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  Editorial: Right words for wrong times

  The words we say to and about one another and when we say them matters. Speaking the right words in these wrong times may be easier than we realize.

  10/23/2019 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Bruce Webb: The joy of seeing people come to know Jesus

  Bruce Webb, the pastor of The Woodlands First Baptist Church, shares his background and thoughts on the church and ministry.

  10/22/2019 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Voices: MacArthur on Moore and women in ministry

  Todd Still, dean of Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary, responds to John MacArthur telling Beth Moore to “go home,” and discuses what the Bible says about women preaching and leading in ministry.

  10/21/2019 - By Todd Still

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  Voices: Atatiana Jefferson matters, and so does the church’s response

  Atatiana matters, who she was matters, what happened to her matters, how we feel about this and why matters, and inasmuch as the church is the earthly representative of Atatiana’s Creator, what the church does matters.

  10/18/2019 - By Dr. Michael Bell

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  Editorial: The best escape from bad news

  With so much bad news, we may want to stick our heads in the sand or turn the channel. There’s another, counterintuitive way to escape bad news.

  10/17/2019 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Voices: Grieving a friend: Eddy Curry

  John Whitten remembers his friend and mentor, Eddy Curry, who died unexpectedly in August 2019, sharing grief tinged with hope and gratitude.

  10/17/2019 - By John Whitten

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  Voices: Mourning the past at the expense of embracing the present and future

  Baptist churches in Texas are struck with the particular kind of challenge of having had good days and now living in leaner ones. We have a choice to make: to be afraid or to be faithful.

  10/17/2019 - By Myles Werntz

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  Jason Atchley: The home is the primary place for family ministry

  Jason Atchley, the lead pastor of Bacon Heights Baptist Church in Lubbock and second vice president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, shares his background and thoughts on ministry and the church.

  10/16/2019 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Letter: Seminary president seeks to build bridges

  A Baptist Standard reader responds to comments made by Adam Greenway, newly-elected president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, during an interview with Ken Camp, managing editor of the Baptist Standard.

  10/14/2019 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Editorial: Our caricatures of each other are a plague we can eradicate

  There is a mind-altering and highly contagious disease among us. It has a single name and a multitude of expressions. And it can be eradicated.

  10/09/2019 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Voices: The shadow of grief

  Last time I was home, riding the backroads of Northeast Texas to the cemetery where Mom is buried, passing through the shadows of the overhanging trees and into the light of the late morning, around every curve God reminded me this is the journey of life in a broken world.

  10/09/2019 - By Zac Harrel

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  Voices: Forming authentic faith at the university

  What reputation should you or I want today for the future? What sort of influence should we have, and will we be identified with it? Jerry Summers of East Texas Baptist University considers how we pursue authentic Christian faith.

  10/08/2019 - By Jerry L. Summers / East Texas Baptist University