Baptist History, Heritage & Distinctives – Christmas Evans – The Life and Times of the One-Eyed Preacher PART SEVEN

  Pastor Tom   Admin  December 22, 2020 Baptist History, Heritage & Distinctives – Christmas Evans – The Life and Times of the One-Eyed Preacher PART SEVEN From humble beginnings, and with everything seemingly set against a life of holiness and usefulness, God was pleased to make Christmas Evans a pulpit giant. Many exceeded him for understanding […]

Baptist History, Heritage& Distinctives – Christmas Evans – When the Devil Comes to Church – PART SIX of TEN

Pastor Tom Admin December 21, 2020 Baptist History, Heritage& Distinctives – Christmas Evans – When the Devil Comes to Church – PART SIX of TEN The famous Welsh preacher, Christmas Evans, once vividly described what he imagined Satan would look like if he came to church: The way in which a man hears the Gospel is […]

Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives – Christmas Evans – Sinners Converted PART FIVE of TEN

Pastor Tom   Admin  December 20, 2020 Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives – Christmas Evans – Sinners Converted PART FIVE of TEN In his twenty-third year he attended an association meeting at Maesyberllan in Breconshire, where he met several ministers from North Wales, and especially Messrs. Thomas Morris and John R. Jones of Ramoth. These brethren represented […]

Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives – Christmas Evans – The Fisher of Men PART FOUR

Pastor Tom   Admin December 9, 2020 Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives – Christmas Evans – The Fisher of Men PART FOUR Baptists, in the south in particular, inherited much of their fervent and yet doctrinally sound religion from their Welsh and Scottish ancestors. Like Jonathan Edwards, they knew one did not have to divorce emotion from […]

Baptist History and Heritage – Christmas Evans – Called to Preach at Age 20 PART THREE

Pastor Tom   Admin  December 18, 2020 Baptist History and Heritage – Christmas Evans – Called to Preach at Age 20 PART THREE Soon after his conversion, Evans felt the call to preach. His low upbringing and lack of education was a loss for the established church and a gain for Baptists. Because he lacked credentials, Evans […]

Christmas Evans – After Conversion his old friends beat him and blinded one of his eyes PART TWO

Pastor Tom   Admin Baptist Church History  December 17, 2020 Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives – “One eyed Bunyon of Wales” Christmas Evans – After Conversion his old friends beat him and blinded one of his eyes PART TWO To place Christmas Evans among the biographies of such noted Baptists as John Bunyan and Isaac Backus may seem […]

The Bible Makes a Baptist: the Story of Why Christmas Evans Became a Baptist PART ONE of TEN

Pastor Tom   Admin  12/16/20 The Bible Makes a Baptist: the Story of Why Christmas Evans Became a Baptist PART ONE of TEN Christmas Evans was a Baptist from conviction. He was for some years a member of a Pedobaptist community, and it was not until he began to study the New Testament carefully, with a view […]

Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives The conversion that “shook the world” Charles H. Spurgeon

Pastor Tom    Admin December 15, 2020 Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives The conversion that “shook the world” December 15, 1850 – Charles H. Spurgeon was converted to Christ, and it was the conversion that “shook the world.” According to the following account given by Baptist Historian William Cathcart: “Spurgeon happened to go into a Primitive Methodist […]

Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives – The Litmus Test Biblical New Testament Churches of Christ Never Persecuted

Pastor Tom   Admin December 14, 2020 Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives – The Litmus Test Biblical New Testament Churches of Christ Never Persecuted “The act of Cain is spoken of by Jude as “the way of Cain.” He was the first man who instituted a human and false religion……………… All human religions were instituted as was […]