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Don’t be a Scrooge!
Category: General
My ritual for “getting into the Christmas spirit” each year is to watch Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol (my favorite since childhood), Charlie Brown’s Christmas and the original Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. Usually these hokey childhood…
Eating Mercifully Documentary
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Animals
Topics: Creation Care
Greg plays a role in a newly released short documentary addressing faith and the proper treatment of animals. It’s only 26 minutes long, but it is eye-opening and will help people of faith examine the…
Kingdom Centeredness
Category: Essays
Tags: Discipleship, Essay, Kingdom Living
Topics: Following Jesus
A Silent Center white knuckles cling against peace and cries for release into chaos flying, centrifugal to death in attempt to salvage human breath for breathing, through peeling purge that burns away flesh to…
Following Jesus Doesn’t Work
Category: General
Tags: Discipleship, Kingdom Living
Topics: Following Jesus
I met a middle aged woman one day who told me she had given up on Christianity. “It just didn’t work for me,” she said. My response was: “What on earth made you think Jesus…
When Did Jesus Bind the Strongman?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Bible, New Testament, Q&A
Topics: Atonement and The Cross, Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
Question: In Luke 11:21-22 Jesus said: “When a strong man, with all his weapons ready, guards his own house, all his belongings are safe. But when a stronger man attacks him and defeats him, he…
Living With a Kingdom Consciousness
Category: Essays
Tags: Discipleship, Essay, Kingdom Living
Topics: Following Jesus
What Is the Kingdom of God? I want to begin by asking, “What is the kingdom of God?” This may seem like a rather obvious question. We all know what the Kingdom of God is,…
Is Open Theism Incompatible With a Chalcedonian Christology?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Incarnation, Q&A
Topics: Christology, Defending the Open View
Question: The Chalcedonian Creed says Jesus was “fully God and fully human” and that these “two natures” remained distinct in the Incarnation, even though Jesus was one united person. I’m told that part of the…
Colson’s God & Government: A Review
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Reviews
Chuck Colson is one of the most respected, influential voices in the modern Evangelical movement. His book God & Government: An Insider’s View on the Boundaries Between Faith & Politics (Zondervan, 2007) is an important…
How do I avoid feeling like God is absent?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Q&A, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Hearing God, Prayer
Question: I used to see God involved in everything and used to believe every event expressed God’s will. After my wife and I lost our child in a tragic accident, and as a result of…
Gospel “Contradictions” and Orality Studies
Category: Essays
Tags: Apologetics, Bible, Essay, Gospels, Jesus, New Testament
Topics: Biblical Reliability
* This essay has been adopted from G. Boyd and Paul Eddy, Lord or Legend? (Baker, 2007). One of the standard tests historians put to ancient documents to assess their veracity is self-consistency. Generally speaking,…
Unfulfilled Prophecies and the Open Future
Category: General
Hello blogger friends, I’ve been reading Volume II of John Goldingay’s excellent two volume work, Old Testament Theology, 2 Vols (IVP, 2006). Among other things, Goldingay highlights an important, but almost universally overlooked, aspect of…
An Odd Seminar And Interesting Debate
Category: General
Hope you all had a grand thanksgiving with family and friends. I’d like to share something that happened last week. I was in Providence, Rhode Island participating in a seminar on divine providence at the…
Hellenistic Philosophy and the Problem of Chalcedon
Category: General
Tags: Philosophy
As some of you know, I’ve been immersed in Hellenistic philosophy for the last several years as part of my research for a forthcoming book tentatively titled The Myth of the Blueprint. My goal is…
The Heresy of an Unreconciled Church
Category: General
Hi bloggers, Several people responded to my most recent blog by contrasting what I wrote with the “hostility” and “venom” they were reading on some white conservative Christian blogs the day following the election. While…
All Politics Aside — Today is a Good Day!
Category: General
Today is a good day. I don’t care if you’re a Democrat, Republican, Socialist, Libertarian, Communist, Anarchist or even a Christarchist who feels called to abstain from the whole political process. I couldn’t care less….
Dandelion Seeds
Category: General
I’m sitting here in my office at 4:00 AM listening to some beautiful music. Closing my eyes and letting my imagination wander freely, I come upon a scene of an enormous field filled with rows…
A Christus Victor AND Penal Substitution View of the Atonement?
Category: General
Tags: Atonement
Topics: Atonement and The Cross
Hello fellow spiritual pilgrims, Just flew back from a two day visit to Whitworth University in Spokane Washington. Twenty years ago I almost entered a 50 mile trail race in Spokane that’s held every fall,…
Religulous (and the alleged Horus-Christ parallels)
Category: General
Hello bloggers, Last post I promised a review of Bill Maher’s documentary Religulous. Sorry it’s taken so long, but I’ve been busy editing the final draft of my forthcoming book with Zondervan, The Myth of…
On the Campaign Trail
Category: General
Hi friends, I feel like I’m a candidate on the campaign trail with all the traveling and (anti) political talks I’ve been giving the last month. Last week I was down on the coast of…
Relevant’s Neue Magazine Quarterly Vol. 1 – Fall 2008
Category: Press
Click here to read an article about voting that Greg contributed to in Relevant’s Neue magazine. The article can be found on page 106 online and 104 in print.