by Daisy Reynolds | Oct 1, 2021
Barry talks with Jared Wellman, pastor and SBC Executive Committee member, and Rob Collingsworth about the recent happenings in the Southern Baptist Convention and a Christian’s responsibility to advocate for the vulnerable. Scriptures: Luke 10:25-37...
by Daisy Reynolds | Sep 29, 2021
Barry talks about some well-known Old Testament passages and how they should shape the way we see outsiders. Treating outsiders the way God in Christ does would revolutionize our lives and our world. Scriptures: Genesis 18-19 Judges 19 Leviticus 19:17-18...
by Barry Creamer | Sep 29, 2021 | Devotionals
I recently spent 2 Sundays at East Paris Baptist Church, in Paris. You know, Texas. One of the themes emerging from the texts of my 4 sermons there is that God’s mercy in this world is coextensive with His sovereignty. It’s an important idea in Scripture, and it can...
by Barry Creamer | Sep 22, 2021 | Devotionals
(Caveat: this memo contains petty complaints.) Much of Saturday was occupied by replacing a broken washing machine and clearing a clogged drain in my kitchen. Admittedly, the washing machine was just an expense: my wife found and bought it, and a very nice young man...
by Daisy Reynolds | Sep 15, 2021
Want to think more clearly and generously? Learn how Aristotle’s square of opposition relates to issues such as U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, the sanctity of human life, CRT, and censorship.
by Barry Creamer | Sep 15, 2021 | Devotionals
Our frailty Shortly after 9/11, a few of us finally return to the racquetball club for a pre-dawn workout. We pause in the foyer first to watch and listen as a news commentator reads the names and circumstances of some missing and known victims: we all know it is...
by Daisy Reynolds | Sep 8, 2021
Have you been reading the Psalms all wrong for all these years? Find out if you might have been missing an important part of reading the Psalter. Scriptures: 2 Samuel 15 2 Samuel 17 2 Samuel 18:33 Exodus 4:22-23 Exodus 5:1 Mathew 27:43 John 17:1-2 John 18:1...
by Barry Creamer | Sep 8, 2021 | Devotionals
Humility and dependency are core elements of Christianity—that is, of a believer’s life as a follower of Jesus. That much is clear from God’s side in the phrase: “My strength is made perfect in weakness;” and from man’s in: “when I am weak, then I am strong.” I gladly...
by Barry Creamer | Sep 1, 2021 | Devotionals
My mother has been making homemade cinnamon rolls since I was a small child—I mean get-up-at-2am-mix-roll-cut-bake-ice-from-scratch cinnamon rolls to die for. She taught me only one part of that process: how to make the powdered sugar icing. (I’m sure she would have...
