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  Christmas Loss: Suggested Reading

  Pastors recommended the following books as particularly helpful to people who have experienced loss and to Christians who are seeking to minister to them.

  12/09/2010 - By admin

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  Joy and happiness not the same thing, pastors insist

  Christians can experience joy even in loss—provided they don’t confuse joy with happiness but accept it as a gift from God, several pastors noted.

  12/09/2010 - By admin

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  Christmas loss: How to help

  Chaplain Mark Grace vice president of mission and ministry at Baylor Health Care System, offers suggestions to churches as they seek to minister to people who have sustained loss.

  12/09/2010 - By admin

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  Christmas on Fifth Street lights up Baylor campus

  Christmas on Fifth Street brought more than 8,000 people to the Baylor University campus Dec. 2 for a live nativity scene, musical performances, carriage rides, a petting zoo, pictures with Santa and a tree lighting.

  12/09/2010 - By admin

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  Forgiveness for black church arsons theme of new drama

  Marcus Gardley's latest production, Every Tongue Confess, seeks answers to the questions that swirled around the spate of arsons that hit black churches in the South in the 1990s.

  12/09/2010 - By admin

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  Charity warns: beware of holiday debt

  A Christian debt-counseling charity in the United Kingdom is calling on people to avoid using credit cards and loans to pay for their Christmas shopping this year.

  12/09/2010 - By Administrator

• Texas Tidbits

  The East Texas Baptist University centennial council held its first meeting to develop a vision of how ETBU best may fulfill its mission over the next 25 years.

  12/08/2010 - By admin

• On the Move

  Kerry Horn to First Church in Eagle Lake as pastor.

  12/08/2010 - By admin

• Around the State

  The B.H. Carroll Theological Institute will hold an open house at its new office location at 301 S. Center, Suite 100, in Arlington from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 14.

  12/08/2010 - By admin

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  NAMB trustee resigns

  A trustee has resigned from the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board saying he does not share the vision of the agency's new president.

  12/08/2010 - By Administrator

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  Baylor parents bond over call to prayer

  Each month, 67 groups of Baylor parents from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., Minneapolis to the Rio Grande Valley, meet together for “First Call to Prayer,” blanketing the Baylor campus in prayer and bringing peace of mind to participants.

   

  12/07/2010 - By admin

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  Harry Potter presents a gospel narrative, professor says

  A bespectacled teenaged wizard with a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead may not fit most people’s picture of Christ, but Christian pop culture observer Greg Garrett definitely sees the similarities.

   

  12/07/2010 - By Administrator