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Genesis 2

•August 4, 2026 • Leave a Comment

Genesis 2. – Creation of Man and Woman for Each Other

2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

²And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

³And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

⁴These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

⁵And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

⁶But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

⁷And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

⁸And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

⁹And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁰And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

¹¹The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

¹²And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

¹³And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

¹⁴And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

¹⁵And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

¹⁶And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

¹⁷But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

¹⁸And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

¹⁹And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

²⁰And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

²¹And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

²²And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

²³And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

²⁴Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

²⁵And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Flesh of My Flesh

You are flesh of my flesh
Bone of my bone
There’s no one closer
You are flesh of my flesh
Bone of my bone
We are one

I do pledge my life to you
Forever and always
I will take good care of you
And shower you with praise
Others try and separate us
But they don’t have a chance
No one can take your place
No, not even one

You are flesh of my flesh
Bone of my bone
We are one

I do give my life to you
Today and everyday
I will stand right by your side
Whatever comes our way
I have searched and searched for someone
Who’d make my dreams come true
But nowhere else on this earth
Is there anyone like you

The storms of life can blow and blow
But they won’t knock me down
We’ll stand the test, the test of time
‘Cause we stand on Holy ground

You are flesh of my flesh
Bone of my bone
There’s no one closer
You are flesh of my flesh
And bone of my bone
We are one

Posted in Chapter Songs
Tags: bible, christianity, faith, god, jesus

Genesis 1

•August 3, 2026 • 1 Comment

Genesis 1. – Beginning

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

²And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

³And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

⁴And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

⁵And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

⁶And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

⁷And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

⁸And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

⁹And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

¹⁰And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

¹¹And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

¹²And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

¹³And the evening and the morning were the third day.

¹⁴And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

¹⁵And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

¹⁶And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

¹⁷And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

¹⁸And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

¹⁹And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

²⁰And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

²¹And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

²²And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

²³And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

²⁴And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

²⁵And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

²⁶And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

²⁷So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

²⁸And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

²⁹And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

³⁰And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

³¹And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Morning Has Broken

Morning has broken like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for them springing fresh from the world

Sweet the rains new fall, sunlit from Heaven
Like the first dewfall on the first grass
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where His feet pass

Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
Born of the one light, Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise every morning
God’s recreation of the new day

Morning has broken like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for them springing fresh from the world

Posted in Chapter Songs
Tags: bible, creation, genesis, god, jesus

A Song for Every Chapter of Life

•July 2, 2026 • Leave a Comment

Compiled by Rick McCollum

Tree divided into four sections, each showing a different season's characteristics

Hello worshiper on mission. There is a song for every chapter of life, and the Bible’s 1,189 chapters provide the themes. This blog will share a chapter from the Bible, title it with a life theme, and connect a song that sings you through that chapter in your life. I trust the message and the music will give you inspiration in your daily walk as a worshiper on mission.

Posted in Chapter Songs

Adult Choir Combines Service Projects and Concert on Mission

•June 4, 2013 • Leave a Comment

This article appeared in the Shelby, NC Star as a result of the Praise & Worship Choir from Spring Valley Baptist Church in Columbia, SC ministering through service projects and a community concert in April:

Ministry without walls
By Rebecca Clark

Published: Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 17:19 PM.
They came with choir books and willing hands, ready to paint, hammer and minister to the people of Cleveland County.

Beginning early Saturday morning, 80 choir members from Spring Valley Baptist Church in Columbia, S.C., scattered throughout the county to paint homes, assist with a clothing give-away, build wheelchair ramps and conduct a survey.

Five local churches paired up with Spring Valley to provide transportation and assistance.

Saturday evening, the church’s choir members performed an Easter musical, ‘Victorious,’ at Elizabeth Baptist Church as a grand finale to the ministry.

‘Helping hands’

The community mission work was a result of connections between Spring Valley Baptist’s choir director, Dr. Rick McCollum, and the Rev. Charles Reed, ministry team leader of the Greater Cleveland County Baptist Association.

Both men served at Flint Grove Baptist Church in Gastonia during the 1980s.

“We wanted to take our entire choir outside the walls of our church and, in addition, show the love of Christ in a tangible way by providing helping hands to those needing help,” McCollum previously told The Star.

After a morning spent working, lunch was provided for the group at the Baptist Men’s Work Camp on Sharpton Road.

Meeting needs

Clyde Strickland, choir member, said his group was paired up with Elizabeth Baptist Church.

He spent the morning working on a wheelchair ramp.

“I thought it was a great idea,” Strickland said. “It’s nice to get outside our own community…see their needs.”

Not only was he able to lend a helping hand, but he said it provides an opportunity to build camaraderie between different churches.

Mike McGee, Elizabeth Baptist’s minister of music, said his group went out to paint an elderly couple’s home.

“This has been great,” McGee said. “It was a real needy situation and that’s what this is all about.”

Vandy Hobbs, who was part of the Second Baptist Church group, helped conduct surveys in the neighborhood around the church and invite people to the evening concert.

Hobbs said he had fun but was most looking forward to singing.

A 20-year member of Spring Valley’s choir, he said the performance was one of the church’s best.

Posted in Mobilize

M3 Resource Groups Meet Throughout SC

•September 12, 2012 • Leave a Comment

The SC Baptist Convention promotes missions through music around the state. To help organize these music missions efforts in your church, they provide M3 (Musicarts Mission Movement) Resource Groups. These groups are interactive learning and networking for worship leaders to learn how to disciple others using missional thinking which results in mission projects to our communities.

These groups meet from 1-3PM. Groups meet September 2012 through May 2013, except for December. The Columbia and Barnwell-Bamberg groups meet October through May, except for December. To get involved and for more information, please contact Mark Powers, Director of the Music and Worship Office of the SC Baptist Convention at 803-227-6166 or email markpowers@scbaptist.org

Here is a list of meeting times and locations:

First Tuesday: York-Lancaster-Rock Hill at Eastview Bapt Ch, Rock Hill

First Thursday: Easley-Pickens-Anderson at Westminster Bapt Ch

Second Tuesday: Barnwell-Bamberg at Ashleigh Bapt Ch, Blackville

Second Thursday: Greenville-Spartanburg at Anderson Mill Bapt Ch, Moore

Third Tuesday: Aiken-N Augusta-Edgefield at Millbrook Bapt Ch, Aiken

Third Tuesday: Columbia-Lexington-Camden at SCBC Bldg

Third Thursday: Chester-Great Falls at First Bapt Richburg

Fourth Tuesday: Charleston-Summerville at The Fellowship @Oakbrook, Summerville

Fourth Thursday: Laurens-Clinton at Chestnut Ridge Bapt, Laurens

Posted in Motivate

Mark Powers Defines “Worshipers on Mission”

•June 26, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Today, SC Baptist Convention’s Mark Powers met with several worship leaders around the state and gave his definition of “worshipers on mission:”

…meeting people at their point of need on a regular basis in your community to build relationships which lead to witnessing opportunities…

Posted in Motivate

Valley Voices Sing at Martha Franks (Spring Valley Baptist Church, Columbia, SC)

•June 4, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Valley Voices is the senior adult choir of Spring Valley Baptist Church. Here they are singing at Martha Franks Retirement Center of Laurens, SC. They are presenting the musical “Well Seasoned Praise.” This group sings throughout the year in a variety of venues including churches, civic clubs, schools, retirement facilities and businesses. To schedule the Valley Voices to sing for your organization, contact Rick McCollum at 803-736-0624.

Posted in Mobilize

Youth Choir Flash Mob Singing at Louisville Slugger Bat Factory (First United Methodist, Tucker, GA)

•June 2, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Tom Moore is the Director of Arts and Music at First United Methodist Church of Tucker, Georgia near Atlanta. He took his youth choir on tour in Kentucky and Tennessee last week. Here is a “flash mob singing” inside the Louisville Slugger Bat Factory. You just never know when missional musc ministry might happen!

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Middle School Mission Choir (By Rick McCollum)

•May 1, 2012 • Leave a Comment

I had directed youth choirs for nearly 35 years when my wonderful youth choir fizzled out. It took all I had to let it die a natural death. This year, we began to dream a new dream, first for our middle schoolers. We started a Middle School Mission Choir this spring. The idea was to work on music that could be used in worship but also as a witness to others, combine that music emphasis with mission and ministry opportunities. Our first outing was this past Sunday when we took 13 middle schoolers, a guitarist a pianist plus adults and sang for kids in a trailor park. We connected with a ministry called Inside Out Of South Carolina. I think we’re going to keep this going for a while. Thank you, Lord, for the opportunity of music missions literally in our own backyard.

Posted in Mobilize

South Carolina Singing Churchmen on Tour (Video by Dan Williams)

•April 30, 2012 • Leave a Comment

The South Carolina Singing Churchmen recently took their musical abilities and shared them with the people of the Dominican Republic. Take a look at all of the wonderful experiences of ministry and missions. The South Carolina Singing Churchmen are ministers of music throughout the South Carolina Baptist Convention.