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Lighten Up: Taking Love for Granted
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Cartoons, God's Love, Humor, Lighten Up, Naked Pastor
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Sermon Clip: Escaping the Twilight Zone God
Category: General
Tags: Calvinism, Fear, Love, Sermons
In this sermon clip from Woodland Hills Church, Greg Boyd discusses how in an episode of the Twilight Zone, a young boy gained omnipotent powers, and people were forced to accept his every decision as…
Enemy Love
Category: General
Tags: Boston Bombings, Enemy Love, Kingdom Living, Love, Paul Keane, The American Jesus, Zack Hunt
Rob Hogeslag via Compfight Zack Hunt over at The American Jesus shared the story of Paul Keane who offered his own burial plot to Tamerlan Tsarnaev if his family could not find a cemetery that would…
Open2013 Speakers (Video)
Category: Q&A
Tags: Greg Boyd, John Sanders, Open Theism, ReKnew, Tom Oord, Woodland Hills Church
Topics: Open Theism
Here’s all of the videos of the speakers and their Q&A’s from Open2013. Unfortunately, there was a mix-up and we didn’t get Jessica Kelley’s presentation taped. We’re working to get her to speak again so…
Greg Shares His Journey With Chronic Pain
Category: General
Tags: Greg Boyd, Pain, ReKnew, Staying Awake, Suffering
Greg recently decided that he needed to discontinue taking his pain medication despite chronic neck issues for which there are no easy answers. Here he shares that decision and the journey he’s on to remain…
Love is a Beautiful Way to Live…and Die
Category: General
Tags: Death, Kingdom Living, Richard Beck, Sacrifice
Hartwig HKD via Compfight Richard Beck posted a reflection this last week called Love is the Allocation of Our Living and Dying. Greg has a regular practice of imagining his own death in order to live…
Lighten Up: If This Guy Can Laugh…
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Inspiration, Lighten Up, Shane Burcaw
There’s some pretty raw language in this video and it’s longer than what we normally post, but we thought it was worth it. So inspiring.
Prototype
Category: General
Tags: Jonathan Martin, Micah J Murray, Prototype, Redemption
Micah J. Murray wrote the funnest illustrated book review of Jonathan Martin’s book Prototype, so we just had to feature it here. That’s his photoshopped pic of Jonathan as well, which is pretty much worth the price…
Interview with Frank Viola on his Book “God’s Favorite Place on Earth”
Category: General
Tags: Frank Viola, Interview, Jesus
Today is the release date for Frank Viola’s new book, God’s Favorite Place on Earth. Greg did an interview with Frank recently, and in celebration of his book release, we’re sharing that interview here. If…
Christian Skepticism
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Christopher Hutton, Doubt, Skeptics
Beshef via Compfight Christopher Hutton wrote a piece that was featured on the Christ and Pop Culture blog called Skepticism for Christianity: Why Doubt it Our Best Friend. Greg’s upcoming book Benefit of the Doubt deals with…
Sermon: Keeping the Valve Open
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Boston Bombings, Creation, Kingdom Responses, Sermons, The Mind, Woodland Hills Church
In this short sermon clip, Greg Boyd talks about Paul’s writings on getting our reality to line up with what God says is real. The full sermon discusses how God’s design for creation is beautiful….
Lighten Up: Surprise!
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Humor, Lighten Up
Greg discusses how God is not a “Thor” God zapping people on a whim. And then…
Terror in the Night
Category: Essays
Tags: Essay, Fear, God, God's Love, Q&A, Spiritual Warfare
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
I’ll never forget the night it first happened to me. I was thirteen, sharing a bedroom with my older brother. I woke up in the middle of the night and felt as if something was…
The Gift of Bearing Witness
Category: General
Tags: Faithfulness, Jonathan Martin, Listening, Prototype, Suffering
Eustaquio Santimano via Compfight Our friend, Jonathan Martin, was featured in She Loves Magazine in a piece he wrote called At Least One Person Waiting. It’s an extraordinary reflection on sitting with the ones we…
NDY Happiness
Category: General
Tags: Haiti, Kòt a Kòt, NDY, Not Dead Yet
Greg’s band, NDY (Not Dead Yet) has a couple of gigs coming up soon. We wanted to give you a heads up that they’ll be playing at the Dugout in Mahtomedi on May 3rd at…
Old and New
Category: General
Tags: Art, Bible, Old and New Project
Old & New – Round 3 Trailer by Fred Sprinkle. Our good friend Jim LePage is a graphic artist with amazing talent. Some of you are familiar with him via his work for Woodland Hills or…
On Our Limits and Our Hope
Category: General
Tags: Anger, Boston Bombings, Grief, Hope, Humility, Jonathan Martin, Micah J Murray, Social Media
Martin Gommel via Compfight Are you worn out by the craziness of this last week? Micah J. Murray posted yesterday on the limits of what we can hold when the freight train of tragedies carried…
From Boston, With Love
Category: General
Tags: Boston Bombings, Cruciform Theology, Forgiveness, Jesus, Mercy, Peacemaking, T.C. Moore
We posted some of T. C. Moore’s reflections on the Open 2013 conference earlier this week. T. C. lives in Boston and was deeply moved by the violence and terror that came to his city….
Lighten Up: Street Compliments
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Lighten Up, Love, Soul Pancake
When was the last time you paid a sincere compliment? It’s magical.
The Extremity of God’s Love
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Father, God, Godhead, Jesus, Love, Sacrifice, Separation, Trinity, Unity
Topics: Atonement and The Cross
In response to questions he has received about whether Jesus was actually separated from the Father on the cross, Greg fleshes out his perspective on this. The love that unites the Trinity is the very…