A commonplace book was the pastor's notebook — a collection of stories, quotes, and illustrations gathered over years of reading and ministry, ready to be drawn on when the moment called for them. This is that, made searchable.
The Baptist Commonplace draws from over a century of Baptist periodicals, missionary biographies, and historical records — Baptist Press dispatches, the Oklahoma Baptist Chronicle, the autobiographies of Spurgeon, the missionary journals of Judson and Carey, and more. Every entry is a true story from a real person of faith, tagged by theme and ready for the pulpit.
This project is free to use. It is a labor of love by Luke Holmes, pastor and historian. If it has been useful to you, you're welcome to support it.