Archive for November 2010
'Praying, Listening' for God's presence, power
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A nation that despises its children?
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Continue ReadingCriswell College unleashed
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Continue ReadingEzell to missionaries: 'Do whatever it takes'
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Continue ReadingBible expositions extol primacy of praying
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Continue ReadingRichards: Praying, listening tops staff agenda for 2011
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Continue ReadingBible Conference preachers emphasize Scripture exposition
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Continue ReadingReturn to your 'burning bush' experience
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Continue ReadingChrist is the hope of glory, women reminded
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Continue ReadingIMB report: 500k baptized internationally
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Continue ReadingRESOLUTIONS: From racial reconciliation to sex trafficking
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Continue ReadingGiving slightly down, but spending restraint keeps convention ahead
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Continue ReadingSBTC hosting Frisco leadership retreat
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Continue ReadingLa Iniciativa Hispana al Da
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Continue ReadingBMAT approves agreement with SBTC
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Continue ReadingSBC president calls for 'return to first love,' Great Commission and ethnic diversity
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Continue ReadingCrossover yields 696 salvation decisions
CORPUS CHRISTI?The SBTC's Crossover evangelistic effort in Corpus Christi resulted in 696 salvation decisions recorded following a strength and power exhibition and gospel presentation by Team Impact, a Coppell-based ministry.More than 5,000 people filled the American Bank Center exhibition hall on Nov. 13 preceding the SBTC Bible Conference and Annual [...]
Continue ReadingSBTC approves $25.4 budget, hosts missionary commissioning
CORPUS CHRISTI?Messengers to the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention annual meeting re-elected as president Odessa pastor Byron McWilliams, approved a $25.4 million budget and passed five resolutions on issues ranging from sex trafficking to racial reconciliation.But for messengers and guests at the closing session, the commissioning of 36 North [...]
Continue ReadingSBTC president: 'We're not there yet'
CORPUS CHRISTI?"We're not there yet. We've seen God do incredible things, but we are not there yet," Odessa pastor Byron McWilliams said Nov. 15 in his address to messengers at the SBTC Annual Meeting in Corpus Christi.Like Paul, writing in Philippians 3, the churches of the Southern Baptists of Texas [...]
Continue ReadingA heart for the world
The Muslim looked at his Christian friend and asked, "If this salvation gift is so important, why did you wait six years to tell me about it?"Chad Vandiver, SBTC's missions strategies associate, related that anecdote in explaining the People Group Champions Project (PGCP) he directs."The PGCP represents our efforts [...]
Continue ReadingSWBTS acquires more Dead Sea Scrolls fragments
FORT WORTH?Less than a year after acquiring three fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has added three more biblical fragments, making it the largest collection at an institution of higher education in the United States.The new fragments were obtained from a private collector in Europe [...]
Continue ReadingEmpower Evangelism Conf. Feb. 28 - March 2 in Frisco
FRISCO?"Jesus Christ is Lord!" taken from Philippians 2:9-11, is the theme of the 2011 Empower Evangelism Conference, scheduled Feb. 28-March 2 at the Dr. Pepper Arena in Frisco. The annual conference will feature a wide array of speakers, including pastors such as Jack Graham, Kie Bowman and Bryant Jones, best-selling [...]
Continue ReadingTogether, Reaching Texas, Touching the World
This issue of the TEXAN is being handed out at the Corpus Christi annual meeting of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention. If you are reading this in Corpus, "welcome." I am glad you made it. We are in for an exciting experience. God is ready to move in [...]
Continue ReadingFixed-rate annuity benefits changing
DALLAS?GuideStone Financial Resources recently notified participants age 60 or older in the Church Retirement Plan of a new method GuideStone will use to calculate fixed-life annuity benefits beginning this January. These modifications will not affect any fixed life annuities that are established on or before Dec. 1, 2010.The new methodology [...]
Continue ReadingDR volunteers have busy late summer, fall
Flooding provided opportunities to share Christ in deed and word.Tropical storms kept SBTC Disaster Relief teams busy through September and into October. Atlantic hurricane season begins in June and lasts through November, with September the most active month. This year was no different. Tropical storm Hermine, the worst storm to [...]
Continue ReadingSeminary's Dead Sea fragments go hi-tech
FORT WORTH?In a convergence of ancient Scripture with the latest in photographic technology, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary worked with the West Semitic Research Project this fall to prepare for the study and publication of its Dead Sea Scrolls collection and other artifacts.A workshop hosted by the seminary's Tandy Institute [...]
Continue ReadingBaptist minister honors troops
It's Sunday morning and you struggle to get yourself to church on time. On the other side of the ocean a young American wakes to the sound of gun fire and shouting soldiers. Over and over again, the sacrifices of our service men and women have, among other things, [...]
Continue ReadingCriswell College celebrates 40th anniversary; draws SBC dignitaries, alums from across US
DALLAS?Southern Baptist leaders, pastors and alumni of Criswell College celebrated the school's 40th anniversary at the Dallas school on Oct. 5. With 1,807 graduates and additional alumni serving worldwide, and 365 students enrolled this semester, the school has remained faithful to founder W.A. Criswell's vision of "intensive Bible study, based [...]
Continue ReadingCriswell alum and SBC EC chairman: Prioritize Great Commission in preaching
DALLAS?Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee Chairman Roger Spradlin reminded the Criswell College homecoming audience of the priority of preaching that reflects the Great Commission. "We as Baptists and evangelicals are Great Commission people. But even though that's the underpinning of so much of what we believe and do, it's [...]
Continue ReadingJames Robison: Don't just sing louder
Summit draws leading Christians to pray for awakening, renewal, religious liberty.EULESS?An eyewitness once told the chilling story of his life as a boy in Nazi Germany during the period of the Holocaust. The church his family attended sat along a train track that served as a main line for [...]
Continue ReadingTrustees unanimous: Johnson to lead Criswell College
DALLAS?Acting on the unanimous recommendation of the presidential search committee for Criswell College, the school's trustees, in turn, unanimously elected former president Jerry Johnson to fill the post he resigned two years ago. "There's really only one reason I would want to come back that matters, and that is if God [...]
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