by Barry Creamer | May 10, 2023 | Devotionals
Before the next graduate entered my office, I could hear her crying, administrators buoying her with affirmations. After some Lamaze breathing, she seemed composed again, ready to be delivered her diploma. Our Vice President for Academic Affairs led her to the...
by Daisy Reynolds | May 10, 2023
Psalm 49 describes our descent into the fear of death while offering a handhold out—a much better shepherd than the one we first see inside the boundaries of birth and death. Scriptures: Psalm 49 Matt 10:28 James 2:1-7 Psalm...
by Daisy Reynolds | May 3, 2023
Using Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, Barry talks about how challenging it is to acknowledge our own frailties and yet maintain a moral standard. Peacemakers in God’s world have to do both. Book: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on...
by Barry Creamer | May 3, 2023 | Devotionals
God invites—commands—us to speak with him. And before we ask, “But what should we say?”, he has already written and delivered to us an entire book of poetic prayers to read or recite back to him. Circumstance invites—compels—us to speak with God, to implore his...
by Daisy Reynolds | Apr 26, 2023
Barry concludes a series about evangelism and the dangers of “selling the gospel.” God tore the veil not to get more people into the temple, but to get the church into more of the world. Scripture: Luke 9, 10, 19 Acts 24 Isaiah...
by Barry Creamer | Apr 26, 2023 | Devotionals
Altruism. Between curfew and quarantine I have learned something of bird behavior from the back yard feeder. Tiny tufted titmice skitter from black-capped chickadees, in turn shooed by mere sparrows. Sparrows are rousted by cardinals, cardinals banished by Blue Jays,...
by Daisy Reynolds | Apr 19, 2023
Barry bemoans the fact that sometimes our best efforts with the Good News are only a means to some things we errantly think better. He invites us to develop a different mental model as he describes some learning experiences in the development of his own ministry....
by Barry Creamer | Apr 19, 2023 | Devotionals
Four centuries ago, a man who died before he was forty wrote these seasoned words: “Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. “Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash...
by Daisy Reynolds | Apr 12, 2023
Barry covers the most distinct Psalm so far, Psalm 45. In it, we observe a bride love a groom, Israel worship the Messiah, and the church desire the Redeemer. Scriptures: Psalm 45 Judges 5:28-31 Isa 37:14-20 Heb 1:7-14 John...
by Barry Creamer | Apr 12, 2023 | Devotionals
The seemingly interminable toddling, rumbling, tumbling roll from our gate to the runway finally finished, the airliner’s jets crescendo to a bone-trembling roar as our safety-instructing flight attendants are still settling in to jump-seats fore and aft. Since I am...
