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'Amazing Grace' hits high note with Texans
___By Mark Wingfield
___Managing Editor
___If there's a song in the air in Texas Baptist churches, it's most likely to be "Amazing Grace."
___The hymn penned by John Newton in the late 18th century was the top pick of Baptist Standard readers in a poll of favorite congregational songs.
___Two-thirds of all respondents to the survey named "Amazing Grace" among their top 10 choices. It got 388 votes among the 580 people participating in the survey by using forms printed twice in the Standard and available on the Standard's website.
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Park Cities pastor defends Buckner
___By Marv Knox
___Editor
___DALLAS--A recent guilt-by-association article about Buckner Baptist Benevolences undermines the Baptist General Convention of Texas agency's ministry to people in desperate need, according to a letter distributed statewide by Dallas pastor Jim Denison.
___The letter defends Buckner from an "attack" by the Southern Baptist Texan, newsmagazine of the rival Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, Denison begins.
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Can-do attitude propels small Texas church on worldwide mission
___By Marv Knox
___Editor
___PLAINS--Nobody seems to understand "can't" in Plains.
___Baptists in the farming village on the South Plains of Texas are convinced God can use them to do mighty ministries.
___Their labors for the Lord have had an impact far away and right at home.
___"Home" is a speck on the map, about 75 miles southwest of Lubbock and 100 miles northwest of Midland, nestled right next to the New Mexico border. You just about have to go there to get there.
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