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Texas Baptist Forum_12405
Posted: 1/21/05
TEXAS BAPTIST FORUM:
Religious right (on)
The United States has been unofficially known as a “Christian nation” since it was settled, fought for and founded in vast majority by Religious Right Protestant Christians who fled European persecution. Two hundred twenty-five years later, Satan now persecutes their believing descendants.
The socialist, anti-God Liberal Left rose half a century ago. Even some believers support the Left's political agenda of abortion, immorality and godlessness, evidence of its Satanic origin and power.
Our overwhelmingly Christian founders didn't exclude other faiths or no faith, but they established the right to publicly express majority belief in God and allowed no restriction of public prayer or expression of faith. They created majority rule through elected representatives, not minority rule through illegal abuse of court power.
Letters are welcomed. Send them to marvknox@baptiststandard.com; 250 words maximum. 01/21/2005 - By John Rutledge
Switchfoot’s success signals new trend in Christian music_12405
Posted: 1/21/05
Switchfoot Switchfoot's success signals new trend in Christian music
By Erin Curry
Baptist Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–The popularity of Christian rock groups such as Switchfoot, MercyMe and Casting Crowns has signaled a growing trend for the gospel music industry, which reported a sales total of 43.4 million units in 2004.
01/21/2005 - By John Rutledge
Texas Tidbits_12405
Posted: 1/21/05
Texas Tidbits
African-American Leadership Conference planned. The development of lay leaders in churches is the focus of an African-American Leadership Conference March 11-12 in Waco. George McCalep Jr., pastor of Greenforest Community Baptist Church in Decatur, Ga., will be the keynote speaker at the conference, sponsored by the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Participants will spend most of the conference time in groups for 11 specific types of ministry–church administration for general church leadership; Christian education; Sunday school and small-group directors; and women, deacon, music, adult, youth, children, preschool and technology ministries. Cost is $45, which includes lunch. Registration is required, and the conference will be limited to 500 participants. For more information, contact Andre Punch in the BGCT Bible Study/Disciple-ship Center at (214) 828-5281 or andre.punch@bgct.org.
Four Texans named "Baptists of the Year." The Baptist Center for Ethics' website, ethicsdaily.com, named four Texans among its Baptists of the year for 2004–Charlie Johnson, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in San Antonio, which is converting a 55,000-square-foot grocery store building into a smoke- and alcohol-free entertainment center for young people; Albert Reyes, president of the Baptist University of the Americas in San Antonio and president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas; Suzii Paynter, public policy director of the BGCT's Christian Life Commission in Austin; and Mary Blye Howe, a member of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, honored for her writing on interfaith relations.
HBU names first female trustee chair. Diane Williams has been appointed chair of the Houston Baptist University board of trustees. Williams, a member of Second Baptist Church in Houston, is the first woman to hold the position. She is a 1993 HBU graduate and has served on the board seven years.
01/21/2005 - By John Rutledge
Broken lives touch hearts of relief team_12405
Posted: 1/21/05
Physician Andrew Bentley (left) from Breckenridge Village in Tyler–with the help of a volunteer with Texas Baptist Men–removes a stick imbedded in a Sri Lankan man's foot. (Photo by Richard Brake) Sri Lankan children–even in a Muslim camp–eagerly greeted the Texas team. Relief workers from Texas approach a man on a bicycle who was despondent after the loss of his family in the tsunami.Broken lives touch hearts of relief team
By Craig Bird
Baptist Child & Family Services
SAN ANTONIO–The physical devastation was staggering. Fishing boats hurled over a peninsula and across a quarter-mile-wide lagoon before being dumped on the mainland. Piles of rubble where houses and office buildings once stood. Water wells contaminated with saltwater. Coastline beaches vanished. Bridges shattered.
01/21/2005 - By John Rutledge
David Bonnet to First Church in Evant as pastor. 
Relief workers from Texas approach a man on a bicycle who was despondent after the loss of his family in the tsunami.
