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Does God Intervene?
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, Jesus, Miracles, Open Theism
Given the vast influence of angelic and human free will, what influence does God have in determining what comes to pass? While God has an important role to play in anticipating and creatively responding to…
Is the Judgment of God Ever Punitive or Retributive?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: God's Wrath, Judgement
Greg talks about the nature of God’s judgment. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0050.mp3
Why We Can’t Know Why
Category: General
Tags: Chaos Theory, Complexity, Open Theism, Problem of Evil
Various fields of science have taught us that the slightest variation in a sufficiently complex process at one point may cause remarkable variations in that process at another point. The flap of a butterfly wing…
Why Does God’s Activity Seem So Arbitrary?
Category: General
Tags: Character of God, Free Will, Jesus, Prayer, Problem of Evil
Why? It’s the question that never goes away. Why is one infant born sickly and deformed when at the same time another is born perfectly healthy? Why does tragedy repeatedly strike one family while another…
When Prayers Go Unanswered
Category: General
Tags: Evil, Frank Viola, Prayer, Problem of Evil, Spiritual Warfare, Suffering
Topics: The Problem of Evil
Recently Frank Viola published a free e-book where 21 Christian leaders responded to the following question: Why is it that God doesn’t often answer the desperate prayers of His people for deliverance, protection, healing, etc.? You can download…
How Should We Read the Imprecatory Psalms?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: God's Wrath, OT Violence
Greg talks about reading the imprecatory Psalms (Psalms that invoke judgment, calamity, or curses, upon one’s enemies or those perceived as the enemies of God). http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0049.mp3
Why Did It Take SO Long for God to Reveal Himself in Jesus?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Apologetics, Jesus, Revelation
Greg talks about why it took God so long to reveal himself in Jesus. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0048b.mp3
False Gods in the Church
Category: General
Tags: Belief, Religious Idolatry
We often think of an idol as a statue, but an idol can be anything we use to meet the needs that only God can meet. In other words, a false god. There is no…
Can You Summarize Trinity & Process in Less Than 5 Minutes?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
In this episode Greg tries to explain to Trevor what his book “Trinity & Process” is about. Links: Trinity and Process http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0047.mp3
Religion that Blinds Us to God
Category: General
Tags: Jesus, Relationships, Religion, Religious Idolatry
For a variety of reasons, many Jews at the time of Jesus had come to believe that heaven had been closed since the writing of the last book of the Old Testament. God was distant…
Coming Home
Category: General
Tags: Idolatry, Kingdom Living, Practicing the Presence of God
The only way we can experience the life God has for us is to give up trying to acquire it on our own. We must surrender ourselves completely to God. This is not merely a…
Why Did Jesus Command His Disciples to Arm Themselves With Swords? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Non-Violence
Verse: Luke 22
In this episode Greg looks at the command in Luke 22 to buy a sword. Episode 46 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0046.mp3
True Life Now
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Life, Practicing the Presence of God, time
Whether we want to admit it or not, experience teaches us that life is a perpetual, relentless process of decay, one that we know inevitably leads toward death. And this fills many of us with…
Is Telling Christians to Avoid Politics Like Telling Them To Avoid Hospitals?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Current Events, Politics
In this episode Greg clarifies how politics can be dangerous and why some people might want to avoid it. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0045.mp3
The Cosmic Scope of Spiritual Warfare
Category: General
Tags: Angels, Demons, Evil, Kingdom Living, Satan, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
Yesterday’s post briefly introduced the reality that we live in the midst of spiritual warfare. This is the reality of being a part of creation where Satan prowls like a roaring lion (1 Pet 5:8-9)….
What is The Fear of the Lord?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Fear, Picture of God
In this, the 44th episode, Greg discusses whether we should be afraid of God. What is the fear of the Lord? http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0044.mp3
Vacationing in a War Zone
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Satan, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
Suppose a family decided to go on vacation to a nice cabin on a beautiful shore in a distant country. This vacationing family naturally wanted to tune out the problems of the world, indulge themselves,…
Does God Exist Outside of Time?
Category: General
Tags: Jeremy Jernigan, Open Future, Open Theism, Possibility, time
Topics: Free Will and the Future
Our friend Jeremy Jernigan wrote something recently that we wanted to share with you today. Jeremy is the author of Redeeming Pleasure and Teaching Pastor at Central Christian Church in Arizona. He blogs regularly at…
Do You Prefer Giving Sermons Which Are Topical? Or Expositional?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Personal Stories, Sermons
Greg talks about his philosophy of preaching, specifically his preferences between expository and topical preaching. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0043.mp3
Introducing “TribeNet”
Category: General
Tags: Connecting, Kingdom of God, TribeNet
Hello Kingdom people, For years I’ve heard on a regular basis from individuals and small groups/house churches who wanted to know if there are others in their area that share their vision of a Jesus-looking…