December 9, 2002

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• 'Starter marriages' called an American trend with a high social price
• 40 Days of Purpose brings big results in Kaufman
• Amazing Grace & race examined in new history
• ANOTHER VIEW: God expects each Christian to live a purpose-driven life
• Anti-abortion license plates allowed
• Around the State
• Baptist Briefs
• Barna poll: Non-Christians not impressed with evangelicals
• Be careful, not to distract others from worship
• Be victorious when wrestling with life's gray areas
• BGCT communications adds two
• BGCT's church-bond unit will cease operations
• Bush's 'compassionate conservatism' derailed by politics, DiIulio cautions
• Christ's birth broadcasts a summons to all people
• Christ, the Savior, came for regular Joes & Jane
• Christmas begins in Pearl when choir sings
• Classified Ads
• coming of God to restore & redeem the world, The
• CYBERCOLUMN: Away in a manger
• District of Columbia convention faces financial challenges due to changes
• DOWN HOME:The nose knows to make scents
• EDITORIAL: Scary mirror: Confronting America's spiritual ignorance
• Fort Worth church employs creative funding to get a new building erected
• God is the Giver of all good things, including sex
• HE SAID/ SHE SAID : The Influence of a Christian Father
• Hispanic church grows with English switch
• Ho Ho Helpers
• It's just Saturday, but Sunday is coming soon
• Make certain Lord's Supper is honoring to Christ
• More than just a part of speech, make love a verb
• Morgan elected Samford vice president
• On the Move
• Practice spiritual gifts according to 'the way of love'
• Printer-friendly story list
• Program breathes LIFE into Sunday School
• promise of the resurrection eliminates death, The
• Reflect the light that shines in the darkness
• Research Institute locates at Southwestern Semi
• Rural Texas church baptizes 44 people in a six-week period this fall
• Silence can lead to a time of profound discovery
• Supreme Court will decide sodomy case from Texas
• Texas Baptist Forum
• Texas Baptist layman helped make 'Amazing Grace popular, but with a twist
• Texas Tidbits
• This church's 'Sleeper Sunday' is no time to catch a few winks
• TOGETHER: Exercise stewardship with a will

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