Category: Culture

• HEAVEN–THINGS I DIDN’T SAY

  I intended to blog about this on Monday, but worldwide events prompted my thoughts elsewhere.  Now, back to the serious business of heaven.  Sunday I preached about heaven from a skeptics perspective, not necessarily from a pastoral perspective.  In that context there were several things I did not say which, I could certainly have included…

  Jamie Greening

  May 5, 2011

  Culture, Preaching

  Denouement, Eden, Garden, Heaven, I told you so, pets, vindication

• CELEBRATING A DEATH

  Never in my life have I celebrated a person’s death.  Never. I confess, at times, to being indifferent—particularly celebrities.  The media go super-crazy when celebrities like Liz Taylor or Michael Jackson die.  Celebrities have no impact on my life so their death means less to me than, say, the beloved saint who has been wrestling…

  Jamie Greening

  May 2, 2011

  Culture

  9-11, celebrating death, death, hope, hopeful, justice, King David, Navy Seals, Osama Bin Laden, Psalm 37, September 11

• SIPPING COFFEE, THINKING HARD

  I had a missing-time experience this morning so I decided to take advantage of it.  No, not an alien abduction kind of missing time, but the other kind of missing-time.  Someone I was supposed to be seeing was suddenly unavailable and I had a hole in my schedule.  I took advantage of this hole and…

  Jamie Greening

  April 28, 2011

  Books, Church, Culture, Food, Preaching, Writing

  cinnamon dolce latte, creativity, daddy, daydreaming, Doubt, luxury, luxury time, marriage, reflecting, sermon, Sherlock Holmes, Starbucks, thinking, time, writer

• COLONEL?

  The last two weeks or so this blog has been too serious.  At least, that is what I’ve been told.  That probably has a lot to do with gearing up for Easter.  Which, by the way, we had a great Easter day at our wonderful church—so many great people to celebrate Jesus’ Resurrection with!  But,…

  Jamie Greening

  April 26, 2011

  All, Culture, Food, politics

  Cap’n Crunch, Charlie Sheen, Colonel Potter, Colonel Sanders, Easter, First Baptist Church, Fried Chicken, Gadaffi, Kentucky Fried Chicken, KFC, Khadaffi, MASH, Qadaffi, Resurrection