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| The price of bias is often confusion. The cost in terms of truth and emotion is tremendous. |
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| I was preparing a sermon recently on the third of the Ten Commandments given to Moses in the Mount Sinai wilderness. This is the commandment which forbids taking the name of the Lord in vain. |
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| Lyle Schaller, one of the nation’s top experts on churches and church organizations, has singled out the Baptist General Convention of Texas as “one of the most futureoriented and trendsetting regional judicatories in American Protestantism.” |
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| The great Texas Baptist family has always been focused on missions. Innovative ways of doing missions are a part of our churches and associations in 1996. |
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| Shockwaves have rumbled out of Houston, Texas, concerning the possible loss of 501(c)(3) tax exempt status by Houston Second Baptist Church. |
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| Despite the rhetoric of some preachers and politicians, there are hopeful signs that public schools finally may be beginning to get it right about religion. |
Paige Patterson writes on Connectionalism
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| “Baptists have strongly resisted connectionalism while emphasizing cooperation. |
RECONCILIATION? ARE WE LIVING IN REALITY?
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As I have read numerous Baptist materials from a variety of sources in and out of Texas, I noticed the frequent use of the word “Reconciliation.” |
STATES DON’T NEED BUDGET OK FROM NASHVILLE
by Mark Wingfield
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| Do state or regional Baptist conventions have the right to determine how they spend their own money? |
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| Mark Coppenger, the new president of Midwestern Seminary, recently spoke to a Virginia group about the condition of people who do not have a relationship with Jesus Christ. |
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| Since the Supreme Court decision of Everson vs. Board of Education in 1947, the guiding principle embraced by the Supreme Court for the interpretation of the nonestablishment and free exercise clauses of the Constitution of the United States has been that of the ‘separation of church and state.’ |
THE TEST
by Dean Dickens
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| Few of us have heard of Molly Ryan of Ballycastle, Northern Ireland. Molly built a fully functioning artificial heart using only household items. |
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| Few American Protestants want to be called fundamentalists or liberals anymore, but it seems almost everyone wants to be classified as an evangelical. |
