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Isn’t the World Unsafe If God Doesn’t Control Everything?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Determinism, Fear, Free Will, freedom, God of the Possible, God's Character, Open Theism, safety
Topics: Providence, Predestination and Free Will, Responding to Objections
If God isn’t in control of everything, the world feels unsafe. If the future is open and if things can happen outside of God’s will, what guarantee is there that there is a point to…
Lighten Up: Add Friends
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Friends, Lighten Up
Cartoon by Dave Walker via weblogcartoons.com
To What Extent is the Future Open to Real Possibilities?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Choice, Free Will, Future, Judgment, Open Theism
Topics: Free Will and the Future
We frequently get questions about the extent to which the future is composed of actual possibilities rather than settled or determined. Here’s what Greg has to say in response to these questions: 1. We can…
Supported by God
Category: General
Tags: God's Love, Practicing the Presence of God, Prayer, Present Perfect, Spiritual Formation
Topics: Following Jesus
Here’s an exercise that has helped me experience God’s closeness and helped me feel “at home” regardless of my circumstances. It involves using the incredible gift of your physical body to help you remember God’s…
Listening Again to MLK
Category: General
Tags: Martin Luther King, Racism
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
When we think of Martin Luther King, we very frequently (with good reason) remember his I Have a Dream speech. But today, we want to remember a letter he wrote while jailed in Birmingham, Alabama,…
Lighten Up: Open Theism T-Shirt
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Choice, Free Will, freedom, Lighten Up, Open Theism
T-shirt on Zazzle designed by Jin_roh.
The Future is Not Like the Past For God (or Us)
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, freedom, Future, God of the Possible, Open Theism, Possibility
Topics: Providence, Predestination and Free Will
Image by seier+seier via Flickr Everyone agrees that we are not free to change the past. No sane person would claim, for example, that I can now make any free choices about whether John F. Kennedy will…
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…