LifeWay Family Bible Series for Jan. 30: Addiction is the beginning of destruction_12405

Posted: 1/21/05

LifeWay Family Bible Series for Jan. 30

Addiction is the beginning of destruction

Proverbs 20:1; 23:20-21, 29-33; Romans 14:19-20; Ephesians 5:15-18

By Leroy Fenton

Baptist Standard, Dallas

01/21/2005 - By John Rutledge

Survey: Half of Americans willing to curtail rights of Muslims_12405

Posted: 1/21/05

Survey: Half of Americans
willing to curtail rights of Muslims

By Robert Marus

ABP Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (ABP)—Nearly half of all Americans would curtail the civil rights of Muslim-Americans in some way, a new survey reveals.

01/21/2005 - By John Rutledge

Around the State_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Around the State

The Pastoral Care and Counseling office of Baylor Health Care System and the Baptist General Convention of Texas is offering a 14-week course for laypeople preparing them to provide effective, compassionate spiritual care for others. The “Hands on Ministry” course will begin Jan. 20 and continue through April 28. Each session will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the East Room on the basement level of Baylor's Truett Hospital in Dallas. For more information, call (214) 820-4893 or (888) 311-3900. The training fee is $25.

Thirty-four Hardin-Simmons University December graduates were announced as honor graduates. Achieving summa cum laude status were Shaunda Kaye Eady, Danielle Clemens, Justin Tollison, Valeta Tollison, Erin Feldman, Daniel Graves, Deborah McFarland, Amanda Pullen and Lauren Ross. Magna cum laude graduates were Michelle Bailey, Crissandra Cotham, Michelle Covington, Faith Feaster, Rachael Heard, Tava Peralta, Danielle Schell, Susan Summers and Tino Velasquez. Cum laude honors went to D'Anna Brannon, Landon Day, Christina Hannin, Martin Lovvorn, Sarah Biggs, Jessica Conner, Amber Dawes, Nicolette Deveneau, Hilary Gibson, Jocelyn Lewis, Monica Lowe, Stephanie Lowe, Kimberley Mather, Brian McBride, Nathan Muramoto, and William Roberson.

Katrina Esco of Houston, a junior at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, placed first in informative speaking at the Louisana State University-Shreveport Red River Swing Tournament. Twenty-nine schools from throughout the nation competed in the tournament.

01/18/2005 - By John Rutledge

LifeWay Family Bible Series for Jan. 16: All life is to be valued as a creation of God_11005

Posted: 1/10/05
LifeWay Family Bible Series for Jan. 16

All life is to be valued as a creation of God

Exodus 1:8-21; Jeremiah 19:1-15; 33:1-26; Romans 8:1

By Leroy Fenton

Baptist Standard, Dallas

01/18/2005 - By John Rutledge

BaptistWay Bible Series for Jan. 16: Disciples of Christ should expect opposition_11005

Posted: 1/10/05
BaptistWay Bible Series for Jan. 16

Disciples of Christ should expect opposition

By Todd Still

Truett Seminary, Waco

This week’s lesson is a continuation of Jesus’ instructions to his disciples prior to their departure for ministry among “the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (10:6). Specifically, the lesson before us covers verses 16-42 of Jesus’ “missionary discourse” recorded in Matthew 10.

01/18/2005 - By John Rutledge

BaptistWay Bible Series for Jan. 23: Understand the parable to get most from seed_12405

Posted: 1/18/05

BaptistWay Bible Series for Jan. 23

Understand the parable to get most from seed

Matthew 13:1-23

By Todd Still

Truett Seminary, Waco

01/18/2005 - By John Rutledge

LifeWay Family Bible Series for Jan. 23: It is important to reach beyond racial barriers_12405

Posted: 1/18/05

LifeWay Family Bible Series for Jan. 23

It is important to reach beyond racial barriers

Luke 10:25-37

By Leroy Fenton

01/18/2005 - By John Rutledge

LifeWay Explore the Bible Series for Jan. 23: All believers should also be disciples_12405

Posted: 1/18/05
LifeWay Explore the Bible Series for Jan. 23

All believers should also be disciples

Luke 19:11-27

By Pakon Chan

Chinese Baptist Church, Arlington

01/18/2005 - By John Rutledge

Cybercolumn by Jeanie Miley: Resting in God_12405

Posted: 1/18/05

CYBER COLUMN:
Resting in God

By Jeanie Miley

When I was a child, I thought that when I got to be one of the Big People, I would have the answers to my questions and I would know how to act in any given situation. I think I must have believed, as well, that when I got to be an adult, I wouldn’t be afraid any longer.

I’ve been one of the Big People for quite some time now, and I’ve noticed that the only people who appear to have all the answers are those who really don’t. And the only people who don’t ever experience anxiety and fear are either so shut down that they don’t notice the shifts and changes in their emotions or are not able or willing to tell the truth! Or maybe they just don’t get it about how dangerous life really is!

01/18/2005 - By John Rutledge

Baptist Child & Family Services team stunned by destruction_12405

Posted: 1/14/05

Dr. Andrew Bentley of Grace Community Church, Tyler, along with pastor and translator Anthoney Anoprathepan, Believers Church in Batticaloa pray for a man he just examined and treated for minor injuries received by the Tsunami. This man and his family have been involved in violence against the pastor S. Vijyaraj (far right with hand to mouth) Several members of the man's family involved in violence which has included beating and burning of the home church were killed in the waves. At right, one of many hand made signs seen throughout the Batticaloa and Ampara regions on the east coast of Sri Lanka.

Baptist Child & Family Services team stunned by destruction

By Craig Bird

Baptist Child & Family Services

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (ABP) — Even the most graphic television images and emotional verbal descriptions couldn't prepare the American volunteer team for the devastation that is coastal Sri Lanka, one of the countries hardest hit by the Dec. 26 tsunamis.

01/14/2005 - By John Rutledge

Gonzales nomination raises concerns with some religious groups_12405

Posted: 1/14/05

Gonzales nomination raises
concerns with some religious groups

By Robert Marus

ABP Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (ABP)—Although pledging not to tolerate torture of prisoners by American soldiers or law-enforcement agents, Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales also repeatedly has refused to renounce a controversial memo his office authored in 2002 supporting the legality of torture in some cases.

01/14/2005 - By John Rutledge

Student pastor started Armored Outreach to give teens spiritual tools_12405

Posted: 1/14/05

Student pastor started Armored
Outreach to give teens spiritual tools

By Leann Callaway

Special to the Baptist Standard

MIDLAND—As youth evangelist Brad Fogarty speaks to students around the country, he draws his messages from lessons he learned while teaching and coaching in public schools. That’s where he witnessed firsthand the need to share Christian truth with students.

01/14/2005 - By John Rutledge