Category: Church

• APOLOGETICS MARRIAGE CONFERENCE

  Recently I was invited by my super-cool publisher, Anthony Horvath to participate in his second internet apologetics conference.  I was a part of the line-up last year and had a great time talking about literary apologetics.  This year the theme is marriage.  While it is tempting to just show scenes from The Princess Bride as…

  Jamie Greening

  March 22, 2011

  All, Church, Culture, Writing

  Anthony Horvath, Athanatos Christian Ministries, divorce, economic stress, marriage, marriage stress, The Princess Bride, time stress

• 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

• I ASH WEDNESDAY, DO YOU?

  This is a post from last year that I am re-posting today because, obviously, it is Ash Wednesday (February 22, not March 9 like the post says–that was last year). ********************************** This is the week that we Christians who follow a liturgical pattern of the year mark the journey through Lent and toward Easter.  It…

  Jamie Greening

  March 7, 2011

  All, Church, Culture

  Ash Wednesday, Baptists, Catholics, dust, fasting, Lent, mortality

• 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