2003 Archives
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Posted: 8/22/03
08/23/2003 - By John Rutledge
15-year pattern of mission giving in SBC churches nationwide
Year Undesignated Total Receipts Missions Expend. CP Giving % Undesignated % Receipts Designated SBC Receipts/Churches in Churches By Churches By Churches Sent to CP Sent to CP Giving/Churches 1987 $3,202,795,030 $4,293,683,245 $662,691,289 $336,856,534 10.52% 7.85% $109,041,821 Participants at the Hispanic Women's Conference also chose from dozens of breakout sessions on a variety of topics. HISPANIC WOMEN'S CONFERENCE:
The meaning of lifeBy George Henson
Staff Writer
KELLER–Discovering your life's mission is crucial to having a life that renders eternal positive consequences, Albert Reyes told participants in the Celebrating the Hispanic Woman Conference.
08/23/2003 - By John Rutledge
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letters_82503
Posted: 8/22/03
Texas Baptist Forum:
Anger instead of loveYou write about showing love toward the homosexual (Aug. 11), but I don't know any.
I'm angry, though, when it is flaunted in my face by the media. It is not right, and I don't like it being presented as completely all right.
E-mail the editor at marvknox@baptiststandard.com If a person is struggling with a sin for deliverance, I can empathize and sympathize, for I, too, have wrestled. If, however, they are going to threaten me and tell me I have to accept what they are doing, then I do not have love but anger.
How dare they do that to me!
08/23/2003 - By John Rutledge
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Posted: 8/22/03
Ten Commandments judge
told again, 'Thou shall not'MONTGOMERY, Ala. (ABP) –Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was overruled by his colleagues, who ordered Moore's monument to the Ten Commandments removed from public areas of the Alabama judicial building in Montgomery Aug. 21.
After a special conference that day, the court's eight associate justices, without dissent, ordered the building manager to remove a two-ton monument to the Protestant King James translation of the commandments. Moore had placed the monument in the center of the building's rotunda during the summer of 2001–without the associate justices' consent or knowledge.
Last fall, U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson declared the display in violation of the U.S. Constitution's ban on government endorsement of religion. After being upheld unanimously by a panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Thompson ordered the monument removed by Aug. 20, threatening to levy fines against the state if Moore did not comply with his injunction. Moore refused, saying to do so would violate the state constitution. Moore claims that document allows the state to “acknowledge God” as the source of law.
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore addresses a crowd of thousands gathered outside the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery Aug. 16 during a rally supporting his fight to keep a Ten Commandments monument inside the state judicial building. In his brief appearance, Moore said that "I will pass away as every politician and every pastor, but the laws of God will remain forever.'' (Bernard Trancale/RNS Photo) 08/23/2003 - By John Rutledge
