by Daisy Reynolds | Oct 11, 2023
Barry speaks about the Israel-Hamas conflict with Dr. Scott Bridger, Dr. Sarah Spring, and Jenna Coombs, who spent time in Israel and Palestine recently as part of Criswell College’s Global Learning and Service Experience. The conversation hinges on how meeting human...
by Daisy Reynolds | Oct 4, 2023
Barry relieves our discomfort by finishing up the dinner table discussion of religion and politics. However, he invites us to keep the tension going by acknowledging the inherent contrast between multiple values Christians hold: personal liberty, benevolence, and...
by Barry Creamer | Oct 4, 2023 | Devotionals
He spent 17 years planting churches with his father in the Midwest—some still active today. He served in the Navy on Okinawa and Iwo Jima. He taught music at the collegiate level, then owned and managed a five and dime store, then a ranch, until he decided to make and...
by Daisy Reynolds | Sep 27, 2023
We have all heard there are three things one should never bring up at the dinner table, and Barry is beginning a series about two of them. How should Christians think through politics and religion, and should e’er the twain meet? Join us after a potentially...
by Barry Creamer | Sep 27, 2023 | Devotionals
In a journal I only recently saw for the first time, my Granny, deceased many years now, writes of an older relative who would tell her juvenile self and siblings ghost stories at night. The stories, she says, were so terrifying that at bedtime she and the other young...
by Barry Creamer | Sep 20, 2023 | Devotionals
A long wooden footbridge crosses an alcove of White Rock Lake. Pedaling across it one day, something coming from behind breaks the surface of my peripheral vision, head height, about 10 yards to the right, over the water. About a half-mile back I saw for the first...
by Daisy Reynolds | Sep 20, 2023
Imprecision may be the bane of our existence, but it is also the reason we have hope. Thank the Lord we have someone who can reach into our imperfect world and lives. So, what then is our job? Our job is to pursue the righteousness (justice) we know only He can...
by Daisy Reynolds | Sep 14, 2023
Although it may not always be at the forefront of our minds, imprecision surrounds us—mostly because of the “us” in this equation, rather than everything else. The good news is that our certainty is not necessary for truth to prevail, nor should we give up the pursuit...
by Barry Creamer | Sep 13, 2023 | Devotionals
By the time average Joes and Janes observe the almost imperceptible object’s tiny, white silhouette adrift in an ocean of blue sky, the military has already tracked it from the Aleutian islands and other parts of Alaska, through Canada, and then to Montana. From...
by Daisy Reynolds | Sep 6, 2023
Barry walks us through Psalm 62 and Luke’s account of a harrowing experience Jesus endures once in Nazareth and again and again everywhere else. However, the truly shocking part is his response to the threat and how it affects us. Scriptures: Psalm 62 Luke 4:16-30...
