The Meaning of Ashes and Lent
In his book, Celebration of Disciplines, Richard Foster compared spiritual formation to a farmer growing grain. All he can do is provide...
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- Jan 28, 2020
- 2 min
SGI Sunday Gathering Update
“The Spirit of God’s goodness, rightness, beauty, and aliveness, Jesus said, is always moving. Like wind, like breath, like water, the...
- Jan 20, 2020
- 2 min
Martha Stearns Marshall Sunday, February 16
We are Cooperative Baptists, which bears great significance from other forms of Baptists. For one, CBF was formed during a time when the...
- Jan 16, 2020
- 2 min
Investing in the Soccer Academy
The Gospels give us an in-depth look at the life and ministry of Jesus. One thing is abundantly clear from Jesus is that for every...
- Jan 2, 2020
- 2 min
Epiphany, Celebrating God’s Incarnational Presence
Each of the Gospels gives us a unique glimpse into the life and ministry of Jesus. Matthew offers us quite a peculiar and exclusive look...
- Dec 16, 2019
- 2 min
The Joys of the Creative Process, an SGI Update
Walt Disney’s CEO, Bob Iger, wrote, “There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.”...
- Dec 9, 2019
- 2 min
An Intergenerational Church Cares
Over the last few months, the phrase “OK Boomer” and “OK Millennial” has been used endlessly on TV, the news, on social media, memes, and...
- Nov 25, 2019
- 2 min
Preparing for Advent
For the church, we now enter into the season of Advent. This is a Latin term, which means “the arrival of, anticipation of, or...
- Nov 18, 2019
- 2 min
SGI: You Bring Inherent Value
The English novelist Graham Greene wrote, “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which...
- Nov 11, 2019
- 3 min
The Waiting Is the Hardest Part
“I’m just not getting what I want and need out of the church,” said a dear friend of mine. He and his family had been struggling in the...
- Oct 14, 2019
- 1 min
Translators Wanted!
I am awful at Spanish, even though I took a semester of Spanish in college and have been to Ecuador on nine mission immersions. I can’t...
- Sep 26, 2019
- 2 min
SGI Next Steps
On Sunday, the Strategic Growth Initiative launched with a church-wide Gathering. The event focused on exploring the concept of spiritual...
- Aug 26, 2019
- 2 min
Strategic Growth Initiative’s Diverse Worship Experience Focus
Strategic Growth Initiative’s Diverse Worship Experience Focus Starting in our days at the BSU and through the tenure of Dr. Harlan,...
- Aug 20, 2019
- 2 min
Strategic Growth Initiative’s Connect Groups Focus
Strategic Growth Initiative’s Connect Group and Spiritual Formation Focus One of the primary focuses of the Strategic Growth Initiative...
- Aug 12, 2019
- 2 min
Strategic Growth Initiative’s Enhancement of Our Care System for Guests
Strategic Growth Initiative’s Enhancement of Our Care System for Guests UBC has a formal and informal system of caring for guests. The...
- Aug 5, 2019
- 2 min
Strategic Growth Initiative’s Expansion of Caring for Young Families
Strategic Growth Initiative’s Expansion of Caring for Young Families The Mother’s Day Out program is one of the marquee ministries of...
- Aug 1, 2019
- 2 min
Strategic Growth Initiative’s Age-Specific Recruiting
Strategic Growth Initiative’s Age-Specific Recruiting The phrase “Age-Specific Recruiting” could cause an awkward pause upon reading for...
- Jul 23, 2019
- 3 min
Expanding Our (Yours and Mine) Youth and College Students Initiatives
Jake Riggsbee, Craig and Amy Andrews, Billy and Vicky Booth, Mark Pressley, Maria Olds, the Stricklands, Fran and Steve Hunter, Ed...
- Jul 18, 2019
- 3 min
Strategic Growth Initiative
Why Strategic Growth Initiative God’s dream for University Baptist Church has expressed itself in many iterations in the last 72 years....
- Jul 11, 2019
- 1 min
Ecuador Mission Immersion
On Thursday, July 11th, a seventeen member team departed for Quito, Ecuador. Eleven members of the team are from UBC with six joining...
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