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Podcast: What’s the Deal with the Laying on of Hands?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Prayer
Greg and Dan get touchy in this very handy episode on ‘the laying on of hands.’ http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0210.mp3
Satan or God: Who Tempted David to Sin?
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology
The author of 2 Samuel says that Yahweh caused David to sin by taking a census of his military personnel (2 Sam 24:1) while the author of 1 Chronicles attributes this temptation to Satan (1…
Podcast: Are You a Christian Anarchist?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg dabbled in Christian Anarchism. This is his tale… http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0209.mp3
Podcast: How Do You Understand God’s Promises to Israel?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Israel
Greg discusses God’s promises to Israel. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0208.mp3
Did God Kill King Saul?
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology
When we approach Scripture with the assumption that it is all God-breathed for the purpose of bearing witness to Christ, even the most trivial contradictions in Scripture can acquire theological significance. This is what I…
Podcast: Why Is God SO Tough on Angels?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Angels
Greg discusses God’s attitude towards angels. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0207.mp3
Podcast: How Should We Handle Disagreements in the Church?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Church, Conflict, Mega-Churches
Greg discusses Christian conflict resolution. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0206.mp3
Sending Evil Spirits
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Evil, Judgment
In several infamous biblical depictions of Yahweh in the Old Testament, God is depicted as “sending” spirits to trouble and/or deceive people (Judg 9:22-3; 1 Sam 16:14, 23; 18:10; 19:9; 1 Kg 22:20-3). While there…
Podcast: How Do You Expel Unrepentant People From Your Church?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Church
Greg gets tough on Tom Foolery and discusses dealing with behavior that is sinful and unrepentant. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0205.mp3
Does God Inflict Physical Disabilities?
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Sickness, Spiritual Warfare
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
In Exodus 4, we find Moses claiming that he could not be used by Yahweh to get the children of Israel out of Egypt because he was “slow of speech and tongue.” To this Yahweh…
Podcast: What are the Grounds for Divorce?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Divorce
Greg discusses divorce, dead marriages, and sexual unfaithfulness. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0204.mp3
Does the Lord “Devastate” the Earth?
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Judgment
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
There is this passage that has sometimes been labeled “Isaiah’s Little Apocalypse” that proclaims how the Lord will “lay waste,” “destroy,” and “ruin” the earth. (The following builds on this previous post which identifies a…
Podcast: Why Take ‘Turn the Other Cheek’ Seriously and Not Divorce?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Divorce, Pacifism
Greg discusses divorce and pacifism. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0203.mp3
Who Curses the Earth?
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, The Fall
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
After the “fall” of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, their sin results in a five curses: on nature, on marriage, on human life, on the serpent, and on women during childbirth. Who…
Podcast: Would a Loving Messiah Call a Woman a DOG?!?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Jesus Feminist, Love and Judgment
Greg talks about why Jesus would say such apparently cruel things to some poor Canaanite woman. Oh, he also tells a joke about hamsters. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0202.mp3
Podcast: Will the CrossVision Conference Just Be a Regurgitation of Your Book?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg invites listeners to come join him for the CrossVision Conference (time is running out!). Then Dan and Greg argue about what the best part of the conference is going to be. #PodcastDrama http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0201.mp3
How Job’s Suffering Points to Jesus
Category: General
Tags: Book of Job, Cruciform Theology, Suffering
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
As I introduced in my previous post, when we read the book of Job we must refute the common assumption that Yahweh is a Machiavellian deity who is controlling all that transpires in his creation,…
Podcast: If the Biblical Prophecies are Flawed, Aren’t Those Prophets ALL False Prophets?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Prophesy
If you want to hear Greg sweat, listen to him work through this really really good question. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0200.mp3 Photo by Rex Boggs
Who is Responsible for Job’s Suffering?
Category: General
Tags: Book of Job, Cruciform Theology, Suffering, Violence
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
In the prologue of the Book of Job, the author seems to ascribe the responsibility for Job’s affliction to Yahweh. For instance, Satan challenges God to “stretch out [his] hand and strike everything he has,“…
Podcast: Can We Still Take Comfort in the Old Testament?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Old Testament
Greg considers the Old Testament revelations that are consistent with Christ crucified. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0199.mp3