Well, many of you are still without power as is the church campus.  There are some other issues with the building that we are just discovering.  I encourage you to pray for one another (because YOU are the church) and pray for restored electricity and heat to our campus.  One way or another (and somewhere) … Continue reading Thursday Campus Update…

Due to the weather, we will not have any Wednesday night activities.  How's that for "simplifying" your life?!  Seriously, I will miss being with the body tonight.  While many of you are still without power, keep one another in mind and aide one another as you are able, showing and extended our Christian care for … Continue reading Wednesday Activities Cancelled

Know Why You Simplify Why do you want to simplify your spiritual life? Is it to save time? To recover some control over your life? To get organized? Just to be less busy? All these are worthy pursuits, but they are secondary. The primary reason to pursue simplicity in our spirituality is to maintain "the … Continue reading Simplify…Part 3

I don't write directly to you all that often, but I had to direct you toward some very powerful messages for you by John Piper.  Go HERE.

The links on our website for the 9Marks workshop have been updated.  Click HERE for more information.

Verify Before You Simplify The place to start simplifying the spiritual life is to make sure you have one. Jesus frequently challenged the spiritual presumptions of His hearers. He did this constantly with an influential group of men known as the Pharisees. Because of the unusual depth of their interest in and commitment to the … Continue reading Simplify…Part 2

Al Mohler submitted THIS PRAYER in his blog today.

Beginning this Sunday, January 15th, I will be starting a new Discipleship Class called Rooted.  This class is designed for those who desire to be discipled as well as those who desire to be equipped to disciple others.  Really, there is no division between the two, because if you are discipled well you are exhorted … Continue reading Rooted… A New Discipleship Class

Just some thoughts on church that I've had recently... In the past few weeks on Wednesday nights we've been talking about some principles for why we should think more simply about church.  As I've said during our gatherings, if I have a theme for 2009 for UBC it would be "simplify church."  These thoughts are … Continue reading Simple Church and Creating Margin…