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Here's a first look at the Baptist Standard issue for March 4, 2002. Just click on the story links below to see the entire article on our website at www.baptiststandard.com


FRONT PAGE
--East Texas Baptists will assist inmates' families
--Texas Baptists celebrate dedication of Baylor's Truett Seminary

--BGCT establishes transitional fund for IMB missionaries who won't sign
--IMB says BGCT is 'manufacturing a crisis'
--Rankin says no creed being imposed

TEXAS BAPTISTS
--East Texas Baptists will assist inmates' families
--Texas Baptists celebrate dedication of Baylor's Truett Seminary
--High teen pregnancy rates spark interest in True Love Waits events
--Community forms character, CLC says
--BGCT Executive Board approves chaplains board
--BGCT establishes transitional fund for IMB missionaries who won't sign
--'Cease and desist' from harming states, SBC leaders admonished
--Baylor regents approve $200 million bond issue
--Baylor to launch Honors College
--Truett Seminary dean asks churches to endow student scholarship funds
--Texas Tidbits.


BAPTIST NEWS
--First trial of Arizona Baptist Foundation case starts this week
--CBF doesn't plan to pick up IMB missionaries, Vestal says
--CBF reports increase in chaplains

RELIGION
--God is on America's side, Ashcroft tells NRB
--Supreme Court hears school voucher case
--Graham convenes summit on AIDS

OPINION
--Editorials: Historic Baptist freedom imperiled on multiple fronts
--Another View by Ken Hall: BGCT institutions make a difference
--Charles Wade: BGCT helps courageous missionaries
--Down Home: How apples and jeans are alike
--He Said/ She Said
--Texas Baptist Forum

BIBLE STUDY
--Commentaries on Explore the Bible and Family Bible Study LifeWay lessons for March 3.
--Commentaries on Explore the Bible and Family Bible Study LifeWay lessons for March 10.
--Commentaries on Explore the Bible and Family Bible Study LifeWay lessons for March 17.
--Commentaries on Bible Study for Texas for March 3 , 10, 17 , 24 , 31

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