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  2nd Opinion: Weeping Jesus door teaches lesson_61305

  Posted: 6/10/05

  2nd Opinion:
  Weeping Jesus door teaches lesson

  By Terry Cosby

  I have a door.

  I sold the house, but I kept a door. It is no ordinary door. It's my Weeping Jesus door. I'm serious.

  06/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

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  Disabled student’s missionary dream finally comes true_61305

  Posted: 6/10/05

  Disabled student's missionary
  dream finally comes true

  By Meghan Merchant

  Communications Intern

  WACO–Heather Herschap discovered a vision and a whisper could take her places she never dreamed she would go.

  06/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

• Dotson pleads guilty to murder_61305

  Posted: 6/10/05

  Dotson pleads guilty to murder

  By Ken Camp
  

  WACO—Former Baylor University basketball player Carlton Dotson surprised prosecutors—and even his own family—when he pleaded guilty June 8 to killing his teammate, Patrick Dennehy.
  

  Dotson submitted an open plea— meaning he was seeking no deal for leniency—just two days before jury selection was scheduled.

  06/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

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  DOWN HOME: You can’t swat flies over the telephone_61305

  Posted: 6/10/05

  DOWN HOME:
  You can't swat flies over the telephone

  Joanna and I have ventured into new parental territory.

  Call it “offshore parenting.” Kind of like a business that builds a plant in another country but continues to operate using up-to-the-minute information technology.

  That's what happens when young adult children live away. They exert their independence, all the while still needing mom and dad to help them cope with the occasional emergency.

  06/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

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  EDITORIAL: Invest in the eternal welfare of children_61305

  Posted: 6/10/05

  EDITORIAL:
  Invest in the eternal welfare of children

  Imagine you have $1,000 to invest in a new company. If you deposit your money within the next five to 12 days, you will have a 32 percent chance of getting a huge return–say $100,000. If you wait until days 13 to 18, the odds on receiving the big payoff fall to 4 percent. And if you invest after day 19, your chances for the dividend improve, but only to 6 percent. When would you invest?

  The technical, scientific classification for this question is “no-brainer.” You don't even have to think about it. You'd invest somewhere from day five to day 12.

  Of course, every analogy breaks down. But this little math problem illustrates churches' challenge of evangelism: The probability of an American becoming a Christian is 32 percent between the ages of 5 and 12. That likelihood falls to 4 percent for people age 13 to 18 and increases only slightly, to 6 percent, for people 19 and older.

  06/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

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  Forgotten Baptist leader gains new respect_61305

  Posted: 6/10/05

  Forgotten Baptist leader gains new respect

  By Marv Knox

  Editor

  COLLEGE STATION–A Texas Baptist statesman who didn't live long enough to become “elder” has received renewed respect recently.

  06/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

• Habitat presents award to Dallas-area network of Baptist churches_61305

  Posted: 6/10/05

  Habitat presents award to
  Dallas-area network of Baptist churches

  By Jocelyn Delgado

  Communications Intern

  DALLAS–A Habitat for Humanity chapter recently presented a network of Baptist churches with its Hero of the Year award for building houses in a south Dallas neighborhood.

  06/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

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  Time for Hispanic Baptists to change the world, president says_61305

  Posted: 6/10/05

  Time for Hispanic Baptists to
  change the world, president says

  By Jocelyn Delgado

  Communications Intern

  CORPUS CHRISTI–Now is the time for Hispanic Texas Baptists to change the world around them, President Alcides Guajardo told the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas.

  06/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

• Guajardo narrowly re-elected Convencion president_61305

  Posted: 6/10/05

  Guajardo narrowly re-elected
  Convencion president

  By John Hall

  Texas Baptist Communications

  CORPUS CHRISTI–Alcides Guajardo won a close vote for a one-year term as president of the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas, and the Convencion approved a resolution affirming marriage as between one man and one woman.

  06/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

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  Hispanic Convencion united, leaders insist_61305

  Posted: 6/10/05

  Hispanic Convencion united, leaders insist

  By John Hall

  Texas Baptist Communications

  CORPUS CHRISTI–Leaders of the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas insist the entity remains unified after an evenly divided vote for the presidency.

  06/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

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  Parental consent required for Texas abortions_61305

  Posted: 6/10/05

  Parental consent required for Texas abortions

  By John Hall

  Texas Baptist Communications

  AUSTIN–The Texas Legislature passed and Gov. Rick Perry signed into law a bill that will require minors to have parental consent for an abortion.

  06/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

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  Budget should lighten CPS caseworker load_61305

  Posted: 6/10/05

  Budget should lighten CPS caseworker load

  By John Hall

  Texas Baptist Communications

  AUSTIN–Help is on the way for Texas children and elderly in need. But not all of it may come from the state.

  06/10/2005 - By John Rutledge