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• Three honored during annual Texas Baptist Missions Foundation Awards Luncheon

  
  We Are Texas Baptists — Authority: 127
  HOUSTON – The Texas Baptist Missions Foundation celebrated 25 years of service during its annual mission awards luncheon Nov. 16 during the Annual Meeting of Texas Baptists. This year, more than 200 people gathered as the TBMF gave special honor to those ministries who have worked to spread the hope of Christ ...
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• The story of a food pantry

  
  We Are Texas Baptists — Authority: 127
  Part of the fun of the Annual Meeting is the people you run into. Late this afternoon I met Roy Guerrero, a member of First Baptist Church in Granite Shoals. Two years ago he and his wife started a food pantry at his church in wake of area flooding. What began with two shelves of food has morphed over time into a ...
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• Seeing the spectrum of salvation

  
  We Are Texas Baptists — Authority: 127
  HOUSTON – “Baptists have been experts at telling the story of salvation for a long time … it’s what we do,” explained Duane Brooks, pastor of Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston. But, Brooks said, Baptists often share an incomplete story. “The nature of salvation is much richer and broader than the ...
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• Serving the incognito Christ

  
  We Are Texas Baptists — Authority: 127
  What would happen if 1 million Texas Baptists did one act of kindness a day? That would result in 7 million acts of kindness in a week, 60 million acts in two months and 365 millions acts of kindness in a year. If this were to happen, other Texans would likely take notice and great things would occur, according to ...
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• Officers elected

  
  We Are Texas Baptists — Authority: 127
  David Lowrie has been elected president. Ed Jackson has been elected fist vice president. John Ogletree has been elected second vice president. Each of them were selected by acclamation. Things are flying along in this first session. We’re running way ahead of time.
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• Denison: Awakening comes with admitting need, much prayer

  
  We Are Texas Baptists — Authority: 127
  Jim Denison leads a workshop at the Annual Meeting of Texas Baptists. HOUSTON – Following the patterns of the four Great Awakenings the world has previously experienced, Texas Baptists Theologian-in-Residence Jim Denison said what is truly needed to ignite the same flame in Texas is simply prayer. Denison ...
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• More than 1,900 embrace hope of Christ

  
  We Are Texas Baptists — Authority: 127
  With their eyes closed and their hearts open, more than 1,900 people across the Houston area embraced a relationship with Christ through City Reach evangelism efforts in the weeks leading up the Annual Meeting of Texas Baptists. Sitting in prison cells, stopping on street corners, watching extreme sports athletes ...
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• Hispanic Baptist Fellowship embraces Texas Hope 2010

  
  We Are Texas Baptists — Authority: 127
  HOUSTON – With hands raised, more than 300 Hispanic Texas Baptists old and young prayed, worshipped and fellowshipped in their heart language of Spanish, celebrating what God has done in and through them during the past year. The Hispanic Baptist Fellowship met the night before Texas Baptists Annual Meeting ...
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• Will your church respond to the coming ‘tsunami’?

  
  We Are Texas Baptists — Authority: 127
  In the wake of thinking about the 2,400 imprisoned people who made spiritual decisions this weekend through City Reach  – including 1,405 professions of faith, I came across David Valentine, pastor of Covenant Fellowship in Huntsville , during tonight’s Texas Baptist Men rally. He explained that there is a ...
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• Sharing Christ through celebrating cultures

  
  We Are Texas Baptists — Authority: 127
  HOUSTON – As a group of 10 men and women dressed in brightly colored robes and dresses performed a tradition Korean dance to the rhythms of drum music, more than 500 people at Lansdale Park participated in the International Festival hosted by 19 Asian Baptist churches representing the Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, ...
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• McClendon on Authority Amongst Baptists

  
  andygoodliff — Authority: 411
  Following on from the previous post, I found this in an article by James McClendon on The Concept of Authority: a Baptist View (Perspectives in Religious Studies 16.2, 1989) Discernment is no mere ballot-box democracy, far less is it a mere opinion poll of the church membership. Discernment is rather a communal ...
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• News Bulletin: Florida Baptists authorize president to appoint GCR task Force

  
  Florida Blog — Authority: 153
  The Florida Baptist State Convention approved overwhelmingly on Nov. 10 a motion authorizing its president to appoint an “Imagine If … Great Commission Task Force” to study how Florida Baptists “can work more effectively and more efficiently together in following Christ in fulfilling the Great Commission.” ...
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• Annual meeting to be streamed online

  
  We Are Texas Baptists — Authority: 127
  We realize not everyone can make it to Houston Monday and Tuesday for the Annual Meeting of Texas Baptists, but we’d still like you to have the opportunity to know what is taking place during the gathering. For the second year, we’re going to stream the general sessions of the meeting on this site . Streaming ...
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• Randles to become lead evangelist consultant

  
  We Are Texas Baptists — Authority: 127
  DALLAS – Jon Randles, director of the Evangelism Team of Texas Baptists, has announced his resignation effective Dec. 31 to pursue new opportunities in evangelism and discipleship nationwide. He will continue to assist the convention as lead evangelist consultant and will provide some evangelism services under the ...
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• Pastor Harley Keogh arrested

  
  Deep Thoughts — Authority: 481
  72 year old pastor Harley Michael Keough, pastor of King James Baptist Church, was arrested for sexual battery . He felt up two women a his church’s food bank. While it is noble to feed the poor it is anything but noble to feel up the poor. Keough tried to place his hand down a 23-year-old woman’s pants ...
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• Baptists, Receptive Ecumenism and other stuff

  
  andygoodliff — Authority: 411
  Steven Harmon has noted that Paul Fiddes paper on baptists and receptive ecumenism is now available as a free download. It is published in 2008 in the journal Louvain Studies. Steven also notes that his own paper Dei Verbum § 9 in Baptist Perspective published in Ecclesiology (2009) can be downloaded. Neil has an ...
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• Conservative Evangelicals and Immigration

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 639
  A few weeks ago, I sat and listened attentively as a series of American religious leaders explained to several members of a U.S. Senate subcommittee the reasons our nation needs comprehensive immigration reform. While Congress might expect support for immigration reform…
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• Consequences of Resurgent Calvinism

  
  2 Worlds Collide — Authority: 416
  A few weeks ago Dr. Fisher Humphreys wrote an article for Associated Baptist Press entitled, “Are there consequences of resurgent Baptist Calvinism?”  It was one of four essays written by Baptist historians dealing with the theme, “History Speaks to Hard Questions Baptists Ask.”  The essays were reprinted ...
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• Cowboy flair on the square

  
  We Are Texas Baptists — Authority: 127
  GLEN ROSE – This fall, there was a cowboy flair on the square, thanks to Happy Trails Cowboy Church . The church brought its cowboy hats, western wear and hand-operated bucking bull to the square for a recent fall festival that brought together all the city’s churches to minister to the roughly 2,500 people who ...
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• Pastor Uses Bible to Justify Men Urinating Standing Up!

  
  Tasithoughts's Weblog — Authority: 129
  Because the Bible says so? You know…I think  I have heard everything from the pulpit and then I find something new and it is like watching something from another universe.  This is something else.  I never knew that someone could use the Bible to justify the manly man way to pee.  Here is it is, folks…Lord ...
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