Coffee and Cigarettes
By Jeremy Sarber
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Podcast Description
Conversations and monologues devoted to discovering grace through critical thinking and simplicity. Hosted by Pastor Jeremy Sarber.
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Scrutinizing Orthodoxy | 154 Coffee & Cigarettes | As Paul the apostle traveled from city to city, his custom was to visit the synagogues and reason with the Jews out of the scriptures. When he came to Berea, the Bible narrative described them as more noble for their critical thinking. - | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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House Finale | 153 Coffee & Cigarettes | Much could be said about the House series finale or the series altogether for that matter. I have known friends to be turned off by the show because there was simply "too much House" and not enough focus on the medical mysteries. | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spiritually Psychological | 152 Coffee & Cigarettes | Psychology is a fascinating science to me. I love to read studies and what we've managed to learn about the human mind and behavior. However, I've also noticed how science often falls short. There are some aspects we cannot seem to understand. | 5/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ambiguous Worship | 151 Coffee & Cigarettes | Under the old covenant, there were some fairly strict rules for what could be in the temple and how things should be done in the temple. However, we’re not under that covenant and a few things have changed. For instance, | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Scanty Demonstrations | 150 Coffee & Cigarettes | Most of our complaints about the government require massive changes. Whether we're talking about ending the warfare state, the welfare state, crony capitalism, and so on, small and incremental changes are not going to cut it. - Even so, | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leaving Church | 149 Coffee & Cigarettes | Christ said, "Upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven." The writer of Hebrews tells us, "Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and... | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Warfare State | 148 Coffee & Cigarettes | For some time now, I've made no attempts to claim I'm a conservative. Though I have long agreed with so many conservative values, my conscience would not allow me to remain in lockstep with mainstream conservative positions. | 5/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Libertarian Christians | 147 Coffee & Cigarettes | What exactly do libertarians believe? Aren't they a fringe group that wants to legalize all sorts of immoral behaviors like drug use and prostitution? That's what Ann Sattley and myself discuss in this episode. - | 4/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Military Perplexity | 146 Coffee & Cigarettes | Libertarian Party presidential contender Gary Johnson has been portrayed as an anti-war candidate, but that isn’t quite so clear. When pressed on foreign policy topics in a recent interview, Johnson gave answers that didn’t always seem to add up and w | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cancer Tax | 145 Coffee & Cigarettes | If Proposition 29 is approved by California's voters, the tax on cigarettes in the state will increase by $1.00 per pack. California’s current cigarette tax is 87 cents per pack. The total tax per pack of cigarettes, if Proposition 29 passes, will be $1 | 4/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Questioning Re-Baptism | 144 Coffee & Cigarettes | In Acts 19 of the Bible, does a re-baptism take place? If so, why was John's baptism no longer sufficient? Were the disciples at Ephesus even baptized under John's baptism? If the baptism then (and today) is different than John's baptism, | 4/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Logical Insanity | 143 Coffee & Cigarettes | As we look back at history, we have to keep things in context. We can’t take these historical events and drop them into a modern-day context. We have to look at the context of these events as they happened. | 4/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Biblical Politics | 142 Coffee & Cigarettes | The subject of politics is often difficult for many Christians. Should Christians be on the right, the left, or somewhere in between? While the Bible seems to promote the idea of liberty, it also says we should submit to the higher powers. - | 3/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Presidential Power | 141 Coffee & Cigarettes | The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. - | 3/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Building Empires | 140 Coffee & Cigarettes | Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded because the value of the resources and wealth extracted from conquered lands exceeded the value of conquest and governance. - | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Less Stuff | 139 Coffee & Cigarettes | Minimalism is a tool to help you achieve freedom. Freedom from fear, freedom from worry, freedom from overwhelm, freedom from guilt, freedom from depression, freedom from enslavement. Freedom. Real freedom. - | 3/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Presumed Guilty | 138 Coffee & Cigarettes | In the court of public opinion, a suspect is guilty until proven innocent. In either a case of life imitating art or art imitating life, we often see this expressed in dramatic television shows about police officers. | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Free Books | 137 Coffee & Cigarettes | The things you own end up owning you. That’s what Brad Pitt’s character said in the movie, Fight Club. I love that line. It is so easy to let such superficial things define who we are. And this goes well beyond material possessions. | 3/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Orwellian Visions | 136 Coffee & Cigarettes | The premise of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is similar to 1984 by George Orwell, but also very different. Where Orwell described a government that would suppress the truth, Huxley described a world where we’d be overloaded with so much information . | 3/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Communal Proprietary | 135 Coffee & Cigarettes | Historically speaking, America has always believed in property rights. But there are those who believe the concept is entirely selfish in nature. On the surface, it does seem selfish. When you hear people defend their property rights, | 3/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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National Collapse | 134 Coffee & Cigarettes | In the 16th Century, we saw the Western world--Europe and eventually North America--surge ahead of the rest of the world in everything from technological advancements to financial prosperity. Since that time, we’ve begun to slip. - | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Consistently Hypocritical | 133 Coffee & Cigarettes | I want there to be a website which takes a current hot topic in politics at any given moment and creates a blog post about it. Whatever the politicians, the media, the political commentators, and the Internet altogether seems to be abuzz about. | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fourth Branch | 132 Coffee & Cigarettes | In the American political system, the fourth branch of government refers to a group that influences the three branches of governance defined in the American Constitution--legislative, judicial, and executive. | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Legal Sin | 131 Coffee & Cigarettes | Televangelist and founder of the Christian Coalition, Pat Robertson, with whom I have major theological, philosophical, and political differences, recently said something that even I must acknowledge was important, truthful, and courageous. - | 3/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Demanding Neighbors | 130 Coffee & Cigarettes | Henry Kissinger, former United States Secretary, said we should move forward with the assumption Iran is building nuclear weapons. Even if we do, why do we seem so determined to avoid diplomacy? - Later in the episode, | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Graceful Truth | 129 Coffee & Cigarettes | According to Ben Reed, we should seek to balance grace and truth in the church. That's not in reference to what we have, but what we give. When it comes to sin and other issues of less-than-ideal behavior among our brethren, | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fanatical Minority | 128 Coffee & Cigarettes | A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave might guide our attitude toward fanaticism. | 3/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christian Jerks | 127 Coffee & Cigarettes | With every story of the Bible, we have theological meaning behind it. Theology is the study of God. Everything we read in the Bible teaches us about God, His character, and His works. It all points back to Him. - | 3/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Deadly Emancipation | 126 Coffee & Cigarettes | What came first, the chicken or the egg? This is a very similar question to the one I asked at the end of episode 125: What is more important, life or liberty? Without life, what good is liberty? Without liberty, what kind of life can there be? - | 3/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Liberating Wallace | 125 Coffee & Cigarettes | No national hero has ever excited greater admiration than William Wallace. No hero has remained such a shadowy figure, his life and actions beset by myths and contradictions. When Scotland's fortunes were at their lowest, | 3/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Radical Opposition | 124 Coffee & Cigarettes | As the United States continues to grow its empire under the guise of security and such things as spreading democracy, the American people will ultimately suffer. - After the great wars of the Twentieth Century, | 3/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Legal Insanity | 123 Coffee & Cigarettes | Ann Sattley, author of Technically, That's Illegal, attempts to document all of the crazy things that people are getting in trouble for in modern America. Some of these things are random, silly things that most people can agree with me about (transpor... | 2/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Resurrection Proof | 122 Coffee & Cigarettes | Is it possible to prove the resurrection of Jesus Christ? The Christian faith hinges on the account of Jesus' resurrection being true. It is quite possibly the most significant event of the Bible. - If we can agree on certain premises--Jesus being a r... | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Humble Reflections | 121 Coffee & Cigarettes | After the tragic events of September 11, 2001, America had every reason to reflect on the past--to deeply consider the causes of the effect. As we have a tendency to do, we overly simplified the situation--chose to gravitate toward an extreme position ... | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lacking Catchphrases | 120 Coffee & Cigarettes | "We have to have to have folks that'll stand up for religious conscience and I did and I will again as President," said Mitt Romney in Wednesday night's GOP debate. - "I believe this is most dangerous President on national security grounds in American... | 2/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Church Whistles | 119 Coffee & Cigarettes | For decades, Target and other major retailers have collected vast amounts of data on every person who regularly walks into one of its stores. Whenever possible, Target assigns each shopper a unique code--known internally as the Guest ID number--that ke... | 2/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Repeating History | 118 Coffee & Cigarettes | It has been said we cannot learn from history because there are too many variables. Every nation and scenario is different. - If it is possible for us to remove the blinders created by patriotism, where do you suppose the United States of America is i... | 2/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Profitable Competition | 117 Coffee & Cigarettes | Let me introduce to you the 2012 #CandCShow Giveaway Contest. Similar to the contest of last year, six winners will receive a variety of prizes ranging from audio books to a brand new iPod. - Last week, I attended Ignite Raleigh at the Lincoln Theatre... | 2/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ardent Santorum | 116 Coffee & Cigarettes | Is there a new Coffee & Cigarettes giveaway contest on the horizon? Maybe so. - Thanks to Chris Penn and John Wall, I learned about a new-to-me phone app called, Waze. It’s a GPS app unlike any other I’ve used. It really brings a social aspect to GPS. | 2/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Media Partiality | 115 Coffee & Cigarettes | When it comes to politics and media, the left argues that the right is more biased than the left while the right argues that the left is more biased than the right. Who’s right? Er, who's left? Well, you know what I mean. - | 2/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Defeating Terrorism | 114 Coffee & Cigarettes | For more than a decade--longer lasting than even the Vietnam War--we've been fighting terrorism at home and abroad. We have spent a lot of money, sacrificed a lot of American lives, and allowed the Constitution and our civil liberties to be eroded. | 2/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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American Deception | 113 Coffee & Cigarettes | Kenneth Trentadue was apprehended on June 10, 1995, nearly two months after the Oklahoma City bombing, while crossing the border from Mexico into California, when police officers ran his driver's license and discovered that he was wanted for violating ... | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peaceful Civ | 112 Coffee & Cigarettes | Civilization V is a turn-based strategy game, where each player represents the leader of a certain nation or ethnic group and must guide its growth over the course of thousands of years. It starts with the founding of a small primitive settlement and e... | 2/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Iranian Balderdash | 111 Coffee & Cigarettes | Director of National Intelligence, James R. Clapper, said that Iran is not building nuclear weapons and CIA chief, David Petraeus, said the same thing, and the latter said he had met with the head of Mossad to convey his view. | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conservative Statism | 110 Coffee & Cigarettes | Liberals don’t like libertarianism because it’s “conservative” (whatever that means), and conservatives don’t like it because it’s “liberal” (whatever that means). I’ve long given up trying to understand what modern day American liberali | 1/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conservative Exodus | 109 Coffee & Cigarettes | "I agree with Ron Paul on almost everything with the exception of his foreign policy views." - I cannot count the number of times I have heard that statement uttered by conservatives in the past few months. I heard it again this morning. | 1/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Defending Life | 108 Coffee & Cigarettes | The Bible is pro-life. God's very nature is pro-life. The legal arguments for abortion are contradictory. The scientific differences between the unborn child and the child outside of the womb cannot reasonably determine the value of life. - In short, | 1/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Musical Hiatus | 107 Coffee & Cigarettes | "You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it," said Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon) during the film, We Bought a Zoo. - | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Detestable Religion | 106 Coffee & Cigarettes | Love or hate? For or against? Do you stand with us or against us? - Black or white are the choices we usually limit ourselves to. There can be no other option than black or white. For instance, if we watch the Why I Hate Religion But Love Jesus video ... | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christian Politics | 105 Coffee & Cigarettes | Some say politics and Christianity do not mix. While I cannot totally agree, there may be some truth to that statement. - The Bible presents what appears to be a paradox in that it teaches us government is evil by its own nature and yet we are to sub... | 1/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Coffee and Cigarettes
I have listened to the first couple episodes of this podcast as well as the other podcasts on OrangeCoffeeCup.com and would highly recommend them. This one is done very well and the quality is excellent as well as the subject matter. It is a mix of humor with personal insight on the world today. Well worth checking out!
Great new podcast
Nicely done! Will have to keep up on this particular podcast to see what is discussed next!
Excellent
Jeremy Sarber is a delight to listen to. His discussions are stimulating and informative. You will love his take on current issues.
