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  Commentary: Black Fridays and Green Christmases

  I pray for a green Christmas instead of a black one — greenbacks in the offering plates. When we give to Global Missions or the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, we help trained missionaries keep on delivering the Gift.

  12/16/2011 - By Administrator

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  EDITORIAL: Let’s make Christmas about peace

  What if we truly celebrated the birth of the Prince of Peace this Christmas? The implications would touch our lives far more personally and intimately than we might imagine.

  12/10/2011 - By Administrator

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  DOWN HOME: Incarnate love at Christmastime

  The holidays will be extra-fun this year. It's the first Christmas for our new grandson, Ezra.

  12/10/2011 - By Administrator

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  RIGHT OR WRONG? Post-denominational

  Some people say this is a post-denominational era. Is thinking "denominationally" still valuable?

  12/09/2011 - By Administrator

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  Reading the Culture: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christmas sermons

  I have been encouraged and challenged by Dietrich Bonhoeffer 's triumphant faith. Two of his Christmas sermons especially moved me.

  12/09/2011 - By Administrator

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  IN FOCUS: Sing the carols of Christmas this year

  Christmas is the subject of a number of wonderful carols and hymns. But remember that Mary, the shepherds and even the angels had their own hymns at the time of Jesus' birth.

  12/09/2011 - By Administrator

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  2nd Opinion: Progressing toward Christmas

  When observed faithfully and progressively, Advent can prepare us for a Christmas celebration filled with mystical wonder and deep meaning—a spiritual communion that far exceeds the buzz of shallow commercialism.

  12/09/2011 - By Administrator

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  Quotes in the News

  "It's a Christmas tree. In all honesty, I don't know what more to say about it." –Cullen Werwie

  12/08/2011 - By Administrator

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  Updated: Texas Baptist Forum

  What is the true meaning of Christmas?

  12/08/2011 - By Administrator

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  EDITORIAL: This Advent season, just you wait

  We need Advent particularly badly this year. And not simply because it's a prelude to Christmas.

  11/26/2011 - By Administrator

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  DOWN HOME: Rain, imagination & our agnostic dog

  The weird thing about living in a region that enjoys (endures?) all kinds of climate is what happens to your meteorological imagination.

  11/26/2011 - By Administrator

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  Right or Wrong? Religious test for office

  Americans increasingly subject U.S. presidential candidates to questions and assumptions that amount to religious tests for their qualifications for office. How should Baptists respond to this trend?

  11/25/2011 - By Administrator