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• Shepherd's Inn keeper knows her flock

• Texas students travel to Russia with love

Summer Missions Snapshots
• Summer Missions Snapshots

• Texas team bikes among villages

• Texas students travel to Russia with love

• Missionary gets warm welcome

• Children find faith through Bible stories

• SARS detour opens student's eyes to a new world

• Little sleep, lots of opportunities

• Student missionaries parade God's presence in Colorado resort town

• Non-Aggies find a home with international Aggies

Focus on Giving
• Churches keep greater share at home

• TITHING TAKES A TUMBLE: Fewer households give a tenth

• New tithers report freedom from past financial failures

• State Baptist conventions feel pinch of decreased giving this year

• 15-year pattern of missions giving in SBC churches nationwide

• 19 Texas churches honored as top Lottie givers

Other Texas News
• Baylor faculty senate asked to evaluate Sloan

• Sloan: Baylor's basketball sins call for repentance but not withdrawal

• Sloan: Baylor president declares intention to stay in office

• Ground breaking set for Baptist Learning Center

• Hispanic Women's Conference: The meaning of life

• Professor proposes proper purpose of anger

• BGCT to create funding channel for some former IMB missionaries

• Human welfare agencies could hold steady in BGCT funding

• Conroe church looks to Bible to plan how its garden grows

• Interracial adoption blends easily into pastor's family

• Texas Baptists called to prayer for adoption need

• Garland finds strength in telling families' stories

• Mary Hill Davis gifts help set 'bad girls' straight

• Enlist 'special' volunteers for music

• Shepherd's Inn keeper knows her flock

• BGCT schools ranked in annual U.S. News survey

• Reyes to be nominated for BGCT's first vice presidency

• Plainview man helps bring better health to Iraq

• Patterson brings six from Southeastern

• WHAT IS PASSION? College worship movement growing

• Paris pastor leads his people to a higher plane

• Bombin the Clown has a nose for ministry

• SPANISH SERENADE: Wayland musicians on mission

• UMHB student gains new view from Palo Duro musical

• Around the State

• Texas Tidbits

• Iraq workers anticipate arrival of food boxes

• Baptist Briefs

• Amy Grant sings a louder faith in 'Simple Things'

• The church tackles fraud

• Judge's case makes some conservatives uneasy in wirness stand

• Ten Commandments judge told again, 'Thou shall not'

• Around the State

• Classified Ads

• Cartoon

• Texas Baptist Forum

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• EDITORIAL: Budgets reflect low priority of cooperative missions

• DOWN HOME: Off to school… for the 2nd time

• Texas Baptist Forum

• TOGETHER: Baptists affirm priesthood of believer

• ANOTHER VIEW: Some talk of God's glory can make God too small

• Cybercolumn: I dress for success by John Duncan

• Cybercolumn: Bigger, stronger, wiser… by Donna Van Cleve

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• BaptistWay Lesson for Sept. 7: Look at life positively

• BaptistWay Lesson for Sept. 14: Live a life worthy of the gospel

• BaptistWay Lesson for Sept. 21: Make a difference with your life

• BaptistWay Lesson for Sept. 28: Keep focused on knowing Christ

• Family Bible Study for August 31: Grasp the sovereignty of God, as Joseph did

• Family Bible Study for Sept. 7: Jesus communicates solemn truth on how to live

• Explore the Bible forAugust 31: Living well & thriving in a fellowship of believers

• Explore the Bible for Sept. 7: Lewis: 'Joy is the serious business of heaven'

See articles from previous issue 8/11/03 here.