• Hobby Lobby gives OK Baptists $2 million

  Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby has donated $2 million to the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma for purchase of an Assemblies of God youth camp near Davis, Okla.

  09/27/2012 - By Administrator

• See You at the Pole draws prayerful teenagers

  About a million teenagers at schools across the nation and the world gathered Sept. 26 for the 22nd annual See You at the Pole global day of student prayer.

  09/27/2012 - By Administrator

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  Baptist Briefs

  The Christ Is Our Salvation Foundation provided a $250,000 grant to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship to produce church resources, including "Dawnings: Welcoming a New Day in Your Church's Missional Journey."

  09/27/2012 - By Administrator

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  Texas Tidbits

  "Baptists and the Shaping of American Culture," a conference sponsored by the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor's Center for Baptist Studies and the College of Christian Studies, will be held Oct. 12-13 on the UMHB campus.

  09/26/2012 - By Administrator

• On the Move

  Doug Beck has resigned as pastor of First Church in Dorchester.

  09/26/2012 - By Administrator

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  Faith Digest: Jesus’ wife?

  A Harvard Divinity School professor claims a newly revealed fragment of papyrus offers fresh evidence some early Christians may have believed Jesus was married.

  09/26/2012 - By Administrator

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  Around the State

  Stephen Evans, Baylor University professor of philosophy and humanities, won first place in the C.S. Lewis Book Prize Competition.

  09/26/2012 - By Administrator

• BGCT Executive Board recommends flat budget for 2013

  The Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board voted to recommend to the state convention a flat budget for the third consecutive year.

  09/25/2012 - By Administrator

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  Tallowood members join Interstate intercession for trafficking victims

  Against the buzzing background of cars, trucks and big rigs traveling Interstate 10, members of Tallowood Baptist Church take a monthly stand against human trafficking that occurs on the highway behind them.

  09/21/2012 - By Administrator

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  Closed communion? Not in most Southern Baptist churches

  Most Southern Baptist churches permit anyone who has put his or her faith in Jesus Christ to participate in the Lord's Supper, according to a recent survey by LifeWay Research.

  09/21/2012 - By Administrator

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  Fort Bend pastor nominated for BGCT first VP post

  Byron Stevenson, founding pastor of The Fort Bend Church in Sugar Land, will be nominated for first vice president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

  09/19/2012 - By Administrator

• Houston mission centers seek to prevent trafficking

  For residents of neighborhoods served by Houston Mission Centers, human trafficking isn't something that happens on the other side of the world. Sex and labor trafficking are atrocities that victimize their family members, friends and neighbors.

   

  09/19/2012 - By Administrator