{"id":309,"date":"2008-01-23T13:44:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T19:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/bronner-burgess-309"},"modified":"2010-11-11T03:40:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T09:40:04","slug":"bronner-burgess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/bronner-burgess-309","title":{"rendered":"Bronner Burgess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who don&#8217;t know it, Rick Burgess (of <a title=\"The Rick and Bubba Show\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rickandbubba.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rick and Bubba<\/a> fame) lost his 2-year-old son, William Bronner, this past Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>His commentary at the memorial service is available on the show&#8217;s <a title=\"The Rick and Bubba Show\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rickandbubba.com\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> (direct link <a title=\"A Father's Heart by Rick Burgess\" href=\"http:\/\/216.69.161.56\/audio\/BronnerMemorial-RicksMsg.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> in case it gets moved from the homepage EDIT: bad link; now available on YouTube [parts <a title=\"A Father's Heart, Part 1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5PUHUZWyFeg\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a>, <a title=\"A Father's Heart, Part 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B7aNDixS2J0\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a> and\u00a0<a title=\"A Father's Heart, Part 3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DUT8Bk6Ou90\" target=\"_blank\">3<\/a>]), and is well worth a listen through if your particular world schema doesn&#8217;t close your mind to straight-up evangelical preaching. It&#8217;s a message of hope and strength and peace in the face of brutal sadness and bitter despair, and one that a whole lot of people heard (and are still hearing).\u00a0Many of them, like Lynn and me, will be motivated by words born of true faith. Others, including those who don&#8217;t believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, will be dumbstruck, consternated\u00a0and possibly offended. But maybe a few will even come to know Him through this tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Rick is accepting prayers at <a title=\"prayers@rickandbubba.com\" href=\"mailto:prayers@rickandbubba.com\">prayers@rickandbubba.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who don&#8217;t know it, Rick Burgess (of Rick and Bubba fame) lost his 2-year-old son, William Bronner, this past Saturday. His commentary at the memorial service is available on the show&#8217;s website (direct link here in case it gets moved from the homepage EDIT: bad link; now available on YouTube [parts 1, 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}