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Why Does God Need Prayer?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Letters from a Skeptic, Prayer, Q&A
Topics: Hearing God, Prayer, Providence, Predestination and Free Will
Greg Loves Questions. In his best selling book Letters from a Skeptic, he responds to questions from his father, who was then an atheist. Tomorrow Greg will be hosting a AMA (Ask Me Anything) on…
Ask Greg Anything on Reddit!
Category: General
Tags: Greg Boyd, Q&A
Greg is going to be featured on Reddit! Yes that’s right. You can ask Greg anything. Your questions might be serious like: Why is there so much evil in the world? Why can we trust…
Evil, St. Augustine, & the “Secret” Higher Harmony
Category: General
Tags: Augustine, Blueprint Worldview, Free Will, God at War, Problem of Evil, Spiritual Warfare
Topics: The Problem of Evil
The problem of evil constitutes the single most difficult challenge to Christian theism. Volumes upon volumes have been written with the express purpose of rationally reconciling the belief in an all-good and all-powerful God with…
5 Differences Between The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of the World
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Enemy Love, Jesus, Kingdom, Kingdom Living, Love, Myth of a Christian Nation, Upside-Down Kingdom, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Following Jesus
Image by matthijs rouw via Flickr The kingdom of God looks and acts like Jesus Christ, like Calvary, like God’s eternal, triune love. It consists of people graciously embracing others and sacrificing themselves in service to others….
12 Reasons for Keeping the Kingdom of God Separate from Politics, Part 2
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom, Kingdom Living, Politics
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Image by the justified sinner via Flickr Satan is the “god of this age” (2 Cor 4:4) and “ruler of the world (Jn 12:30; 14:31) who “controls the entire world” (1 Jn 5;19) and possesses…
12 Reasons for Keeping the Kingdom of God Separate from Politics, Part 1
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom, Politics
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Image by the justified sinner via Flickr Jesus came to establish a kingdom that was not of this world. This is why Jesus refused to call on angels to defend himself and why he forbid…
Must the Different Suffer? A Review of “The Imitation Game”
Category: General
Tags: Alan Turing, Love One Another, Movie Review, The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game didn’t strike me as the kind of movie that would capture a large audience. So I was surprised to find that, even though the movie opened weeks ago, every showing on the…
Lighten Up: Celebrate!
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Blessing, Lighten Up, Peace
© Lard’s World Peace Tips by Keith Tutt and Daniel Saunders
Sermon Clip: Keeping Christmas
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Greg Boyd, Jesus, Sermons, Woodland Hills Church
Through Christ, God fulfills all his promises, and by yielding to him and giving up control, we can set ourselves free. Full Sermon here: http://whchurch.org/sermons-media/sermon/keeping-christmas
A Blessing for 2015
Category: General
Tags: Being Present, Blessing, God's Presence, Kingdom Living, New Year, Prayer, Present Perfect
Image by Jean-Michel Guisiano via Flickr In the Kingdom, there is no waiting. There is only now. The time to be fully awake and fully alive is now. The time to abide in Christ and to live…
The Goal For Your Life in 2015
Category: General
Tags: Love, Love of God, New Year, Repenting of Religion, Trinity, Triune Love
Topics: Following Jesus
Love is the reason anything exists. God created the world out of love—to express his love and to invite others to share in his love. The central goal of creation is succinctly summed up in…
Have You Taken a Gospel Immunization Shot?
Category: General
Tags: Doubt, Faith, Kingdom Living
Topics: Apologetics
Why does being “Christian” in America make so little difference in so many people’s lives, when the kingdom movement revealed in the New Testament revolutionized people’s lives? This drastic difference is hardly surprising when you…
Lighten Up: Full of Possibilities
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Cartoons, Lighten Up, New Year, Open Theism, Possibility
The Deepest Reality of Christmas
Category: General
Tags: Christmas
Christmas is about so much more than what our culture has made it to be. It’s about the unraveling and reversing of the curse. It’s about the coming of God to us in love and…
Christmas is Subversive…
Category: General
Tags: Christmas, Jesus, Kingdom, Nomad, Subversive
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues, Following Jesus
…at least the first Christmas was. When Jesus came it was about the birth of a subversive ruler who brought a subversive kingdom. He is a king that came to introduce a reign that would overthrow…
Don’t Be a Functional Atheist at Christmas
Category: General
Tags: Atheism, Being Present, Christmas, Experiencing God, God, Jesus, Kingdom Living, Myth of a Christian Religion, Practicing the Presence of God, Present Perfect, Secularism
All of us raised in Western culture have been strongly conditioned by what is called a secular worldview. The word secular comes from the Latin saeculum, meaning “the present world.” A secular worldview, therefore, is…
Is Having the “Right” Theology the Core of Christianity?
Category: General
Tags: Calvinism, Love, Non-Violence, Repenting of Religion, Violence
Last week, we posted a piece by Greg that challenges the practice being violent “in the name of Jesus” toward others who err theologically. (Click here to read this post.) Being that this piece got…
Lighten Up: My Favorite!
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Christmas, Eternal Life, Gifts, Jesus, Lighten Up
He always gives the best gifts.
Judgment and Idolatry
Category: General
Tags: Adam and Eve, Idolatry, Judgment, Love, Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Topics: Following Jesus
Why was the forbidden tree in the center of the garden called The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil? Since the Bible depicts eating from this tree as the reason humans are estranged…