Coffee with Creamer

Coffee with Creamer

Coffee with Creamer, where you get to sit down with our host, Dr. Barry Creamer, for a conversation about faith, life, and culture. We’ll look at old ideas through a new lens, turn the culture wars on their head, and paint a picture of the way things could be. If you like your thinking deep, and your coffee hot, pull up a chair—you’re in the right place.

Episodes

Lost and Found, and Finding My Way: Part 3 | Episode 204

June 18, 2025 • 46 mins
Barry conducts the third of his interviews with Vice Presidents at Criswell College. The life and career of Kevin Stilley, our VP of Finance, also took a circuitous route (there seems to be a pattern emerging here). His journey includes a love of reading and learning, “accidental” changes in career and ministry, and some very […]
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Lost and Found, and Finding My Way: Part 2 | Episode 203

June 11, 2025 • 48 mins
Barry conducts the second of his interviews with Vice Presidents at Criswell College, this one with Dr. Curtis Woods, our VP of Academic Affairs. A circuitous route, including public, visible ministries and private, painful moments, takes Curtis from his way of doing things to God’s way. Scriptures: Eph 4:17-21; 1 Kings 19  
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Lost and Found, and Finding My Way: Part 1 | Episode 202

June 4, 2025 • 47 mins
Barry begins a new series and talks with Lance Ouellette, Vice President of Advancement at Criswell College, to discuss lessons learned and paths taken. Barry and Lance discuss maturing faith, God’s faithfulness, career paths, personality traits and finding oneself in Christ.  
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Flood Warning | Episode 201

May 28, 2025 • 41 mins
Barry wades into Psalm 93, one of the shortest psalms with 93 words. In this flood we’ve got transience and permanence, power and purpose, and faith and action. You would think the strength of the flood would swallow us, but instead that strength provides a refuge for us to pour our lives out for others, […]
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Happy Opposite Day: Part 2 | Episode 200

May 21, 2025 • 41 mins
Barry heads back from his mind-bending journey into the land of opposites. He covers a few ironies from opposite perspectives and reminds us that only a radical irruption in the environment can avert the inevitable collapse of our interest into selfishness at one level or another. Thank God, God is into radical irruptions.   Scriptures: […]
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Happy Opposite Day: Part 1 | Episode 199

May 14, 2025 • 46 mins
Heavy on the science and philosophy, Barry dives into a mind-bending journey to the land of opposites. Opposites can have more in common than we think. Even when we are at odds with someone, that commonness allows us to sit down and share a conversation with them, something that can make us more like Christ. […]
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You’re No Chaff | Episode 198

May 7, 2025 • 42 mins
Psalm 92 reminds us that life is short but a Christian’s presence can be enduring. From our perspective, our lives are here today, gone tomorrow, like husks. However, God’s people are the kernel, filling the world with his presence. And we do our best work shouldering the world’s purpose on the day we rest.   […]
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The Wrong Question | Episode 197

April 30, 2025 • 49 mins
There may not be any stupid questions, but there are wrong ones if we want to follow Jesus. Sometimes we have a goal in mind but ask the wrong question to get us there or, worse yet, have the wrong goal to begin with! A little humility might help us start to get both right […]
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Who’s Testing Who Here? | Episode 196

April 23, 2025 • 45 mins
Looking for shelter? Barry walks us through Psalm 91 and reminds us that God’s pinions are plenty strong and faithful enough to provide the protection we need in the midst of our inevitable troubles. What is confusing is that his plan sometimes looks more like a sacrifice than salvation.     Scriptures: Psalm 91 Ex […]
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A Travel Guide | Episode 195

April 16, 2025 • 46 mins
Barry highlights a character often found in stories that brings help to the world. In Scripture we see angels, donkeys, prophets, church leaders and believers fill this role. Are you ready to recognize these characters in your life and perhaps become one for others?       Scriptures: Gen 21:15-20 Numbers 22:22-30 1 Kings 13:14-19, […]
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Babies and Bathwater: Part 3 | Episode 194

April 9, 2025 • 42 mins
Throwing out the baby with the bathwater wouldn’t be a “proverb” if it wasn’t such a common practice. This episode focuses on holding onto the painful experiences of others while fighting the circumstances that put them there. Referenced Episode: The Value of Decisions: Part 1 with Rachael Denhollander and Tiffany Thigpen  
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Tiny, Dusty Subjects | Episode 193

April 2, 2025 • 45 mins
Barry walks through Psalm 90, pointing out lesser contrasts like the one between transient humanity and durable mountains, to draw our attention to the greater contrast between Almighty God and each person, each grain of dust. The good news is that the power in that contrast is also God’s to use with the dust. Scripture: […]
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Babies and Bathwater: Part 2 | Episode 192

March 26, 2025 • 48 mins
Barry revisits his question-and-answer series, this time focusing on the process of change in relationships. This could be a church, a business, or a couple—anywhere there are people. We know the honeymoon phase will pass, but still find it odd that it does.       Book: On Revolution, Hannah Arendt Scriptures: 2 Cor 7:1; […]
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Painting Tabernacle | Episode 191

March 19, 2025 • 48 mins
Barry walks with us through an imaginary art museum, stopping in front of Psalm 89. This painting’s canvas, background, and complex foreground include most if not all of the colors of the other Psalms, just as the Davidic Covenant echoes the whole of Yahweh’s relationship with His creation.   Scriptures: Psalm 89 1 Kings 4:31 […]
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Babies and Bathwater: Part 1 | Episode 190

March 12, 2025 • 52 mins
Barry begins a series covering some of the great questions he has encountered through many (and I mean many) years of ministry. Today’s question has to do with what is essential to believe when coming to Christ. The one thing about Jesus that sets him apart from every other human is the resurrection—it declares Jesus […]
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Fault Lines and Affinities | Episode 189

March 5, 2025 • 52 mins
Barry continues to think through how to get back to civil discourse, using Robert Frost’s poem, The Gift Outright, to remind us of what we have in common. Simplifying our differences to one or the other side of a political divide does very little for either side and does no justice to our beautiful, complicated […]
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Human, Take the Wheel Already | Episode 188

February 26, 2025 • 51 mins
Barry once again reminds us what our job is and what our job ain’t. One can determine the outcome they wish before they begin the journey, but God has actually given us the task to complete the journey, no matter where it ends, in a particular way. To lose sight of that way would be […]
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Hello, Darkness, My Old Friend | Episode 187

February 19, 2025 • 44 mins
Barry talks about a Psalm that hits a minor chord, with a focus on a feeling of loneliness and despair. Sometimes we face situations that cast darkness over days or even years and these moments can feel incredibly difficult to endure. Psalm 88 has both good news and even better news for these moments: not […]
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Embarking Up the Wrong Tree: Part 2 | Episode 186

February 12, 2025 • 43 mins
Barry finishes up his discussion of what we are doing and what we should be doing instead. This episode focuses on replacing the Enlightenment’s devotion to comprehend and control the universe with a devotion to understand and live out our purpose within it. Once we know (as we can from scripture) what God expects; all […]
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Embarking Up the Wrong Tree: Part 1 | Episode 185

February 5, 2025 • 43 mins
Barry begins the celebration of his upcoming birthday by using your time and mind to focus on a conundrum that has fascinated him since high school: the Tower of Babel. What is the difference between what humans are capable of and what they are responsible for? Let’s help him with his birthday wish.     […]
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