To say that God is love is either the last straw or the ultimate truth.Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words, 231, quoted by Scot McKnight, 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed, 134.
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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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i choose truth.
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