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What Causes You Doubt?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Doubt
In this first episode of the Apologies and Explanations Podcast, Greg shares some of his own experiences with doubt and talks about how doubt has ultimately made his faith stronger. Links: Greg’s book: “Benefit of the Doubt” Website: ReKnew.org http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0001.mp3…
Publisher’s Weekly Review of Benefit of the Doubt
Category: Press
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Reviews
Publisher’s Weekly gave us a positive review and highly recommends Greg’s book. You can find the review here. You can order a copy of Benefit of the Doubt on Amazon….
Conference: Faith, Doubt & the Idol of Certainty
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Doubt and the Idol of Certainty, Faith, Idolatry
http://youtu.be/Ca0sigV30Qk We’re really excited about Greg’s book, Benefit of the Doubt, coming out in September. In fact, we’re SO excited that we want to invite you all to a conference we’re holding September 27-28, 2013 at Woodland Hills Church. You can get all the information you could ever hope for…
A ReKnew Manifesto
Category: General
Tags: ReKnew
…throughout history (and still today) have assumed that a person’s faith is only as strong as the degree to which they feel certainty and free from doubt. Likewise, many have assumed faith is opposed to reason, antithetical to historical-critical approaches to Scripture, and at odds with much of the scientific…
VI Apologetics
…1987) 2 R. Purtil, C. S. Lewis’ Case for the Christian Faith (Harper & Row, 1981) 2 L. Strobel, The Case for Faith (Zondervan, 2014) 2 N.T. Wright, Simply Christian (HarperOne, 2010) 1 Faith & Doubt Boyd, Benefit of the Doubt (Baker, 2012) 2 Guinness, In Two Minds (InterVarsity, 2nd…
When You Doubt the Bible
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Bible, Doubt, Faith
…process them in a healthy way? The following is an excerpt from Greg’s latest book Benefit of the Doubt where he shares how he shifted from engaging the Bible as a house of cards to engaging the Bible in order to relate to the foundation of the Bible, Jesus Christ:…
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…have assumed that a person’s faith is only as strong as the degree to which they feel certainty and free from doubt. Likewise, many have assumed faith is opposed to reason, antithetical to historical-critical approaches to Scripture, and at odds with much of the scientific enterprise—especially evolutionary theory. Our conviction…
Part Three of Greg’s Interview with David D. Flowers
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, David D. Flowers, Doubt, Faith, Greg Boyd
Here’s the final interview that Greg did with David D. Flowers in which he discusses his upcoming book Benefit of the Doubt: Dismantling the Idol of Certainty. Check it out! From the interview: Faith in Scripture isn’t about striving for certainty: it’s about being willing to commit to a course…
The Lessons of Job
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Pain, Problem of Evil, Suffering, The Book of Job, Theodicy
Breno Peck via Compfight In his book Benefit of the Doubt, Greg argues that the lessons of the book of Job reassure us that God does not lie behind suffering, but he rather is a trustworthy friend who can handle our doubt and pain. If you’re in the midst of…
Trusting God for the Wrong Things
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Faith, The Book of Job, Trust
Topics: Apologetics, The Problem of Evil
…one way rather than another. To try to find security in anything outside God’s character is to reflect both a lack of understanding and a lack of trust. It is to treat God’s covenant promises as if they were contractual deals. —adapted from Benefit of the Doubt, pages 223-224, 230…
Have You Taken a Gospel Immunization Shot?
Category: General
Tags: Doubt, Faith, Kingdom Living
Topics: Apologetics
…moment by moment, for life can only be lived, and relationships can only be cultivated, in the present. Surface resemblances notwithstanding, the legal paradigm easily misses the life flowing out of the relationship with the King that defines the kingdom of God. —Adapted from Benefit of the Doubt, pages 141-142….
Do You Argue With God?
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Faith, Wrestling with God
Topics: Apologetics
…by God when given a new name, Israel, after wrestling with God all night, an act that reveals his core identity and character. This apparently is precisely the kind of honest relationship, and the kind of honest faith, God is looking for! —Adapted from Benefit of the Doubt, pages 82-83…
The Good News That’s Really “Good”
Category: General
Tags: Doubt, Faith, Good News, Salvation
…love, and about learning how to live in the power of the Spirit, as a trustworthy partner who increasingly reflects his love and his will “on earth as it is in heaven.” This is the real “good news.” —Adapted from Benefit of the Doubt, pages 118-121 Image by Jordan McQueen…
How To Seek Theological Truth
Category: General
Tags: Approaches to Theology, Doubt, Theological Method, Truth
…to people that he had in fact risen from the dead (Acts 1:3). God clearly does not expect people to embrace beliefs without sufficient reason or to try to convince themselves of things beyond what the evidence warrants. Adapted from Benefit of the Doubt, pages 34-70. Image by notashamed via…
2 Ways We Misinterpret God’s Promises
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Faith
Topics: Faith & Doubt
…reflects his dealings when we had arrived at a more mature stage of development within his plan. In this light, where a promise is found makes all the difference in terms of how a passage is to be interpreted and applied today. —Adapted from Benefit of the Doubt, pages 224-228…
One Word
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, Jesus, ReKnew
While I’ve lately been pretty distracted finishing up Benefit of the Doubt (Baker, 2013), my goal is to sprinkle in posts that comment on the distinctive commitments of ReKnew a couple of times a week. I’m presently sharing some thoughts on the second conviction of ReKnew, which is that Jesus…
A Cruciform Magic Eye
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
…half from now. Also, I’ve devoted a chapter of my upcoming book, Benefit of the Doubt, to a brief look at the cruciform hermeneutic contained in Crucifixion of the Warrior God. This book is scheduled to be released in the Spring of 2013. Til then, try the cruciform magic eye…
Book Review: Understanding Spiritual Warfare: Four Views
Category: General
Tags: Books, Spiritual Warfare, Theology
…various schools of thought on spiritual warfare prior to the publication of this book. If you’re at all interested in spiritual warfare — and if you’re a kingdom person, how could you not be? — I have no doubt that you’ll thoroughly enjoy and benefit from this book. Blessings, Greg…
Happy Birthday to Us
Category: General
Tags: Celebration, Missions, ReKnew, Revolution, support, Thank You
…Greg wrote Benefit of the Doubt, to be published by Baker this coming September. Greg continued work on (and is nearing completion of) his much anticipated The Crucifixion of the Warrior God, to be published by InterVarsity. I hope you can see why we say it’s been an incredible…
Interview with Drew Marshall
Category: Press
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Drew Marshall, Faith, Greg Boyd, Media
Drew Marshall Greg was interviewed by Drew Marshall on Saturday, November 2, on the topic of his new book Benefit of the Doubt, and we thought you might like to listen to what he had to say. You can find the interview here. Enjoy!…