University Baptist Church-Houston

UBC welcomes guest speaker Josh Ellis, Executive Director of Union Baptist Association. Josh has a dual BA from Houston Baptist University, an MS in Future Studies from the University of Houston, Clear Lake (2006), and a PhD in Leadership Studies from...

The Judge narratives start to increase in length significantly with Gideon’s narrative. He is chosen as God’s deliverer, even though he is not a person of great faith. And thus the opening chapter of his story is characterized by doubting God and...

The Judge narratives start to increase in length significantly with Gideon’s narrative. He is chosen as God’s deliverer, even though he is not a person of great faith. And thus the opening chapter of his story is characterized by doubting God and...

In our minds, most westerns have a broad shouldered, strong man at the center of their action. Yet when we look closer at so many of these movies, courageous woman are standing right next to them. Without the leading ladies of the western movies, we...

In our minds, most westerns have a broad shouldered, strong man at the center of their action. Yet when we look closer at so many of these movies, courageous woman are standing right next to them. Without the leading ladies of the western movies, we...

The second major Judge, Ehud, is a great case study in courage and craftiness. Like the others, he was anointed by the Spirit of God, and he was willing to take a significant risk and not to let a perceived weakness hinder his obedience. How many...

The second major Judge, Ehud, is a great case study in courage and craftiness. Like the others, he was anointed by the Spirit of God, and he was willing to take a significant risk and not to let a perceived weakness hinder his obedience. How many...

Like a number of television shows, Judges can feel like a series of stories that all follow the same template. And in fact, they do. The cycle of the typical Judges story is introduced in ch. 2, and then a short example follows with the first major...

Like a number of television shows, Judges can feel like a series of stories that all follow the same template. And in fact, they do. The cycle of the typical Judges story is introduced in ch. 2, and then a short example follows with the first major...

The period of the Judges was very much like the colonial, settler days of the U.S. There wasn’t a central government, each tribe governed itself, and the various tribes worked together only when necessary. The opening chapters introduce the world of...