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Texas Baptist Forum
Posted: 9/02/05
Texas Baptist Forum
Signs of Jesus
In my congregation on any given Sunday morning, I can see at least two of the three indicators Mike McNamara offers up as evidence that Christian culture has been lost within the church: Some women wear hair styles shorter than men, and a few women have tattoos (Aug. 22). The saints in my congregation are too poor to afford breast augmentation surgery or–who knows –I might see examples of that, too.
Funny, though, until he mentioned it, I never realized the absence of those things indicated one's status as a Christ-follower. But I distinctly remember Jesus' saying the world would know us, instead, by how we love one another.
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"We have the ability to take (Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez) out, and I think the time has come to exercise that ability."
Pat Robertson
Televangelist, on his 700 Club program"The Southern Baptist Convention does not support or endorse public statements concerning assassinations of persons, even if they are despicable despots of foreign countries, and neither do I."
Bobby Welch
SBC president and pastor of First Baptist Church in Daytona Beach, Fla., responding to Robertson (BP)"Religious citizens have the same rights as nonreligious citizens to argue their side. But disagreement with those positions is not automatically anti- religious bigotry or hostility to faith."
Melissa Rogers
First Amendment attorney and visiting professor of religion and public policy at Wake Forest University Divinity School in Winston-Salem, N.C. (RNS)"The church is not the four walls. The church is like Home Depot. You go there to get what you need to return home and fix what's in disrepair."
Tom Fortson Jr.
Promise Keepers president (The Tennessean/RNS)09/06/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Gulf coast residents dazed by fury of Katrina
Posted: 9/06/05
St. Michael's Catholic Church in Biloxi, Miss., though significantly damaged from the effects of Hurricane Katrina, survived in the location where it was built to stand. To the left of the church, not where it was ever intended to be, is one of at least three floating barge casinos that were torn from their moorings by Katrina's storm surge and now sit on dry ground some 200 yards inland from the water. (ABP photo by Greg Warner) Gulf coast residents dazed by fury of Katrina
By Greg Warner
Associated Baptist Press
BILOXI, Miss. (ABP)—Hurricane Katrina punished the sacred and profane alike as it came ashore on the Mississippi Coast Aug. 29, gutting sturdy brick churches and glittering casinos, historic oceanside homes and modest tin-roofed bungalows.
09/06/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Buckner and Wilshire Baptist Send Shoes, Supplies to Hurricane Survivors in Baton Rouge
Posted: 9/06/05
Felipe Garza, vice president and general manager of Buckner Children and Family Services, (shown above) said that, in addition to emergency aid, "Buckner is assessing the long-term needs of hurricane survivors and identifying more ways to help." Buckner and Wilshire Baptist Send Shoes,
Supplies to Hurricane Survivors in Baton Rouge
By Felicia Fuller
Buckner Benevolences
09/06/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Clear Lake church feeding evacuees in nearby hotels
Posted: 9/06/05
Volunteers at First Baptist Church of Athens make beds and distribute linens for New Orleans residents who are being housed at the church’s multi-purpose center. (Photo by Ferrell Foster)
Clear Lake church feeding
evacuees in nearby hotelsBy John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
ORANGE—Like many Texas Baptists, Donna Radmore wanted to pitch in and lend a helping hand when she heard how people were affected by Hurricane Katrina.
09/06/2005 - By John Rutledge
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