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  In Touch: Sweet spirit at Executive Board meeting

  I am so grateful for our fellow Texas Baptists who willingly take time away from their homes, families and work to come and serve on our Executive Board. 

  03/17/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Response to hunger: ‘Whatever’ it takes

  Increasingly, a “whatever” attitude is souring the taste of our entire life experience.

  03/17/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Letters: Change back to the past

  We keep talking about change. I believe we need to change back to the past.

  03/17/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Right or Wrong? Human & civil rights

  Are “civil rights” and “human rights” synonymous? How are these terms interrelated? In what contexts are they used appropriately?

  03/14/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Down Home: What I’m giving up—and not giving up on—for Lent

  Joanna and I had what we would call a “healthy” discussion about what I decided to give up for Lent.

  03/14/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Editorial: The knock-kneed need not apply

  The BGCT must transform itself in order to achieve a successful, effective future. But it’s time to act boldly, not play it safe.

  03/14/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  2nd Opinion: God at work, just 1,300 light years away

  God’s creation still is being created. That may be an awkward way to state this fact, but it’s true.

  03/14/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  West Africa: Planting seeds, reaping harvest

  Student Missions Blog: Ministering to the Hausa people of West Africa presents a challenge. They number 30 million men, women and children, and 99 percent of them are unreached by the gospel.

  03/13/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Middle East: Learning lessons

  Student Missions Blog: If there is one thing I learned recently, it is the importance of flexibility. 

  03/12/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Midwestern: ‘God, use me’

  Student Missions Blog: “God, use me. I don’t even care what that looks like. Use me however you see fit.”

  03/11/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Remember your calling

  This week, I would like to share how the Bivocational/Small Church Association is striving to meet the need of affordable health care insurance for those serving in our Texas Baptist churches as pastors and staff.

  03/07/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Missions mobilizers can help your church ‘get it’

  The BGCT can equip your laypeople as leaders of no-cost, simple congregations among unreached pockets of people in your community.

  03/07/2014 - By John Rutledge