UBC Wed For Life

    As Believers we know that we are supposed to obey God’s commands and take the Bible as his Word. Still, it can be difficult understanding how some of the Bible applies to us given how different our world is from the one in which the Bible was written. However, when we read the Bible, we see that even in Jesus’ time, some had that same problem. God in his wisdom, through the Bible, has provided answers whose relevance does not fade with time. Consider the question, which was posed to Jesus about which commandments we should follow.   Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All ...

Nothing in life happens in isolation. Things happen in context or in relation to their environment. With this in mind, let us consider what is carried within the word relationship. A relationship is a connection between people, places, and/or things that can be either physical, emotional, psychological, or a combination of these three elements. Furthermore, relationships with other people and the world around us is what composes our realities. These relationships provide us with a sense of self, which can be understood as the element of a person that thinks thus establishing the desires, feelings, and aspirations through which one perceives his or her environment. We also learn how to respond emotionally and psychologically to certain situations/circumstances that we are exposed to through our relationships with and within our environments. It is possible to have varying relationships with our environment depending on how we perceive and experience it. For example, if we feel a...

  What is a Christian?  It seems like a simple question, but when you do a little research into the number of Christian groups operating in today’s world, you’ll realize the answer is not so simple.  Most people know that Catholicism was the first major international standard for Christianity after the fourth century and remained so until the great schism of 1054. The  Protestant Reformation emerged in the 16th century. It wasn't long after that, Protestantism led to denominational rifts among Believers.  Now, it is hard to say how many different sects of Christianity exist.  Some conservative estimates claim that around 40 true denominations of Christianity exist.  Other less conservative estimates suggest that more than 40,000 different belief systems exist under the umbrella of Christianity.  Some of the differences are as simple as which day should be considered the Sabbath (Saturday vs Sunday).  Other differences are more signifi...