BGCT Columns
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Kathy Hillman: Showers of blessing
09/25/2015 - By John Rutledge
Texas Baptists have showered my family with blessings, and they continue to shower our state with blessings.
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Kathy Hillman: Friday night lights, Saturday highlights & Sunday morning heights
09/20/2015 - By John Rutledge
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger penned the best-seller after spending a year in Odessa experiencing the culture of Texas high school football.
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Richard Ray: Waiting-room lessons
09/17/2015 - By John Rutledge
In this article, I want to pass along words of truth expressed recently by one of my high school classmates of 1984, John Spencer.
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In Touch: From Corpus Christ, to Hewitt, to Mt. Lebanon Encampment
09/17/2015 - By John Rutledge
I enjoyed being with Pastor Scott Higginbotham and Lexington Baptist Church in Corpus Christi recently. Their mission is to lead people to passionately pursue God’s will for their lives.
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Richard Ray: Focus on compassion, and miracles will follow
09/10/2015 - By Ken Camp
I have noticed a rise in Christians desiring to witness signs from God. They are looking everywhere for these signs, whether in worship services, during their prayer time or as they look to the sky.
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Kathy Hillman: Thirsty? Life-giving and eternal-life-giving water
09/10/2015 - By Ken Camp
Thirsty? Our son Marshall was thirsty, although he didn’t yet know it. Both Marshall and Michael played Little League that summer, often back-to-back. With temperatures soaring in the 90s, Marshall’s…
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Kathy Hillman: Mary, Lottie, Annie, BGCT and Baptist-ese
09/07/2015 - By John Rutledge
Do you speak Baptist-ese? More specifically, do you understand Texas Baptist-ese? My family has spoken it for generations, so I learned the language along with English.
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Kathy Hillman: Texas Baptists: Move out, move on, move up, move forward
08/31/2015 - By John Rutledge
Texas Baptist university campuses swarm with students moving in for a new semester. Meanwhile, Texas Baptist employees moved out of the Baptist Building in Dallas and into new facilities at Rambler Park in Dallas.
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Richard Ray: Remain faithful to calling, wherever God calls
08/31/2015 - By John Rutledge
I recently had the honor of assisting Fairy Baptist Church in celebrating its 50th anniversary of service by Pastor Bob Ray and his wife, Rosalind. As you may have guessed, Bob and Rosalind are also my parents.
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Kathy Hillman: School days
08/24/2015 - By John Rutledge
On the first day of school, girls and boys feel excited butterflies, and parents say goodbye with misty eyes. Most importantly, educators still make a difference.
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In Touch: The rhythms of life
08/21/2015 - By John Rutledge
We serve a God who appreciates rhythm. He has placed an obvious rhythm to our lives, and with it come many blessings.
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Kathy Hillman: Music, the universal heart language of worship
08/17/2015 - By John Rutledge
Once upon a time, church size and location determined music presentation that consisted primarily of choirs, solos and ensembles accompanied by piano and/or organ. Not so now.