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  Hispanic builders make mobility easier for disabled 6-year-old girl

  Hispanic Texas Baptist Men builders typically work on large-scale construction projects. But a grandmother's plea led the men to work on a smaller job that made a huge difference in a little girl's life.

  11/06/2012 - By Administrator

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  Children’s sermons here to stay–but not without critics

  The children's sermon has its share of critics, with some calling for an end to a tradition they consider to be ineffective and inappropriate. Others say the sermons can be effective, but it would be better if churches addressed children's spiritual growth in the context of regular worship.

  11/05/2012 - By Administrator

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  Texas Baptist Men deployed for New York City in wake of Sandy

  Texas Baptist Men deployed several units – including a feeding unit capable of serving up to 30,000 meals a day – to serve in New York in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. The organization's state feeding unit and a shower/laundry unit departed Dallas Nov. 2. Mud out and chainsaw teams are expected to leave Texas for New York on Nov. 3.

  11/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  Youth need safe place to wrestle with hard questions

  Connect with students through authenticity, making churches places where they can express doubt, wrestle through hard answers about God and understand God delights in them, author Kara Powell told participants at Texas Baptists Youth Ministry Conclave in Arlington.

  11/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  Worship reflects God’s work in people’s lives

  It's time to change the way churches talk about worship, said Tom Webster, minister of music and worship at First Baptist Church in Longview and dean of the school of fine arts at East Texas Baptist University.

  11/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  New initiative uses marketplace to advance gospel outreach

  In the mountains of Ecuador, Scott Tye's small office serves as more than just a satellite for his business, based in Allen. And it does more than provide an income for eight of his employees.

  11/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  Christians should speak words of blessing, author insists

  Christians should bless people around them—particularly children and young people, said John Trent, author of The Blessing Challenge and founder and president of Strong Families.

  11/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  Singing Men of Texas see God work powerfully in Ukraine

  More than 10,000 people crowded into venues across Ukraine during the Singing Men of Texas' recent nine-concert tour.

  11/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  Father-and-son pastors offer generational lessons

  Chris Seay, pastor of Ecclesia, an emergent church in Houston, and his father Ed Seay, pastor of First Baptist Church in Magnolia, have contrasting styles, but their goals are the same.

  11/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  Minor league catcher keeps ‘close connection’ to Christ

  Chad Noble, a 24-year-old catcher for the Tennessee Smokies, carries a backpack filled with symbols of his father's journey against a foe that doesn't play games.

  11/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  Churches urged to create a culture of calling

  During a Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting workshop, George Mason, pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, outlined three steps churches and pastors need to take in order to cultivate the next generation of clergy.

  11/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  Seek and find hope in the Lamb’s agenda

  Samuel Rodriguez, pastor of New Season Christian Worship Center in Sacramento, Calif., urged Texas Baptists to find hope not in the agenda of donkeys or elephants but in the agenda of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ.

  11/02/2012 - By Administrator