My name is Todd Burus. I live in Gainesville, FL and am a member at North Central Baptist Church. I grew up in Lexington, KY and attended Porter Memorial Baptist Church there. I am married to an amazingly patient woman and we have a daughter who is 7 years old. I hold degree’s in Mathematics and Linguistics from the University of Kentucky and am currently preparing to enter seminary for training as a church planter and pastor.
I can be contacted through email at tburus@msn.com or through my profile on Facebook.
February 19, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Hey man. I was checking the math website and was checking out your link. Nice. A lot of interesting stuff. Hope you have a good day.
Jim
From NCBC
May 14, 2008 at 1:48 pm
well … i have met the enemy and he is you…
just kidding … sorta.
i am interested in reading the LP stuff, if only because my life has been an endless picture of that, but the Jesus i believe in never spit me out of his mouth. but i’m encouraged by your proposed solution, and would enjoy an exchange of ideas over time, perhaps discussing some of these “fleshly sins” that we’ve all battled with and how you’ve come to master them.
i have the same left-brain curse you do - Georgia Tech graduate twenty-five years ago, IT career, but also a seminary degree and a lot of “recovering baptist” issues…
best of luck with the doctoral studies.
mike rucker
fairburn, georgia, usa
mikerucker.wordpress.com
July 30, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Todd,
Just visited your site after reading your comments on Out of Ur. I commented there recently on the whole Rob Bell “Jesus Wants to Save Christians” thing. It looks like we share a common view of things and I just wanted to encourage you.
Good to see a good work going on down there in the Pan Handle. The only thing I’ve heard coming out of Florida lately is that whole Todd Bentley debacle coming out of Lakeland
God bless you and yours . . .
November 12, 2008 at 9:03 pm
I noticed that you have posted the audio files of the John 3:16 conference on your website. I hate to inform you but your tech guy is wrong. It is illegal to post any material for distribution that you have no received expressed consent for. In this case you would need to contact Jerry Vines Ministries first since they were the ones hosting the conference. If they say no then that is the end of it. If they say yes, then it would be your responsibility to contact the individual speakers unless Jerry Vines Ministries clearly states that they are the copyright owners of the material. Many of the speakers are also published authors with publishing deals. Many of them have restrictions on what can be recorded and their publishing company retains rights to everything that write or present orally. I have seen many people be sued for duplicating a message from a published author without permission.
Concerts are not required to state any copyright prohibition upfront. Many do to discourage people from recording the material and illegally distributing it.
In case you are wondering who I am, I am the individual that was brought in to handle the recording for Jerry Vines Ministries. I have no personal gain in posting this message, and Jerry Vines Ministries does have legal ground to prohibit you from posting this and could pursue damages if they so choose. I would pray that it would not come to that since we as Christian are to remain above reproach and do what is right before God and our fellow brothers.
Thanks-
Chris