Texas Tidbits_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Texas Tidbits

01/07/2005 - By John Rutledge

Together: Find something you can do, & do it_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

TOGETHER:
Find something you can do, & do it

The whole world has been reeling under the shock of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean. In Japanese, the word “tsunami” means “harbor wave.” If only it had been as harmless as that sounds. Waves lashed all the islands and coastlines of 12 countries of the northern Indian Ocean, and more than 150,000 people are believed dead.

Relief efforts are under way from around the globe. One of the first groups to arrive was the Hungarian Baptist response team. Missionaries began to contact mission boards, churches and friends seeking help. Texas Baptist Men was contacted by Baptist missionaries in Sri Lanka from Boerne, and TBM promised to come. Gifts to support TBM relief work are pouring in. Four water purification teams have gone to Sri Lanka and Thailand. Four feeding teams will join them in the next few days. This will be an ongoing need, and volunteers are standing by to relieve these teams in the weeks ahead.

Our institutions are responding. Baylor Health Care System has a relationship with a hospital in Sri Lanka and will send a doctor with Texas Baptist Men to assist in medical assessment. Baptist Child & Family Services has been asked by the Sri Lankan government to provide training and medical help for children in need and those orphaned by the disaster. Buckner Baptist Benevolences has made clothing and shoes available.

01/07/2005 - By John Rutledge

Churchgoers eat more veggies_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Churchgoers eat more veggies

By Wangui Njuguna

Religion News Service

WASHINGTON (RNS)–An academic study shows that churchgoers eat more of the healthiest fruits and vegetables than those who don't attend services.

01/07/2005 - By John Rutledge

Reggie White, NFL star and minister, dies_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Reggie White, NFL star and minister, dies

By Erin Curry

Baptist Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)—Reggie White—whose life as a professional football legend and outspoken Christian witness earned him the nickname “minister of defense”—died the day after Christmas at age 43.

01/07/2005 - By John Rutledge

Scalia: Church-state separation didn’t protect Jews in Holocaust_11005

Posted: 1/04/05

Scalia: Church-state separation
didn't protect Jews in Holocaust

By Robert Marus

ABP Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (ABP)—The man who may be the next chief justice of the United States reportedly gave a speech in which he suggested church-state separation did nothing to prevent the Holocaust.

01/04/2005 - By John Rutledge

LifeWay Explore the Bible Series for Jan. 9: Humility is the starting point for prayer_11005

Posted: 1/04/05

LifeWay Explore the Bible Series for Jan. 9

Humility is the starting point for prayer

Luke 18:9-14, 18-23

By Pakon Chan

Chinese Baptist Church, Arlington

01/04/2005 - By John Rutledge

LifeWay Family Bible Series for Jan. 9: Purity is difficult, but it also is required_11005

Posted: 1/03/05

LifeWay Family Bible Series for Jan. 9

Purity is difficult, but it also is required

Romans 11:33-12:2, 1 Corinthians 6:9-20

By Leroy Fenton

Baptist Standard, Dallas

01/03/2005 - By John Rutledge

BaptistWay Bible Series for Jan. 9: Jesus chooses his disciples_11005

Posted: 1/03/05

BaptistWay Bible Series for Jan. 9

Jesus chooses his disciples

Matthew 9:35-10:15

By Todd Still

Truett Seminary, Waco

01/03/2005 - By John Rutledge

Cybercolumn by Brett Younger: Leave the lights on_11005

Posted: 12/29/04

CYBERCOLUMN:
Leave the lights on

By Brett Younger

Every once in a great while, I see a jogger and react in a way that is incomprehensible to thinking people: I say to myself, “I should start jogging.”

(I recognize that many intelligent people feel the more understandable response to runners is to turn the steering wheel ever so slightly so that they run back up on the curb where they belong.)

12/31/2004 - By John Rutledge

SBC withdrawal from BWA top news story of 2004_11005

Posted: 12/31/04

SBC withdrawal from BWA top news story of 2004

By Greg Warner

Associated Baptist Press

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP)—The Southern Baptist Convention's withdrawal from the Baptist World Alliance was the top Baptist news story of 2004, according to a survey of journalists.

12/31/2004 - By John Rutledge

Cybercolumn by Berry D. Simpson: Cold and safe_11005

Posted: 12/30/04

CYBERCOLUMN: Cold and safe

By Berry D. Simpson

One recent Saturday morning, I ran in the cold rain, and it was wonderful.

It wasn't all that cold, actually, in terms of general North American winter weather—maybe in the low 40s. And it wasn't raining all that hard—simply a steady but gentle rain and certainly no downpour.

12/30/2004 - By John Rutledge

Samford honors Wanda Lee, former WMU executive director_11005

Posted: 12/24/04

Samford honors Wanda Lee, WMU executive director

Wanda Lee, executive director of the Southern Baptist Woman's Missionary Union, has been named an alumnus of the year by Samford University.

A 1969 Samford nursing graduate, Lee served as president of WMU from 1996 to 2000 when she was named to her current post. She is the first woman in WMU history to hold both positions.

Lee has been active at all levels of WMU—church, association, state and national. Early in her career, she worked as a registered nurse in hospitals in Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama and the Windward Islands, where she and her husband, Larry, were missionaries from 1979-81. WMU, an auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention, employs about 115 staff members at its Birmingham headquarters and has more than a million members of all ages in Baptist churches worldwide.

12/27/2004 - By John Rutledge