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Course 414 - Counseling Alcoholics

Course 414 - Counseling Alcoholics (3 credits ) Provides a complete road map for assessing, diagnosing, and treating alcoholism. Topics include recognizing alcohol problems in clients, understanding the critical concepts of the treatment of alcoholism, the 12-step approach, relapse prevention, and recognizing primary or secondary psychiatric disorders in clients who are chemically dependent.

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Five movies currently in theaters with race relations themes

Submitted by Chad Brennan on Thu, 12/11/2008 - 22:48

Pastor Mark Driscoll calls movies the new church in America and explains, "there are 'preachers' who are called filmmakers promulgating worldviews, philosophical systems, morals, and values." (listen to the sermon) There is no question that movies are one of the most powerful expressions of culture and values in our country.

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Discussing ecstasy with college age students

Discussing ecstasy with college age students.

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What's the point behind this whole Christian thing?

Submitted by GabriellaMartay on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 01:10

I was asking God what I should start blogging about next and a question came to my mind- What is Christianity all about? Many preachers and teachers could go on for days with heavy theology that discusses what being a Christian entails and blah, blah, blah... but what is it REALLY about? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to discredit anyone's teachings by discussing this or trying to push you in one direction over another, but Paul says in 1 Peter 3:15 to "Always be prepared to give the reason for the 'hope' that you have".
 

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Live it up!

Submitted by GabriellaMartay on Sun, 08/10/2008 - 00:22

Usually when you hear the phrase "Live it up", it's followed by something that sounds utterly ridiculous, but how do we really live our lives so they are not wasted?

No matter what age we are, society seems to be telling us that our life is best fulfilled when we're content with worldy success. 'We should be joyous when we look like celebrities. We should feel joy when we have multiple sexual partners. We should have joy when we're rich and can go to the club with whoever we want and pop bottles. We should feel joy when we have that new car that everyone else is driving. We should feel joy when we don't really have to work for what we're earning. so basically- WE SHOULD FEEL JOY THROUGH EVERYTHING BUT THE AUTHOR OF JOY- JESUS CHRIST."

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Why Social Justice is Important

Submitted by Shannon_Elyse9 on Sat, 08/30/2008 - 12:00

Hello there!  You don't know me, but I'm new on this thing.  My main goal on this is to talk about social justice issues and how we can make a difference.  I suppose the best thing to do is to start with why that is important. 

Suffering is alive in this world.  But I don't believe that God causes suffering.  I believe His heart breaks as He watches His children suffer.  When Jesus was walking here, He said to take care of the poor, the widows, the orphans.  So we need to pay attention.  God wants us to know about them and to help them when we can. 

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"Faith Fighter" - Sacrilegious or Social Commentary?

Submitted by pure.imagination on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 09:09

Normally, I'm not one to post blog entries at UrbanMinistry.org. I'm more of a behind the scenes person, populating the homepage with helpful and interesting links for people interested in social justice. However, I've had to take to my personal UM.org blog for the following issue instead of just posting a link on the homepage, because this is something that affected me very personally. So, with that said:

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