Hope in an Age of Cruelty & Despair
2025 William M. Johnson Lecture Series | August 16 Get to know more about the 2025 Lecture Series at Crescent Hill Baptist Church Our Keynote speaker will be: Rev. Cody J. Sanders We are living and dying through an era of mass collective trauma. Politics of cruelty threaten the lives of people in the U.S. […]
Prayers of the People: Connect with Nature
By Scarlette Jasper, CBF field personnel | July 14, 2025 Published originally by Cooperative Baptist Fellowship “Be still, and know that I am God,” – Psalm 46:10 The activities and spiritual practices that are life-giving to me at this time revolve around nature. I can get out and go hiking or camping and totally disconnect from my […]
Louisville Racing FC Hosts Welcoming Communities Of Faith For Pride Night
By Erica Rucker | June 5, 2025 Published originally on Louisville Independent News To listen to political rhetoric and the plethora of right-wing Christian evangelicals and politicians about the LGBTQ+ community and communities of faith, the picture of both would be wrong. Those in the LGBTQ+ community are thriving, and communities of faith are not only supportive […]
Passing the Baton
Louie Bailey, Crescent Hill’s longtime music minister, to retire in December May 9, 2025 Minister of Music and Organist Rev. Dr. Louie Bailey will retire from his ministry at Crescent Hill at the end of 2025 after 40 years—the longest tenure of any music minister in CHBC’s 117-year history. Louie and his wife, June, beloved […]
What Is Saving Your Life Right Now?
CHBC Encourager Partner and CBF Field Personnel, Annette Ellard | May 1, 2025 Published originally by Cooperative Baptist Fellowship A reflection written by our CBF Field Personnel partners, Annette Ellard & Steve Clark. From Annette: “Every year, CBF Global Missions field personnel contribute to Prayers of the People: Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s Year-long Guide to Prayer. The theme […]
Kentucky lawmakers weaponized the Christian faith with conversion therapy bill
Opinion Jordan Conley | April 9, 2025 Published originally on courier-journal.com In the Book of Acts, Peter shares the gospel by declaring, “God shows no partiality.” He testifies that Jesus “went about doing good, healing all who were oppressed.” The Kentucky Legislature could take a page from this book they claim to cherish so deeply. Before the 2025 Kentucky General […]
Reflections on Crescent Hill
This was a reflection shared in worship during our Fall stewardship emphasis. Thank you, Leslie Picken, for this beautiful depiction of our Life Together. May it inspire us to do good as we continue this year. I didn’t know Betty Cook. Or Dorothy Spurr. My memories aren’t laden with images of a packed sanctuary and […]
Learning How to Fish
By Steve Clark, Crescent Hill Baptist Church CBF Field Personnel Partner | December 27, 2024 “Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach a person to fish and you feed them for a lifetime.” While this old adage is true, many situations faced by the refugees we serve beg the question, […]
CHBC becomes Louisville Hub for BSK Theological Seminary
Published originally on bsk.edu Crescent Hill Baptist Church (CHBC) first became home to BSK faculty and staff offices in the spring and summer of 2023. Dr. John Inscore Essick, BSK’s Associate Professor of Church History and Director of BSK’s Rural Ministry Program, works and teaches classes from an office within the church office suite. Additionally, […]
When we’re afraid of the dark, God is a Mamaw waiting at home with all the lights on
Opinion Jordan Conley | March 1, 2023 I was a teenager driving myself home late one night from what we called, “the big city,” Pikeville, Ky. Several of us “juniors going on seniors” had gone to Pikeville that night to watch what I thought was a comedy. I was wrong. My friends knew me well enough to […]
