Month: June 2014

Texas Baptists Committed has hundreds of articles archived on our Web site (www.txbc.org), mostly from the TBC (print) Newsletter (1993-2009); David R. Currie’s A Rancher’s Rumblings (2007-2009); and Baptist Reflections (2008-2009). Much of this material, though originally presented years ago, is still relevant to our lives and circumstances today. TBC will be presenting archived articles Read more . . .

Sports idols of our youth – somehow, they’re always a part of us. I didn’t really become a baseball fan until I was 11. In July 1962, my parents and I moved to Kansas City, Missouri. A week later, Daddy took me to my first major league baseball game – our KC A’s were playing Read more . . .

In addition to introducing a new TBC logo, this week we’ve given the home page of TBC’s Web site an ‘extreme makeover’; thankfully, it was much less expensive than the ‘extreme makeovers’ you see on cable TV. The cluttered, text-heavy look of the old home page has been replaced by . . . 3 quick-click Read more . . .

For some time, I’ve been intrigued and impressed with the work of Fresh Expressions, a movement that began in England, and has been brought to the US by Virginia Baptists. Fresh Expressions encourages creativity and innovation in worship and, generally, “doing church.” Maybe Fresh Expressions was on my mind when I began thinking about a Read more . . .