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  Rio Grande Valley: Making disciples, building relationships

  Student Missions Blog: Working full time in a ministry is hard. Each day of the week, I meet with new people—new students wanting to grow spiritually.

  09/21/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Kathy Hillman: Friday night lights, Saturday highlights & Sunday morning heights

  This year marks the 25th anniversary of Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger penned the best-seller after spending a year in Odessa experiencing the culture of Texas high school football.

  09/20/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Kingsville: #panout2015

  Student Missions Blog: After coming home from Beach Reach, our leaders at the Texas A&M University-Kingsville Baptist Student Ministry asked, “How can we bring the Beach Reach mission back to our campus?”

  09/17/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Richard Ray: Waiting-room lessons

  In this article, I want to pass along words of truth expressed recently by one of my high school classmates of 1984, John Spencer.

  09/17/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  In Touch: From Corpus Christ, to Hewitt, to Mt. Lebanon Encampment

  I enjoyed being with Pastor Scott Higginbotham and Lexington Baptist Church in Corpus Christi recently. Their mission is to lead people to passionately pursue God’s will for their lives.

  09/17/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Letters: Moral compasses & patriotism

  The political/religious hot button of the week recently was the case in Kentucky where a clerk refused to issue marriage licenses after being ordered to by a judge and was sent to jail.

  09/17/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  El Paso: Sharing the gospel every day

  Student Missions Blog: While I was at the training/staff retreat about three weeks before school started here at the University of Texas at El Paso, I felt God calling me to do something different this semester. I really sensed God telling me I needed to try to share the gospel every day.

  09/17/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Editorial: Praise God—and volunteers—for the sacrifice of time

  Every now and then, an outsider’s gob-smacked amazement at “normal” church behavior provides refreshing insight.

  09/16/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Letters: Missionaries cut, Jesus wept; Prayers for CLC, Pastors for Texas Children

  If each Southern Baptist congregation would prayerfully, honestly, consider ways to assist in maintaining the current number of missionaries, there would be no need to cut missionaries.

  09/11/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Richard Ray: Focus on compassion, and miracles will follow

  I have noticed a rise in Christians desiring to witness signs from God. They are looking everywhere for these signs, whether in worship services, during their prayer time or as they look to the sky.

  09/10/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Kathy Hillman: Thirsty? Life-giving and eternal-life-giving water

  Thirsty? Our son Marshall was thirsty, although he didn’t yet know it. Both Marshall and Michael played Little League that summer, often back-to-back. With temperatures soaring in the 90s, Marshall’s…

  09/10/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Down Home: Why use a real word when a made-up word will do?

  Hanging out with little kids will expand your vocabulary. My grandson, Ezra, recently reminded me of the word-warping, lexicon-lengthening, expression-expanding power of childhood imagination.

  09/10/2015 - By Ken Camp