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A Coming Storm
Category: Essays
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, Debate, Essay, Evangelism, Jesus, OT Violence
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
There is a storm beginning to brew on the horizon. It is a debate among Evangelicals about the violent depictions of God, stirred up largely by Eric Seibert’s Disturbing Divine Behavior. Here is a post…
Sermon: Blood and Water
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Anabaptists, Baptism, Communion, Greg Boyd, Non-Violence, Persecution, Woodland Hills Church
In this sermon clip, Greg Boyd talks about how question in baptism and communion have cause division in the church throughout history. In the rest of the sermon he discusses why baptism and Communion are…
“You” Means “Y’all”
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Community, Individualism, Justin Hiebert, Missions
Mrs Logic via Compfight Justin Hiebert over at Empowering Missional wrote a piece last week titled The Bible isn’t for you. Justin rightly points out that our individualistic mindset has caused us to misread huge…
Ashamed/Unashamed
Category: General
Tags: Beauty, Church, Rachel Held Evans, Repentance
Toni Blay via Compfight Rachel Held Evans posted this astounding reflection on her blog this week. Normally, we post a short excerpt of the blogs we link to, but this one MUST be read in…
Lighten Up: Meet Rollins
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Greg Boyd, Kindness, Kingdom Living, Lighten Up
Greg introduces his grandson Rollins and talks about the God of little things.
Sermon: We The Church
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Anabaptists, Church, Constantine, Identity in Christ, Woodland Hills Church
The Anabaptists saw that the building is not the Church. God wants to dwell on this Earth, but it is not in a building. It is in his people. In this brief clip, Greg traces…
Getting Honest about the Dark Side of the Bible
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Honesty, Jesus, John Calvin, OT Violence
Eddy Van 3000 via Compfight While most of the Bible exhibits a “God-breathed” quality, reflecting a magnificently beautiful God that is consistent with God’s definitive revelation on the cross, we must honestly acknowledge that some…
Open2013
Category: General
Tags: Greg Boyd, John Sanders, Open Theism, ReKnew, Thomas Oord, Woodland Hills Church
As I’m sure many of you know, the understanding of the Christian faith and the model of the Christian church is in the process of being transformed. All around the globe, and in a multitude…
Thinking Biblically?
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, Humility, Micah J Murray, Rachel Held Evans, Religious Idolatry
Olga Caprotti via Compfight Micah J. Murray over at Redemption Pictures posted this reflection called Beware of Thinking Biblically. The image of a google search on the topic is worth the price of admission. Christians throw…
Ralph D. Winter Lectureship
Category: General
Tags: Missions, Ralph D. Winter, Warfare Worldview
Greg has been invited to give this year’s lectures for “The Ralph D. Winter Lectureship,” this April 25 and 26. Greg’s lectures will be on the Biblical Warfare Worldview and its implications for understanding evil,…
The Phinehas vs. Jesus Conundrum
Category: Essays
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Essay, Jesus, OT Violence, Phinehas, Violence
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
I’ll be frank. This is not a blog that will be easy for some people to read. But it’s a blog I believe every follower of Jesus should read – even if you have to…
Peter Enns Doesn’t Believe in God
Category: General
Tags: Belief, Peter Enns, Trust
R’eyes via Compfight Peter Enns is the master at creating blog titles that are both clever and provocative. The other day he wrote a post that he entitled Why I Don’t Believe in God Anymore. As…
The Image of God
Category: General
Tags: Father, Jesus, Picture of God, Religious Idolatry
Distorted from digma.com Is the image of God you hold in your heart one that attracts or repels you?
Lighten Up: Making Friends
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Lighten Up
Maybe we need to start putting these in churches…or government buildings.
Sermon: The Twist
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Anabaptists, Bible, Jesus, Sermons
In this sermon clip, Greg Boyd discusses how when you read a book with a twist ending, the ending reframes the entire story. The Bible is no different. In this sermon, Greg shows how Jesus’…
Anti-American?
Category: General
Tags: Kurt Willems, Nationalism, Religious Idolatry
Kurt Willems posted a response to the accusation he often gets that he’s anti-American. He also included a video of Greg giving his own response to this question. Take a look! From Kurt’s blog: I…
The REAL Problem with Divine Violence in the OT
Category: Essays
Tags: Bible, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Essay, God, Jesus, Violence
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
As I mentioned in my previous blog, while I will continue to offer video-blogs responding to questions that come in, I’m also planning on sprinkling in reflections based on my forthcoming book, Crucifixion of the…
Are Evangelicals an Endangered Species?
Category: General
Tags: Conflict, Division, Evangelism, Missions, Theology, Unity
Joits via Compfight Tim Suttle offered some thoughts on the Huffington Post a few days ago about the state of evangelicalism and what is needed to keep it from going the way of the dinosaurs….
Reflections on Divine Violence in the Old Testament
Category: Essays
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Essay, Jesus, Love, Old Testament, Picture of God, Violence
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
As some of you know, for the last five years I’ve been working on a book addressing the problem of divine violence in the OT. (For alleged violence in the NT, see Thomas R. Yoder…
Freedom in the Subatomic World
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, Michio Kaku, Open Theism, Quantum Physics