University Baptist Church-Houston

What does it mean to be a Christian in today’s America? The name has so many cultural identities, some of which are true and others of which are clearly not, that it makes it hard to find a universally accepted definition. At the outset of the...

Sometimes the most challenging invitation to accept is the one that calls us to be something or somebody different in our most comfortable environments. The places where we spend most of our time, living and working, are the places where we most...

Sometimes the most challenging invitation to accept is the one that calls us to be something or somebody different in our most comfortable environments. The places where we spend most of our time, living and working, are the places where we most...

Both in mandate and in example, Jesus invited his followers to join him in taking the love of God and the good news of his salvation to people at the ends of the earth. In Acts, he commands his disciples to go, geographically, to the places far away...

Both in mandate and in example, Jesus invited his followers to join him in taking the love of God and the good news of his salvation to people at the ends of the earth. In Acts, he commands his disciples to go, geographically, to the places far away...

The wild is a beautiful and tameless, unpredictable, uncontrollable place. Pain and suffering (aka “The Dark Night of the Soul”) are a given, but they are also necessary teachers. Living in the present is probably our hardest spiritual discipline...

The wild is a beautiful and tameless, unpredictable, uncontrollable place. Pain and suffering (aka “The Dark Night of the Soul”) are a given, but they are also necessary teachers. Living in the present is probably our hardest spiritual discipline...

For Christians living in urban America, the host of systemic problems that need attention is myriad. All manner of community leaders and citizen activists work from the inside to try and improve difficult systems, and many Christians work...

For Christians living in urban America, the host of systemic problems that need attention is myriad. All manner of community leaders and citizen activists work from the inside to try and improve difficult systems, and many Christians work...

Well before the Exile, the Israelite prophets began telling of a future king that would come and reunite all of Israel and extend God’s salvation to all nations. In several contexts, this long-awaited King was described as the next David, one who...