Greg Boyd
Worst Sinner Award
Category: General
Tags: Discipleship, Judgement, Present Perfect
Topics: Following Jesus
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….
Part 1 (of 15): Introduction — What’s Up With Jordan Peterson?
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
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…
God Is Working!
Category: General
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 They believed that God was no longer active…
The Patriot’s Bible — Really?
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Idolatry, National Idolatry, Patriot's Bible, Political Idolatry
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…
Wake Up to God’s Presence
Category: General
Tags: Being Present, God's Presence, Practicing the Presence of God, Presence of God, Present Perfect
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….
How the Church is Tempted to “Do Good”
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Myth of a Christian Nation
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…
Being a Resident Alien
Category: General
Verse: 1 Peter 2, 2 Timothy 2, Philippians 3, Romans 12
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…
Confronting the Divine Montage
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Verse: Colossians 2, Hebrews 1, Hebrews 10, John 1
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…
The All-Too-Common Montage God
Category: General
Tags: Cross Vision, Cruciform Theology
Topics: Attributes and Character, Christus Victor view of Atonement
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…
No More Hungry Hearts
Category: General
Tags: Life in Christ, Life to the Full
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…
Feeding Our Hungry Hearts
Category: General
Tags: Discipleship, Life in Christ, Life to the Full
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…
Hungry Hearts
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ
Verse: John 10
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…
To Change the World
Category: General
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,…
Jesus’ Kind of Social Justice
Category: General
Tags: Justice, Political Idolatry, Politics, Social Issues
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
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…
Did Christ Call Us to be Moral Guardians?
Category: General
Tags: Myth of a Christian Nation
Topics: Following Jesus
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…
How Judgment Makes Us Hypocrites
Category: General
Tags: Judgement, Myth of a Christian Nation
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…
Aspen School of Missional Apprenticeship (SOMA)
Category: General
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…
Church: A Place of Love, Not Judgment
Category: General
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…
The Vicious Cycle of False Life
Category: General
Tags: Lies, Lies Truth, Life in Christ, Life to the Full
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…