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  Hearing launches push to defund Planned Parenthood


  House Republicans began their effort to defund Planned Parenthood Sept. 9 with the first in a series of hearings intended to show the group illegally harvests and sells tissue from aborted fetuses, a claim the group vehemently denies.

  09/10/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Editorial: How do we balance religious liberty and rule of law?

  If you could collect a dime every time U.S. media mention “religious liberty” between now and Election Day 2016, you could fund your own Super-PAC—or maybe even bankroll your own run for the White House.

  09/10/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Right or Wrong? Listen to detractors

  Right or wrong? A consultant suggested a church should listen only to positive, encouraging people.  Can’t churches learn from both encouragers and discouragers?

  09/10/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Tarleton State: Freshman introduced to Jesus

  Student Missions Blog: “Do you have to have a Bible to be here?” she asked. It was obvious this was not somebody who had spent much time in church.

  09/10/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Book Review: The Baptist Story

  Three Baptist historians emphasize three themes that have characterized Baptists for 400 years: “promoting liberty of conscience, following Christ’s will in our individual lives and churches, and proclaiming the gospel everywhere.”

  09/09/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Texas teen heals from anger & abuse after turning to Christ

  Seventeen-year-old Justin Spencer was with a missions team from Magnolia Creek Baptist Church in League City when an unexpected thing happened. Standing on the front porch of a house in Chalmettte, La., listening as his teammate Hailey presented the gospel, his heart quickened.

  09/09/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Asia: Ghost holiday and a burden for the lost

  Student Missions Blog: As we walked outside to get our scooters to leave our supervisor’s apartment, our supervisor rushed out to show us something. We had heard firecrackers go off all night, and he pointed out why: Ghost holiday.

  09/09/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  IMB chief explains cutbacks in open letter

  The head of the Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board, which recently announced plans to cut personnel by 600 to 800 jobs over the next six months, said officials haven’t kept the agency’s financial position a secret.

  09/08/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Rio Grande Valley: Welcome to campus

  Student Missions Blog: The school year finally has begun at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. The staff from the Baptist Student Ministry had been preparing since the first week of August, and we finally opened the doors of our building to welcome students.

  09/08/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  VBS helps Waco churches bridge racial barrier

  Two Waco Baptist churches united for Vacation Bible School to share the gospel with children, breaking down barriers between their culturally and racially separated congregations.

  07/15/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  B.H. Carroll Theological Institute moves toward ATS accreditation

  B.H. Carroll Theological Institute has moved one step closer to accreditation by the Association of Theological Schools.

  07/02/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  River Ministry shifts focus to urban centers in Mexican interior

  After more than four decades of missions work in rural villages along the Rio Grande, Texas Baptists’ River Ministry is expanding deeper into Mexico’s interior, focusing on rapidly growing cities where half the nation’s population lives.

  07/01/2015 - By Ken Camp