Christ Jesus and Faith

The story of David and Goliath found in the Bible is probably one of the most well-known and often-told stories from the Old Testament. It carries with it a wonderful lesson - that no problem is too big in the eyes of God. If we see everything in the same perspective as God, huge problems and situations that seem impossible can be seen more clearly. We can deal with them more effectively, especially with God on our [...]

Baptists can trace their history as a Protestant denomination to a seventeenth-century congregation of English Puritan separatists who had taken refuge in Holland. John Smyth, a former Anglican clergyman, became convinced in 1609 that only adult believers should be baptized. He baptized himself, then a group of his followers. Although Smyth soon left his own church, Thomas Helwys led the congregation back to England, where it became the first permanent Baptist church on English [...]