Testimonies

Hi Pastor Boyd, Just stopping by to express my gratitude for your work. For some time now, I’ve been undergoing some deep crises of faith because of the doctrine which Calvinists seem to ironically find so much comfort in: predestination. The idea of predestination has troubled me to a point that I think exceeds my ability to express, but we’ll just say that my sanity was taking a nosedive because of it. I was presented with Molinism as an alternative, especially as envisaged by William Lane Craig. Suffice it to say, I perceived it as Calvinism for those who delight…

I have spent my entire life in selfish pursuit of the hunger you have always talked about. This hunger has led me down very dark pathways, and even to prison–not once, but twice. I have had an addiction to pornography all my adult life, and it was this addiction that ultimately led me to prison, and to Christ. For decades I was an intellectual Christian, one of the many for whom being a Christian changed nothing whatsoever in my life. I would pray to God, to Jesus, whenever my life became difficult, whenever I became afraid. When I lost a…

I just wanted to thank Greg and everyone involved in this ministry from the bottom of my heart. I’ve devoured the media content from ReKnew and the Woodland Hills Church website, and it has revealed a God, and a Jesus, that seemingly for the first time in my life I am falling in love with. I’m 30 years old, and I’ve been going to church in hopes of learning about God for 15 years. God has always seemed distant, and my nagging doubts about his existence have been hard to overcome. I am a heavy reader, and I felt like if I…

Greg … I wrote you last week (through ReKnew I think) about having discovering your teaching on “Open Theism”. Since then I have viewed several of your teachings on YouTube on a variety of subjects. I’m stunned, pleasantly stunned; there simply is no other way to put it. I was an atheist, completely unchurched, until I got saved at the age of 31. I was so excited to discover that God was real that I wanted to learn as much as possible, as fast as possible. I went to a Reformed Presbyterian church for Sunday service and Sunday school but that’s all they offered.…

Hello! Just wanted to say how much I learned thanks to the messages from Greg, both in sermons and in this blogs. I come from the Netherlands, and ever since I read Letters from a Skeptic, I knew that Greg had a gift in explaining difficult stuff in the Bible that I didn’t understand before. So I just wanted to say thanks for what you have done in my life. I now have a beautiful picture of God, without dismissing all the not so good looking verses in the Bible. So thank you big time for that! Blessings, Tessa

I did not begin a relationship with Jesus until I was 40. It is obvious now that He was always waiting, but it took the persistent, loving witness of a coworker during a time of deep, personal turmoil (of which she had no idea) to finally bring me to my knees. I live in a rural environment in the middle of the Bible Belt, so naturally, the church I was in for the first three plus years was strictly fundamentalist. Grace was very sparingly doled out because of the suspicion and superstition that if grace was viewed as “cheap” we…

Dr. Boyd, I wanted to say thanks for your stand for Christian peace-making. When I was a sophomore in college, the school brought Sean Hannity to campus for a lecture. At the time, I was still a pretty new Christian. I had not read Wink or you or pacifism yet. All I knew was that Jesus seemed to prefer peace. I let my sophomore passions get ahead of me and stood up to say I didn’t think killing your neighbor was what Jesus had in mind when he said to love our neighbors. That, of course, started a huge debate between…

Dr. Boyd, I began listening to your book, Letters from a Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father’s Questions about Christianity, on tape yesterday while walking in my neighborhood, and before long I was totally absorbed, tears running down my face, as I recalled my life with my own father. You see, my father, was an avowed atheist for as long as I can remember. He accepted Jesus as his savior one month before he died, February third of this year. I felt an overwhelming desire to write to you while listening to this book because it touched my heart so…

Thank you so much for your wrestling with scripture. I always loved God and wanted to serve Him with my whole heart growing up, but I was stuck with an image of Him that left me wanting. I never thought I was good enough for Him. I always thought that the problem was with me, and that I was just some broken human that simply was too selfish or weak-willed to break free from my addiction to pornography, get over my crippling social anxiety that kept me from sharing Jesus with others like a good Christian was SUPPOSED to be…

Greg, I love your books and your sermons; they have challenged me to think about the questions I have had and what I have believed, or just accepted. I have learned also to accept that me is ok; the me that is such an out-of-the-box thinker, the me that has questioned certain scriptures thinking they must mean more but my “wonderings” have often not been well received but shut down in the Evangelical world. I have found my mind thinks similar to yours and it has been a…..”YES, I am not alone or weird!!!”  As a result I have found freedom or “permission”…

Greg Boyd, I just wanted to write you a quick email to let you know that I read God at War (and am currently working on Satan and the Problem of Evil…and the Myth of the Christian Nation) and it has literally changed my life! This has just been such a powerful thing for me, I just wanted to share a little bit of my story with you. I definitely grew up in the “God is sovereign” camp, the same way you talk about it in your books. I was in 6th grade, and my sister was 7 when she…

Since high school, I had been struggling with my faith. I was so afraid that if what I believed was wrong, I’d be reduced to nothing but a grain of sand on an endless and purposeless beach. It continually depressed me, and I found it difficult to have any hope or joy with all this doubt and fear plaguing my mind. I never hit a point where I didn’t believe in God, but I never felt peaceful or at ease with what I believed. Perhaps by prophetic means or by convenience, I was amidst my deepest worries when my mother told…