Thanks to technology and the fallout of COVID-19, many people are working remotely these days. Working from home has its highs and lows. It allows you to better integrate the different aspects of your life. It’s also an opportunity for one part of your life to invade and choke out your other healthy habits and responsibilities. Done right, however, you can flourish as a whole person employed at a myriad of different things. Here are six ways to succeed when working from home.

Este artículo le proporcionará una información útil, enlaces y formas en que podemos conectar juntos a la iglesia para la gloria de Dios durante este momento difícil. Qué hablaremos: ¿Deberían las iglesias suspender sus servicios en vivo? ¿Cómo podemos decidir el tamaño del grupo que pueden reunirse? Algunos consejos para ser juntos, la iglesia. Enlaces de recursos para iglesias. Los creyentes están llamados a amar a Dios y a nuestro prójimo, especialmente en estos tiempos, las personas buscan para compartir y modelar el Evangelio sin temor ni pánico.

There’s a lot of questions about the coronavirus today: Should churches suspend live services? How should we decide what size groups should meet together? How can we be the church, together? Believers in Jesus Christ are called to love God and love our neighbors, and especially in these times, people are looking for us to show and share the gospel without fear and panic. Josh Ellis provides us with some practical information, links, and ways that we can connect the church together for God’s glory during this coronavirus outbreak.

The rapid global spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has captured the attention of the media and the public. Many Americans are scared, worried, and have even taken it out on others—especially East Asians. The Christian response to the Coronavirus and to our Asian neighbors should not be one of irrational fear or avoidance. Rather, we should take this opportunity to think critically, lean into our faith, and show Christ’s love in a crisis moment.

As we learn about the call of Maewyn Succat—better known as St. Patrick, let’s think about our call to Houston for “such a time as this.” We pray for specific UBA initiatives, local events, and various organizations God is using to advance his gospel throughout our city, state, and world.

I have tried to apply the discipline of simplicity in my personal life. We have a simple home, used cars, and “antique furniture” that was once new but has aged along with us. So when I found a book applying the principle of simplicity to the church, it certainly caught my interest. It was Deve Browing’s Deliberate Simplicity – How the Church Does More by Doing Less.

One of the key services that UBA provides to churches is contextual understanding about the city in which we live. UBA staff do this through research, demographics, conducting church surveys, or interpreting outside data points. We’re regularly asked questions about how current our data are and how it actually affects churches. I’m happy to report there is a new answer to these questions. UBA has been asked to be one of the pilot associations for a brand new national research project that has direct implications for you and your church.

I was fresh off the boat from two years of mission work when I first heard of diaspora missions. I joined a church that had committed to engaging the West African population nearby and was soon neck-deep in Gambian and Ivorian communities. In spite of my mission experience, this work was harder than I anticipated. But if I can do it, so can you. And so can anyone else in your church.

This come-and-see model of ministry we’ve developed over the past 100 years has produced several generations of Christians who assume church is about them, for them, and because of them. So they shop around.

But what if we pastors are only sleeping in the bed we’ve made for ourselves? What if we have a consumer-driven Christian culture because we’ve been selling a product instead of embodying a mission?

I once saw a comment by Jon Tyson—pastor of Trinity Grace Church in Manhattan—regarding the prodigious creative output of our culture. His words struck me as truthful. "So much content; so little wisdom."

Most Americans, it strikes me, are content with cleverness and snark. And, in our ever-increasing desire to appear more nonchalant and funny, something is lost. That something, it seems to me, is wisdom.