Podcast: When We Pray for Our Leaders, What Should We Pray?

If God is already doing the most he can do, how does prayer increase his influence? April 27, 2011

Question: If God always does the most that he can in every tragic situation, as you claim in Satan and the Problem of Evil,  how can you believe that prayer increases his influence, as you also claim?  It seems if you grant that prayer increases God’s influence, you have to deny God was previously doing…

Podcast: If Paul Couldn’t Get HIS Thorn Removed, Why Should We Think OUR Prayers for Healing Will Be Answered? July 17, 2017

Greg considers why Paul was unable to get his thorn removed, and argues that we should not universalize Paul’s situation to all of ours. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0182.mp3

What Hinders Answers to Prayer July 31, 2014

Prayer is powerful and effective, but it’s not magic. There is no automatic guarantee that what we’re praying for is going to come to pass, even when we’re praying with faith and in accordance with God’s will. Prayer is a form of co-laboring with God to change the world in a Kingdom direction. Yet, it’s…

A Brief Theology of Hearing God March 17, 2016

It is sometimes assumed by modern readers that when believers in the Bible heard a message or saw a vision while praying, it was something people perceived with their physical eyes and heard with their physical ears. If anyone else had been present with these believers when they heard God speak or received their vision,…

Theology and Imagination March 8, 2016

The human brain is by far the most amazing, complex, and mysterious aspect of the physical world. Our brains continually interpret our world, and the way we interpret it is mostly determined by the way aspects of our world trigger our imagination. Our imagination encodes messages and creates feelings, and thus motivates behavior. And most…

Lighten Up: Eat, Pray, Love March 7, 2014