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Does Jesus Affirm Old Testament Stories as True in EVERY Way? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg thinks critically about the historical-critical method of reading the Bible. Episode 612 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0612.mp3
Did the Fall Happen Over Time? Or All At Once? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: The Fall
Greg considers the paradigmatic role of Adam and the power of Genesis 1-3. Episode 611 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0611.mp3
Resisting the Pull for Armed Defense
Category: General, Guest Contributor
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Article by Michael Gonzalez Yesterday it happened again. Another shooting of innocent victims. Violence upon violence. This time and certainly not the first, in a church. A gunman entered West Freeway Church of Christ in…
What About People Who Lived Long Before Jesus? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg considers the nature of salvation and considers some important implications of God’s love. Episode 610 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0610.mp3
Why Are Jesus’s Parables So Violent? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Parables
Greg pops the hood to offer a helpful tutorial on how parables operate. Episode 609 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0609.mp3
Does a Closed Canon Imply a Type of Cessationism? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg defends the spiritual gifts. Dan defends the closed canon. Iron sharpens iron. Sparks fly. Episode 608 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0608.mp3
What is the Soul? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: dualism, Metaphysics
Greg looks at the irreducible self and ponders what happens to our personhood at death. Episode 607 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0607.mp3
God With Us (Not With Them?)
Category: General, Guest Contributor
Tags: Advent, Emmanuel
Article by Elisabeth Bojangle Advent: God coming to us As I write this mid-December morning, my fingers are clumsy and cool from the chilly steering wheel during my drive home from dropping the kids off…
What is the significance of Esther 4:14?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Q&A
Topics: Open Theism
Verse: Esther 4
The wise Mordecai encourages Esther to bravely risk her life by pleading the case of the Jews before King Xerxes, saying, “…if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will…
Would a Perfectly Loving God Limit Salvation to Jesus? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Salvation, Universalism
Greg talks about the scandal of particularity. Episode 604 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0604.mp3
God at War Class (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg talks about the one-week spiritual warfare course he will be teaching at Northern Seminary. Episode 606 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0606.mp3
What Can We Expect From God? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Theodore wonders why we should expect God to answer prayer or perform miracles when we see so little of it in the world. Greg and Dan consider God’s inactivity. Episode 602 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0602.mp3
Greg Defends Church History (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: History
Dan finds a critical comment in the Reknew Library Comment Box. Episode 601 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0601.mp3
Why Were Numbers So Meaningful in the Bible? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg looks at the role of numbers in the Bible and considers the number 3. Hear Greg dance on the line between sanity and madness in this numerically hypnotizing episode. Episode 599 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0599.mp3
Did God Destroy Sodom and Gomorrah? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Greg considers the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and speculates on the nature of the angels who were sent there. Episode 597 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0597.mp3
BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL: Gift Ideas for the Christians on Your List (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: materialism
Greg and Dan offer some wonderful Christmas gift ideas, then debate the merits of ebooks. If you participate in the hedonistic, materialistic madness of Christmas shopping, consider these gifts Episode 600 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0600.mp3
Does the Bible Contain Logic Fallacies? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Inerrancy, Logic, Theological Method
Greg and Dan break down the Ad Hominem and wonder if the apostle Paul is guilty of this logic fallacy. Episode 596 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0596.mp3
Where Does Jesus Affirm the Principle of Accommodation? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Divine Accommodation
Greg looks at Jesus as a perfect revelation of God, and considers how Jesus himself reveals an accommodating God in the Old Testament. Episode 598 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0598.mp3
The Worst Heresy That Never Got Anyone Burned at the Stake
Category: General
Tags: Calvinism, Enemy Love, Heresy, Love Your Enemies, Self-Sacrificial Love, Torture
Topics: Following Jesus
According to John’s Gospel, on the evening of his crucifixion Jesus clearly articulated the single-most important quality by which his followers would be recognized: “By this all men will know that you are my disciples,…
What If We Forget to Pray for Something and a Bad Thing Happens? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg on the Wizard of Oz and prayer problems. Episode 595 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0595.mp3