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Course Study Guides

Posted on by Phill Sacre

One thing I’ve been meaning to do for a while now is create study guides for the different courses. I want the courses to be accessible to church groups, but I know that many leaders don’t have the confidence to lead on their own without a study guide. What I will be doing over the next few weeks is working my way through some of the courses to add study guides, starting with the What is Christianity? course.

I’ve already completed the study guide for the first session on Creation. I’d love any feedback you have about the format, what kind of things would be useful, etc.

If you’d like to use any of the Understand the Bible courses as part of a church group, you can do that online. See the churches subscription section for more information.

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How to live as a Christian series complete

Posted on by Phill Sacre

I have finished the “How to Live as a Christian” series! All nine parts of the course have now been completed. The final five are about Communion, Service, Money, Marriage and Parenting.

All of these things are important aspects of the Christian life which it’s important to get a handle on to live life as a Christian. This series has been written particularly with people new to faith in mind. You can see the whole thing on the series page.

Once you’ve done that, why not try signing up for the teaching programme, where you can do a course like the Heidelberg Catechism – a comprehensive overview of the Christian faith?

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How to live as a Christian – 4 sessions complete

Posted on by Phill Sacre

I have completed the first four sessions of the How to live as a Christian series which I mentioned the other day. Those are: Following Christ’s example; Prayer; Reading the Bible; and going to Church.

The whole idea of the series is to give you some practical ways to get started with these things – not just tell you about it. That’s what I’ve tried to do so far.

I really hope you enjoy the series – please let me know if it’s helpful to you! Leave a comment to let me know what you think.

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Attn Church Leaders! Using UTB in church groups

Posted on by Phill Sacre

Over the past few months I’ve been working on a way of enabling churches to use UTB. I’m convinced that the internet is not a replacement for the local church. Lockdown has proved that – online church is not a substitute for real church! But nonetheless, the internet can be a very useful tool.

What I have done is enabled churches who register to create groups and meetings so that small groups can study the UTB courses together. A subscription will cost a little, but each church starts with a free subscription so you can try it out.

If you’d like to have more information, check out this page all about subscriptions. If you haven’t yet registered your church, it’s easy to do – just create a free account and then register your church. As soon as it’s registered you can start exploring groups.

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One habit to REVOLUTIONISE your spiritual life (no exaggeration)

Posted on by Phill Sacre

This is a video I’ve had on my mind to do for a while, and since I finished the Heidelberg Catechism yesterday, I thought I’d do it today!

This is a simple habit which I personally have found hugely beneficial spiritually, and I’d like to share it with you all as well.

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Please add your church!

Posted on by Phill Sacre

One of my biggest concerns with UTB is that it doesn’t just become an online ministry with no link to the local church. As such, what I’ve been trying to do is make it possible to add and search for churches by location.

Anyway, it is now possible to add your church to the UTB database. The main thing I ask is that churches be in agreement with the Evangelical Alliance basis of faith, which I thought was probably the best way of getting a broad base of evangelical churches.

The public listings will be available from the local section, which I haven’t made live yet but you can take a “sneak peek” here.

Anyway, please do add your church and let me know if you have any problems!

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New Course: Heidelberg Catechism pt 1 (Guilt)

Posted on by Phill Sacre

Yesterday I created a new course with the videos I’ve been doing on the Heidelberg Catechism. If you’d like to have a ‘sneak peek’ at the sessions you can do so on the course page. It will take me a bit longer to work on parts two and three of the catechism (“grace” and “gratitude”), but my aim is to get them done as soon as I can.

I’ve really been enjoying the Heidelberg – it’s a great catechism and has been well-loved by generations for a reason. I hope that you enjoy studying it here with UTB.

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Moving away from YouTube

Posted on by Phill Sacre

A bit of housekeeping: I am starting to move the courses away from YouTube. I will keep some content available on the YouTube channel, but all of the course content on this website will be served from elsewhere. This is partly because I’ve become uncomfortable with using YouTube for something like this, and partly because I needed somewhere to store audio files as well as videos.

All videos should now have an audio equivalent (hooray!). I have also removed some of the courses which didn’t quite ‘fit’ with UTB at the moment – e.g. the Biblical series. (They will remain available on YouTube).

If you have any problems, please let me know!

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