Author: billjones20

(On February 22, Chad Chaddick – pastor of Northeast Baptist Church, San Antonio; and a member of the TBC Board of Directors – testified before the Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce in support of Senate Bill 253, which would close the payday lending loophole. The following was part of the prepared remarks he presented to the committee.) Read more . . .

(On February 22, Chad Chaddick – pastor of Northeast Baptist Church, San Antonio; and a member of the TBC Board of Directors – testified before the Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce in support of Senate Bill 253, which would close the payday lending loophole. The experience related here was part of the prepared remarks he presented to Read more . . .

The Baptist Standard reported that “Baylor’s board of regents voted Feb. 11 to amend the university’s bylaws, allowing members who are active in Christian – but not Baptist – churches to comprise up to 25 percent of the board.” Dary Stone, chair of the board of regents, explained the decision as “an accommodation to obvious demographic changes Read more . . .

“Religious matters are to be separated from the jurisdiction of the state, not because they are beneath the interests of the state but, quite to the contrary, because they are too high and holy and thus are beyond the competence of the state.” “God has appointed two kinds of government in the world, which are Read more . . .