Christmas Gathering Brunch, December 15
This year’s Christmas Gathering will be a brunch on Sunday, December 15. We invite you to make plans to join us during the Spiritual...
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Dec 9, 20192 min read
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...
Dec 6, 20191 min read
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
On Tuesday, December 24th, we will gather for a Candlelight Christmas Eve Service at 5:00 pm. This will be a sacred time for participants...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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A Community of Gratitude, Thanksgiving Gathering, November 24
“Gratitude is defiance of sorts, the defiance of kindness in the face of anger, of connection in the face of division, and hope in the...
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UBC Stained-Glass Christmas Ornament
The stained-glass window of UBC is one of the most noteworthy fixtures of our University Baptist Church. In February of 1979, this window...
Oct 28, 20192 min read
All Saints and Souls Days
It was a weird exercise in remembrance, but my girls didn’t know them but by pictures and stories. When Aubrey-Anna was two and Madison...
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Relational Ministry and Connect Groups
I thought I had him down pat. I thought I knew who he was, what he did, and why he did it. The Jesus of my upbringing was perfectly...
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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...
Oct 10, 20190 min read
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