Testimonies
From the Heart: A Soldier’s Journey to Peacemaking
Hi Greg & Greg’s family, Nice meeting you at the “Hellbound?” showing tonight. :-) With all my heart, thank you for showing me the gospel of the Kingdom of Jesus through your ministry. I read “The Myth of the Christian Nation” while deployed to Baghdad, Iraq in 2007. Seeing you tonight, I felt like I needed to say something because Greg, I can not understate the significance of how it caused me and therefore all the soldiers under my influence to make different choices in the face of conflict, too many stories to mention here. Your ministry helped a young,…
From the Heart
Here’s a short testimony sent in from a reader: Hi there Greg, I read your commentary on Romans 9 recently, and reread it again today. I struggled with this chapter prior to becoming a Christian and it made me hate God. Even after I became a Christian I wrestled with the issue of Calvinism, because I knew intuitively that the notion that God arbitrarily selects people for salvation is wrong: such a God is morally deficient. Your commentary on Romans 9 was enormously helpful, as I came to understand that God chooses us on the basis of faith and repentance,…
From the Heart
Here’s another letter of thanks we received from a reader: Hey Greg, I am a church planter in south Texas. Last year, I walked my people through The Story – a 31 week reading through the bible chronologically. I was not prepared for the struggle in getting through the Old Testament – for them and for me. I have been informally trained to believe that the “shadow images” of God in the OT had equal weight and value as the life-giving, grace-filled person of Jesus. This was intuitively paralyzing to my soul, but I didn’t know how to handle it.…
Encouragement from a Reader
Hey Greg, Having listened to your podcasts for years, read all your books (even Trinity and Process), and done everything but make life-size cardboard cutouts of you for my office, I’ve wanted to write for some time. You are such a needed piece to this Kingdom of God puzzle. I just wanted to affirm you in your role of passionately compassionate lover of people; you are a wonderful pastor. Raised in the ministry, and currently still surrounded by it, there are very few leaders that I admire (admittedly the charismatic circle may not be representative of Christian leadership as a…
Email from Israel
Hi Greg. Very kind of you to respond. You already held ‘busiest man alive’ status in my mind, so thanks… By the way, I’m far from being the only guy listening to you over here [in Isreal]. whchurch.com has really changed the lives of several of my Israeli friends. It can be hard to get solid biblical teaching in such a small community (we’re about 8,000 believers in Israel), so I pretty much decided that, until one of us learns how to do it right ourselves, the internet was the solution. A few years ago a fellow former-Calvinist friend of…
From an Appreciative Reader
Greg, I’m reading several of your articles this morning and I thought it would be appropriate to tell you how much of a blessing you are in my life. I’ve been hurting for so long as to being able to articulate all of the abhorances I’ve seen in the church in my young life. Growing up as a pastor’s child … I’ve seen how ugly the chuch can be and how incredibly secularized it has become. Its also ironic that those who rebel against this secularization- those like yourself- are often publicized as being “secular” or “heretics” or “compromised” (as I’m sure you experience…
Surrendering to God
Greg: I have recently finished reading your Book. I really do not know what I was expecting or why the book attracted me to it. I was a true blue atheist when I picked it up … To make a very long email short, your dad was so much like mine on what he thought about God and religion. It is very interesting because his name was Ed also. .. Well, I have finished the book and I … am about to surrender myself to God. I have decided on a certain place to do it. There were times that your responses brought tears to my eyes…
From a Seminary Student
Greg, I wanted to write you and let you know how much I admire you and Woodland Hills, and furthermore, how much I loved “Myth of a Christian Religion (and Nation as well). I long for the Kingdom to be manifested in the ways you describe and I know how hard the journey has been for you at Woodland Hills as well. But as a young seminary student and a person just beginning his ministry years, it gives me hope. The church DESPERATELY needs a renewal like the one you write about, preach about, and call for. I know you…
From a Retired US Air Force Master Sergeant
I saw Greg on CNN’s “God Warriors” (a great show) and I just took to heart everything he said. For the first time in my life, I felt like someone knew exactly how I felt. I am no theologian, so I could never express through scripture why I feel like I do inside, but I knew my feelings did not match what I was getting from the pulpit or how I felt about God. When asked I would just tell people my belief in God is simple “There is a God and I’m not him” and when I keep that…
Hope in the Wilderness
Greg, I just wanted to thank you for all the work you put into both your writing & sermons. I have been a long term fan of your books, as together with Clark Pinnock’s writings (another favorite theologian) you convinced me of open theism some 8-10 years ago. However, my reason for gratitude now is more for your sermons podcast which I am finding a real encouragement. You are managing to draw me back to a passionate desire to be a disciple of Jesus when all my questions were beginning to leave me so disenfranchised with church & the way…
The radical change I never expected…
The radical change I never expected… Here’s just a snippet of one of the many ways in which Greg Boyd’s teachings have helped bring God and His Kingdom to life for me: As a lifelong Catholic-Christian (believing, for the most part), I got married at the age of 26 to man who, though wonderful, wasn’t a believer in anything specific. He still isn’t. He is much like Pastor Boyd’s father at the beginning of the correspondences that were eventually published as Letters from a Skeptic. My husband struggles with both questions that need to be answered and (I…
From a Mennonite
I attend a Mennonite church and our pastor recommended your book The Myth of a Christian Nation to me. I grew up in a Christian Amish family my dad being the bishop of the church. We had long discussions about the exact thing that you wrote in the book but when I would talk to friends about it I was considered a left wing kook. After reading it my life as a follower of God completely changed I recommended the book to everybody I knew and bought six copies to give to friends and family, My dad read the book…
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