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Are You Really Saved?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Already Not Yet, Bride of Christ, Covenant, Kingdom Living, Marriage, Salvation
Topics: Death and Salvation
When God came to rescue us through the Incarnation, the cross and the resurrection, he did a great deal more than merely provide a way for us to avoid the consequences of our sin. In other words, it is more than getting a ticket to heaven. He defeated the enemy…
ReThinking the Source of Life
Category: General
Tags: Idolatry, Life, Love, Religious Idolatry, Theology
Topics: Following Jesus
…crucial, God’s concern for the loving way we defend our beliefs outweighs the correctness of those beliefs. We are called to do everything in love (1 Cor 16:14) and this includes how we debate our beliefs. Our ability to lovingly debate beliefs depends upon getting our “life” from Christ. We…
Challenging the Habit of Judgment
Category: General
Tags: Judgment, Love, Sin
…fact, by the standards of the day, those people would have been considered above average morally. Jesus was pointing out that they needed to be free from the addiction to (that is getting life from) judging others. He did this by instructing them to think in the opposite way about…
God Is Working!
Category: General
…fast to the Law that God gave in the past, and to the various religious traditions that evolved around that Law. God originally gave the Law as a means of fostering a living relationship with him, but for some the Law became an end in itself. Rather than getting their…
America on Thin Ice
Category: General
Tags: Political Idolatry, Politics
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
…sharing a minimal amount of trust in one another as well as in certain traditional institutions (e.g. the Whitehouse; the FBI, CIA, IRS, etc…). This trust, unfortunately, is precisely what is getting lost as Americans quarantine themselves off from one another along ideological lines. Which is why I claim that…
Is the Vaccine the Mark of the Beast? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
…to get out of it. And really asking this question at all times: What source are you getting your information from and what proof do you have that they are more reliable than the CDC and Fauci, and all these other scientists whose life is dedicated to protecting us against…
Why Church: In the Age of Decontructing, is the Church Worth Keeping?
Category: Essays, Guest Contributor
…Jesus-people to spur us on, and build us up, and occasionally say, “I don’t think you’re getting that right.” This is why we need the Church. I can listen to a lot of online sermons. I can get worship music on Spotify. I need the Church for community and support…
Should Christians Pray Against Territorial Spirits? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
…think we have that kind of authority. And if that goes into talking about the powers, it doesn’t bother me, as long as we’re not a) getting arrogant, and b) we’re not spending a whole lot of time on it. You know, if it comes out in a prayer, fine….
Should Christians Pray in Public? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
…office spaces? So you’re missing the mark if you’re looking for those kinds of applications of it. What’s the underlying principle? And the underlying principle behind the teaching is that Jesus is saying, “Don’t pray in a way where you’re getting your reward now.” That’s a phrase he uses all…
Getting Free From the Sin of Sodom: Living With Outrageous Generosity
Category: Essays
Tags: Essay, Kingdom Living, Wealth and Responsibility
Topics: Following Jesus
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. Erich Fromm Jesus, the poor and the greedy Though it’s often missed by American Christians, confronting poverty was central to everything Jesus was about. Jesus didn’t just care about…
Lighten Up: Jesus Getting the Last Laugh
Category: General, Lighten Up
© Inherit the Mirth. All rights reserved. www.inheritthemirth.com Death after the resurrection. Wonder if he did a face-palm?…
Getting Behind the “Letter” of Violent Portraits of God
Category: Essays
Tags: Bible, Character of God, Cruciform Theology, Essay, Hermeneutics, Jesus, Matthew Bates, New Testament, Non-Violence, Old Testament, Reformed Theology, Scripture, Violence
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
“I will do to you what I have never done before… in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents…” Ezek. 5:9-10 In my previous post I offered a brief review of Matthew Bates’ fascinating work, The Hermeneutics of the Apostolic Proclamation by Matthew Bates…
Performance Christianity—Getting Over It
Category: General
Tags: Experiencing Jesus, Identity in Christ, Imaginative Prayer, Picture of God, Seeing is Believing
Image by Martijn Braat via Flickr Many Christians feel empty, tired, and apathetic, if not positively angry, though few express this out loud because it’s usually taboo to do so within Christian circles. These believers often fault themselves for their shortcomings when, in fact, it may be that their lack…
Podcast: How Do You Recommend Getting Connected With Like-Minded Believers?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Community, TribeNet
Greg shares about how he formed his small group (which has persisted for a couple decades) and offers advice to those looking to start their own. If you haven’t yet, sign up at TribeNet.org. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0091.mp3…
Spiritual Journey
Category: General
Tags: Greg Boyd
…whom were nuns, just tagged me as a demon-child. I honestly never had a clue what was going on in terms of schoolwork. I couldn’t pay attention to save my life. And I always seemed to be getting into trouble. Often I didn’t know what I’d done wrong, and even…
How do you respond to Genesis 45:5; 50:20?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Q&A, Responding to Calvinism
Topics: Providence, Predestination and Free Will, Responding to Objections
Verse: Genesis 45
…believe that a good deal of God’s plan for world history hinged on getting Joseph and his brothers to Egypt at this time. Under these extraordinary circumstances it should not surprise us to find God involved in extraordinary ways. This text should therefore not be taken as a proof text…
How do you respond to Exodus 4:11?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Q&A, Responding to Calvinism
Topics: Providence, Predestination and Free Will, Responding to Objections
Verse: Exodus 4
…in attaining his objective of getting the Israelites out of Egypt. Thus he rhetorically asks Moses, “Who gives speech to morals? Who makes them mute or deaf?” It’s also important to note that God speaks of the human condition in general terms in this verse. As Terrence Fretheim observes, the…
Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?
Category: Essays
Tags: Apologetics, Essay, Resurrection
Topics: Jesus: Lord or Legend
…Lord, still doubted (Matt. 28:17). And (typically) he doesn’t tell us why they doubted. This hardly helps “sell” the whole story, if “selling” a story they made up rather than reporting a story that actually occurred was what these authors were up to. The heart of the issue Getting around…
Is the Book of Acts Reliable?
Category: Essays
Tags: Apologetics, Bible, Essay, New Testament
Topics: Biblical Reliability
…such. Getting this much correct is impressive enough. But to correctly identify various administrative personnel with their differing precise titles within these various regions goes well beyond this in terms of establishing credibility. (59) Achaia had been made an imperial province in A.D. 15, but was reverted to a senatorial…
Response to Bruce Ware’s “Defining Evangelicalism’s Boundaries: Is Open Theism Evangelical?”
Category: Essays
Tags: Essay, Open Theism
Topics: Responding to Objections
…but which they themselves deny. Open theists would simply like this Christian and academic courtesy to be extended to us. Ware obviously can’t understand how we avoid the implications he ascribes to us. Fine, perhaps we are simply logical nincompoops. Or perhaps (as I believe), Ware has difficulty getting inside…