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Lighten Up: Your Church Should Welcome This Friend

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Dear Greg: The Church has Forced My Dad Out for a Younger, Hipper Pastor (podcast)

Greg talks about leading churches and about how the age of the pastor can impact a congregation.  Episode 556 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0556.mp3

Lighten Up: Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh

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Was Noah’s flood global or local?

Though many regard the biblical story of a great flood in the days of Noah to be an ancient legend, evangelical Christians affirm it as historical fact because Scripture presents it as such. However, a debate has arisen during the last two hundred years as to whether the flood was global or local. Those who…

How do you respond to Numbers 23:19?

The Lord tells Balak through Balaam “God is not a human being, that he should lie, or a mortal, that he should change his mind.” This verse (as well as 1 Sam. 15:29, which quotes it) is often cited in refutation of the claim that God genuinely changes his mind. However, since Scripture explicitly states…

Lighten Up: Theological Love

Um, yeah. Let’s do better than this, shall we?

What do you think of Thomas Aquinas’ view of God?

Question: You have written (in Trinity and Process) that the relational God of the Bible is the antithesis of the immutable God of Thomas Aquinas. Could you explain this? Answer: Aquinas and much of the classical theological tradition borrowed heavily from Aristotle’s notion of God as an “unmoved mover.” God moves the world but remains…