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Hellbound?
Category: General
Tags: Heaven and Hell, Hellbound
Greg will be at the 7:15 showing of Hellbound? this Tuesday evening at AMC Inver Grove 16 to answer questions after the showing. The writer/director Kevin Miller will be there as well. If you’re in…
What Does it Mean to be a Disciple?
Category: General
Tags: Bruxy Cavey, Discipleship
http://youtu.be/zZVBV3zByys Here’s our good friend Bruxy Cavey talking about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus and to call him “Lord.” It’s less than three minutes, but it’s a good reminder of what…
Is the Separation of Church and State Satan’s Idea?
Category: General
Tags: Politics, Religious Idolatry
I encourage you to read this article. In it, Rick Perry claims that the idea of the separation of the church and state is from Satan, and he and others will next week embark on…
In the Grand Scheme of Things…
Category: General
Tags: Evolution
…don’t we have bigger things to get upset about than this?
Lighten Up: Drummer
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Drummer, Humor, Lighten Up
The fun starts in this video after the first minute or so. Greg could learn a thing or two about drumming and passion from this guy. Happy Friday!
“I’m Angry, Too”
Category: General
Tags: Hate Speech, Non-Violence, Peacemaking, Politics
A reader (thanks, Jen!) sent us this blog post by Rachel Pieh Jones, an ex-pat from Minnesota living in Djibouti. She has some incredibly insightful and sad thoughts about the hateful responses to the recent…
Thou Shalt Not Commit Logical Fallacies
Category: General
Tags: Logic, Reasoning
We found this handy little chart online that will help you to identify logical fallacies. (You’ll have to go to the website for functioning icons.) These easy-to-fall-for ways of arguing are frequently used in the media…
Q&A: If Salvation Depends on our Free Choice, How are we Saved by Grace?
Category: General
Tags: Grace, Open Theism, Q&A, Responding to Calvinism, Salvation
As a companion to today’s testimony and the link to Greg’s thoughts on Romans 9, we thought it would be helpful to post this Q&A on salvation by grace within the Open View of the…
Father of Lights
Category: General
Tags: Father of Lights documentary
The Father of Lights documentary is playing at Woodland Hills Church this Friday, September 28th at 7pm. Greg appears in part of this film shining a light on the heart of God. Follow this link…
Reflections on the Supremacy of Christ (Part 2)
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, Jesus, ReKnew
Whereas most Christians place the revelation of God in Christ alongside of other portraits of God and end up with an amalgamated image of God, we at ReKnew encourage believers to base their understanding of…
The Beautifully Bizarre Entangled You
Category: General
Tags: Beauty, Mystery, Science, Sermons
Reality is not always what it seems. We get lulled into treating our miraculous lives as something ordinary if we’re not paying close attention. Last weekend Greg preached on some of the more bizarre findings…
Understanding Islam
Category: General
Especially given recent events, it doesn’t hurt to know a bit about the religion of Islam. Patheos is a website that can help you to tease out what Muslims believe. If we are to interact…
Reflections on the Supremacy of Christ (Part 1)
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, Jesus, ReKnew
In my previous post I argued that the Bible tells a story in which the culminating event – the coming of Christ – reframes everything that preceded it. Though it is all inspired, not everything…
Making Room for Doubt and Questions in Our Youth Curriculum
Category: General
Tags: Doubt, Q&A
This article from a Christianity Today blog was sent to us from a reader (Thanks Laura!) reflecting on the need for making space for doubt and questions in our youth curriculum. From the article: In our Sticky…
Approaching Chronic Illness with Wisdom
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Suffering
CNN posted this article on what to say and what not to say when someone you love is suffering with chronic illness. Sometimes our best intentions cause more harm than good, and we need to…
Happy vs. Holy
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living
Rebecca Tekautz wrote a reflection on Relevant Online Magazine regarding the stark difference between pursuing happiness versus pursuing holiness. We’ve been conditioned by a consumeristic society to seek our own happiness above all else, and sometimes…
Remembering that We are Finite
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Simplicity
Here’s a little reminder from Joshua Becker that we live with limited resources in the areas of “Money. Time. Energy. Attention. Physical Space. Relationships. Mental Capacity. Body. Talents. Natural Resources.” Let’s spend these things with wisdom and love. From the blog:…
When the Last Few Moments Changes Everything
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, Jesus, Picture of God, ReKnew
One of the central things ReKnew wants to accomplish is to challenge followers of Jesus to accept that the self-sacrificial love Jesus revealed on the cross is the definitive, and even the exhaustive, revelation of…
Little Pacifism
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Non-Violence
Richard Beck spoke about something he names Little Pacifism on his Experimental Theology website. It’s so easy, in the name of peacemaking, to become angry and aggressive. I suppose this is just part of what…