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2 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Chip Hutcheson |Jane Rodgers |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): SBC NewsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: By Chip Hutcheson, Kentucky TodayBRANDENBURG, Ky. (KT) – A revival in the Salem Association of Baptists (Meade, Breckinridge and Hardin counties) has not only drawn large, enthusiastic crowds but has given evidence of a noticeable partnership in the gospel by pastors in that association.
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3 weeks ago | 
texanonline.net | Jane Rodgers |Karen L. Willoughby |Jayson Larson
Many of us have experienced it: the unexpected blessing when someone ahead of you in the drive-thru pays for your coffee or an unknown benefactor covers the cost of your restaurant meal. Unexpected blessings. Random acts of kindness. Since 1995, the U.S. has celebrated a national Random Acts of Kindness Day on Feb. 17. Today, churches are finding that acts of kindness need not be random at all, but rather, intentional acts to share the love of Christ.
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1 month ago | 
texanonline.net | Jane Rodgers |Aaron Earls |Jayson Larson
LOS ANGELES—January’s devastating wildfires in Southern California prompted a massive response from recovery and disaster relief agencies, including Southern Baptist Disaster Relief. SBTC DR, the disaster arm of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, answered the call, sending feeding and chaplaincy volunteers to Los Angeles County at the request of California Baptist DR. And they may go back.
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1 month ago | 
texanonline.net | Jane Rodgers |Aaron Earls |Jayson Larson
IRVING—It was a gathering of friends with a purpose: celebrating 100 years of the Cooperative Program, the Southern Baptist Convention’s funding mechanism supported by the generous contributions of its congregations. Guests filtered into the Grand Ballroom of the Irving Convention Center for the annual CP luncheon on the final day of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention’s Empower Conference on Tuesday, Feb. 25.
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1 month ago | 
texanonline.net | Jane Rodgers |Aaron Earls |Jayson Larson
IRVING—It began with prayer and ended with prayer. In between, the 170 women who gathered in the upstairs ballroom at the Irving Convention Center worshipped God and learned to embrace the “power of wonder” during the women’s session of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention’s annual Empower Conference. Those expecting speaker and author Marian Jordan Ellis to immediately launch into her keynote topic may have been surprised by her opening request.
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1 month ago | 
texanonline.net | Jane Rodgers |Aaron Earls |Jayson Larson
IRVING—The third annual Empower Student Rally rocked the fourth floor of the Irving Convention Center Sunday evening, drawing more than 600 students and leaders from nearly 100 churches from across the state. Students packed the room to hear Christian rap and hip-hop artists Dillon Chase and Zeke Garcia, experience worship led by the Cross City Euless praise band, and to be challenged by Chip Luter, senior associate pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans.
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2 months ago | 
texanonline.net | Jane Rodgers |Aaron Earls |Jayson Larson
Colton Weltman listened intently as evangelist Ryan Fontenot shared the gospel with the audience of nearly 750 youth and leaders at last year’s Empower Conference Student Rally. “I want you to know tonight that God loves you. God absolutely loves you,” Fontenot said. “Jesus loves you. Jesus will meet you. Jesus won’t leave you right where you are. … You come to Jesus in order to get right with God.”Colton, then a junior at Hebron High School in the Dallas suburb of Carrollton, wasn’t sure.
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2 months ago | 
texanonline.net | Jane Rodgers |Diana Chandler |Jayson Larson
SAN ANTONIO—More than 200 leaders and volunteers representing 37 Southern Baptist state conventions gathered Jan. 28-30 for the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Roundtable. The three-day event resembled an extended reunion of family and friends, with ample opportunities for attendees to acquire advanced training in the latest DR practices. SBDR holds two national Roundtables per year, one in January and one following the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in June.
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2 months ago | 
texanonline.net | Jane Rodgers |Chip Hutcheson |Jayson Larson
When she learned that a bus crash had claimed the lives of 13 First Baptist New Braunfels senior adults returning from a Hill Country retreat in March 2017, Marcia Dean responded as she always had: She went to church. The former financial secretary at FBC New Braunfels heard about the disaster through a friend’s text.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
texanonline.net | Jane Rodgers |Laura Erlanson |Jayson Larson
HOUSTON—A capacity crowd of 450 filled Sagemont Church’s Student Building Worship Center on Tuesday, Nov. 12, to hear four pastors speak about the challenges of ministry during the President’s Lunch Panel held each year at the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention Annual Meeting. The panel was moderated by SBTC President Danny Forshee, lead pastor of Great Hills Baptist Church in Austin.
