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New Article and Book Update

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Hello folks, As  I mentioned in “Latest News” on the Home Page of this website, I just had an article published in Religious Studies. It’s entitled: “Two ancient (and modern) motivations for ascribing exhaustive definite…

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Two Ancient (and Modern) Motivations for Ascribing Exhaustively Definite Foreknowledge to God

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A historic overview and critical assessment Abstract: The traditional Christian view that God foreknows the future exclusively in terms of what will and will not come to pass is partially rooted in two ancient Hellenistic…

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Paul Young and Some Renegade Canadian Pastors

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Hi folks, Life has been crazy busy. For one thing, our upcoming Ultimate Compassion Conference has added a lot of things on a lot of plates at Woodland Hills Church the last few weeks. I’ve…

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Ultimate Compassion Conference

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Hey folks, Just want to let you know about a conference that will be held at Woodland Hills Church on poverty and the call of God to do something about it.  It’s entitled Ultimate Compassion…

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Painted Idolatry: “One Nation Under God”

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Hello blogging friends, Some of you probably have encountered the recent painting, “One Nation Under God.” Artistically speaking, it’s an excellent work. Theologically speaking, it incarnates, in the most graphic form imaginable, the sin of…

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The River

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Hi Folks, Sorry I haven’t blogged for a while. I’ve been deluged with “stuff.” I want to thank all of you who were able to contribute to Tobi Olatoye’s education at YWAM. And I want…

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Please Consider Partnering With CVM in Helping Tobi

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  Dear friends, I’d like to ask you to join Shelley and myself in raising prayer and financial support to help a remarkable young woman, Tobi Olatoye, to attend a YWAM (Youth With a Mission)…

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Did God Send a Tornado to Warn The ELCA?

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On Wednesday, August 19, five small tornados formed in and around the Twin Cities. Included among the property damage was a broken church steeple. It just so happens that Central Lutheran Church was hosting the…

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Rob Bell In Twin Cities and At Woodland Hills

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Hi Folks, Just an FYI for you who live in or around the Twin Cities. Rob Bell (whom I assume all of you know) is bringing his Drops Like Stars tour to the Twin Cities…

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“Hi” From MacKinac Island

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Hi nice people (and mean ones, though I’m sure most of the people who read my blog are nice, since sound and true theology tends to drive away mean people, right?). Anyway, last week I…

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Your Identity In Christ

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Hello folks, I spent last week in London speaking at Revive, the annual get together of Ichthus Christian Fellowship headed up by Roger and Faith Forster.  It was, as they say over there, “lovely” and…

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Dr. Gates’ Arrest and Racial Profiling

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I’m sure most of you have heard of the arrest of Dr. Henry Louis Gates, an African American professor at Harvard University. A neighbor called police because they thought a black man was trying to…

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Jesus’ Repudiation of Old Testament Violence

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Hello Internet comrades, Some of you who have been visiting this site for a while may recall that I spend several months last year, beginning around March,  blogging mostly about the problem of reconciling the…

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How Does God Hear All Our Prayers?

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Q: At any given moment there are millions of people praying to God. How is it possible for God to pay attention to my little, silent prayer amidst all the chatter? The reason you or…

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Why Did Jesus Curse The Poor Fig Tree?

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 Why Did Jesus Curse The Fig Tree?  One of the strangest episodes recorded in the Gospels is Jesus cursing a fig tree because he was hungry and it didn’t have any figs (Mk 11:12-14; Mt…

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Greg 1: Grim Reaper: 0. Ha Ha

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Hello bloggers, Well, I stared down the Grim Reaper, and won! Oh yeah! Greg 1: Grim Reaper: 0. Here’s the story. For the last several months I’ve been on track to become an anonymous kidney…

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A Night With Mennonites and Jim Wallis

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Hello blogging friends, Yesterday I had the privilege of speaking at the bi-annual national meeting of the Mennonite Church USA in Columbus Ohio. I love this group and am always delighted and humbled to be…

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ROCK ON!

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Hey this is Marcia, Greg’s faithful paparazzi. NDY drew an amazing crowd at O’Gara’s Friday night to raise support for Providence House in Haiti. It’s always a blast to party and dance together, but when…

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NDY Will Rock the House for Haiti!

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F.Y.I., Not Dead Yet (the band I drum in — I’m the cute guy on the far left) will be playing  this Friday (June 26th, 2009) at O’Gara’s in St. Paul, Minnesota. The dance/concert starts…

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In the Middle of Infinity

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As a way of helping people experience the incomprehensible transcendence of God, I showed a clip from the IMAX mini-documentary “The Cosmic Voyage” in my sermon this last week. Starting with a circle one meter…

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