BaptistWay Bible Series for March 20: Holy living calls for holy relationships_30705

Posted: 3/9/05

BaptistWay Bible Series for March 20

Holy living calls for holy relationships

Leviticus 19:1-4, 9-18, 32-37

By Wayne Smith

03/09/2005 - By John Rutledge

LifeWay Family Bible Series for March 20: Jesus offered himself as a sacrifice for our sins_30705

Posted: 3/8/05

LifeWay Family Bible Series for March 20

Jesus offered himself as a sacrifice for our sins

John 19:28-37; Hebrews 9:1-10:39

By Mitch Randall

03/08/2005 - By John Rutledge

LifeWay Explore the Bible Series for March 20: God demands obedience from his people_30705

Posted: 3/8/05

LifeWay Explore the Bible Series for March 20

God demands obedience from his people

Jeremiah 7

By Dennis Tucker

03/08/2005 - By John Rutledge

Activists, ideas clash outside as Court hears arguments on Ten Commandments displays_30705

Posted: 3/8/05

Activists, ideas clash outside as Court hears
arguments on Ten Commandments displays

By Coleman Fannin

Associated Baptist Press

WASHINGTON (ABP)—Two different views of religion’s role in government clashed inside and outside the Supreme Court March 2, as the justices heard arguments about Ten Commandments displays on public property.

03/08/2005 - By John Rutledge

Buckner planning ‘vision trips’ to educate, inspire supporters_30705

Posted: 3/8/05

Buckner planning 'vision trips' to educate, inspire supporters

By Felicia Fuller

Buckner News Service

A Buckner mission trip to Guatemala April 30-May 15 will be the first of three vision trips led by Buckner President Ken Hall this year to engage the organization’s supporters in its ministries abroad and to garner their continued advocacy. Subsequent trips are planned to Russia and Latvia July 31-Aug. 7 and to China Oct. 13-23.

03/08/2005 - By John Rutledge

Baylor nursing students plan mission trip to Uganda_30705

Posted: 3/8/05

Baylor nursing students plan mission trip to Uganda

By Judy Long

Baylor University

Four graduate students at Baylor University’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing and their faculty sponsor will spend spring break—and most of March—in sub-Saharan Africa, providing health care at two children’s homes.

03/08/2005 - By John Rutledge

Texas Baptists need to pursue a ‘Jesus agenda,’ Reyes says_30705

Posted: 3/8/05

Texas Baptists need to pursue a 'Jesus agenda,' Reyes says

By Ferrell Foster

Texas Baptist Communications

DALLAS—Texas Baptists should make sure they are pursuing “a Jesus agenda” as they move forward, said Baptist General Convention of Texas President Albert Reyes.

03/08/2005 - By John Rutledge

Moderates need to re-emphasize evangelism, pastoral leadership Shurden says_30705

Posted: 3/8/05

Moderates need to re-emphasize evangelism,
pastoral leadership Shurden says

By John Pierce

Baptists Today

ATLANTA (ABP)—Baptists need to recover their commitment to evangelism, preaching and pastoral leadership, which were de-emphasized during the conflict over fundamentalism in the Southern Baptist Convention, said historian Walter Shurden.

03/08/2005 - By John Rutledge

NAMB, Bernall family ‘disappointed’ movie on Columbine story fell apart_30705

Posted: 3/8/05

NAMB, Bernall family 'disappointed'
movie on Columbine story fell apart

By Greg Warner

Associated Baptist Press

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (ABP)—Five years after paying for the right to make a movie about the Columbine massacre, the North American Mission Board has nothing to show for its investment.

03/08/2005 - By John Rutledge

Don’t export disputes European Baptist leader warns_30705

Posted: 3/7/05

Don't export disputes European Baptist leader warns

By Greg Warner

Associated Baptist Press

ATLANTA (ABP)—A prominent European Baptist leader cautioned U.S. Baptists not to export their disputes or manipulate Baptists worldwide into their way of thinking.

03/07/2005 - By John Rutledge

‘Other’ Baptists in U.S. need a unifying identity Currie says_30705

Posted: 3/7/05

'Other' Baptists in U.S. need a unifying identity, Currie says

By Greg Warner

Associated Baptist Press

ATLANTA (ABP)—Southern Baptists account for roughly half of all U.S. Baptists—about 16 million people—and thus get most of the attention. The other half also represents a significant presence in America, but they lack a unifying identity, according to several of their leaders.

03/07/2005 - By John Rutledge

Texas Baptist Forum_30705

Posted: 3/4/05

Texas Baptist Forum

Right leadership

I read your editorial concerning the budget priorities of our leaders (Feb. 21). I have a question for you. Have you ever met a “compassionate” governmental bureaucracy?

Compassion motivates individuals who have direct contact with the people they are helping. Self-preservation motivates bureaucracies. Funds spent on local projects have visible results. Funds sent to Washington, D.C., or Austin have no visible consequences for the sender.

If you want to encourage people to help others, provide a system where the giver knows the recipient. If you want to waste resources on well-meaning social programs which produce no long-term solutions, put a government entity in charge of the project.

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"Life lived to help others is the only one that matters, and … it is my duty, in return for the lavish life God has devolved upon me, to help others he has placed in my path. This is my highest and best use as a human. Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will." Ben Stein Actor and writer, in his last installment of the online column, "Monday Night at Morton's" "I am convinced that listening, not talking, is the way forward for progressive Christianity. Church leaders need to stop their orations, public bickering, clever preaching and press releases, and instead listen to their people and to the world around them." Tom Erhich Author and columnist (RNS) "Has God ever given you a miracle? Or do you wonder why not? Perhaps you're overlooking the greatest of his miracles –his love and grace. Romans 5:8 says, 'But God demonstrates his own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.'" David Jeremiah Pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church in El Cajon, Calif. (BP)

03/05/2005 - By John Rutledge