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Sermons: Resurrection Principle
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Apologetics, Bible, Jesus, New Testament, Sermons
Topics: Apologetics
Is the resurrection of Jesus true? The entire Christian faith rests on if is or not. In this short sermon clip, Greg Boyd goes through a few historical proofs as to why this is true….
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…
What is the meaning of 666?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Sermons, Woodland Hills Church
Topics: End Times
Woodland Hills recently completed a series on the book of Revelation. To conclude, Greg Boyd and Paul Eddy did a Q and A session to answer any lingering questions. This question answers what is the…
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…
Lighten Up: The True Story of Kid President
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Inspiration, Kid President, Lighten Up
This is not just something that will make you laugh. It will also inspire and challenge you. Peace.
Of Revelation and The Lord of the Rings
Category: General
Tags: Book of Revelation, Eschatology, Hope, Left Behind, Lord of the Rings, Robert Martin
As most of you know, Greg has been preaching a sermon series on the book of Revelation. He’s got a very different take on this book than the popular Christian culture that sprouted the Left…
Four Blood Moons—What’s the Significance?
Category: General
Tags: Blood Moons, End Times, Israel, John Hagee, Signs
The first of four successive “blood moons” will occur on April 15 & 16. Is this significant? Does it point to coming earth-shattering events specifically related to Israel? Many authors like John Hagee believe it…
Sermons: It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Sermons
A lot of Christians today believe in a literal rapture before the judgment of the world. However, these beliefs come from literal interpretations of several scripture passages. In this sermon, Greg takes a look at…
God’s Goal for the World
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Love, Repenting of Religion, Unity
Helga Weber via Compfight In a world that is all about doom and gloom… In a time when we never seem to have enough… In the midst of messages that tell us that we don’t…
Lessons from Jimmy Fallon
Category: General
Tags: Church, Fun, Jimmy Fallon
David Henson published a blog last week entitled 6 Things the Church Can Learn From Jimmy Fallon that we thought was a tad profound. What would the church look like if we embraced these lessons?…
Things I liked and things that bugged me about “Noah”
Category: General
Tags: Flood, Movie Review, Nephilim, Noah, Violence
I finally had a chance to go see Noah the other night and thought some might find a review helpful. Since this is a review of a movie and not a commentary on the biblical text,…
What’s Wrong With The World?
Category: General
Tags: Current Events, Evil, Kingdom Living, Living in Love, Soldiers, Spiritual Warfare
Hartwig HKD via Compfight The reports coming out of Fort Hood this morning once again highlight that our world is messed up. And it often feels like we are rearranging the deck chairs on the…
Sermons: The New Jerusalem Bride
Category: General
Will God scorch the earth at the end of this age? In this sermon clip, Greg discusses what the Bible says on this topic. Revelation provides us with a beautiful vision of the future…
In the Words of Satan
Category: General
Tags: Satan, Temptation
http://youtu.be/dz2LTIkWIB0 It’s kind of like if Uncle Screwtape wrote a song…