University Baptist Church-Houston

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...

The early church operated on developing relationships in three different areas: with God, with the community of faith, and with the rest of the world. Their relationship building with the world outside their own faith community was very diverse, yet...

The early church operated on developing relationships in three different areas: with God, with the community of faith, and with the rest of the world. Their relationship building with the world outside their own faith community was very diverse, yet...

The early church was committed to studying the life, ministry, and teachings of Jesus, and growing in their capacity to follow his example. This process was challenged constantly by outside ideas and beliefs, and by cultural practices, forcing the...

The early church was committed to studying the life, ministry, and teachings of Jesus, and growing in their capacity to follow his example. This process was challenged constantly by outside ideas and beliefs, and by cultural practices, forcing the...

The first generation of the Christian church had a lot of challenges. They had no traditions to follow, no prior understanding of how to organize leadership, and with a few exceptions, no written accounts of Jesus’s life and how they should follow...

The first generation of the Christian church had a lot of challenges. They had no traditions to follow, no prior understanding of how to organize leadership, and with a few exceptions, no written accounts of Jesus’s life and how they should follow...

So many in Israel thought that the coming of the Messiah would mark the end of the story. Israel would be free, a new king would reign, and the rest would be easy. But the establishing of a new, spiritual Kingdom would take time. Many people would be...

So many in Israel thought that the coming of the Messiah would mark the end of the story. Israel would be free, a new king would reign, and the rest would be easy. But the establishing of a new, spiritual Kingdom would take time. Many people would be...

Luke’s account of the resurrection is immediately followed by Jesus’s covert appearance to a couple of his followers. In Jesus’s conversation with them, he is troubled that they do not know their own scriptures enough to realize what is taking place...