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Lighten Up: Moses on Sinai
Category: General, Lighten Up
Why would God bother giving commandments if he already determined what each person will do before they’re born? Chew on it.
Trinity and Love
Category: General
Tags: David D. Flowers, God is Love, Love, Trinity
Steve via Compfight There is a lot of mystery around the concept of the Trinity, and because the word is not used in Scripture some people think it’s not “Biblical”. David D. Flowers posted a…
The Revolutionary Mission of the Church
Category: Q&A
Tags: Kingdom Living, Kingdom Revolution, Myth of a Christian Religion, Warfare Worldview
Topics: The Church
Last week Greg tweeted the following: YES! “[T]he mission of the church is to participate in a drama that has a cross for its climax…” K. Vanhoozer This quote from Vanhoozer summarizes a theme that…
Lighten Up: You Gotta Believe In Something, Man!
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Atheism, Belief, Faith, Lighten Up, Philosophy, Theology
Two things here: 1) How does this philosopher not see that “not believing in believing” is itself a belief? 2) Is that a turtleneck or is that philosopher just really hairy?
Open Theism: A Basic Introduction
Category: General
Tags: Foreknowledge, Open Theism, Satan and the Problem of Evil, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Open Theism
On Monday and Tuesday, Greg explained Molinism and contrasted it against the open view of the future. (Click here for part 1). Because many see the open view as a limited view of God, it’s…
A Dear John Letter to John Calvin
Category: General
Tags: Calvinism, John Calvin, The American Jesus, Zack Hunt
Zack Hunt of The American Jesus wrote a brilliant “Dear John” letter after reading Calvin’s most famous work, Institutes of the Christian Religion. If you want to hear a well-articulated and engaging challenge of classic Calvinism,…
Book Review: Jesus Now
Category: General
When most Christians think of Jesus, they imagine the man from Galilee who lived 2100 years ago. There is of course nothing wrong with imagining Jesus this way, but, as Frank Viola demonstrates in his…
Why Believe that There Is a God?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Apologetics, God, Letters from a Skeptic
Topics: Apologetics
“Why should we believe in God in the first place?” This was a question that Greg’s father asked of Greg. While there are many ways to respond, Greg’s offered what is called “the anthropological argument.”…
Free Eustace the Dragon Concert!
Category: General
Tags: Eustace the Dragon, Music
Eustace the Dragon will be performing FREE at Woodland Hills Church this Friday evening at 7:30pm. Come and hear them play and also hear what their plans are in the coming year. We’re honored that we’ve…
Faith, Doubt and Agnosticism
Category: General
Tags: Agnosticism, Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Faith
Hartwig HKD via Compfight Greg was recently interviewed by Premier Radio in the UK for the program Unbelievable? along with Andrew Whyte (an agnostic) on the topic of faith and doubt. They discuss their personal…
What About the Contradictions Found in the Gospels?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Apologetics, Bible, Jesus, Letters from a Skeptic, Reliability of the Gospels
Topics: Biblical Reliability
It’s quite common for people to question the veracity of the Gospels because there are contradictions between them. In fact, an interaction between Steven Colbert and Bart Erhman, a scholar who makes a big deal…
Why Do Some Prayers Go Unanswered?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Is God to Blame?, Prayer
Topics: Free Will and the Future, Hearing God, Prayer, Providence, Predestination and Free Will
All of us have prayed for things and have been left wondering why God did not answer. Clearly, our prayers don’t all bring about what we ask for. It has been popular to say that…
The Lessons of Job
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Pain, Problem of Evil, Suffering, The Book of Job, Theodicy
Breno Peck via Compfight In his book Benefit of the Doubt, Greg argues that the lessons of the book of Job reassure us that God does not lie behind suffering, but he rather is a…
The Future of Theology
Category: General
Tags: Kenosis, Open Theism, Roger Olson, Theology, Trinity
Chris Moore via Compfight Roger Olson recently published a blog arguing that there really are no new ideas out there in the realm of theology. Everything has pretty much been thought of or proposed. That…
8 Arguments for the Reality of the Resurrection
Category: General
Tags: Apologetics, Easter, Letters from a Skeptic, Resurrection
Topics: Apologetics
James Emery via Compfight As we come up on Easter many ask questions about the reliability of the resurrection story. Was it a legend? Did the early church fabricate it? Can we trust what…
Lighten Up: If Jesus Had Come In Our Time
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Garden of Gethsemane, Lighten Up, Technology
Is there any doubt that this is the way it would have played out in 2014?
Counter-Cultural Community
Category: General
Tags: Community, Confession, Counter-Culture, Judgment, Kingdom Living, Love, Relationships
Jessica Lucia via Compfight On Tuesday Greg tweeted, “We inevitably acclimate to our environment. We can’t hope to be counter-cultural unless we’re embedded in a counter-cultural community.” Surely almost all Christian leaders would agree with…
Living As If God Exists
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Practicing the Presence of God, Prayer, Present Perfect
It is so easy to do our daily stuff of life as though God does not exist. This is not a statement about our beliefs about God’s existence. It’s a statement about our moment-by-moment living….
Hypocrisy on a Grand Scale
Category: General
Tags: Hypocrisy, Internet Behavior, Jon Acuff, Mockery
Shaun Wong via Compfight Have you ever read Jon Acuff’s blog Stuff Christians Like? He highlights popular Christian culture using humor and tongue-in-cheek advice. His latest blog post, 3 ways to be a better Christian…