Search Results: healing
The Fight of Our Lives – The Battle Against Hurt
Category: General, Guest Contributor
Topics: Enemy-Loving Non-Violence, Following Jesus
…you. Don’t let him win. We may be broken, bruised, and scarred but we are dearly loved and more powerful than we realize. Healing is possible but it will take work. Own what’s yours, release the rest. This is part of the upside down Kingdom way of living and in…
Love Over Fear: The Dan White Jr Interview (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Book Reviews, Books
Our own Dan Kent interviews Dan White Jr about his new book: “Love over Fear: Facing Monsters, Befriending Enemies, and Healing Our Polarized World“ Episode 511 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0511.mp3…
Podcast: God as Mother?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Experiencing God, Jesus Feminist, Nature of God, The Image of God
Greg discusses God as mother, and shares about his own healing relationship with the feminine God. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0444.mp3 OBJECTIONS: Greg addresses some concerns about conceiving of God as a mother, including the possible fickleness in conceiving of God’s gender. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0445.mp3…
Part 14 (of 15) —Taking Responsibility (Part B)
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
…the one instance in which Jesus suggested a person’s sin might have something to do with their affliction, he nevertheless demonstrated compassion toward the man by healing him. So too, Jesus taught that when we provide food, clothing, or shelter to people in need, we are providing these things to…
Saturday Art Share: Holly Scoggins
Category: Lighten Up
…the questions “Who is your neighbor?” 2. Healing Oil on Canvas 36” x 36” This early 20th century photograph of sick children receiving ultraviolet light therapy is overlaid with a glowing field of wind turbines. The landscape has caught fire and attempts to consume the figures. 3. Spring Oil on…
What Type of Faith Do You Have?
Category: General
Tags: Faith, Israel, Jacob
Topics: Faith & Doubt
…language, and act in the right ways in order to get something from God, whether it be salvation or healing or some other blessing. When we do this, we do not base our faith on an honest and rational evaluation of the merits of what we profess to believe. Rather,…
Who Killed Ananias and Sapphira? A Response to Paul Copan (#6)
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Non-Violence, Paul Copan, Power
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Verse: Acts 5
…9:32-35, etc.). In responding to infirmities this way, the early Christians were simply following Jesus’ example, for Jesus consistently healed and delivered people not by praying for the Father to heal and deliver them, but simply by speaking healing and deliverance words to them. They also were obeying Jesus’ instructions….
A Step Toward Racial Reconciliation
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Apology, Peacemaking, Racial Reconciliation, Sermons
…all the harm that white America has done. This is not about disparaging whiteness. This is simply about acknowledging the truth of our heritage so that we can make a way for healing, reconciliation and peace. If you would like to watch the entire sermon you can do so here….
Resisting Evil
Category: General
Tags: God's Character, God's Will, Open Theism, Satan, Warfare Worldview
…find throughout the Gospels. Peter summarized Jesus entire ministry by saying he “went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil…” (Ac. 10:38, emphasis added). Far from supposing that things like diseases and deformities were part of a great divine plan or that they…
The Distinguishing Mark of a Child of God
Category: General
Topics: Enemy-Loving Non-Violence
…justified to do so—as Peter’s use of violence certainly was. The way soldiers in Jesus’ kingdom wage war is by healing threatening enemies and blessing them in any other possible way rather than injuring them (Luke 22:51). In this light, it should be clear that, contrary to the way most…
Confessions of a Christian Nation – LGBTQ Discrimination
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Brian McLaren, Brian Zahnd, Bruxy Cavey, Confession, Greg Boyd, LGBTQ, Rex Harsin
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-tDOq7JS9k&feature=youtu.be Here is the second installment of the Confessions series filmed by Rex Harsin. We pray that it will bring healing and opportunities for reconciliation….
Podcast: Are Our Personal Afflictions the Result of Our Personal Sins?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Sin, Suffering
Greg considers the cause of our afflictions, the healing at Bethesda, and Monty Python. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0086.mp3…
What Power Do You Trust?
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Kingdom of God, Kingdom of this World, Love, Non-Violence, Politics, Power, Upside-Down Kingdom
Topics: Enemy-Loving Non-Violence
…by loving, serving, and healing enemies. The fact is that no government or nation in history has ever looked remotely like Jesus. None has ever made it a policy not to forcefully resist enemies. None has ever committed itself to blessing criminals, serving enemies, and refusing to retaliate when people…
Does God Intervene?
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, Jesus, Miracles, Open Theism
…supernatural intervention, nothing does! Christ’s ministry was centered on demonstrating God’s supernatural power in counteracting the tragic effects of the kingdom of darkness. He announced the kingdom of God was at hand and proved it by supernaturally healing and delivering people from demonic oppression. And he taught us to pray…
When Prayers Go Unanswered
Category: General
Tags: Evil, Frank Viola, Prayer, Problem of Evil, Spiritual Warfare, Suffering
Topics: The Problem of Evil
Recently Frank Viola published a free e-book where 21 Christian leaders responded to the following question: Why is it that God doesn’t often answer the desperate prayers of His people for deliverance, protection, healing, etc.? You can download the free ebook by clicking here. The following excerpt is Greg’s contribution…
Overcoming the Flesh
Category: General
Tags: Experiencing God, Fruit of the Spirit, Imaginative Prayer, The Holy Spirit, Transformation
…live as we were created to live. We begin to live on the outside what is true on the inside. Dealing Openly with Imperfections: The closer our inner and outer realities come into agreement, the more the issues that need healing are exposed and can be openly addressed. As we…
The Kingdom Stance Toward Enemies
Category: General
Tags: Enemy Love, Kingdom of God, Love, Non-Violence, Power
…kind of power Jesus was interested in employing. Jesus then proceeded to demonstrate the kind of power he was interested in—by revealing God’s love for his aggressor and healing the man’s severed ear. Through his actions, Jesus showed that the kingdom of God relies not on the power of the…
The Argument From Demonically-Influenced Infirmities
Category: General
…should this woman, a daughter of Abraham, suffer under Satan’s oppression?” Peter summarized Jesus’ ministry in Acts 10 by saying that Jesus went about freeing people from Satan’s oppression by healing them of their diseases. In fact, the word the Gospels sometimes use for disease or infirmity is mastix, which…
Finger-Pointing and the Impulse to Judge
Category: Q&A
Tags: Bryan Fischer, Christianity, Current Events, Evil, Forgiveness, James Dobson, John Piper, Judgement, Judgment, Love, Mike Huckabee, Newtown, Problem of Evil, Satan
Topics: Following Jesus, Providence, Predestination and Free Will, The Problem of Evil
…our sin and the toppling of a church steeple by a tornado was God warning a denomination not to ordain gays. It seems to have become a staple of American conservative Christianity to respond to tragedy – when people most need to be reminded of God’s comforting and healing love…
Let Us Pray
Category: General
Tags: Advent, Darkness, David Smith, Grief, Newtown, Prayer, Problem of Evil, T.C. Moore
…in-between his Advent into the world and his Return to shine his light on darkness—destroying it forever. Until then, we pray, we grieve, we remember, and we hope. And here are some prayers from David Smith to help us to focus our hearts towards healing and compassion. Let us pray….