five years old and broken-hearted again.
On Gospel Missions
C.H. Spurgeon (2010-07-08)
A sermon delivered on Sunday morning, April 27, 1856, by C. H. Spurgeon at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark on behalf of the Baptist Missionary Society.
Church-State Separation and the Constitution
Judge Thomas Cooley (2010-04-27)
Judge Thomas Cooley (d. 1898) was a law professor and a judge on the Michigan State Supreme Court for twenty years. His work on constitutional law had great influence. The followi...
North America Owes Its Religious Freedom to the Baptists
The Baptist Almanac, 1852 (2010-04-27)
The number of Baptists in this country, with their relative progress, and rapidly growing power, is one of the most singular facts of the age. As such it may challenge the attention of the philosop...
The Trial of John Bunyan: A Study in Conviction
First published in the March 1997 issue of The Baptist Vision
I Believe in Conversion
Charles H. Spurgeon (2010-04-27)
First published in the July 1998 issue of The Baptist Vision
The Baptist Encyclopedia
William Cathcart (2010-04-27)
The American Baptists deny that they owe their origin to Roger Williams. The English Baptists will not grant that John Smyth or Thomas Helwysse was their founder. The Welsh Baptists strenuously contend that they received their creed in the first century, from those who obtained it, direct, from the apostles themselves. The Dutch Baptists trace their spiritual pedigree up to the same source. German Baptists maintained that they were older than the reformation, older than the corrupt hierarchy which it sought to reform. The Waldensian Baptists boasted an ancestry far older than Waldo, older than the most ancient of their predecessors in the Vales of Piedmont. All these maintain that it ultimately reappears, and reveals their source in Christ and His apostles.
