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••• April 24, 2014 •••
A Catholic newspaper in British Columbia, Canada has reported that medical waste from Canada, including aborted babies, was being sent to a Marion County, Oregon power plant to be [...]
••• March 28, 2014 •••
In a case likely headed to the Supreme Court, the embattled Texas abortion law passed last summer in special session cleared another hurdle on Thursday (March 27) as the federal 5t [...]
••• January 24, 2014 •••
A New Mexico judge has ruled that terminally ill patients have a right to “aid in dying” under the state’s constitution but that such actions are not assisted sui [...]
••• December 18, 2013 •••
“I only play to an audience of one.” I recently read this Christian version of “I don’t listen to my critics” in an interview with a pretty flamboyant [...]
‘Ask me why I serve’
By: Jane Rodgers | April 22nd, 2014
BURKBURNETT—Sporting aprons embellished with the motto “Ask me why I serve,” the 30-plus members of the men’s ministry cooking team of First Baptist Church of Burkburnett have been dishing up main courses, side dishes and the Bread of Life to community and church groups in the Burkburnett area since 2010. The idea for the team originated after men of First Baptist Burkburn [...]
Free @home app offers weekly family and marriage helps
By: Sharayah Colter, Staff Writer | April 22nd, 2014
Free marriage and family resources became even more accessible, April 1, when the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention launched its “@home” family ministry app. After a quick, no-cost download from the app store, users can find guides for weekly family devotionals, 5 to 8 minute videos on marriage and an assortment of other resources, all geared toward helping families grow together a [...]
Filipino village awakened to gospel by SBTC’s Disaster Relief efforts
By: Jane Rodgers | April 22nd, 2014
A small-scale awakening continues in Agojo, the Filipino fishing village in the province of Capiz devastated by Typhoon Haiyan last November, as disaster relief workers minister there under the direction of Garry and Sherry McDugle of Bois d’Arc Baptist Church in Palestine.The McDugles, coordinators for the effort and disaster relief chaplains with the Southern Baptists of Texas Conven [...]
Alvord church touts CP’s global impact
By: Sharayah Colter, Staff Writer | April 22nd, 2014
ALVORD—Hopewell Baptist Church, nestled a few curvy miles off Highway 287 in North Texas, is a modest church. It offers a nursery as needed, has one Sunday School class and fits all its announcements on a small corkboard outside a two-stall bathroom that the pastor and his wife clean themselves. But for Hopewell Baptist, small would be a misnomer.Hopewell Baptist operates on a big-vision min [...]
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April 15th, 2014 By: Jerry Pierce | Editor
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Killeen church bends knees in prayer for Fort Hood
April 3rd, 2014 By: Jerry Pierce | Editor
KILLEEN—The congregation of Skyline Baptist Church in Killeen, near the sprawling Fort Hood Army [...]
The Language of Love
March 31st, 2014 By: Texan Staff
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Criswell College affirms missions emphasis with Great Commission Week
April 22nd, 2014 / By: Jane Rodgers
DALLAS—Criswell College hosted 37 representatives of 17 missions organizations on campus during Great Commission Days, March 24-25, part of the school’s annual Great Commission Week. Missions organizations set up booths and representatives spoke in classes, said Bobby Worthington, Criswell professor and director of applied ministry.Great Commission chapel services enriched the weeklong [...]
Texas missionary shares gospel in Poland through English classes
April 22nd, 2014 / By: Sue Sprenkle
LUBAWA, Poland—At first, Bailey Hughes didn’t want to go to Poland. She crossed it off her list of possible missionary destinations. She’d “been there, done that” as a tourist and wanted a new and challenging adventure.Six years later, the Keller native said that God could not have found a more “personal” place of ministry for her than northeastern Poland. [...]
Crimean Baptists face uncertain times
April 22nd, 2014 / By: Nicole Lee
KIEV, Ukraine—Baptist workers in Russia and Ukraine are uncertain what effect the recent Crimean referendum to secede from Ukraine and join Russia will have on churches in the region.Although there is freedom of religion in Russia, national identity is tied to the Orthodox Church. Protestant denominations, which are classified as cults, are treated with mistrust. Laws related to religious ac [...]
Trustees approve new apologetics master’s degree, elect four professors
April 22nd, 2014 / By: Sharayah Colter | Staff Writer
FORT WORTH—Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary trustees approved the formation of a Board of Visitors and elected new faculty members, among other business, at a meeting on the school’s campus April 9. The Board of Visitors acts as purely an observatory and feedback-supplying body, and its members have no legal responsibility or authority to the seminary.“They don’t h [...]
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