UBC Wed For Life

                                        If for some reason, you ever want excuses to be depressed, you need only watch the news for five minutes, and you’ll find more than enough. It seems like America and humanity in general just can’t get it together. Between the various social issues, geo-political conflicts, and existential crises looming on the horizon, it can sometimes feel like we are all hurtling towards oblivion. To make things worse, we don’t see a trend of people turning to God in these trying times. Unfortunately, people are abandoning the faith. This blog has noted that fact on several occasions. There are probably a variety of things to blame for the trend, but whatever the cause of people turning away from God, we can be sure it’s not something that pleases him. It’s easy for us to look at today’s world and feel like things are uniquely bad, but the truth is the world being in crisis is nothing new. Ask the elders and they can probably give you two or three examp

                                       A rapper named Killah Priest has a song that includes the following line: When you pray you talk to God. When you meditate God talks to you. To be clear this isn’t really a Biblically based statement, and the song is secular not Christian rap. Still, the perspective is interesting. At United’s Sunday Encounters, Pastor Pope is in the midst of delivering a series of sermons that explain how we should pray. His sermons revolve around the following acrostic: T - Thanksgiving A - Adoration C - Confession O - Others S - Supplication TACOS is a very useful tool for remembering everything that should be included in our prayers. It helps ensure that we consistently say everything we need to say to God when we pray. However, therein lies part of the problem. We can use TACOS to guide how we talk to God, but if we consistently just go through that checklist, say Amen, and then go on our way to do something else, do we ever actually give God a chance