Category: Books

• RADICAL: A REVIEW OF DAVID PLATT’S BOOK

  I can usually get one whole book read on the to-and-from legs of a flight to the other side of the Rocky Mountains.  This particular trip I read David Platt’s Radical.  While I was lining up at the gate, waiting for my boarding group, I took his book out of my satchel and tucked it under my arm.  That…

  Jamie Greening

  June 10, 2011

  Books, Church, Culture, Preaching

  books on airplanes, church, David Platt, Jesus, Megachurches, megacjhurch, missions, Radical, reading on airplanes, social justice, southeast

• ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR GREENBEAN

  Last night I finished the final Sherlock Holmes full length novel, The Valley of Fear.  When I was a boy I read many of the Sherlock Holmes Shorts but never a full length novel and never as an adult.  Last year I read two collections of shorts, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Return…

  Jamie Greening

  May 26, 2011

  Books, Culture

  Arthur Conan Doyle, character, conspiracy, flashbacks, freemasons, Moriarty, mormons, plot, Sherlock Holmes, Writing

• EXCERPT FROM BIBLE SERMON

  Sunday I preached what might have been my favorite sermon in my DOUBT ABOUT series.  In the sermon I grouped our doubts about the Bible  into scholarly type of doubts, experiential doubts, and doubts which arise from misuse.  One part of the sermon was when I talked about the different types of doubt people have as…

  Jamie Greening

  May 24, 2011

  Books, Culture, Preaching

  Bhagavad Gita, Doubt, holy books, Koran, Krishna, pluralism, Scripture, sermons, the Bible

• BUTCH GREGORY: ONE YEAR LATER

  This week marks the one year anniversary of the release of my book, The Haunting of Pastor Butch Gregory and other Short Stories.  While I haven’t sold as many as I’d hoped (by the way, you can buy a copy by clicking on the image to the right—in paperback or Kindle), I can’t say that…

  Jamie Greening

  May 17, 2011

  Books, Writing

  Allah, Baal, Baptist, Baptist history, Butch Gregory, church, Convocation, Legacy, novel writing, pastoral ministry, short stories, Thor, Writing, Zeus