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When We Talk Politics

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In this clip, Greg identifies a source of much of the conflict we experience in our conversations about politics, or other important topics. He does this by introducing the phrase, “your map is not the…

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A Step Toward Racial Reconciliation

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In this sermon clip, Greg, as a representative of a white man in America, asks for forgiveness of people of color for all the harm that white America has done. This is not about disparaging…

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Revolting Beauty

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In this sermon clip, Greg shares the story of how foster parents entered into the pain of a severely abused child and demonstrated compassion rather than judgment when she displayed puzzling and revolting behaviors. This…

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Podcast: What is the Role of the Sermon in the Church?

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Welcome to “The Preacher’s Minute!” Greg talks about what he thinks the role (and the goal) of a sermon should be in a church. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0190.mp3

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How God Judges Sin

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In his third sermon covering material from his book Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Greg explores the topic of judgment. In this clip, Greg suggests that while God certainly does judge sin, how he judges is very different…

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The Heavenly Missionary

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In his second sermon introducing the ideas in Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Greg suggests a metaphor to help us frame the things we encounter in the Old Testament that seem at odds with the…

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Something Else is Going On

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The violent portraits of God in the Old Testament are a stumbling block for many. In this short clip, Greg introduces the idea that “something else is going on” in these passages, and that we can…

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Sermon Clip: Addiction

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How does shame keep us in our sin? How does the enemy tell us lies about our mistakes to keep us entrapped in our cycles of failure and addiction? Here Greg names the enemies strategy…

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Do You Prefer Giving Sermons Which Are Topical? Or Expositional?

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Greg talks about his philosophy of preaching, specifically his preferences between expository and topical preaching. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0043.mp3

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Past Sermon Series: Faith & Doubt

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Faith is sometimes understood as the lack of doubt. As a result, doubt can be seen as the enemy of faith. But Biblical faith can withstand doubt and even be strengthened by it. God wants His…

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Sermon Clip: Hijabs At The Gym

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In the last message of Mixed Signals, we take a look at Islam and how Kingdom people should be responding to the growing worldwide Islamic movement. We explore the growing disparity between the life Jesus…

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Sermon Clip: You Are Not The Tree

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What do the Gospels, Christmas Trees, and Eastern Spirituality have to do with one another? Greg Boyd explains in this weeks sermon clip. In the full sermon, we explore the Gnostics belief of the church…

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Sermon Clip: Generic God

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“Let’s all just get along.” Is this what God and religion are really about? All we have to do is just be good to people? Almost all religions can agree on this, but it is…

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Past Sermon Series: Crap Happens

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Why God, why? This may be the most repeated prayer in history. Most people have said it at one point or another, if only under their breath. Why sickness? Why suffering? Why doesn’t God respond to my…

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Sermon Clip: Don’t Be A Butthead

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  With so many people claiming to hold the truth, it can be easy to get lost in all the noise. We can be tempted to make our voice heard by shouting the loudest or…

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Sermon Clip: Through Samaria

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In this final installment of the Women on the Outside series, we explore the story of the woman at the well Jesus encountered while traveling through Samaria and how he dives right in to the…

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Featured Sermon Series: Scandalous Love

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  The Scandalous Love series is often considered one of Greg’s and Woodland Hill’s most foundational series. In fact, it was so important that it subsequently led to the Can’t Stop the Love series. Defining…

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Sermon Clip: Keeping Christmas

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Through Christ, God fulfills all his promises, and by yielding to him and giving up control, we can set ourselves free.   Full Sermon here: http://whchurch.org/sermons-media/sermon/keeping-christmas

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Sermon Clip: How Christians Should Respond to Ferguson

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In this clip from this weeks sermon, Greg Boyd comments on how Christians should respond to the events in Ferguson St. Louis and how that response should always be in love and to help heal…

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Sermon Clip: Dear Abby

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In this short sermon clip, Greg Boyd discusses Matthew 7. The infamous “plank in your own eye vs a speck of dust in your neighbors. He clarifies what this verse means when you have a…

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