Tag: church

• PALMS TURNED UPWARD

  REFLECTING ON OLD VOLUMES As a dedicated bibliophile one of my great joys is flipping through volumes in my library.  A couple of weeks ago I picked up a collection of T.S. Eliot and thumbed through.  I stopped and read through, over and over again, these amazing lines from The Rock. But it seems that…

  Jamie Greening

  June 17, 2011

  All, Books, Church, Culture

  church, dignity, dinosaur, government, higher education, One True God, T. S. Eliot, the world

• 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

• PASTOR GREENBEAN GOES TO CHURCH

  Pastor Greenbean has been away for the past week.  He spent the last week in an undisclosed location—deep in the heart of Texas—to work on a forthcoming book.  (SPOILER ALERT:  It is awesome).  Even though I was gone, I still went to church.  I have found that worshiping in other faith communities and other traditions…

  Jamie Greening

  June 7, 2011

  Church, Culture, Preaching

  anthem, church, communion, Episcopal, greeters, greeting, homily, kneeling, Lord’s Supper, offering, prayers, stewardship, welcome, worship

• 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