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The Patriot’s Bible — Really?
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Idolatry, National Idolatry, Patriot's Bible, Political Idolatry
Have you ever seen the Saturday Night Live skit entitled “Really? With Seth and Amy”? Sometimes it’s pretty funny. I was thinking that perhaps the best way to get through my critique of The American…
Podcast: Why Did Jesus Tell Us Not to Worry About Food When People Are Starving to Death?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Christian Life, Discipleship, Life in Christ
Greg talks about worry in Matthew 6:26-27 and talks about the fact that people really die about the things that people worry about. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0354.mp3
Wake Up to God’s Presence
Category: General
Tags: Being Present, God's Presence, Practicing the Presence of God, Presence of God, Present Perfect
Jesus taught us to “remain” in him. We read this in John 15:4-5: Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine….
Podcast: Can Divine Simplicity Apply to a God Who IS Love and IS Relational?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Attributes of God, Simplicity
Greg distinguishes practices from beliefs, and warns Christians about the evils of Christmas trees and shaking hands. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0353.mp3
Podcast: Dear Greg: Can Native American Christians Continue to Engage in Smudging Rituals?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg distinguishes practices from beliefs, and warns Christians about the evils of Christmas trees and shaking hands. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0352.mp3
How the Church is Tempted to “Do Good”
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Myth of a Christian Nation
The previous post spoke of God’s call to the church to be resident aliens: a holy, distinct people who are set apart and peculiar when compared to the patterns of the world. The holiness of…
Podcast: Is there Any Kind of Indicator or Sign that I’ve Received the Holy Spirit?
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Gifts, The Holy Spirit
Greg talks about his background in the Pentecostal Church, and offers his own thoughts on what it looks like when we are full of the Holy Spirit. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0351.mp3
Being a Resident Alien
Category: General
Verse: 1 Peter 2, 2 Timothy 2, Philippians 3, Romans 12
In the midst of the political turmoil our country is experiencing, the church is called to play an important role. We sit between the revelation of the love of God on the cross and the…
Dear Greg: How Do You Handle Assumptions People Make About You When They Learn You Are a Christian?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Political Idolatry, Politics
Greg talks about demonstrating counter-examples in a world overflowing with assumptions and prejudices. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0350.mp3
Podcast: Was Jesus’ Experience of Separation on the Cross a Hallucination or a False Belief?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion, Cruciform Theology, Trinity
Greg talks about the paradox of Trinity and Christ’s experience of separation on the cross. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0349.mp3
Podcast: A Cross Vision Reading of David & Goliath
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Non-Violence, OT Violence
Dan takes a shot at interpreting the David & Goliath story through a cruciform lens. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0294.mp3
Podcast: What is Your Book Writing Process Like?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Personal Stories
Greg talks about bleeding on the page. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0348.mp3
Confronting the Divine Montage
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Verse: Colossians 2, Hebrews 1, Hebrews 10, John 1
The superiority of Jesus’ revelation over a montage view of God (see previous post) is captured when Paul and the author of Hebrews utilize an analogy of a shadow verses reality. Paul instructs his disciples…
Podcast: Why Did You Teach at Bethel and Why Did You Leave?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Personal Stories
Greg talks about Bethel, why he taught there, and why he left. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0347.mp3
The All-Too-Common Montage God
Category: General
Tags: Cross Vision, Cruciform Theology
Topics: Attributes and Character, Christus Victor view of Atonement
How do you picture God? It’s impossible to exaggerate the importance of a believer’s mental picture of God. The intensity of your love for God will never outrun the beauty of the God you envision…
Podcast: If Sin has Its Own Consequences, What Does God Actually Forgive?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cruciform Theology, God With Us, Sin
Greg talks forgiveness, reconciliation, consequences of sin, and the afterlife. All in less than 5 minutes. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0346.mp3
Podcast: Should We Trust the Bible When it Fails on Page 1?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Bible, Bible Interpretation, Evolution, Science
Greg talks about science and the Bible. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0345.mp3
No More Hungry Hearts
Category: General
Tags: Life in Christ, Life to the Full
When Jesus came, he confronted the lie that we can fill our hungry hearts through doing things to acquire life on our own. The fact that God himself became a human and died for our…
Podcast: A Flexible Faith: The Bonnie Kristian Interview
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Book Reviews, Books
Dan interviews Bonnie Kristian on her new book: A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0344.mp3
Podcast: Did Jesus Descend Into Hell?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Hell, Jesus
Greg psychologizes Christ on the cross. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0343.mp3