by Barry Creamer | Sep 25, 2024 | Devotionals
When possible I ride my bike to work, not on multi-lane highways, thoroughfares, and avenues, but on the trails provided by Dallas Parks and Recreation. Although often no more than narrow pavement over old railbeds, they provide a perfect path: flat stretches edging...
by Barry Creamer | Sep 18, 2024 | Devotionals
Routine is a powerful thing. After I graduated college, our family spent 11 years in a starter home. We sold it and moved about 5 miles away, where we lived the next 11 years. A little more than 5 years after we had moved into that second house, I found myself driving...
by Barry Creamer | Sep 11, 2024 | Devotionals
For many years we had an early morning prayer meeting at the church I pastored in Arlington. A few days a week 2 or 8 of us would gather at 5:30AM for 10 or 30 minutes of corporate prayer. Looking back on it, I’m surprised how many different people participated, and...
by Barry Creamer | Sep 4, 2024 | Devotionals
My dad corrected me once, a hundred times. I mean, when he corrected me about something, I never wanted to make that mistake again. But there were a hundred different mistakes requiring singular correction. In this case, my adolescent self sauntered off for another...
by Barry Creamer | Aug 28, 2024 | Devotionals
As a debater from 8th through 12th grade, I spent untold hours finding evidence in UTA’s library, writing briefs, practicing rhetoric, scrimmaging debates, reading current events, and ultimately applying it all at tournaments around Texas. In those moments, I was so...
by Barry Creamer | Aug 21, 2024 | Devotionals
When my granddaughter was not yet quite 4, my son-in-law and I thought it would be a good idea to take her to the theater for a piece of cinematic fluff the name of which has since left my mind. We had talked about the possibility that at her tender age it might be...
