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Hearing and Responding to God: Part 6
Category: Q&A
Tags: Faith, God's Will, Hearing God, Listening, Prayer
Topics: Hearing God, Prayer
Greg has a couple additional thoughts about this topic so here’s part 6 and we’ll post part 7 tomorrow. Today, Greg discusses a way for us to discern the will of God. You can view…
Fundraiser Update
Category: General
Tags: Fundraising, Greg Boyd, Ministry, ReKnew, Thank You
THANK YOU SO MUCH to those of you who have contributed to this ministry. This is such a great start and we’re feeling very grateful! Here’s where we’re at today: 56 monthly supporters $4810 in…
Loving a Twilight Zone God?
Category: General
Tags: Calvinism, David D. Flowers, God, Jesus, Open Theism
David D. Flowers posted this insightful reflection over on his blog about an episode of The Twilight Zone and what it says about some pop views of God. Can we really love a God that…
Hearing and Responding to God: Part 5
Category: Q&A
Tags: Hearing God, Listening, Love, Nature of God, Prayer, Trinity
Topics: Hearing God, Prayer
We hope you’ve enjoyed this series on hearing and responding to God. In this last video on the topic, Greg discusses the significance of the fact that God IS love, and how our communion with him…
Hearing and Responding to God: Part 4
Category: Q&A
Tags: Christian Living, Hearing God, Listening, Magic, Prayer
Topics: Hearing God, Prayer
Are you inadvertently appealing to magic when you listen for God’s voice? Greg continues his series on hearing and responding to God by pointing out the difference between communion with God and Christian magic. You can…
Hearing and Responding to God: Part 3
Category: Q&A
Tags: Faith, Hearing God, Listening, Prayer
Topics: Hearing God, Prayer
We decided to change the title of this series to better reflect it’s content. Hope that’s not confusing. Greg continues his thoughts here on hearing when God speaks to us and being willing to respond…
Sermon: Does God Play Favorites?
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Free Will, Predestination, Sermons, Woodland Hills Church
In this clip from last week’s sermon, Greg begins to dive into the question of what it means to be chosen by God. Does he play favorites? Does God predestine some as “his chosen” and…
Hearing and Responding to God: Part 2
Category: Q&A
Tags: Choice, Hearing God, Open Theism, Prayer, Video Q&A, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Hearing God, Prayer
In this video, Greg continues his thoughts about the difficulties we can encounter when we try to hear God speaking to us. You can view the first part here.
Quotes to Chew On: Desires
Category: General
Tags: Christian Living, Desires, Kingdom Living, Quotes, Temptation
Marcos de Madariaga via Compfight Here’s a quote that comes to us via Andrew Sullivan’s blog: “We are rarely presented with an authentically fulfilling trajectory for our desires… If we are created for infinite satisfaction,…
God is Not…
Category: General
Tags: Gungor, Love, Picture of God
You just have to love this song by Gungor. Hope it blesses your socks off like it did us. (Thanks Jan Willem!)
Parable of the Jerk Loser Son
Category: General
Tags: Christianity, Jesus, Love of God, Parables, Peter Enns, Prodigal Son
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery via Compfight Peter Enns blogged about the parable of the prodigal son, or as he likes to call it, “the parable of the jerk loser son.” It’s actually a reflection about…
Are You Anti-American?
Category: Q&A
Tags: America, Greg Boyd, Nationalism, Political Idolatry, Politics, ReKnew, Video Q&A
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Greg answers the frequently asked question of whether he is anti-American. What’s your best guess? Watch the video and find out!
Hearing and Responding to God: Part 1
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Choice, Free Will, Hearing God, Open Theism, Prayer, Video Q&A, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Hearing God, Prayer
A reader contacted Greg asking about making “right decisions” assuming an open future and in light of the fact that God seems to rarely speak clearly. In this first response, Greg acknowledges that even with…
Sermon: Letter to Henry
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Death, Henry, Jesus, Problem of Evil, Sermons, Theodicy
We usually share a short clip from Greg’s sermons here, but we decided that a clip just won’t do this week. This last weekend Greg preached about the life and death of Henry and what…
Kingdom Sightings: God and Guinness
Category: General
Tags: Evangelism, God, Kingdom
Evan Leeson via Compfight Here’s a unique Kingdom initiative from one of our readers that we wanted to share with you. If you’re in Ann Arbor, check it out! Starting in January, one of the…
Drum Roll Please: Greg’s Final Critique of Bart Ehrman’s Article
Category: Q&A, Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Apologetics, Atheism, Bart Ehrman, Bible, Christianity, Christmas, Doubt, Faith, Greg Boyd, Historical Criticism, Jesus, ReKnew, Skeptics
Topics: Biblical Reliability
This is the ninth and final of several videos Greg put together to refute Bart Ehrman’s claims published in the article What Do We Really Know About Jesus? Thanks for hanging in there for this last one….
Lighten Up: Existential French Cat
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Existentialism, Humor, Lighten Up, Philosophy
Greg used to be into the existentialists quite a bit. Sartre and Camus would love this cat. (Thanks to Rachel Held Evans for the heads-up.)
Tips on what NOT to say to someone struggling with their faith
Category: General
Tags: Abuse, Christian Living, Doubt, Faith, support
Neal Fowler via Compfight Here’s a post from a year ago from Elizabeth Esther on What NOT to say to someone struggling with their faith. Historically, the church has been a very unsafe place for…
Following Jesus from the Margins
Category: General
Tags: Anabaptists, Christianity, Culture, Jesus, Justice, Kurt Willems, Non-Violence, Subversive
D. Sharon Pruitt via Compfight Kurt Willems posted a reflection today entitled From the Margins: Following Jesus in a post-Christian culture. I hope everyone will read this. It’s a perspective from the anabaptist tradition that…
Reflecting on Henry and the Heart of God
Category: Q&A
Tags: Death, God, Greg Boyd, Henry, ReKnew, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Providence, Predestination and Free Will, The Problem of Evil
Several years ago Jessica and Ian had their theology revolutionized by coming in contact with the vision of God and the warfare worldview that ReKnew ministries stands for. Tragically, this last September this wonderful couple…