by Barry Creamer | Aug 24, 2022 | Devotionals
When he seeks refuge at the cave of Adullam, David’s legitimately earned reputation is already mythic: shepherd-protector of his father’s flocks, hero of Elah’s valley, and ten times over the greater warrior than king Saul. Saul’s own daughter and son are more loyal...
by Barry Creamer | Aug 17, 2022 | Devotionals
The sun has a cycle. At solar minimum, there is relatively little activity on our star’s surface; that is, considering there’s an ongoing thermonuclear reaction at its core. But at solar maximum, sunspots, flares, prominences, and coronal mass ejections multiply....
by Barry Creamer | Aug 10, 2022 | Devotionals
In 1985, just having moved back to Arlington from college with a wife, a baby, a degree, and a 300 baud modem for my Apple 2C, I am delighted to learn that the Fort Worth Star Telegram offers an online news service, StarText, practically free. Everything about it...
by Barry Creamer | Aug 3, 2022 | Devotionals
Every drop of my attraction to scripture, astronomy, electricity, and technology has its equivalent drip in my aversion to plumbing. I understand the basic rule: water runs downhill. In my world, that fixed fact is the problem. It seems every bit of water I encounter...
by Barry Creamer | Jul 27, 2022 | Devotionals
Because we have completely gutted and transformed the kitchen in our house as we prepare to move in (a dozen years ago), we limit the bathroom remodel to a new shower stall barrier. The worker replacing the dated, frosted, framed structure with a simple piece of clear...
