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Feeding Our Hungry Hearts
Category: General
Tags: Discipleship, Life in Christ, Life to the Full
Jesus came into a world that was full of hungry hearts (see previous post) to introduce us to the only thing that can feed those hungers. Jesus came to rescue us from the futile feeding…
Hungry Hearts
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ
Verse: John 10
What do all of the following behaviors have in common? • A couple with two kids purchases a bigger house than they need, even though it means they’ll both have to work more and see…
Podcast: How Does a Cruciform Hermeneutic Affect Your Reading of Homosexuality Passages?
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Homosexuality
Greg talks about accommodation, judgement, and homosexuality. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0337.mp3
To Change the World
Category: General
Jesus’s kind of justice (as introduced in the previous post) has more power to transform lives than any of the traditional political approaches where we try to attain power to change the government. For instance,…
Jesus’ Kind of Social Justice
Category: General
Tags: Justice, Political Idolatry, Politics, Social Issues
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
For many, the primary way of building the kingdom is to influence politics in order to make America more Christian. Others take the opposite approach, concluding that Jesus didn’t try to overhaul the political systems…
Did Christ Call Us to be Moral Guardians?
Category: General
Tags: Myth of a Christian Nation
Topics: Following Jesus
Whenever Christians try to enforce their doctrines or morals on others, the result has usually been at least as bad as any non-Christian version of the kingdom of this world. Even more concerning, it’s been…
How Judgment Makes Us Hypocrites
Category: General
Tags: Judgement, Myth of a Christian Nation
The previous post addressed how the church is to be people of love not judgment, which means that the church is not called to be the moral guardian of the culture. What we often fail…
Aspen School of Missional Apprenticeship (SOMA)
Category: General
For over twenty years, the leadership of Woodland Hills Church has talked and dreamed about one day creating an intensive discipleship school where people’s hearts, minds, values, and lifestyles could be deeply shaped and formed…
Church: A Place of Love, Not Judgment
Category: General
Jesus said, “Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned” (Luke 6:37). Jesus contrasts love and judgment as antithetical activities. This verse comes immediately after…
The Vicious Cycle of False Life
Category: General
Tags: Lies, Lies Truth, Life in Christ, Life to the Full
The serpent convinced Eve that she and Adam had been duped by God, and that God is actually unloving, untrustworthy, and threatened by what he forbids. The fullness of life they enjoyed through union with…
What’s the Purpose of Old Testament Law?
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ
Understanding the law in the Old Testament can prove difficult. For instance, Paul believed that the law is good and holy (Rom 7:12). However, he also said that it only serves to expose and even…
Right and Wrong in the New Testament
Category: General
Tags: Ethics, Holiness
The New Testament teaches us that behaving ethically—that is, following certain commands and injunctions—flows out of the new life and identity we have in Christ. When we fail to see this the commands of the…
The Trap of Religious Idolatry
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ, Idolatry, Life in Christ
We live in a world that seems to be full of religious idols. These are beliefs, rituals, and behaviors from which religious people draw life. Religious idolaters of course don’t recognize their idols as such….
Enduring an Evil-Infested World (6 Principles) —part two
Category: General
Tags: Evil, Problem of Evil, Satan and the Problem of Evil
In the previous post, I introduced the first three principles that will help you find peace and even a sense of victory in the midst of the evil we face in this world. Here are…
Enduring an Evil-Infested World (6 Principles) —part one
Category: General
Tags: Evil, Natural Evil, Problem of Evil, Satan and the Problem of Evil
We live in the midst of a spiritual battlefield where we face evil daily. Yet we are also in the midst of an ambiguity that hinders us from knowing why any given evil occurs as…
Podcast: Did You Believe in Evolution When You Wrote Letters from a Skeptic?
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Creation, Evolution, Letters from a Skeptic
Greg considers how to think about God’s relationship to time given that there are apparent paradoxes no matter how one things about it. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0319.mp3
Podcast: Is It Actually Possible for God to Experience Time Sequentially?
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Tags: time, Transcendence
Greg considers how to think about God’s relationship to time given that there are apparent paradoxes no matter how one things about it. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0317.mp3
5 Observations about God Changing His Mind
Category: General
Tags: An Open Orthodoxy, Omniscience, Open Theism
One of the most significant passages that supports the open view of the future is found in Jeremiah 18. This is one of the numerous times where we find God changing his mind in response…
Cruciform Communion Meal—Second Course: Blessed
Category: General, Guest Contributor
(this is the second course; you can find the first course here) What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word Blessed? Go ahead. Think on it. I’ll wait right…