2003 - Page 3 of 94 - Baptist Standard

Three schools claim part of B.H. Carroll’s legacy_122203

Posted: 12/19/03

Three schools claim part of B.H. Carroll's legacy

By Ken Camp

Texas Baptist Communications

Three drastically different ministerial training schools in Texas now claim to be in the tradition of B.H. Carroll, a towering figure in Baptist life in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge

Cartoon_122203

Posted: 12/19/03 “Grandma, here's your gift from Gramps. I just shook it, and it sounds like a box of rocks.” News of religion, faith, missions, Bible study and Christian ministry…

12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge

‘Are you Santa?’ child asked missionary_122203

Posted: 12/19/03

'Are you Santa?' child asked missionary

By Melanie Kieve

CBF Communications

SKOPJE, Macedonia–“Are you Santa Claus?”

12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge

THIS CHRISTMAS: Receive the gift of hope this season_122203

Posted: 12/19/03

THIS CHRISTMAS:
Receive the gift of hope this season

By BO Baker

After another year of meeting life's complications, its barrage of hazards and hurts played out upon the grand world stage, I've concluded once more that our deepest and most urgent need is for hope–Christian hope.

This is the hope that does not come grandstanding, gift-wrapped or party-dressed. Not a kind of shallow masquerade of make-believe bequest to dreamers only, or even hope for the millions who would not know a Bible from the Far-mer's Almanac. But a hope deliberately resting upon the integrity, the absolute dependability of the God who spoke the galaxies into existence, who breathed life into the man he made and, and “God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good” (Genesis 1:31).

BO Baker

I contend for a hope resident and resilient in the person of Jesus Christ, not a hope provided by practitioners of unkept promises, nor for the warden of some “life island” adrift in space, dark with questions seemingly unanswerable.

12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge

CHRISTMAS VIEW: Celebrate Christmas from now on_122203

Posted: 12/19/03

CHRISTMAS VIEW:
Celebrate Christmas from now on

By Charles Walton

We put our Christmas trees up early this year. Our big tree in the living room and our smaller tree in the family room were in their places by Nov. 30.

This is a record for us. We usually do not have a tree up until the middle of December.

12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge

CHRISTMAS VIEW: Celebrate Christmas from now on_122203

Posted: 12/19/03

CHRISTMAS VIEW:
Celebrate Christmas from now on

By Charles Walton

We put our Christmas trees up early this year. Our big tree in the living room and our smaller tree in the family room were in their places by Nov. 30.

This is a record for us. We usually do not have a tree up until the middle of December.

12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge

Hunt family pledges $5.5 million matching funds to DBU_122203

Posted: 12/19/03

Hunt family pledges $5.5 million matching funds to DBU

DALLAS–Dallas Baptist University could receive up to $5.5 million–its largest such grant ever–if funds donated by the family of Ruth Ray Hunt are matched by other donors.

Representatives of the Communities Foundation of Texas and the Hunt family announced the gift in late November. It will designate $1 million in matching money to each of five priorities identified through a strategic planning process.

Previous money from the Hunt family enabled the university to develop a facilities master plan, which will serve as a blueprint for moving the university “from good to great” over the next 10 years, said DBU President Gary Cook.

At the news conference where the $5.5 million matching grant was announced, Ray Hunt and June Hunt (first and third from left) visit with Julie Turner, chairwoman of the DBU board, and Edgar Fjordbak, director of the Communities Foundation of Texas

12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge

DOWN HOME: Blessings erase wishes on list_122203

Posted: 12/19/03

DOWN HOME: Blessings erase wishes on list

My Christmas “wish list” probably drove my family nuts this year.

Around our house, we're big on drawing up lists of gift suggestions. You know–stuff we'd like to receive for Christmas or birthday.

Maybe we don't have enough imagination, but I like to think we do this because, if we're going to spend the money, we want to give something the recipient really wants.

12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge

EDITORIAL: Begin at the manger, but follow Jesus through his life_122203

Posted: 12/19/03

EDITORIAL:
Begin at the manger, but follow Jesus through his life

Do you ever wonder what became of the shepherds?

They experienced history's penultimate “Do you remember where you were when … ?” moments. (You know about lesser memorable moments: Where were you when you heard World War II was over? Where were you when you learned President Kennedy had been assassinated? When Elvis died? When the space shuttle disintegrated over Texas?)

Even 2,000 years later, we know where those Hebrew shepherds were when they received the second-best news of eternity: “And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.”

12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge