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- Ted M. Gossard
- My new blog address is: http://communityofjesus.wordpress.com/ Married to a great wife, Deb. Enjoy our daughter Tiffany and Chris, and the new little one, Morgan Marie. Yes, we're grandparents! Love to read. Enjoy and participate in music. Enjoy God's creation.
some blogs I go to
- Alan Knox - The Assembling of the Church
- Allan R. Bevere
- Andrew - Praying Daily
- Andrew Hall - Beloved Before Time
- Andy E. Larsen - Worldly Holiness
- Anthony Smith - Musings of a Postmodern Negro
- Becky Vartabedian - flip the pig
- Ben Witherington on the Bible and Culture
- Beth B. - Luke 10:27
- Betsy Lin - The Risk of Stopping: An Expression of my Journey
- Better Bibles Blog
- Bill Williams - a spiritual oasis
- Bob Robinson - Vanguard Church
- Brad Boydston
- Bryan Riley - charis-shalom
- Charity Singleton - Wide Open Spaces
- Craver VII
- D.C. Cramer - cramer comments
- Dan Kimball - Vintage Faith
- Daniel Kirk - Sibboleth
- Daryl Underwood - watershed: a voice in the wilderness
- Dave J. - B2Blog
- David Fitch - Reclaiming the Mission
- David Ker - Lingamish
- Dawn Husnick - Team Husnick: Taipei Taiwan
- Dean Ohlman - Wonder of Creation
- Diane - Emerging Quaker
- Ed Dobson - The Year of Living Like Jesus
- Emily - Living Out Loud
- Erika Carney Haub - The Margins
- Eugene Cho
- Even So - Voice of Vision
- Every Square Inch
- Father Rob Merola - DaddyRoBlog
- Francis Collins, Darrel Falk, Karl Giberson - Science and the Sacred
- Halfmom - Not Ashamed!
- Jamie Arpin-Ricci - A Living Alterative: Our Missional Pilgrimage
- Jennifer L. Griffith - Gumbo Ya-Ya -- Everybody talking at once
- Jim - Maalie
- Jim Martin - A Place For The God-Hungry
- John - The Senstive Spirit
- John Frye - Jesus the radical pastor
- jps - Idle musings of a bookseller
- JR Woodward - dream awakener
- Karen Spears Zacharias - Author/Journalist/Speaker on a life-long quest in search of God’s poetry and presence.
- Ken Schenck - Quadrilateral Thoughts
- Kevin Corcoran - Holy Skin and Bone
- Kim - The Theshing Floor
- Kinney Mabry - Preacherman
- KM - The Kairotic Word
- koinonia: biblical-theological conversations for the community of Christ
- Kurt Willems - Groans From Within
- L.L. Barkat - Green Inventions Central
- L.L. Barkat - Love Notes to Yahweh
- L.L. Barkat - Seedlings in Stone
- Lanny - It's the Dirt
- LeRon Shults
- Lois Tverberg - Our Rabbi Jesus
- Lorenzo the Llama
- Lukas McKnight - My World of Beer
- Mama K - Over at Kathy's Place
- Marcus Goodyear - goodwordediting.com
- Mark Roberts - markroberts.com
- Mart DeHaan - Been Thinking About
- Martin Stickland - Welcome to Combe Martin Life!
- Mary - Narrow is the Road
- Michael Bird, Joel Willitts - Euangellion
- Michael Kruse - Kruse Kronicle
- Michael Spencer - Internetmonk.com: Dispatches from the post evangelical wilderness
- Mike - As the Crow Flies
- Mike - The Upper Room
- nAncY - just say the word
- nAncY - sharing and caring
- Nannykim
- noj rotsap
- Odysseus - Celtic Odyssey
- Out of Ur - Christianity Today
- Paul del Signore - Sacred Vapor
- Peggy Brown - The Virtual Abbess
- Prof. John Stackhouse's Weblog
- Rachel Starr - Peculiar
- Randall - 1st Samuel 16:7
- Ron McK- Blessed Economist
- Rusty Peterman - Believer Blog
- SamMarsh.net
- Scot McKnight - Jesus Creed
- Scott Steiner - Lessons from the Lathe
- Simon Cotter - Bits n Bobs
- Spherical - At the Center
- Susan Arnold - The Philosophical Pastor
- The Desert Pilgrim
- The Walk
- The Wingnut - On a Wing and a Prayer
- Tremonti - Deconstructing the Monkey
- Yipeng Huang - Marked by Faith
links
- A Rocha
- Au Sable Institute
- BBC News
- Bible Gateway
- Bible Gateway - TNIV
- Bible Plants
- BioLogos
- C.S. Lewis
- Care of Creation
- ChristianityToday magazine
- ChristianityToday.com
- CNN.com
- Compassion International
- Covenant Blogs
- crosswalk.com Online Study Bible
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- ECHO
- Eugene Peterson
- Evangelical Environmental Network
- Fernando Ortega
- Floresta
- Google News
- Google Scholar
- Jesus Manifesto
- Last Child in the Woods
- Meet The Press with David Gregory
- Merriam-Webster Online Search
- Michael Card
- N.T. Wright
- National Wildlife Federation site for kids
- New Revised Standard Version
- NPR
- On Faith
- Our Rabbi Jesus - Lois Tverberg
- RBC Ministries
- Restoring Eden
- Rich Mullins
- Speaking of Faith: Krista Tippett
- The Evangelical Covenant Church
- The Free Dictionary
- The January Series of Calvin College
- The Message
- the voice of the martyrs
- This Week with George Stephanopoulos
- Today's New International Version
- What's That Bird?
- What's That Bug?
- Wikipedia
- World Vision
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- "Perfected in Christ": Dad's funeral message
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- life is a process
- reunions
- Dad Passed Away
- Lift Your Glad Voices in Triumph on High
- the goal of the kingdom
- dying to live
- gender and gifting
- update on Dad (doing better)
- unity in love
- compassion
- update on Dad
- we don't understand it all
- Christ the Lord is Risen Today
- burial
- my dad in hospital
- Following Jesus to the Cross
- following Jesus by feeding on him
- following with fear
- a new/renewed vision of Jesus
- focus and vision
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23 comments:
My condolences to you and your family Ted. I will continue to pray for you and your family in this difficult time.
Ted,
You and your family are in my prayers. I am so sorry.
You've been in my prayers and will continue to be so. Might God's peace rain upon you during this stressful time.
Christ is risen!
Praying for you and your family as you walk through this grief; praising God that your dad's passing was peaceful. Peace.
Ted,
I'm so sorry about your fahter. I'm praying for you.
Jennifer
www.mytrueself.typepad.com
I am sorry for your loss, you and your family are in my prayers.
Ted,
Peace be on you and the rest of the family. I'm looking forward to the resurrection too -- believe me!
Am here,
KM
Ted:
How sorry I am to hear of your father. I will be in prayer for you and your family.
I know that you take comfort in the truth we believe, particularly in this season of Easter, that death does not have the last word, and the grave is not our final fate.
May God grant you peace in the midst of your grief.
Allan
Thanks to you all for your thoughts here and prayers, and to everyone else as well.
Mom read Dad Scripture his final couple hours. Dad has expressed more than once the desire to go and be with Jesus. God's love in Christ was apparent to us, even through his weakened condition and battle with dementia.
Know that you and your family are loved. We're praying for your comfort and peace.
Sorry for your loss Ted. You and your will be in my prayers.
Ted
I'm sorry for your loss. May the God of all comfort, comfort you in this time of sorrow.
Thanks to our gracious Savior, death will not have the last word. I will remember to pray for you and your family.
Peace, my friend.
peace be with you
RonMck
"Dad has expressed more than once the desire to go and be with Jesus."
What victory in the midst of such sorrow. Praying for you all.
So sorry for your loss, Ted. Praying for you and your family. So much to look forward to in the Resurrection! Peace, Kim
You have been in our prayers this past couple of days. My God be close to you and walk with you in you grief.
Oh Ted. I am praying for you all as you enter into grief. Yes, we are to be pitied more than all men if the resurrection is not real and a source of comfort during these very hard times.
Ted,
I am so sorry for your loss.
Ted
I have enjoyed your comments/posts here and over at jesuscreed for some time, we will be praying for you all.
Dear friends, Thanks so much for all the thoughts and prayers here and elsewhere.
As we in grief hear of the terrible event in our country and others around the world and as I with my family grieve this week, our prayers are renewed, "Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
Dad's funeral is Saturday afternoon. May Christ be seen in it all.
Just checking in, to say again, "I'm thinking of you." I hope you feel free to tell us about the funeral and your sense of loss, as the days go by. It must be, for you, the entire center of the universe. And I think God surely knows and understands and grieves with you.
L.L. (and others), Thanks for the kind words. The week did go fast though it was difficult. But we often felt borne/carried through the prayers of others, I know I did. The Lord is good. He gave us grace and peace through his community. We will miss Dad but look forward to our reunion and the resurrection in Christ to come.
And connected to that last comment: I know God took your prayers to help Mom, my two sisters, our entire family and myself through. So that the end result was that God could be glorified in Christ. And we could remember, have reunion with some we haven't seen for a long time, grieve and thank God for his goodness to us in Christ.
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