Explore the Bible Series for May 7: God’s light awaits at the end of the journey

Posted: 4/26/06

Explore the Bible Series for May 7

God’s light awaits at the end of the journey

• Isaiah 49:1-53:12

By James Adair

Baptist University of the Americas, San Antonio

Isaiah 49:1-6

04/26/2006 - By John Rutledge

BaptistWay Bible Series for April 30: Competing loyalties require discernment

Posted: 4/20/06

BaptistWay Bible Series for April 30

Competing loyalties require discernment

• 1 Samuel 20:1-18; 35-42

By Joseph Matos

04/20/2006 - By John Rutledge

Family Bible Series for April 30: Don’t let fear interfere with sharing the gospel

Posted: 4/20/06

Family Bible Series for April 30

Don’t let fear interfere with sharing the gospel

• Acts 2:1-4, 22-24, 32-33, 36-41

By Greg Ammons

04/20/2006 - By John Rutledge

Explore the Bible Series for April 30: When God wants to do a new thing, saddle up

Posted: 4/20/06

Explore the Bible Series for April 30

When God wants to do a new thing, saddle up

• Isaiah 44:1-48:22

By James Adair

Baptist University of the Americas, San Antonio

An entire generation or more of Jews had been born and had grown up in Babylonia, far from their ancestral home. It was common practice in the ancient world for great empires, after they had conquered a territory, to transplant the leading citizens—the ruling family, aristocratic classes and priests—to a distant land and resettle them there.

04/20/2006 - By John Rutledge

Prayers enable Texas team’s ministry in Spain & Portugal

Posted: 3/31/06

Prayers enable Texas team’s
ministry in Spain & Portugal

By Ken Camp

Managing Editor

MINERAL WELLS—As if leading four-dozen Texas Baptists from eight churches on a choir tour and mission trip to Spain and Portugal didn’t create enough stress for Jim Clayman, troubling preliminary medical tests meant he needed to schedule a biopsy three days before the group’s departure.

04/19/2006 - By John Rutledge

Texas Baptist Forum

Updated: 4/18/06

Texas Baptist Forum

Baylor’s Christian mission

Joseph Bottum’s recent commentary regarding Baylor University (published in several periodicals) is, as Mark Twain once commented about rumors of his death, greatly exaggerated.

Jump to latest online-only letters.

Letters are welcomed. Send them to marvknox@baptiststandard.com; 250 words maximum.

“I remain convinced that racism is the greatest sin in America, because it is the problem which keeps us from dealing with our other problems together. It is an affront to the God who loves all the world (John 3:16). Loving our neighbor as ourselves is basic to following Jesus (Matthew 22:39).” Jim Denison Pastor of Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas (godissues.org) “You will waste your cancer if you do not believe it is designed for you by God. It will not do to say that God only uses our cancer but does not design it. What God permits, he permits for a reason. And that reason is his design. If God foresees molecular developments becoming cancer, he can stop it or not. If he does not, he has a purpose. Since he is infinitely wise, it is right to call this purpose a design.” John Piper Baptist pastor and author of the Reformed tradition, writing on the eve of his surgery for prostate cancer (BP) “Our nation cannot afford a shrill and shallow debate that distorts reality and reduces the options to ‘cut and run’ versus ‘stay the course.’” Thomas Wenski Bishop of Orlando, writing on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops regarding the war in Iraq (RNS)

Drawing upon a single personnel decision, Bottum invites readers to witness “Baylor University’s apparent collapse” under secular pressure. While both legal and practical concerns limit a university’s ability to discuss or respond to criticism regarding tenure decisions, I write to affirm that we, at Baylor, remain committed to our distinctive Christian mission within an academically rigorous, yet nurturing, environment.

04/18/2006 - By John Rutledge

Hispanics called to pray about immigration

Posted: 4/13/06

Hispanics called to pray about immigration

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

DALLAS—Texas Baptist leaders are calling Hispanic Texas Baptists to pray about the debate on immigration reform.

04/17/2006 - By John Rutledge

Lenten observance ‘culture shock’ for some DBU students

Posted: 4/17/06

Lenten observance 'culture shock'
for some DBU students

DALLAS—Students who entered chapel at Dallas Baptist University recently found themselves immersed in ancient traditions different from the worship styles with which many of the evangelical students are familiar.

“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,” read Rose Johnson, associate professor of English. The lights were lowered and the students stood and repeated St. Francis of Assisi’s prayer with reflection.

The worship experience marked one aspect of Lenten observance at DBU.

04/17/2006 - By John Rutledge

HPU in North Africa

Posted: 4/17/06 HPU students in North Africa Fifteen students from Howard Payne University participated in a 10-day trek across North Africa during spring break, led by Mary Carpenter, director of…

04/17/2006 - By John Rutledge

Cybercolumn by Brett Younger: April’s Foolish Newsletter

Posted: 4/17/06

CYBER COLUMN:
April’s Foolish Newsletter

By Brett Younger

What do people expect from their church newsletter?

Everyone wants news about upcoming events, updates on members, crossword puzzles, recipes, and fishing tips, but beyond that we’re not sure.

04/17/2006 - By John Rutledge

Reccord mulls resignation from NAMB while some trustees warn of firing

Posted: 4/14/06

Reccord mulls resignation from NAMB
while some trustees warn of firing

By Greg Warner

ATLANTA (ABP) –As embattled Southern Baptist leader Bob Reccord met with prominent pastors April 13 seeking advice about his future, several of his own trustees at the North American Mission Board urged him to resign as the agency's president.

Reccord took the brunt of a scathing report issued by NAMB trustees March 23, which faulted the missions leader for poor management, autocratic decision-making, extravagant spending on failed ministry projects, apparent conflicts of interest in no-bid contracts for a friend, and creating a "culture of fear" that prevented staffers from questioning the abuses.

04/14/2006 - By John Rutledge

IMB may dismiss Africa missionaries for starting non-Baptist congregation

Posted: 4/14/06

IMB may dismiss Africa missionaries
for starting non-Baptist congregation

By Robert Marus

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Another controversy is brewing at the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board, which reportedly is set to dismiss two of its missionaries in West Africa for cooperating with non-Baptist colleagues to plant a church that isn't "Baptist" enough.

According to several news sources, blogs and the couple's pastor, IMB officials have given Wyman and Michelle Dobbs an April 15 ultimatum to resign or be fired. The Dobbses have been missionaries to an unnamed, unreached people group in the small nation of Guinea for eight years.

04/14/2006 - By John Rutledge