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Sermon Clip: The Cross and the Tree
Category: General
Tags: Adam and Eve, Judgement, Love, Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
In this short sermon clip, Greg Boyd discusses how Christians should react to the world with love. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were tempted to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge…
Are we called to suffering?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Abuse, Kingdom Living, Love, Sacrifice, Suffering
Topics: Following Jesus
What does it mean when we say we’re called to suffering? Does it mean that we should allow ourselves to be victimized or that God approves when we are abused? Here are Greg’s thoughts on…
Becoming Unbusy
Category: General
Tags: freedom, Joshua Becker, Simplicity, time
ZeroOne via Compfight Joshua Becker posted A Helpful Guide to Becoming Unbusy that we thought was wonderful. If you’re finding yourself mindlessly going from one task to the next with no time to take a…
Sanctuary
Category: General
Tags: Forgiveness, Jamie Wright, Love, safety, Sanctuary
. SantiMB . via Compfight Jamie Wright wrote this penetrating essay of encountering a woman in a moment of extremity and need. It’s a reminder of our great need for a sanctuary, a safe…
Lighten Up: I’m Not Worried Frank
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Debate, Frank Viola, Friendly Disagreements, Humor, Lighten Up, Open Theism
http://youtu.be/kQFKtI6gn9Y?t=1m19s Well, my dear friend Frank Viola has been spouting off again about how my “logic will be shredded, excoriated, and turned into confetti before a watching world” when we host our debate on Open…
Category: General
Tags: Debate, Frank Viola, Fun, Open Theism
Umberto Salvagnin via Compfight Oh oh. It’s getting ugly up in here. Frank Viola is suggesting that Greg needs to fix a nice tall glass of shut-up juice. He and Greg have decided to have a…
Sermon Clip: The Worst of Sinners
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Judgement, Love, Sermons, Sinners, Unsurpassable Worth, Woodland Hills Church
In this short clip, Greg Boyd discusses Paul’s definition of love. In the full sermon, Greg talks about how in this dog eat dog world, we’re programmed to judge others. But to love others with…
Corrective Love
Category: General
Tags: Growth, healing, Kathy Escobar, Kingdom Living, Love, safety
drp via Compfight Kathy Escobar posted the other day about providing “corrective experiences” to those who have been hurt in the past. How many of us have approached Christians with our wounds and have been…
The Warfare Worldview
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Greg Boyd, ReKnew, Roberta Winter Institute, Science, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
The Warfare Worldview from Roberta Winter Institute on Vimeo. Here’s a video presentation that Greg did at the Roberta Winter Institute regarding the Warfare Worldview. Enjoy!
Lighten Up: Jesus Getting the Last Laugh
Category: General, Lighten Up
Death after the resurrection. Wonder if he did a face-palm?
Are You Guilty of Marcionism?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, Heresy, Jesus, Non-Violence, Old Testament, Violence
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Greg responds to the question of whether or not his cruciform hermeneutic is anything like the heresy of Marcion, who basically advocated throwing out the Old Testament. (Spoiler: it’s not.)
The End and Beginning of Faith
Category: General
Tags: Agnosticism, Calvinism, Doubt, Faith, Micah J Murray, Picture of God
Eduardo Amorim via Compfight Micah J. Murray shared the story of how his doubts and loss of faith led him to a truer, deeper faith. While we fear the doubts that sometimes sneak in, sometimes…
Is There an Actual Satan?
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Demons, Roger Olson, Satan, Satanic Realism
Roger Olson wrote an excellent piece on how contemporary Christianity has tended to ignore or altogether extract Satan from the Biblical text. He explores some of the possible reasons for it and also discusses his…
Forgiveness in the Christus Victor View of the Atonement
Category: Q&A
Tags: Atonement, Christus Victor, Forgiveness, God, Jesus, Sin, Wrath
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement
Did Jesus need to die on the cross to satisfy God’s wrath in order for us to be forgiven? Greg discusses the role of forgiveness in the Christus Victor view of the Atonement.
Frenzied Religion
Category: General
Richard Dahl posted a piece on his blog called Your Religious Pursuits: Manic Spirituality or Peaceful Intimacy? If you’re feeling like you’re a hamster on a wheel in every area of your life including your…
Lighten Up: The Great Commission Revisited
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Humor, Lighten Up, Rev. Jay Sidebotham, The Great Commission
Um, Sorta.
Does Jesus’ Abandonment on the Cross Destroy the Trinity?
Category: Essays
Tags: Abandonment, An Open Orthodoxy, Cruciform Theology, Dwayne Polk, Essay, Father, God is Love, Godhead, Jesus, Tom Belt, Trinity, Trinity and Process
Topics: Atonement and The Cross, Theological Method, Trinity
In my previous blog I argued that Jesus’ experience of God-forsakenness on the cross was genuine and that, as a matter of fact, there was a genuine abandonment of Jesus by the Father on the…
Generous Grace
Category: General
Tags: Belief, Church, Grace, Mark McIntyre, Sin
Michelle Brea via Compfight Mark McIntyre wrote a piece on his blog called Selective Grace that highlights the ways in which the church tends to more easily demonstrate grace with some than with others. It’s…
Grieving and Comfort
Category: General
Tags: Ben Witherington, Death, Grief, Hope, Jessica Kelley, Picture of God, Theodicy
Henning Mühlinghaus via Compfight Ben Witherington posted this heartfelt reflection on the sudden death of his young daughter. Theology can sometimes be a relatively benign part of your life until something like this strikes without warning….