What About Violence in the Parables? (podcast)

Do the Parables Send Mixed Messages about God’s Character? (podcast) April 27, 2020

Greg brings harmony to Jesus’s parables.  Episode 664 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0664.mp3

Lighten Up: Jesus VS The World August 8, 2014

 

Is Jesus Unique? December 29, 2007

The Search for a Non-Unique Jesus Built into the naturalistic assumption that drives the liberal New Testament search for the “man behind the myth” is the notion that, whoever Jesus was, he cannot have been utterly unique. The laws that operate in the world today, including the laws of human behavior, have always operated. And…

On Attending to the Light in Darkness April 17, 2013

Joe Spurr via Compfight Donald Miller has posted a reflection on his Storyline blog about highlighting goodness and thereby pointing to Jesus in the aftermath of events such as the bombing in Boston this week. We want to emphatically declare together that “an enemy has done this” (Matt 13:28). But we also want to be a people…

The Politics of Jesus, Part 2 October 19, 2016

Even in the midst of politically-troubled times, we are called to preserve the radical uniqueness of the kingdom. This, after all, is what Jesus did as he engaged the first century world with a different kind of politics (see post). To appreciate the importance of preserving this distinction, we need to understand that the Jewish…

Uncrossed February 18, 2013

Did any of you catch SNL this weekend? They did a parody of Tarantino’s DJango Unchained called DJesus Uncrossed. Many were deeply offended by the depiction of Jesus in this, but David R. Henson blogged about how this skit revealed what we’ve already been doing for quite a while as a culture. In his blog…