30 episodes
Coffee with Creamer Barry Creamer
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- Religion & Spirituality
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5.0 • 25 Ratings
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Coffee with Creamer, where you get to sit down with our host, Dr. Barry Creamer, for a conversation about faith, life, and culture. We’ll look at old ideas through a new lens, turn the culture wars on their head, and paint a picture of the way things could be. If you like your thinking deep, and your coffee hot, pull up a chair—you’re in the right place.
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Power to the People
Barry talks about the advantages and disadvantages of democracy. While it is certainly most comfortable blaming leadership, we must admit, our leadership simply reflects our desires and fickle decision-making. People may be the problem, but people are also the solution. Scripture: 2 Tim 4:3-4
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What Not to Wear: Part 2
Barry concludes the story of 1 Samuel 16-21 focusing on the Chosen one and how others respond to him. We do have a choice, which both Saul and Jonathan evidenced, but thank God there is no overcoming His purposes. Scriptures: 1 Sam 16-21 Luke 12:49-53 Gen 12:1-3
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What Not to Wear: Part 1
Barry highlights a few details in the story of David and Goliath that may surprise us. David’s strength lies in taking up the tasks he has been given and leaving God’s tasks to God. Waiting on God is sometimes the most challenging task of all. Scripture: 1 Samuel 16-21
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Donne with Death: Part 2
Barry reads The Day from poet John Donne, where we are reminded of our value and God’s promises through the most somber of occasions. Funerals are just a believer’s step toward what’s next. Poems/Book: The Day, John Donne Scriptures: Psalm 44, 116; Mark 8:34-38
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Donne with Death: Part 1
Barry explores John Donne’s poetry, revealing the dangers and hope associated with death. These poems are a great reminder of why Christ-followers celebrate Easter. Poems/Book: The Day, John Donne, Holy Sonnets 10 and 17, John Donne
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Being the Blizzard
Barry discusses something we should all know but can sometimes easily forget. The more we learn about things like belief, truth, relationships, wisdom, and maturity, the more we begin to realize all the things we don’t know about those same topics. Humility is what we need if we want to be lifelong students. […]
Customer Reviews
Wow! This is an amazing podcast.
Well done, even if Rob Collingsworth doesn’t listen, ever.
Prepare to be challenged!
Criswell College President Barry Creamer offers a perspective that will challenge you to think beyond your own worldview, while at the same time offering biblical responses to the affairs of our day.
Dr. Creamer is a scholar and pastor for our time
I’ve learned more about my life, the Lord, and politics from Dr. Creamer and Criswell College than any other person, scholastic organization, or media outlet. Balanced, biblical, and pastoral, Dr. Creamer is interested in changing our thinking, not merely for the sake of changing, but so that we become fuller, more glorified versions of who we were always supposed to be.