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
January 22, 2025 • 48 mins
Barry skips to the chase scene as he walks through Psalm 87, focusing on the meaning of the city of Jerusalem from the Old Testament to the New. It just so happens, that God finds his people the same places he finds his enemies. Scriptures: Psalm 87, 48:1-3, 50:1-2 Rev 22:1-2, 7:9-10 […]
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January 15, 2025 • 49 mins
Barry finishes his series on how we can let God’s heart change ours. He focuses on a few ruts—both personal and public—that require the special analytical tool of “meta-questions.” The application of this tool can help us respect other image-bearers better, rethink persistent problems, and decide what to do with our own agency this very […]
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January 8, 2025 • 44 mins
Ever wondered what was meant by David being “a man after God’s own heart?” That sounds like a pretty good thing. But what is that thing in God’s heart? Barry starts a series about how God uses his sovereignty and power, and what would make our hearts more like His. Scriptures: 1 […]
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January 1, 2025 • 44 mins
Barry continues the conversation about the incarnation and some of the ironies associated with our celebration of it as Christians and society. Every irony can lead us back to the unbelievable (and yet truest of all) story of a God willing to step into the filth of humankind to raise it up to meet the […]
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December 25, 2024 • 43 mins
Barry attempts what may seem silly at first—a reconciliation of Christ and Christmas. He starts with a value, describes its opposite, acknowledges the divergence, and then ends up at a point of reconciliation. This may feel like a lot of work, but it is the work that God humbles himself to do for us on […]
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December 18, 2024 • 43 mins
Barry finishes up his series on faith and pride, talking about the instances where pride creeps in to replace faith. Abraham is a great example for us as he was willing to give up the very thing (person in this case) that his faith birthed in order to maintain his relationship with the one who […]
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December 11, 2024 • 42 mins
Barry begins a series on faith. There are common opposites to faith of which we ought to be wary: inconsistency, doubt, disobedience, and hypocrisy. However, Barry believes the one that has been left out undermines all else about faith. Scriptures: Prov 3:34, 16:5 James 4:6 1 Pet 5:5 Is 14:12-14 Ezekiel 28 Psalm […]
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December 4, 2024 • 44 mins
Barry arrives at Psalm 86 and reminds us that all people find themselves in the same position—both us and our enemies—in need of judgment and mercy. What we also need is the supernatural moment when we pass the mercy on. Scriptures: Psalm 86 2 Sam 22:25-28 Hosea 6:4-6 Psalm 89:11 Matt 18: 23-35 […]
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November 27, 2024 • 46 mins
Barry finishes up this series on elections and consequences. He talks about a few things we need to remember about people, what we must acknowledge about ourselves, and how these things should shape our faith in a God who knows all of that too. Scriptures: Heb 2:14-15, Matt 7
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November 20, 2024 • 44 mins
Barry begins a series about the interaction between populations and their leaders. In this episode he discusses what he has learned from election cycles since his young adult years, and the unfortunate truth behind Plato’s great brute. As someone may rightly ask in any dog park, “Who is training whom, here?” Scriptures: […]
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November 13, 2024 • 42 mins
Barry talks about Psalm 85 and the all-sufficient nature of God. There is a magical story of a meeting on a roadway, a declaration of peace in a war-torn creation, and a happily-ever-after springing from the ground. Scriptures: Psalm 85, 14:1-7 Micah 6:8 Gen 1:6-13 1 Cor 15 Matt 21:33-46 Luke 18
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November 6, 2024 • 45 mins
Some people confuse superstition and faith. Barry talks about the difference between the two and how Christians should, aside from being superstitious, be more supernatural in our thinking, not less. Scriptures: Acts 17:16-23 1 Cor 8:4-8, 10:14-22 Jas 1:14-15 Col 1:15-20
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October 30, 2024 • 35 mins
Barry concludes his series on the artifacts of higher education and church life. We have so much to gain from being involved in faith and learning communities, as we all need someone else to tug on our bootstraps from time to time.
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October 23, 2024 • 40 mins
Barry describes the odd artifact of many Sunday morning services, where we all sit looking toward the front as the preacher tells us things that (hopefully) we already know. It is similar to a college class and the interaction between professor and student. What is it that keeps these dinosaurs from going extinct? […]
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October 16, 2024 • 42 mins
Barry reads some poetry to remind us that time’s winged chariot is hurrying near, and we best make the most of what we have. Whether it’s acknowledging the importance of people who are living, people we have lost, or the people we are to become in our remaining time, this stuff matters. Poems: To His […]
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October 9, 2024 • 43 mins
Barry explores a story in the Old Testament that reminds us of a glorious truth in the New Testament. In his peaceful comfort in Persia, Nehemiah begins with heartfelt intercession for the people in Jerusalem, and then moves to incarnation as he goes himself, and identifies with the sins, sorrow, and shame of His people. […]
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October 2, 2024 • 42 mins
Barry heads to Psalm 82 for a productive counseling session with God. Just as when we go to counseling to talk about all those people that are at fault, there is always that awkward moment in the session when the counselor (in this case, God) turns the focus to you, to us. We are the […]
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September 25, 2024 • 43 mins
Barry covers a narrative in Matthew 16 where Simon receives two names. The first one is quite wonderful—Peter. The second one… not so much. The connection between this confession and rejection is undeniable: to accept Christ’s identity means to embrace (and follow) his purpose. Scripture: Matt 16:13-28
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September 18, 2024 • 40 mins
While we think of worship as something going from us to God, it is also important because of how it moves between us, and how it prepares us to receive from Him. When we run out of thanks, He still has more to offer than we might find on our own. Scriptures: […]
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September 11, 2024 • 48 mins
Barry talks about the things we do and don’t realize about the world in which we live, the relationships we have to others in that world, and the nature of the table to which Christ invites us. Scripture: 1 Cor 11:28-34 Books: The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt, On Christian Doctrine Book III, […]
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