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Public prayer in Jesus’ name debated
Posted: 4/28/06
Evangelist Franklin Graham gives the invocation at the 2001 inauguration of President Bush. His Christian prayer on that occasion sparked controversy.
(RNS file photo/Courtesy of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association)Public prayer in Jesus’ name debated
By Adelle Banks
Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)—Re-tired Army Chaplain David Peterson models how he thinks sensitive Christians should pray in public.
04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Tidbits
Posted: 4/28/06
Texas Tidbits
O’Brien appointed provost and executive VP at Baylor. Baylor University’s interim Provost Randall O’Brien has been appointed executive vice president and provost. He had served as interim vice president for academic affairs and provost since last June. O’Brien joined the Baylor religion faculty in 1991 and has been a religion department chair and acting dean of Truett Theological Seminary. He earned degrees from Mississippi College, Yale Divinity School and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is an ordained Baptist minister and has been pastor of three churches and interim pastor at more than a dozen congregations, including Columbus Avenue Baptist Church in Waco, where he currently serves. O’Brien and his wife, Kay, an adjunct professor in Baylor’s School of Social Work, have three children—Elise, Shannon and Christopher.
TBM helps West Texas ranchers. Texas Baptist Men volunteers are meeting a ton of needs in West Texas—three tons, in fact. Texas Baptist Men volunteer John LaNoue hauled 6,000 pounds of donated cattle feed to Pampa, where it will be distributed to ranchers who lost much of their grass to recent wildfires. Members of First Baptist Church in Pampa helped unload the cattle feed and will distribute it. LaNoue, who delivered the feed on his way to preach at a revival at First Baptist Church in Wheeler, said the trip was perfectly timed by God. He was able to bring supplies to people who need and enable Baptists in Pampa to share the gospel by distributing those supplies.
04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge
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TOGETHER: Faithful servants, doing God’s work
Posted: 4/28/06
TOGETHER:
Faithful servants, doing God’s work
Last week, I spent time with ministers of education and administration at their annual retreat in Salado. These men and women carry crucial staff assignments, serving at the nerve center of our churches. Generally, they take off the pastor’s shoulders many of the organizational and educational details that otherwise would consume much time and energy.
I consider them gifted and godly friends and colleagues in ministry who play an often-unnoticed and sometimes-under-appreciated role. They have a special calling, and they need the faithful prayers of their congregations.
Executive Director
BGCT Executive Board
Their assignment—to provide lay-led Bible study—helps the church do all its work more than any other ministry or organization I know.
04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge
