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UMHB students put feet to their prayers in the streets of Tokyo
Posted: 2/02/07
Four Japanese students in school uniforms asked to have their picture taken with Jennifer Jendrusch as University of Mary Hardin-Baylor students went on a prayerwalk through a Tokyo subway. UMHB students put feet to their
prayers in the streets of TokyoBy Jennifer Sicking
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
BELTON—A group of University of Mary Hardin-Baylor students recently put feet to their prayers in one of the world’s largest cities.
Four students journeyed to Tokyo, Japan, as part of Go Now Missions. In addition to sharing Christ through Christmas music and English practice, they also participated in prayerwalking.
02/02/2007 - By John Rutledge
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CYBER COLUMN by Brett Younger: Jesus’ Church
Posted: 1/29/06
CYBER COLUMN:
Jesus’ ChurchBy Brett Younger
In Fort Worth, Grace Country Cowboy Church began four years ago. Or as they put it, “a posse was formed.” They’re trying to reach out to cowboys and cowgirls who wouldn’t attend the average church. The church welcomes anyone who enjoys old-time country music. They promise to “boot scoot for Jesus and two-step on the devil.”
In Mayfield, Ky., boaters gather at Kentucky Lake every Sunday morning. They worship on the floating pavilion next to the marina restaurant. The pastor must be tempted to preach on fishers of men every service.
Brett Younger 01/29/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Explore the Bible Series for February 4: When Life Turns Upside Down
Posted: 1/25/07
Explore the Bible Series for February 4
When Life Turns Upside Down
• Esther 2:5-10, 16-17, 21-23
By Howard Anderson
Diversified Spiritual Associates, San Antonio
Mordecai and his family including Esther faced unavoidable changes. Esther most likely had no choice in becoming a candidate for queen, but she chose to make a positive adjustment to this new challenge and won the favor of the official in charge of the process. King Ahasuerus made Esther his queen, and she used her position to give a warning from Mordecai that enabled the king to thwart a royal assassination plot
When life turns upside down the Christian is encouraged to trust God in the midst of trials and tribulations. We can trust God completely in life’s situations by accepting unavoidable changes, by adjusting to new challenges, and by availing yourself of opportunities. When life turns upside down it is better to be with God, than to have life right side up without God.
Accept Unavoidable Changes (Est. 2:5-7)
“Mordecai” was taken to Shushan, the winter capital of Persia, but Daniel and Ezekiel remained in Babylon. The name Mordecai is related to the name of Marduk, the principal Babylonian deity. Here he is called “a certain Jew,” proving that the term is used of any Israelite from any tribe and not Judah only. “Shimel” may refer to the man from the family of Saul who cursed David (2 Sam. 16:5-13). “Kish” may be the father of Saul (1 Sam. 9:1-2). If these figures are the ones intended, they are Mordecai’s remote ancestors from the tribe of Benjamin.
01/26/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Politics not behind plan to unite Baptists, Underwood insists
Posted: 1/26/07
Politics not behind plan to
unite Baptists, Underwood insistsBy Robert Marus
Associated Baptist Press
MACON, Ga. (ABP)—An ambitious plan to unite Baptists in North America around the compassionate message of the gospel is not secretly a plan to get Baptists to elect Hillary Clinton as president, one of the plan’s leaders said.
Bill Underwood, a co-organizer of the effort with former President Jimmy Carter, said former President Bill Clinton’s offer to lend his star power to the upcoming Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant is not a covert political move.
01/26/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Baptists in Beirut endangered as violence escalates
Posted: 1/26/07
Baptists in Beirut endangered as violence escalates
By Robert Marus
ABP Washington Bureau
BEIRUT (ABP)—An urgent communiqué from a Lebanese Baptist leader warned that escalating violence is threatening the Beirut Baptist School.
Nabil Costa, executive director of the Lebanese Society for Educational and Social Development, sent an e-mail message Jan. 25 to friends and colleagues at Baptist institutions worldwide requesting prayer for Lebanon and for the school, which serves preschool through high-school age students. It is located near Beirut’s commercial and cultural heart.
01/26/2007 - By John Rutledge
