January 1, 2007
By David Bunch

 

Jesus Christ once said, “By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another” (John 13:35). There is quite simply no other characteristic more important for a Christian to display. In this postmodern age, hurting people are looking for someone who authentically cares, yet the Christian culture often fails them by offering a structured religious tradition rather than the genuine love of Christ. If we honestly survey the example Jesus Christ offered, it is clear that true Christianity is demonstrated when we bring the love of God to a hurting world rather than requiring a hurting world to come to God on our terms.

By Travis Miller
December 18, 2006
 
What a morning. What an incredibly frustrating morning. We started out fairly early today. Maybe that was our mistake. Rather than missing the morning rush-hour traffic, we’ve been slogging along right in the middle of it. Not a well-thought-out plan. To make matters worse, the weather is atrocious. The snow started falling around 4 a.m. and has only intensified for hours now. The road crews can’t keep up. We’ve seen five or six cars on the side of the road or in the medians, and have even driven, or should I say crawled, past a couple of accidents. Welcome to Chicago.

 

By Joshua Remington

December 4, 2006

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”  -Leo Tolstoy

By Jared Runck

December 11, 2006

(Editor’s Note: This was originally presented in a slightly different form on October 22, 2006 during the IQ Forum.)

By Jeannie Bland
 
(Editor’s Note: This was the keynote message for I.Q. Forum 2006. We felt like the topic discussed mattered to everyone despite the references to the conference within.)
 
 
In a world that is constantly seeking to reinvent itself, we are finding ourselves more frequently in a world that does not need God or seek after Him. It is our generation who has the responsibility for swinging the pendulum back into the direction of God. That forces some tough questions: How can we do this? What part do Christians have in this “post-Christian” society?
 

When we began advertising for our first I.Q. (Identity Quotient) Forum last year, we used the tagline, “Forming a Christian Identity in a Post-Christian World.”

By Doug Ellingsworth

November 13, 2006

 

It’s good to see you all again.  It is sad that we only get together at times like this, but you know how it is with everybody so busy with the work of God and all. 

By Scott Phillips

November 8, 2006

As some of you may have heard, this blockbuster movie features about four minutes of the UPCI’s Mississippi camp meeting.   They came under the guise of filming a documentary on Pentecost.  The man played a good straight guy. The bottom line is honest good people got duped and the results are playing in every city and grossed over $24 million this past weekend on 800 screens. Borat, who in reality is a Hasidic Jew named Sacha Baron Cohen, makes fun of women, Jews, and the unsuspecting.

Everyone has incredible hindsight, and if we could we could all do better if we could undo and redo what we regret.   My thoughts on this do not deal with the obvious misgivings we have because of this event and the mockery made of Pentecost in this movie.  Countless people have allowed cameras in services for years.  Who would know that it would be something like this? Anyone who seems to act like they know all and see all and never make a mistake, are either lying or self deceived.  They are just fortunate enough not to have it plastered on the Big Screen - yet.  

 

An Open Letter to UPCI Bible School Alumni

By Nathaniel Hyatt
 

Dear Bible School Alumni: