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  letters_62303

  Posted: 6/20/03

  TEXAS BAPTIST FORUM:
  No compulsory creeds

  A recent letter suggested B.H. Carroll, James P. Boyce, John Broaddus and E.Y. Mullins all used confessions of faith in a creedal manner (June 2). I beg to differ.

  In the “Centennial Story of Texas Baptists,” published in 1939, the editor summarizes 12 Baptist distinctives that have generally characterized Baptists since our beginnings.

  E-mail the editor at marvknox@baptiststandard.com

  Articles 7 and 8 state:

  06/20/2003 - By John Rutledge

• little_tommy_62303

  Posted: 6/20/03

  Toombs' 'Little Tommy'
  character headed to Texas camps

  By Leann Callaway

  Special to the Standard

  Wearing red overalls and a yellow baseball hat, Tom Toombs looks like a big kid.

  06/20/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  onthemove_62303

  Posted: 6/20/03

  On the Move

  Kimberly Case to Windsor Park Church in DeSoto as children's ministries director.

  Michael Carter to North Naples Church in Naples, Fla., as associate pastor and youth director from River Road Church in Amarillo, where he was pastor.

  Jamie Curry to First Church in Floresville as youth minister.

  06/20/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  opportunity_camp_62303

  Posted: 6/20/03

  Particpants in this year's Opportunity Camp play a baseball game in the open spaces of East Texas Baptist Encampment, where they find open arms and open hearts as well.

  Opportunity knocks at this camp
  for Texas' hard-knocks teenagers

  By George Henson

  Staff Writer

  NEWTON–With boys everywhere, at first glance this could be a Royal Ambassador camp. Boys are playing basketball, talking to counselors, wondering how much longer until dinner.

  06/20/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  sbc_annuity_62303

  Posted: 6/20/03

  Hawkins reports on
  Annuity Board options, urges fitness

  By Tony Martin

  Mississippi Baptist Record

  PHOENIX–In a climate of uncertain financial stability, O.S. Hawkins gave a glimmer of hope to participants in the Annuity Board's investment programs.

  06/20/2003 - By John Rutledge

• sbc_chaplains_62303

  Posted: 6/20/03

  Appeal on chaplains policy tops SBC business

  By Bob Terry

  Alabama Baptist

  PHOENIX–Should Southern Baptist military chaplains be ordained ministers?

  06/20/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  sbc_gaytaskforce_62303

  Posted: 6/20/03

  SBC appeals to homosexuals to become heterosexual

  By Greg Warner

  Associated Baptist Press

  PHOENIX (ABP)–The Southern Baptist Convention wants its churches to begin “ministries of compassion” to homosexuals to encourage them to abandon the gay lifestyle.

  06/20/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  sbc_rankin_62303

  Posted: 6/20/03

  Rankin: 'Break down wall of Islam'

  By Jennifer Davis Rash

  Alabama Baptist

  PHOENIX–International Mission Board President Jerry Rankin sent out an urgent plea to help “break down the wall” of Islam during the closing session of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 18.

  06/20/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  sbc_resolutions_62303

  Posted: 6/20/03

  SBC resolves families need help, decries gay unions

  By Marv Knox

  Editor

  PHOENIX–Southern Baptists punctuated key themes of their annual gathering with statements affirming “kingdom families” and condemning homosexual unions.

  06/20/2003 - By John Rutledge

• sbc_stith_62303

  Posted: 6/20/03

  Texas pastor explains change of view

  PHOENIX–The Texas pastor whose request launched the Southern Baptist Convention's new initiative on homosexuality said his views on the controversial topic have changed under conviction from God.

  Bob Stith, pastor of Carroll Baptist Church in Southlake, told SBC messengers that in the past he had been “your typical hard-nosed, redneck pastor on the subject of homosexuality.”

  “Everything I said in conversations and sermons was harsh,” he acknowledged. “Then I sensed God saying something to me one day, asking me if someone who was struggling with that heard me preach, would they come to me for help. I realized that they would not come to me, and if they did I would not have much to offer them.”

  06/20/2003 - By John Rutledge

• sbc_theme_62303

  Posted 6/20/03

  SBC speakers promote kingdom, family

  By Tony Cartledge

  North Carolina Biblical Recorder

  PHOENIX, Ariz.–Theme interpreters focused on the kingdom of God and crises facing the church during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 17-18.

  06/20/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  sbc_wives_62303

  Posted: 6/20/03

  Women are 'jewels' of God's creation, humorist says

  By Stacey Hamby

  Midwestern Seminary

  PHOENIX (BP)–Liz Curtis Higgs delivered her trademark humor to nearly 1,000 women at the Ministers' Wives Conference luncheon June 17 during the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in Phoenix.

  06/20/2003 - By John Rutledge