why blog?
I'm logging some thoughts each week in preparing for the upcoming Sunday’s sermon and worship. My hope is that this process will be helpful to me, and perhaps to readers as well.
about the blogger
My name is Ted Brandt, pastor since July 2006 of First Presbyterian Church, Oxnard, California. Terri and I have been married since 1984, and we have four kids born between 1992 and 2000, and a huge dog.
I listen to music like U2, Santana, and Van Morrison, along with audiobooks as I drive around Ventura County - which has the best year-round open-top motoring climate in the world!
Golf and tennis are what I like to play. I am a Boston sports fan, which has been a lot more fun since 2001. I like to take road trips with my family - we are three hours from the border, which for now will satisfy my thirst for international travel. I read the occasional spy or mystery novel; most of my reading is non-fiction; political, historical and theological works.
I'm passionate about embracing our community and the world with the gospel of Christ and the transforming truth of the scriptures.
From 1999-2006 we lived and worked in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, based at the Theological College of Zimbabwe. From 1992-1999 I pastored two churches in Middleborough, Massachusetts; from 1989-1992 I was associate pastor in Glendale, RI; in 1988-1989 I studied in Jerusalem; my first pastorate was in Lowell, Mass, while attending Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
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