Since May is Foster Care Awareness Month, the blog for the next 4 weeks will be devoted to Foster Care and helping believers understand how and why they should get involved in this ministry (Written by Emily Craig) I’m not sure what comes to mind when you hear, “foster care” - maybe it's an awful story you heard on the news. Maybe you automatically think that foster care is someone else’s calling but not yours. Maybe you think you are past the point in life to foster children

On Sunday, we read Colossians 3:16: “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.” Singing has a long and significant place in the life of the church, though at times it has also been a source of division. In this blog, I want to look at how hymnody has been used throughout church life and consider their early history in Baptist life. Scrip

If you’ve spent any time in the church, you know that relationships can be both a blessing and a challenge. The call to bear with one another and forgive as we have been forgiven often feels straightforward...until we actually have to do it. Colossians 3:12–14 brings us back to the foundation: we are God’s chosen, holy, and beloved people. From that identity flows a life marked by compassion, humility, patience, and love. But we don’t grow into these things by effort alone, w