ReKnew
A FREE Resource on Spiritual Formation
Category: General
Tags: Spiritual Formation, Woodland Hills Church
Topics: Following Jesus
Last week, we began a 6-week series at Woodland Hills Church entitled Formed: The Shaping of a Life. The first sermon by Greg can be watched here. As a part of this series, the church has…
Lighten Up: The Good Shepherd
Category: Lighten Up
Tags: Psalm 23
Verse: Psalm 23
You’ll never read the 23rd Psalm quite the same again. Video courtesy of Deidox.
Lighten Up: When Jesus Walks into a Bar
Category: Lighten Up
Tags: Lighten Up
Image via Laughing Redhead Studio
How to Interpret the Law of the Old Testament
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, God, Jesus, Law, Old Testament
Topics: Attributes and Character, Biblical Interpretation
While there are multitudes of passages in the OT that reflect an awareness that people are too sinful to be rightly related to God on the basis of the law, there is a strand that…
The Starting Point for “Knowing God”
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, God, Jesus, Luther, Transcendence
While it makes sense that Hellenistic philosophers embraced knowledge of God as the simple, necessary and immutable One in an attempt to explain the ever-changing, composite, contingent world (see post here for what this means),…
A Police Officer Questions Pacifism
Category: General
Tags: Non-Violence, Pacifism
Police Officer: My theology totally lines up with your theology, except in one area: namely, your pacifism. I am a police officer, and it frankly seems obvious to me that there are times when it is…
The Politics of Demonization
Category: General
Tags: Hatred, Jonathan Martin, Politics, Satan
Jonathan Martin posted a blog this week that we wanted to share called the politics of demonization (demonic talk on immigration, & other things). Have you noticed the hateful ways that we characterize the “other” in public discourse? Jonathan…
Lighten Up: Shallow Small Group
Category: Lighten Up
Tags: Community, Humor
https://youtu.be/NMyTMTmJU6E Free grub. Less mess.
Reflecting on the Lord’s Prayer
Category: General
Tags: Eschatology, Jesus, Kingdom Living, Prayer, Spiritual Warfare
Jesus begins the instruction on prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) by telling his disciples to pray for the Father’s name to be “hallowed,” for his kingdom to come, and for his will to be established on earth…
What Are the “Keys to the Kingdom”?
Category: General
Tags: Church, Jesus, Satan, Spiritual Warfare
Verse: Matthew 16
And I tell you that you are Peter [petros = rock], and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys…
The God Who Over-Knows The Future
Category: General
Tags: God's Sovereignty, Open Theism, Possibility, Providence
Topics: Free Will and the Future
God perfectly knows from all time what will be, what would be, and what may be. He sovereignly sets parameters for all three categories. His knowledge of what might occur leaves him no less prepared…
Lighten Up: Literally
Category: Lighten Up
Tags: Fundamentalism, Literalism
Comic from @postbarthian on Twitter
Why Compatibilistic Freedom Does Not Make Sense
Category: General
Tags: Determinism, Evil, Free Will, Problem of Evil, Satan and the Problem of Evil
Compatibilism is the view that free will is compatible with determinism. In this view, freedom is defined as the ability to do what you want, though what you want is determined by factors outside of…
Lighten Up: Biblical Idolatry
Category: Lighten Up
Is the way you read your Bible drawing you closer to Jesus or further away? Something to think about. Image by David Hayward at nakedpastor.com.