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Podcast: Who Converted Greg Boyd From Calvinism?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg tells the story of those strange days in the 80s when he was a pseudo-Calvinist. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0336.mp3
Did Christ Call Us to be Moral Guardians?
Category: General
Tags: Myth of a Christian Nation
Topics: Following Jesus
Whenever Christians try to enforce their doctrines or morals on others, the result has usually been at least as bad as any non-Christian version of the kingdom of this world. Even more concerning, it’s been…
Podcast: Why Does Prayer Feel So Fake?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cataphatic Prayer, Imaginative Prayer, Prayer
Greg talks about practicing a prayer discipline and battling against feelings of superficiality in prayer. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0335.mp3
How Judgment Makes Us Hypocrites
Category: General
Tags: Judgement, Myth of a Christian Nation
The previous post addressed how the church is to be people of love not judgment, which means that the church is not called to be the moral guardian of the culture. What we often fail…
Podcast: Reflections on Mother’s Day from a Motherless Boy
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Mother's Day
Greg talks about growing up without his biological mother and then having an abusive step-mother. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0334.mp3
Podcast: Is the United States Segregated Still?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: America, Justice, Social Issues
Greg talks about racism and segregation in the United States and also talks about his time with John Perkins. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0332.mp3
Aspen School of Missional Apprenticeship (SOMA)
Category: General
For over twenty years, the leadership of Woodland Hills Church has talked and dreamed about one day creating an intensive discipleship school where people’s hearts, minds, values, and lifestyles could be deeply shaped and formed…
Podcast: How Does Spiritual Warfare Actually Work?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Angels, Demons, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Greg talks about Spiritual Warfare and the risks of speculating about things we do not know anything about. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0331.mp3
Church: A Place of Love, Not Judgment
Category: General
Jesus said, “Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned” (Luke 6:37). Jesus contrasts love and judgment as antithetical activities. This verse comes immediately after…
Podcast: What Do You Mean When You Say Jesus Entered Into Solidarity with Our Sin?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Atonement, Sin
Greg talks about God’s passion for, unity with, and pursuit of his beloved bride. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0330.mp3
Podcast: Why Was Jesus So Secretive About his Miracles?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg talks about the messianic secret and why Jesus was so hush-hush. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0329.mp3
The Vicious Cycle of False Life
Category: General
Tags: Lies, Lies Truth, Life in Christ, Life to the Full
The serpent convinced Eve that she and Adam had been duped by God, and that God is actually unloving, untrustworthy, and threatened by what he forbids. The fullness of life they enjoyed through union with…
Podcast: Impromptu Interview with Paul Eddy
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Paul Eddy
Dan interviews Paul Eddy, the man who may have converted Greg Boyd from Calvinism. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0328.mp3
What’s the Purpose of Old Testament Law?
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ
Understanding the law in the Old Testament can prove difficult. For instance, Paul believed that the law is good and holy (Rom 7:12). However, he also said that it only serves to expose and even…
Podcast: Is it a Sin to Download Someone’s Consciousness?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Future, Technology
Greg and Dan make a last ditch effort to save humanity from the rise of the robots. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0327.mp3
Podcast: If You Could’ve Killed Hitler, Wouldn’t You?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Hitler, Non-Violence, Violence
Greg challenges the intuitively appealing notion of killing Hitler and thereby preventing the massacre of millions of people. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0326.mp3 —Edvard Munch, “The Murderer,” 1910
Right and Wrong in the New Testament
Category: General
Tags: Ethics, Holiness
The New Testament teaches us that behaving ethically—that is, following certain commands and injunctions—flows out of the new life and identity we have in Christ. When we fail to see this the commands of the…
Podcast: Does a Jesus-Centric Theology Reduce God?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Attributes of God, Character of God, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, God's Character
Greg challenges the traditional starting point of many theologies and defends starting our theology about God’s nature and character with what has been revealed about Jesus. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0325.mp3
The Trap of Religious Idolatry
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ, Idolatry, Life in Christ
We live in a world that seems to be full of religious idols. These are beliefs, rituals, and behaviors from which religious people draw life. Religious idolaters of course don’t recognize their idols as such….
Podcast: What is the Unforgivable Sin?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg looks at the ONE thing that can get you kicked out of God’s presence. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0323.mp3