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Friday Bonus: It’s All Your Imagination
Category: General
Tags: Cataphatic Prayer, Imagination, Prayer, Sermons, Woodland Hills Church
This is a sermon clip from Greg’s preaching a couple of weeks ago. He testifies about answered prayer and also details the important role of the imagination in prayer. This sermon is based on Greg’s…
What Does God Look Like?
Category: General
Tags: God's Character, Jessica Kelley, Mark Moore, Picture of God, ReKnew, Rising Revolution
Thomas Hawk via Compfight Our good friend Jessica Kelley wrote this blog featuring sermons from Mark Moore about what God is really like. It’s a timely piece since Jessica is going to be preaching at Woodland…
Publisher’s Weekly Review of Benefit of the Doubt
Category: Press
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Reviews
Publisher’s Weekly gave us a positive review and highly recommends Greg’s book. You can find the review here. You can order a copy of Benefit of the Doubt on Amazon.
What I – a Pacifist – Would say to Obama About the Crisis In Syria
Category: Essays
Tags: Current Events, Essay, Government, Just War, Non-Violence, Pacifism, Peace, The Sword, War
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Over the last week many of you have written ReKnew asking me to weigh in on the crisis in Syria. Does being a pacifist mean that I am opposed to America violently intervening to keep…
Leaders in the Revolution: An Invitation
Category: General
Tags: Church, Connecting, Fellowship, Greg Boyd, Kingdom Revolution, Leaders, Mark Moore, Viva la Revolution!
Kevin Dooley via Compfight Network Exploration Meeting There is a growing movement of pastors, church planters, and churches around the globe who have become convinced that the center of the Gospel is a Jesus-looking God…
Another Sneak Peek from Benefit of the Doubt
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Doubt and the Idol of Certainty, Faith, Greg Boyd, ReKnew, Upcoming Conference
As we approach our ReKnew conference next month, we’ll be posting snippets of Greg’s book, Benefit of the Doubt. We hope you’ll be joining us. We extended the deadline for early bird registration. Get on…
ReThink Humanity
Category: General
Tags: Egalitarianism, Family, Marriage, Rachel Held Evans, Women In Ministry
D. Sharon Pruitt via Compfight When we wrote the ReKnew Manifesto, one of the issues we were passionate about was helping people rethink gender issues within the church. Part of the Manifesto reads: Against the…
Lighten Up: Keep Going
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Encouragement, Inspiration, Kid President, Lighten Up, Soul Pancake, Unity
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Benefit of the Doubt: Sneak Peek
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Doubt and the Idol of Certainty, Faith, ReKnew
We’ll be leaking little tidbits from Greg’s soon-to-be-released book Benefit of the Doubt from today until the book release. We’re really excited about the potential of this book to impact the lives of those who…
How We Are Defined
Category: General
Tags: Church, Kingdom Living, Love Your Neighbor, Politics, Zack Hunt
Burstein! via Compfight Zack Hunt wrote a piece called Abortion, Gay Marriage, Immigration, Gun Control, and the Church over at A Deeper Story. He points out that we have a big problem on our hands…
When Tradition is a Too Small Cage…and a Fence
Category: General
Tags: Division, Tradition, Unity
fusion-of-horizons via Compfight Jonathan Storment wrote a fabulous article on the functions of tradition and the ways it can sometimes lead to senseless division among us. We’re really tired of division over things that don’t really…
Bad Exegesis
Category: General
I guess if you can’t afford the $399.95 price tag you must be doing it wrong. (Thanks Tara for bringing this to our attention.)
Review: “The Butler”
Category: General
Tags: Movie Review, Racism, The Butler
For all the same reasons that some couldn’t set their politics aside to celebrate what the election of Obama meant for African Americans, I’m quite sure that some won’t be able to set their politics…
Lighten Up: Good Question
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Calvinism, Free Will, Humor, Lighten Up, Open Theism
Showing Up
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Perfection, Practicing the Presence of God, Simplicity
Jonathan Kos-Read via Compfight Shauna Niequist over at Donald Miller’s Storyline blog shared some thoughts on Why You Should Stop Waiting for Life to be Perfect. She points out that sometimes this waiting for perfection gets…
Secret Doubt
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Faith, Jess in Process, Jessica Kelley, ReKnew
J L via Compfight We don’t usually do this, but Jessica Kelley (Henry’s mom) over at Jess in Process wrote a piece about her struggles with doubt, and we got her permission to reprint it…
A Word About Sharing the Gospel From an Atheist
Category: General
Tags: Atheism, Christianity, Evangelism, Gospels, Love
Jen J over at A Deeper Family wrote a little piece about how she felt convicted after this video was played during a sermon at her church. She makes some good points. Penn Jillette is a…