Look for the Helpers: Serve Together 2025
“What can I do to help?” Hearing that question is one of the greatest sources of joy and hope in church ministry. Year after year I’m amazed a...
Signs of Life (Together)
Dear Beloved Community, Around the staff meeting table yesterday, we marveled at how many of you came, excited, to our kickoff gathering at 9:00am on Sunday as ...
Serve Together
Kelly Auditorium, the room beneath our sanctuary, has served many purposes this summer. It has hosted deacon meetings and a quarterly church conference. It has ...
From Kyle
Beloved Community, It’s Kyle here. As Emily would say, “I serve as one of the pastors here at First Baptist on Fifth.”...
Youth Retreat
“…if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” Philippians 4:8 (NIV) The other day a friend asked me if I had heard about a recent...
Curiosity as the Starting Point
This past Tuesday I was the guest speaker at the Baptist Student Union (BSU) on the Wake Forest University campus. I led this diverse group of undergraduate and...
Finishing with a Flourish
Dear Beloved Community, I hope you’ve had a chance to read the email reminder about Sunday’s Called Church Conference. In it, you read of the motions to be ...
The Conviction at the Epicenter of Christian Life
Dear Beloved Community, Over the past two weeks, many of you have reached out to the church as questions have arisen about the impact of recent changes in our c...
On MLK Jr. Day…
Dear Beloved Community, One spiritual practice that I revisit through the years is reading Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail ...