Living Generously

…the schedule that you have planned. God is a faithful provider who gives us our “daily bread”. It is our responsibility to respond similarly. Be a Regular giver. We should also be Intentional givers. Would you like it if God was not intentional in provisions for you – breathing, eating, loving relationships? Intentional givers remember to pledge, then pay. Give…

FINAL Academic Calendar 2017-2018 with registration dates (2) (3)

2025 CRE.Participant.application

2025-Educator.Participant.application

What Preachers Can Learn from The Original Kings of Comedy

…Embody characters in your storytelling. Enhance your stories by including dialogue. Tell the truth. Remind your audience of “back in the day,” analyzing how “new school” has deviated from “old school.” Watch your time. Discuss family life. Talk about love. Address culturally relevant issues. Address current events. Invoke audience participation. Develop an eye for the everydayness of life. Call attention…

Campus Map 2024 with Parking Noted

2016 Annual Security Report 20171218-FINAL

UPSem_PoliciesAndProcedures_Booklet_2017-2018-revised

2024-–-147-Juniors-Pre-K-Part-Time-Pastor

Academic-Calendar-2018-2019

Academic-Calendar-2019-2020

2018-2020 Course List for Web

Take our Ugly Christmas Sweater Challenge

The other day when I cranked my car, I was surprised by two things. First, I was reminded that my wife likes to listen to the radio much louder than I do, happily sharing the radio’s music with all the passengers in our car and the cars immediately adjacent. Second, I was startled by Perry Como’s voice coming from the…

Lonely & waiting: Walking through Advent with those who are grieving

…done this every year that has followed. In the shadow of a very difficult pastoral month with multiple deaths and hospitalizations, I think back to that year and the few that have followed. I think about the loss that my family prepared for in the midst of Advent celebrations, and I think of the empty space in the years that…

A time to give thanks

…they are, who they are telling “Here I am.” On Monday, I lay in bed looking out the window at the changing trees and reflected on the day before. It was full of beauty and heartache, excitement and dread. There were moments when I wondered how anyone could question if there is a God, and there were moments that I…

Fight Club?

…What if we post about our excitement to invest in an organization as much as we post about our displeasure in current events? More than numbers, I believe people are interested in stories. More than ‘yes’ and `no`, our children need explanations. We avoid money talk and favor time and talents; we avoid money talk in search for easy answers….

Reformation Tour: Luther the disrupter

…for parallels between events in history and goings-on in today’s world. When I think of Martin Luther, the word “disrupter” comes to mind. An attempt to explain follows. The internet has drastically changed our lives. It is a technology that, coupled with cellular mobile devices, has facilitated changes in how we communicate, shop, get our news, entertain ourselves, and learn….

Endurance: Matt. 24:9-14 NRSV

…who lives in us — is “greater than he who is in the world,” (1 John 4:4 KJV). There are three elements that make for Christian endurance: (1) Bible-based faith — this is the very foundation of Christian endurance. Stripped down to its basics, faith is confidence that God exists, and the conviction that He “rewards those who earnestly seek…

Reformation Tour: Who? The Reformation and those less well known

…Froschau printed many things for Zwingli and stood alongside him as he questioned practices in the church, and Bullinger carried on the message after Zwingli died. Grossmünster Cathedral where Zwingli preached (Tricia Vesely).   Zwingli’s study (Tricia Vesely) It’s exciting (and dangerous) being a trailblazer. You’re forging new paths and exploring new ideas, and others want to engage with you….

“I Wanna Be Whole” Luke 17:1-19

BY VERONICA MARTIN THOMAS (M.Div’07) We are living in an age where everyone is conscious of health. One writer says, “without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering — an image of death.” Without health one is incomplete. Without health one is half done, insufficient, inadequate. All of these words give us the…

Will Change Ever Come?

…not just in European institutions, but in our own institutions, including the Black Church. The challenge for us as pastors and educators continues to be, to unteach what has been taught in our Churches and seminaries for so long. Historically incorrect images still fill our textbooks and many Church buildings and windows. Images that cause many blacks to hate self….

Resolutions and reflections

…typical and unique resolutions in this way. If we are resolving to lose weight so that we look better, are we really portraying the important fact that we are created in God’s image? How can we expect our children to live into this beautiful reassurance if we do not? If we resolve, instead, to be more active so that we…