Greg Boyd

Worst Sinner Award

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Jesus taught: Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you….

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Part 1 (of 15): Introduction — What’s Up With Jordan Peterson?

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Assessing Jordan Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life” by Greg Boyd Over the last two years I have, with increasing frequency, been asked what I thought of the views of this maverick Canadian thinker named Jordan…

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God Is Working!

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Many Jews during the time of Jesus had come to believe that heaven had been closed since the writing of the last book of the Old Testament. They believed that God was no longer active…

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The Patriot’s Bible — Really?

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Have you ever seen the Saturday Night Live skit entitled “Really? With Seth and Amy”? Sometimes it’s pretty funny. I was thinking that perhaps the best way to get through my critique of The American…

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Wake Up to God’s Presence

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Jesus taught us to “remain” in him. We read this in John 15:4-5: Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine….

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How the Church is Tempted to “Do Good”

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The previous post spoke of God’s call to the church to be resident aliens: a holy, distinct people who are set apart and peculiar when compared to the patterns of the world. The holiness of…

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Being a Resident Alien

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In the midst of the political turmoil our country is experiencing, the church is called to play an important role. We sit between the revelation of the love of God on the cross and the…

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Confronting the Divine Montage

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The superiority of Jesus’ revelation over a montage view of God (see previous post) is captured when Paul and the author of Hebrews utilize an analogy of a shadow verses reality. Paul instructs his disciples…

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The All-Too-Common Montage God

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How do you picture God? It’s impossible to exaggerate the importance of a believer’s mental picture of God. The intensity of your love for God will never outrun the beauty of the God you envision…

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No More Hungry Hearts

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When Jesus came, he confronted the lie that we can fill our hungry hearts through doing things to acquire life on our own. The fact that God himself became a human and died for our…

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Feeding Our Hungry Hearts

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Jesus came into a world that was full of hungry hearts (see previous post) to introduce us to the only thing that can feed those hungers. Jesus came to rescue us from the futile feeding…

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Hungry Hearts

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What do all of the following behaviors have in common? • A couple with two kids purchases a bigger house than they need, even though it means they’ll both have to work more and see…

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The Problem with Naming People’s Sin

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Jesus told a woman caught in adultery: “Go and sin no more” (John 8:11). Since Jesus said this, does this give the church the right to tell people not to sin? It’s one thing for…

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To Change the World

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Jesus’s kind of justice (as introduced in the previous post) has more power to transform lives than any of the traditional political approaches where we try to attain power to change the government. For instance,…

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Jesus’ Kind of Social Justice

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For many, the primary way of building the kingdom is to influence politics in order to make America more Christian. Others take the opposite approach, concluding that Jesus didn’t try to overhaul the political systems…

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Did Christ Call Us to be Moral Guardians?

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Whenever Christians try to enforce their doctrines or morals on others, the result has usually been at least as bad as any non-Christian version of the kingdom of this world. Even more concerning, it’s been…

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How Judgment Makes Us Hypocrites

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The previous post addressed how the church is to be people of love not judgment, which means that the church is not called to be the moral guardian of the culture. What we often fail…

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Aspen School of Missional Apprenticeship (SOMA)

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For over twenty years, the leadership of Woodland Hills Church has talked and dreamed about one day creating an intensive discipleship school where people’s hearts, minds, values, and lifestyles could be deeply shaped and formed…

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Church: A Place of Love, Not Judgment

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Jesus said, “Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned” (Luke 6:37). Jesus contrasts love and judgment as antithetical activities. This verse comes immediately after…

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The Vicious Cycle of False Life

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The serpent convinced Eve that she and Adam had been duped by God, and that God is actually unloving, untrustworthy, and threatened by what he forbids. The fullness of life they enjoyed through union with…

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