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Texas Tidbits_120803
Posted: 12/05/03
Texas Tidbits
ETBU honors nine. The College of Marshall and East Texas Baptist University honored nine alumni during homecoming weekend: Madeleine Hall of Marshall received the Sallie Duncan Life Enrichment Award; Louise Bates of Mount Pleasant received the Frank Groner School Development Award; Clarence Parker of Dallas received the John Hugh Hill Scholarly Achievement Award; Rita Storie Turner of Tyler received the Wesley Smith Achievement Award; Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim of Pittsburg received the W.T. Tardy Service Award; Rudy Robbins of Bandera received the Alumni Achievement Award; Dana Rice of Longview received the Young Alumnus Award; Bobby Spross of Orange and Frank Beeman of Crescent City, Fla., each received Unsung Hero Awards.
Joe Sharp Sharp re-elected to lead HSU board. Joe Sharp of Granbury has been re-elected chairman of the Hardin-Simmons University board of trustees. Other trustee officers include Hilton Hemphill of Dallas, vice chairman; Inez Kelley of Houston, secretary; and Fred Aurbach of Dallas, vice chair and assistant secretary. DBU honors Hamilton and Estes. Dallas Baptist University honored Wayne Hamilton and Weldon Estes during the Alumni Homecoming Banquet. Hamilton, currently the longest serving executive director of the Republican Party of Texas, received the 2003 DBU Distinguished Alumnus Award. Hamilton and his wife, Kara, live in Elgin and are members of Highpointe Baptist Church. Estes, who has served as a professor at Dallas Baptist University 30 years, was named the Honorary Alumnus. He and his wife, Elizabeth, are members of First Baptist Church of Dallas. 12/05/2003 - By John Rutledge
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TOGETHER: Advent transforms darkness to light_120803
Posted: 12/05/03
TOGETHER:
Advent transforms darkness to lightWhile serving a Baptist church in Germany nearly 40 years ago, I learned about Advent, the season of anticipation and preparation for many Christians who celebrate at Christmas the birth of Jesus Christ. And it was a time of awakening for me.
As our family observed Advent, it made sense to me. It reminded me that darkness can be penetrated by light. The first step of Advent is to consider anew the darkness, the confusion and the hopelessness that prevailed before the coming of Jesus. There had been 400 years of prophetic silence before Jesus' birth. The Jews, God's covenant people, had suffered greatly under Greek and Roman tyranny. They awaited the Messiah. Would the promise be fulfilled?
CHARLES WADE
Executive Director
BGCT Executive Board
The angel Gabriel said to a virgin girl: “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” And it scared her. It would me too! “Don't be afraid, Mary. You have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High.”
12/05/2003 - By John Rutledge
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Baptistway Bible Study for Texas for Dec. 21: The birth narrative_112403
Posted: 12/01/03
For use on Dec. 21
Luke 2:8-20
The birth narrative
By Gary Long
12/01/2003 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Baptist Forum_112403
Posted: 11/24/03
TEXAS BAPTIST FORUM:
Doctrine & missionsKeith Eitel's letter, supported by Paige Patterson and sent to trustees of the International Mission Board, states that doctrinal issues, especially those involving women in places of authority over men, form the foundation for jettisoning all involvement with heretical missionary groups (Nov. 3).
E-mail the editor at marvknox@baptiststandard.com
Women are denigrated, as usual, and missionary groups who fail to follow the leader should be dropped.
Eitel, described as “one of the cutting-edge missiologists of our day,” can be seen, perhaps, as the user-friendly spokesman for fundamentalists. The “cutting” has already been accomplished in seminaries and workplaces across the convention. Those who were uprooted and cast out with neither grace nor concern are still feeling the rough “edge” to these actions.
11/30/2003 - By John Rutledge
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Cybercolumn: Preparing for Christmas by Brett Younger_112403
Posted 11/25/03
CYBERCOLUMN:
Preparing for ChristmasBy Brett Younger
Those of us who don’t count shopping days until Christmas are counting the days until we have to start counting shopping days until Christmas. We need to stop and ask, “What do we really want for Christmas?”
Brett Younger In addition to a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream, Cotton Bowl tickets and an IOU for a copy of “Who Moved My Pulpit: A Brief Amusing Guide to Almost Everything Ministerial” by Brett Younger (available in March, Smyth & Helwys Publishing) we are all waiting for a moment when we feel the Spirit of Christmas. Some of the busyness of the holidays comes from our attempts to create a lump in the throat.
11/25/2003 - By John Rutledge
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BaptistWay Bible Study for Texas for Dec. 7: Jesus the only fix for broken lives_112403
Posted: 11/24/03
Dec. 7
1 John 1:1-2:2
Jesus the only fix for broken lives
By Gary Long
11/21/2003 - By John Rutledge
