by Daisy Reynolds | Nov 1, 2023
Barry interviews Rachael Denhollander and Tiffany Thigpen about the recent case in Kentucky and the amicus brief submitted by Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the Executive Committee of the SBC, and Lifeway. Hearing the witness of these women and the information...
by Barry Creamer | Nov 1, 2023 | Devotionals
The man seated opposite me is probably a decade my senior. Lean and muscular to excess, he is snacking on a health bar and appears oblivious to my existence, which is fine with me. I am not there to see him. I am there because I want to join my grandchildren for...
by Barry Creamer | Oct 25, 2023 | Devotionals
A preschooler, I worry wide-eyed that the Rio Grande’s current will sweep me away with the car in which my parents have placed me. The water and flow rise with my terror, but the adults manage to forge the river safely back into Texas after our day of ministry in...
by Daisy Reynolds | Oct 25, 2023
Barry highlights the limitations and importance of intellect, calling believers to acknowledge and baptize all parts of the Christian soul: volition, emotion, and reason. Scripture: 1 Cor 15:12-20; Rom 8: 29-35, 12:1-2; Psalm 65:11
by Daisy Reynolds | Oct 18, 2023
Barry covers Psalm 66, choosing an Old Testament account in Israel’s history to highlight the fact that God is good, powerful, and loves us. God uses difficult times to make us holy and for the world to see his power in our transformation. Someone may want to create...
by Barry Creamer | Oct 18, 2023 | Devotionals
According to this CBS News story (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bald-eagle-birds-migration-covid-lockdown/), the Covid-driven human hibernation of 2020’s spring likely prompted an ornithological flourishing: a significant increase in the presence of 80% of observed...
by Barry Creamer | Oct 11, 2023 | Devotionals
As I drive one morning to a preaching engagement, eastern sunlight gilds a foggy mist rising from the lawn on my left. Similar vapor ascends from a creek on the right. It is not fog, not a cloud: it gathers only above bodies of water or dew-laden lawns, returning to...
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...
