Category: Books

• BONHOEFFER, METAXAS AND ME

  One of the kind women in our church somehow spied my reading wish list and saw Bonhoeffer:  Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas on it so she bought it for me.  That is no small thing, as this is a fairly expensive book.  I thoroughly enjoyed the book and told the author so by…

  Jamie Greening

  March 17, 2011

  All, Books, Church, Culture, politics, Preaching

  Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Hitler Assasination attempt, Martyr, Nazi Germany, Nazi’s, Prophet, Spy

• WHAT I DO DURING AMERICAN IDOL

  Two (or is it three?) times a week my wife and daughters sneak up very close to idol worship.  No, its not Baal or Molech or even Caesar that are problems for them.  It is the television show American Idol.  All three of them have some kind of addiction to the program.  I thought that…

  Jamie Greening

  March 10, 2011

  All, Books, Culture, Writing

  American Idol, Beards, Diana Ross, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jennifer Lopez, Paula Abdul, Trash

• CATALYST WEST AND THE ZEN OF ANDY STANLEY

  I spent all day today—from about 8:30am until 9:00pm tonight—at Mariner’s Church here in California.  I skipped the labs yesterday because, well, I don’t do labs.  I’m sure they were wonderful, but, no.  It has been a great day.  Here are some highlights. Andy Stanley—Andy kicked off the conference with a wonderful sermon.  To be…

  Jamie Greening

  March 4, 2011

  All, Books, Church, Culture, Preaching, Travel, Writing

  Andy Stanley, Catalyst, Catalyst West, Dave Ramsey, Eugene Peterson, John Perkins, Judah Smith, Mariner’s Church, Soledad O’Brien

• THEOLOGICAL WORDS REMIX

  (Note–I resisted the urge to write a Valentine Day blog.  Maybe next year) My current sermon series is titled Missing Links and it is about the first three chapters of Genesis.  I had fun yesterday launching it.  Last year when I was formulating the idea, my original desire was to build the series around the…

  Jamie Greening

  February 15, 2011

  All, Books, Church, Culture, politics, Preaching, Writing

  creation, ex nihilo, imago dei, missing links, Original Sin, sabbath, theological words