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Do My Prayers Matter?
Category: General
Tags: Prayer
We talked about the risk God took in creating the world as he did (see previous post). The choices made by humans and spiritual agents influence what transpires in history. This sets the stage for…
The Risk of Creation
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Why does God allow humans and angels the power to go against his will? To put the question in more practical terms, Why does God allow certain agents the freedom to do harm to others?…
Re-Thinking Predestination
Category: General
Tags: Predestination
In Ephesians, we read that God predestined that there would be a church. It reads: “In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in…
Re-Thinking Divine Sovereignty
Category: General
Tags: Cross, God's Sovereignty, Open Theism, Power
Many people in the church have been taught that divine sovereignty is synonymous with unilateral control. Some have even argued that if God is not in control of everything, then something must be in control…
Cruciform Communion Meal
Category: General, Guest Contributor
First Course: Taken Article by Brianna Millett You are perfectly loved by God. You are joyously Taken. You are immeasurably Blessed. You are sacrificially Broken. You are generously Given. I have become convinced that these…
God’s Kind of Warfare
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Verse: 2 Kings 6
Over and over, and in a variety of different ways, we are told that, while “[s]ome trust in chariots and some in horses,” Israelites were to “trust in the name of the LORD our God”…
Podcast: How Can We Tell If a Teaching Was Meant to Transcend the Particular Time & Culture It was Given in?
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Greg offers various criteria for assessing what is and is not culturally relative. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0305.mp3
What to Do If You See God as Violent
Category: General
Tags: Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Non-Violence, OT Violence
God really is as beautiful as he is revealed to be on Calvary. Communicating this is my goal in everything I write—especially Crucifixion of the Warrior God and Cross Vision. But for many, to see…
What is Progressive Revelation?
Category: General
Tags: Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Revelation
Some early church theologians argued that God had to relate to his people as spiritual infants, and over time, God’s people developed a capacity to receive clearer revelations of him. Gregory of Nazianzus, who wrote…
The Greatest in the Kingdom (2 of 2)
Category: General, Guest Contributor
Tags: Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Kids
Article by Natalie Frisk This post is a summary of what was discussed at the ReKnew CrossVision Conference in regard to what and how we teach our kids about the cruciform hermeneutic. Taking Jesus into…
The Greatest in the Kingdom (1 of 2)
Category: General, Guest Contributor
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Kids
This post is a summary of what was discussed at the ReKnew CrossVision Conference in regard to what and how we teach our kids about the cruciform hermeneutic. Article by Natalie Frisk Recently, while involved…
Thinking Theologically
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Friendly Disagreements, Heresy
In a previous post, I challenged the common notion that the Scripture is the foundation or the center of our faith. Instead, it’s my conviction that the only place to begin is Jesus Christ. Paul…
CRUCIFORM COMMUNION
Category: General, Guest Contributor
Article by Brianna Millett I grew up in a small town Baptist church and my grandparents were Lutheran. Later I went on to become a Calvinist of sorts then somewhere along the line, by way…
The Bible is NOT the Foundation
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Cruciform Theology, Hermeneutics
Many people imagine that the foundation of their faith is the Bible. This is viewed as the ultimate center around which everything they believe revolves. However, the foundation of the Christian faith is actually centered…
What Type of Faith Do You Have?
Category: General
Tags: Faith, Israel, Jacob
Topics: Faith & Doubt
Genesis 32 tells the story of Jacob, wrestling through the night with a nameless man, revealed to be none other than God Himself. We read that when this man “saw that he could not overpower”…
What Is God’s Glory?
Category: General
Tags: Character of God, Cross Vision, Crucifixion, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Glory
In John 12 we find a view of God’s glory that challenges many modern notions of what the glory of God means. In this passage, we find that Jesus was “troubled” by the cross that…
Podcast: Can the God of Cruciform Theology Be Considered Ethical?
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Divine duplicity? Or Holy Handiwork? Greg considers the imperfections of the Old Testament and considers God’s role therein. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0287.mp3
Why Did Jesus Cry Out that God Had Forsaken Him?
Category: General
Tags: Cross, Crucifixion, The Cross
Verse: Matthew 27
At the climax of Jesus’ suffering on the cross, Jesus cries out: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Mt 27:46) It’s a jarring moment in the narrative. To forsake is to abandon….
The Law of Love
Category: General
Tags: God is Love, Living in Love, Love One Another, Rule of Love
Without love, absolutely nothing is of any significance. Paul made this point when he wrote: If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a…
How Important Is the Cross?
Category: General
“God is love” (1 Jn 4:8). Pretty much every Christian accepts this. The problem, though, is that our understanding about what, exactly, love is remains obscure. Discussions on the nature of love can easily devolve…