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Christianity and American Politics

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Greg was recently featured in Missio Alliance’s Seminary Dropout podcast to share his thoughts about the role of Christians in American politics. Today we’re sharing part 1 of that conversation. What is the role of…

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How Do I Respond to Family Members Who Pressure Me About Politics?

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Greg discusses some fantastic strategies for dealing with family members who pressure others with their politics. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0052.mp3

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Redefining Transcendence

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God is transcendent, which basically means that God is “other” than creation. The problem is that classical thinking about God’s “otherness” has been limited to what reason can discern about God. As a result, all…

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Redefining Omnipotence

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Traditional, classical theology has equated divine power with God causing and determining all things to exist. God supposedly acts on everything as their cause, but nothing in any way acts on him. Yet, these assumptions…

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Did Jesus Encourage a Flat Power Structure in the Church?

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Greg talks about church leadership. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0053.mp3

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God’s Moral Immutability

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Classical theologians from the fourth and fifth centuries on were very concerned with protecting their understanding of the metaphysical attributes of God—like timelessness, immutability, impassibility—by assessing biblical portraits that conflicted with these attributes to be…

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How Classical Theology Gets It Wrong

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Classical theology has conceived of God as altogether necessary, simple, timeless, unchanging and unknowable. This view of God requires us to conclude that biblical images of God do not reflect the way God truly is…

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What Bible Translation Do You Recommend?

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Greg talks about Bible translations. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0051.mp3

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Does God Intervene?

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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…

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Is the Judgment of God Ever Punitive or Retributive?

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Greg talks about the nature of God’s judgment. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0050.mp3

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Why We Can’t Know Why

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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…

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Why Does God’s Activity Seem So Arbitrary?

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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…

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When Prayers Go Unanswered

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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…

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How Should We Read the Imprecatory Psalms?

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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

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Why Did It Take SO Long for God to Reveal Himself in Jesus?

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Greg talks about why it took God so long to reveal himself in Jesus. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0048b.mp3

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False Gods in the Church

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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…

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Can You Summarize Trinity & Process in Less Than 5 Minutes?

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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

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Religion that Blinds Us to God

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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…

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Coming Home

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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…

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Why Did Jesus Command His Disciples to Arm Themselves With Swords? (podcast)

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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

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