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

One of the verses from Sunday’s sermon that deserves more attention than we were able to give it is Colossians 3:10 . In that verse, Paul says, “...put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.” In the sermon, we focused primarily on what it means to be renewed in knowledge , but in this blog I want to think more intentionally about what it means to be made in the image of our Creator . Genesis 1:26–27 teaches us that when God crea