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Here's a first look at the Baptist Standard issue for July 1, 2002.
Just click on the story links below to see the entire article on our website at www.baptiststandard.com

(No issue will be posted for July 8. The next Baptist Standard will be
dated July 15. Your next FirstLook will be sent out Friday, July 12. Have a great July 4 holiday!)

FRONT PAGE
• FIRED UP FOR SERVICE: Texas Baptist Men aid Arizona fire efforts
  
• Garland church seeks God through grief of fatal bus crash
  
  
• SPECIAL REPORT:
  GARLAND CHURCH BUS TRAGEDY
  
• Garland church seeks God through grief of fatal bus crash
• Canton church opened doors
• Churches urged to kick the tires on bus companies
• 1972 bus wreck took 19 lives of Texas Baptists
  
  TEXAS
  
• FIRED UP FOR SERVICE: Texas Baptist Men aid Arizona fire efforts
• Hispanic Baptists commit to missions challenges in Texas
• Gregory steps down as president of Howard Payne
• Longview church gives everything but the kitchen sink
• Widows of Retiree Builders keep volunteers in prayers
• Texans minister at World Cup venue in Japan
• Texas Tidbits
  
  BAPTISTS
• Former SBC missionary confesses inappropriate contact with children
• Baptist Briefs
  
  RELIGION
• Pledge and vouchers cases put church-state in spotlight
  
  OPINION
  
• EDITORIAL: Baptists should champion liberty for all Americans
  
• DOWN HOME: Perspective can distort reality
• TOGETHER: Lift together to bring Texas to Jesus
  
• HE SAID/ SHE SAID
  
• CYBER COLUMN
  
  BIBLE STUDY
  
• Commentaries on Explore the Bible and Family Bible Study LifeWay lessons for June 30.
  
• EXPLORE THE BIBLE for 7/14 : Sin's snowball can lead to life in the nether regions
• FAMILY BIBLE SERIES for 7/14: What words will make up your spiritual epitaph?
  
  
• Bible Study for Texas 6/30: Christ has provided us a new relationship with God
• Bible Study for Texas 7/7: Remain faithful to God, no matter what happens
• Bible Study for Texas 7/14: If fear is the poison of Satan, then love is the anti-venom
• Bible Study for Texas 7/21: James supplies answers to some of life's pop tests
• Bible Study for Texas 7/28: Like God, Christians should not show favoritism

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