2007 Archives
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Apostle’s grave may be beneath Rome church
Posted: 1/05/07
Apostle’s grave may be beneath Rome church
By Stacy Meichtry
Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY (RNS)— Vatican officials have identified a marble sarcophagus embedded in the foundations of a Rome basilica as the coffin believed to contain the remains of the Apostle Paul.
The announcement marked the latest chapter of an excavation campaign under way since 2002, when Vatican archaeologists set out to locate the sarcophagus.
A statue of the Apostle Paul by Adamo Tadolini stands in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (RNS photo by Rene Shaw) 01/04/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Prize-winning biologist issues plea for religion, science to save creation
Posted: 1/05/07
Prize-winning biologist issues plea
for religion, science to save creationBy Bob Abernathy
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
WASHINGTON (RNS)—Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist E.O. Wilson fears for creation—for many of the 10 million or more species of plants and animals he believes are in mortal peril.
Wilson, a biologist who recently retired from Harvard University, has written a new book, The Creation, that is a plea for science and religion to work together to save the species.
01/04/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Religious affiliations of Texas congressional delegation
Posted: 1/05/07
Religious affiliations of
Texas congressional delegation1: Louie Gohmert (R) Baptist
2: Ted Poe (R) Church of Christ
3: Sam Johnson (R) Methodist
01/04/2007 - By John Rutledge
Texas Tidbits
Posted: 1/05/07
Texas Tidbits
CLC hires staff attorney. The Baptist General Convention of Texas has named Stephen Reeves staff attorney for the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission. Reeves previously worked with the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, where he served as counsel- in-residence and then staff attorney. He also served as a CLC legislative aide from October 2003 to August 2004. He also has served as youth minister at Ravensworth Baptist Church in Annandale, Va. Reeves earned his law degree at Texas Tech University after completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin.
African-American ministries director named. Charles Singleton, founding pastor of First Missionary Baptist Church in Fort Worth, has been named director of African-American ministries for the Baptist General Convention of Texas. He assumed his new post Jan. 1. During Singleton’s 22-year tenure at First Missionary Baptist, the congregation started Southeast Hispanic Baptist Church, fostered an extensive youth outreach ministry and founded Miller Avenue Christian Academy, an academic and spiritual ministry to children 2 years old through second grade. Before he founded First Missionary Baptist, Singleton was pastor of Antioch Baptist Church of Fort Worth from 1981 to 1984. Singleton is president of the Tarrant Baptist Association Pastor’s Conference, and he has held numerous other offices with that organization, including moderator in 2004. He was a founding member of the African American Fellowship, and he served on the BGCT Executive Board from 2002 to 2006, the BGCT mission funding committee since 2001 and as a BGCT field representative in Tarrant County for African-American ministries since 1998. Singleton is a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.
01/04/2007 - By John Rutledge
TOGETHER: 2007: The emphasis is on missions
Posted: 1/05/07
TOGETHER:
2007: The emphasis is on missionsAs followers of Jesus Christ, we face an important question: How do we build a disciple in the 21st century?
One way you build a disciple today is by involving him or her in missions. There was a time not too long ago when missions meant sending out a person with an extraordinary call to serve across the seas in some isolated setting. Today, missions is for all of us.
Career missionaries still are important, but thanks to advances in technology and communications, more believers can be involved in missions at home and abroad.
Executive Director
BGCT Executive Board
The Atlantic and Pacific oceans are no longer great barriers. We no longer are isolated. Everything is global. Every country touches every other country, and every culture rubs up against every other culture. Missions is at the door of every church, and members in every church are connected daily with points around the world.
01/04/2007 - By John Rutledge
CYBER COLUMN by John Duncan: Grandmother’s simple faith
Posted: 1/05/07
CYBER COLUMN:
Grandmother’s simple faithBy John Duncan
I’m sitting here under the old oak tree, anticipating the year to come. I announced to my youngest daughter on the first of January: “No New Year’s resolutions this year! I am not making any New Year’s resolutions!” I am not sure why I spoke such words. Maybe because I am weary of resolutions. Maybe because I fear I might break a resolution. Maybe because I am bored with the same old resolutions that people make—the diet, debt and discipline resolutions people set as goals every year.
John Duncan Did you know 41.3 million Americans belong to health clubs and that number increases with the resolve to diet and lose weight in a new year? Did you know the average American has credit card debt of approximately $5,000 and a new year yields a pledge to dig out of debt? Did you know Americans aim for discipline with their new resolutions? They shoot for better education or to stop drinking alcohol or to stop smoking or overeating or consuming caffeine. All in all, I think all such resolutions are wise, often necessary, especially if the diet, digging out of debt and adding discipline contribute to a higher quality of life. However, one life coach, whatever that is, noted, “Most people abandon their goals in the first 30 days.”
01/04/2007 - By John Rutledge
Seminary president urges neighboring pastor to resign
Posted: 1/05/07
Seminary president urges
neighboring pastor to resignBy Hannah Elliott
Associated Baptist Press
CORDOVA, Tenn. (ABP)—The president of Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary called for the senior pastor at one of the largest Southern Baptist congregations in the United States to resign.
Michael Spradlin, who leads the seminary situated across the street from Bellevue Baptist Church in suburban Memphis, said Steve Gaines should relinquish the church’s pastorate because of his deliberate silence about sex-abuse allegations against a Bellevue minister.
01/04/2007 - By John Rutledge
Church’s flexibility helps in encounter with Hispanic seekers
Posted: 1/03/07
Church's flexibility helps in
encounter with Hispanic seekersBy George Henson
Staff Writer
WAXAHACHIE—Encounter may not have had Spanish-speaking Hispanics as its target audience, but now that a couple of dozen attend, the congregation is excited at the opportunity God has given for ministry.
Encounter exists for three types of people. The church’s website, encounterthis.com, says: “Those who have walked away from church because they have been ‘burned’ in some way. Their hurts have driven them from church, but not necessarily from God. Two, those who have grown bored with other expressions of church. They have stopped experiencing the reality of Christ in the music, message format and hunger for something more. And, three, those who are far from God.”
Encounter's Pastor Brian Treadaway 01/03/2007 - By John Rutledge
Students provide family with extreme home makeover
Posted: 1/03/07
Max Blood, 15, felt moved by family's condition and wanted to volunteer his time to help out. "I just hope that they like it and are able to enjoy it," he said. Students provide family
with extreme home makeoverBy Jenny Pope
Buckner International
DALLAS—When Onequa Washington, 31, was laid off from her job of 13 years in early September, the first thing she thought about was Christmas.
“I always try to teach my children that it’s just a blessing to be together at Christmas,” said Washington, a single mother of three boys. “But with the little ones, it’s so hard for them to understand.”
01/03/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Posted: 10/6/03
TEXAS BAPTIST FORUM:
Change the subjectEnough about Baylor! There were at least six pages worth of “information” on the Baylor controversies in the Sept. 22 edition.
E-mail the editor at marvknox@baptiststandard.com
God is doing more in Texas than most people are aware. Please seek out and focus on successful ministries around the state instead of perpetuating the controversies by publicizing them, and publicizing them and publicizing them.
01/02/2007 - By John Rutledge
