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Podcast: Can a Person Come Back to God if They Lose Their Faith?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Atheism, Doubt, Faith
Greg considers the nature of faith and unbelief and offers some enlightening insight that may surprise you. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0316.mp3
Cruciform Communion Meal—Second Course: Blessed
Category: General, Guest Contributor
(this is the second course; you can find the first course here) What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word Blessed? Go ahead. Think on it. I’ll wait right…
Podcast: Dear Greg: How Do I Actually Experience God’s Forgiveness?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg considers a challenge to open theisms about taking verses about God changing his mind literally. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0315.mp3
Podcast: Should We Take Verses Where God is Forgetful, Fatigued, and Doesn’t Know the Past Literally?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Attributes of God, Character of God, Nature of God
Greg considers a challenge to open theisms about taking verses about God changing his mind literally. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0314.mp3
Do My Prayers Matter?
Category: General
Tags: Prayer
We talked about the risk God took in creating the world as he did (see previous post). The choices made by humans and spiritual agents influence what transpires in history. This sets the stage for…
Podcast: Greg Confronts Nietzsche
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Philosophy
Greg goes toe-to-toe with Friedrich Nietzsche in this epic battle of philosophers. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0313.mp3 An 1889 oil sketch of Friedrich Nietzsche on his sick bed by Hans Johann Wilhelm Olde.
The Risk of Creation
Category: General
Why does God allow humans and angels the power to go against his will? To put the question in more practical terms, Why does God allow certain agents the freedom to do harm to others?…
Podcast: Why Did Jesus Say He Came to Bring a Sword?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Greg considers what Jesus meant when he said he had come to bring a sword. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0312.mp3
Podcast: How Do You Recommend Reading the Bible to Kids?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Kids
Greg looks at reading the Bible to kids and considers where in the Bible one should start reading. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0311.mp3
Re-Thinking Predestination
Category: General
Tags: Predestination
In Ephesians, we read that God predestined that there would be a church. It reads: “In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in…
Podcast: Where is the Foundation of Our Trust in the Old Testament?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Old Testament
Greg looks at what he considers the foundation of trusting in the Bible. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0310.mp3
Re-Thinking Divine Sovereignty
Category: General
Tags: Cross, God's Sovereignty, Open Theism, Power
Many people in the church have been taught that divine sovereignty is synonymous with unilateral control. Some have even argued that if God is not in control of everything, then something must be in control…
Podcast: Can We Trust the Gospel of John?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: John's Gospel, Reliability of the Gospels
Greg does some gospel-dating. Was John written closer to the year 50, or closer to the year 1986 as Dan suggests? http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0309.mp3
Podcast: How Can I Protect My Kids from the Violence in Media?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Media, Movie Review, Violence
Greg looks at ways to help strengthen non-violence in children in a world saturated in violence. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0308.mp3
Cruciform Communion Meal
Category: General, Guest Contributor
First Course: Taken Article by Brianna Millett You are perfectly loved by God. You are joyously Taken. You are immeasurably Blessed. You are sacrificially Broken. You are generously Given. I have become convinced that these…
Podcast: Is Cruciform Hermeneutics Simply Midrash?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Greg considers whether Cruciform Hermeneutics is just a complicated way of seeing what I want to see in the text, and offers nuanced thought for our more complicated hermeneutical challenges. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0307.mp3
God’s Kind of Warfare
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Verse: 2 Kings 6
Over and over, and in a variety of different ways, we are told that, while “[s]ome trust in chariots and some in horses,” Israelites were to “trust in the name of the LORD our God”…
Podcast: Are the Prohibitions Against Homosexuality Culturally Relative?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Homosexuality
Greg considers if homosexuality is culturally relative or not, and what to do about it. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0306.mp3
Saturday Art Share: Brandon Andress
Category: Guest Contributor, Lighten Up
Brandon makes these musically infused, spoken-word audio pieces in his podcast called “Outside the Walls.” He pulls in Christian thought-leaders. In this episode he brings recordings of Greg into his pseudo-industrial, audio-perpetual-motion-machine. It’s a fun…
Podcast: How Can We Tell If a Teaching Was Meant to Transcend the Particular Time & Culture It was Given in?
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Greg offers various criteria for assessing what is and is not culturally relative. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0305.mp3