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Matter Matters
Category: General
Tags: Flesh, Incarnation
Barbara Brown Taylor shares some thoughts on why our bodies matter to God. Thanks Rachel!
Is God Good?
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, God, Nature of God, Picture of God, Problem of Evil
Andrew Stawarz via Compfight This reflection by David D. Flowers seemed like a good addition to Greg’s recent blogs on free will. Here David talks about the problem of evil and how it is that…
Hearing and Responding to God: Part 7 (Final)
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Tags: Action, Choice, Hearing God, Prayer
Topics: Hearing God, Prayer
Here’s Greg’s final installment of this series (for real). Today he discusses our default settings when taking action. Do you generally do what is reasonable and seems right unless God says no, or do you…
Fundraiser Update
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Tags: Fundraising, Greg Boyd, Ministry, ReKnew, Thank You
THANK YOU SO MUCH to those of you who have contributed to this ministry. This is such a great start and we’re feeling very grateful! Here’s where we’re at today: 56 monthly supporters $4810 in…
Loving a Twilight Zone God?
Category: General
Tags: Calvinism, David D. Flowers, God, Jesus, Open Theism
David D. Flowers posted this insightful reflection over on his blog about an episode of The Twilight Zone and what it says about some pop views of God. Can we really love a God that…
Quotes to Chew On: Desires
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Tags: Christian Living, Desires, Kingdom Living, Quotes, Temptation
Marcos de Madariaga via Compfight Here’s a quote that comes to us via Andrew Sullivan’s blog: “We are rarely presented with an authentically fulfilling trajectory for our desires… If we are created for infinite satisfaction,…
God is Not…
Category: General
Tags: Gungor, Love, Picture of God
You just have to love this song by Gungor. Hope it blesses your socks off like it did us. (Thanks Jan Willem!)
Parable of the Jerk Loser Son
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Tags: Christianity, Jesus, Love of God, Parables, Peter Enns, Prodigal Son
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery via Compfight Peter Enns blogged about the parable of the prodigal son, or as he likes to call it, “the parable of the jerk loser son.” It’s actually a reflection about…
Kingdom Sightings: God and Guinness
Category: General
Tags: Evangelism, God, Kingdom
Evan Leeson via Compfight Here’s a unique Kingdom initiative from one of our readers that we wanted to share with you. If you’re in Ann Arbor, check it out! Starting in January, one of the…
Lighten Up: Existential French Cat
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Existentialism, Humor, Lighten Up, Philosophy
Greg used to be into the existentialists quite a bit. Sartre and Camus would love this cat. (Thanks to Rachel Held Evans for the heads-up.)
Tips on what NOT to say to someone struggling with their faith
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Tags: Abuse, Christian Living, Doubt, Faith, support
Neal Fowler via Compfight Here’s a post from a year ago from Elizabeth Esther on What NOT to say to someone struggling with their faith. Historically, the church has been a very unsafe place for…
Following Jesus from the Margins
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Tags: Anabaptists, Christianity, Culture, Jesus, Justice, Kurt Willems, Non-Violence, Subversive
D. Sharon Pruitt via Compfight Kurt Willems posted a reflection today entitled From the Margins: Following Jesus in a post-Christian culture. I hope everyone will read this. It’s a perspective from the anabaptist tradition that…
N.T. Wright on the Whole Sweep of Scripture
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Tags: Bible, Christian Living, N.T. Wright, Scripture
Here’s a really fine video message from N.T. Wright on how to read Scripture. So many of the misunderstandings we take away from Scripture happen when we pick out a verse here and there and…
A Christ-Follower’s Alternative to New Year’s Goals
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Tags: Jesus, Obedience, Peace
tomo tang via Compfight Richard Dahlstrom over at Fibonacci Faith offered an alternative to setting New Year’s goals that can steal peace in our lives. What if we committed to attending to all the little…
A Calvinist Take on the Problem of Evil
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Tags: Calvinism, Current Events, Death, Henry, Problem of Evil, ReKnew, Roger Olson, Theodicy
Carnie Lewis via Compfight Here’s a Calvinist view on the problem(s) of evil in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings. It’s the old God-as-author analogy. In essence, this is how Calvinism views God’s role…
Sermon: Diaper Power
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Tags: Christianity, Christmas, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Greg Boyd, Jesus, ReKnew, Sermons, Theology, Woodland Hills Church
In this short clip from Greg Boyd’s Sermon Diaper Power, he introduces the theme of the sermon where talks about how the poverty of the manger exemplified the power of God. In this sermon, Greg…
Christmas Greeting from Greg
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Tags: Beauty, Christianity, Christmas, Greg Boyd, Jesus, Kingdom, ReKnew
Blessings and God’s peace to all of you from all of us at ReKnew.
N.T. Wright: Truth Happens
Category: General
Tags: Beauty, N.T. Wright, Truth
N.T. Wright talks about the relationship between truth and beauty. Lovely.
Lighten Up: Napoleon Dynamite Dances to Michael W. Smith
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Emmanuel, Humor, Lighten Up, Michael W. Smith, Napoleon Dynamite, The American Jesus, Zack Hunt
This should put a smile on your face. If Napoleon Dynamite cooking it to Emmanuel doesn’t cheer you up, I don’t know what will. Thanks Zack!