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  Updated analysis: Texas CLC sets legislative priorities

  More than three months into the 83rd Texas Legislative Session, the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission is giving priority attention to bills ranging from payday lending limits to expansion of legalized gambling.

  04/07/2013 - By John Rutledge

• On the Move: Jon Clark

  Jon Clark to Trinity Baptist Church in Fort Worth as pastor from New Hope Baptist Church in Aubrey, where he was youth minister.

  04/05/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Around the State: Marshall at Matson Lectures

  Molly Marshall, president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Kan., will deliver the T.B. Maston Lectures in Christian ethics at Hardin-Simmons University April 8-9.

  04/05/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Texas Tidbits: Buckner partners with radio network

  K-LOVE, a Christian radio network with an estimated 14 million weekly audience in 47 states, is working in a fund-raising partnership with Buckner International’s Shoes for Orphan Souls ministry.

  04/05/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Faith Digest: Lego says Jabba set not anti-Islam

  Danish toymaker Lego is defending its Star Wars-based Jabba the Hutt building-blocks set after a Turkish cultural group said it promulgates negative stereotypes of Muslims.

  04/05/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Dark-skinned portrayals of Satan have a long history

  When some people recently started questioning whether the Satan character on The Bible miniseries resembled President Obama, others posed a broader question: Why does Satan need to be dark-skinned at all?

  04/05/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Pastor says numerical success not ministry measure

  Jim Somerville says now is the perfect time to start seeing the church less as an institution to be preserved and more as a force for change in society.

  04/05/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Is small the new big for Millennials?

  The early Christian congregations were small enough to meet in homes. The first Baptists sought to emulate the pattern. Then came the megachurches. Where-to next?

  04/05/2013 - By John Rutledge

• Obituary: Ernest Atkinson, 89

  Death: Ernest Atkinson, 89, home missionary and former dean of Mexican Baptist Bible Institute.

  04/05/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Students share gospel during Spring Break mission trips

  From Padre Island to New York to Nicaragua, Baptist Student Ministries volunteers from Texas Baptist Universities left their comfort zones and shared the love of Jesus during Spring Break.

  04/04/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Irving churches on a mission to reach their community

  Instead of spending their spring break hitting the beach or other vacation spots, volunteers from four Irving churches hit the streets of Irving on a mission for Jesus.

  04/04/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Cowboy churches ‘fan the flame’ of evangelism

  Leaders from cowboy churches across the state gathered at the Mesquite Rodeo Arena for inspiration, information and fellowship meant to spur them to share the gospel when they returned home.

  04/03/2013 - By John Rutledge