tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post7141862723214242789..comments2024-01-11T10:58:30.769-05:00Comments on Jesus community: imagineTed M. Gossardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10580691315315271791noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post-8937602668813569202008-04-28T18:13:00.000-04:002008-04-28T18:13:00.000-04:00Cool, Nancy.Cool, Nancy.Ted M. Gossardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10580691315315271791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post-37375174442074397622008-04-27T20:18:00.000-04:002008-04-27T20:18:00.000-04:00ordered the book today.ordered the book today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post-1323300948564565832008-04-25T21:09:00.000-04:002008-04-25T21:09:00.000-04:00Nancy,Thanks for your words of encouragement here....Nancy,<BR/>Thanks for your words of encouragement here. Actually L.L. has encouraged me in that direction in some of her past comments on this blog, and verified that in our recent conversation with her here in GR.<BR/><BR/>Hopefully I can keep that up.Ted M. Gossardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10580691315315271791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post-78285985494075355182008-04-25T21:07:00.000-04:002008-04-25T21:07:00.000-04:00L.L.,So very true. Yes, it more often than not get...L.L.,<BR/>So very true. Yes, it more often than not gets through to me only later or after repeated times of reading it, it seems, I mean over time. I think when we sometimes think we're just seeing something for the first time, though we've read or heard the passage dozens of times before may be a case in point. Truth and light from it is dawning on us.Ted M. Gossardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10580691315315271791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post-31139952736145085632008-04-25T21:05:00.000-04:002008-04-25T21:05:00.000-04:00Rachel,I do think God hits us in ways we need from...Rachel,<BR/>I do think God hits us in ways we need from Scripture. We can read the same passage, yet come up with different things from it as it corresponds to both the richness and complexity of life, quite often.<BR/><BR/>Yes, this book along with L.L.'s will each be rich reads.Ted M. Gossardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10580691315315271791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post-71987838054763739962008-04-25T21:03:00.000-04:002008-04-25T21:03:00.000-04:00Yes, Mark. We are rather blase over what we have a...Yes, Mark. We are rather blase over what we have and take for granted. If it were gone, I wonder if we would be. We might be scrambling to remember it, and the Spirit might use it to get us back to basics and to see it more clearly as God intends for us to see it, by the Spirit and from each other.Ted M. Gossardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10580691315315271791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post-33137914816307931402008-04-25T11:58:00.000-04:002008-04-25T11:58:00.000-04:00interesting to think upon the written word and the...interesting to think upon the written word and the Spirit working into our lives. i like the way you are writing your posts these days. it is like you becoming more comfortable with sharing, and that is very inspiring and endearing in a way of realting with others. the book sounds like a very good idea and i am grateful that you are making a place for all to read and talk about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post-20673077294750271292008-04-25T11:25:00.000-04:002008-04-25T11:25:00.000-04:00I like to sit outside and read at least a chapter ...I like to sit outside and read at least a chapter each day (well, each day that I go out!). Sometimes something gets in. Sometimes it's just a ritual. But the ritual makes it possible for the "getting in".L.L. Barkathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13333960142447144678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post-68803357916125977592008-04-25T11:05:00.000-04:002008-04-25T11:05:00.000-04:00Thank you for this post! I too have times when I ...Thank you for this post! I too have times when I just can't read the Bible, I can't get anything out of it and I always thought it was my problem. I never would have thought the Spirit was using these times to get thru to me..I just assumed I wasn't trying hard enough. "I might be getting in the way of God"...I think that describes me because I am an accountant and I want books (even the Bible) to be black and white and I want God's interaction with me and the Bible to be black & white.....but God really likes grey! I am ordering this book and the other one you mentioned this weekend. Both sound perfect for me!Rachel Mchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05422752225793715728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post-51782922697344280852008-04-25T08:32:00.000-04:002008-04-25T08:32:00.000-04:00Ted, this reminds me of Hilkiah and King Josiah in...Ted, this reminds me of Hilkiah and King Josiah in 2 Kings 22:8-10. The king sends them to clean up the temple, and they come back saying, "We found this book." Josiah reads it and tears his clothes.<BR/><BR/>We have so many Bibles around today, we don't bother to get worked up over it half the time.Marcus Goodyearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07255781957722144278noreply@blogger.com