Character of God
God Clearly Can, So Why Doesn’t He? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Attributes of God, Character of God, God's Character, Objections to Open Theism, Open Theism
Leah expects more from God. Should she? Greg confronts God’s inactivity and underperformance. Episode 510 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0510.mp3
Podcast: Why Didn’t Jesus Fix the World or Show Us How to Run Our Government?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Character of God, Justice, Providence
Why didn’t Jesus fix the world, or tell us how to run a government? http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0366.mp3
Podcast: Does a Jesus-Centric Theology Reduce God?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Attributes of God, Character of God, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, God's Character
Greg challenges the traditional starting point of many theologies and defends starting our theology about God’s nature and character with what has been revealed about Jesus. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0325.mp3
Podcast: Should We Take Verses Where God is Forgetful, Fatigued, and Doesn’t Know the Past Literally?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Attributes of God, Character of God, Nature of God
Greg considers a challenge to open theisms about taking verses about God changing his mind literally. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0314.mp3
What Is God’s Glory?
Category: General
Tags: Character of God, Cross Vision, Crucifixion, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Glory
In John 12 we find a view of God’s glory that challenges many modern notions of what the glory of God means. In this passage, we find that Jesus was “troubled” by the cross that…
Podcast: How Does God Influence Us?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Character of God, Omnipotence, The Holy Spirit
Greg discusses the problem with speculating on HOW God interacts in the world. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0265.mp3
Podcast: Is God Fickle?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Attributes of God, Character of God
Is there anything at stake in our life? Greg balances God’s mercy and grace with the authenticity of free will. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0255.mp3
God’s Dream for the World
Category: General
Tags: Character of God, Non-Violence
One of the grandest expressions of non-violent nature of God is found in Isaiah 11. Here God is dreaming of a time when his creation would be entirely free of violence. “The wolf will live…
God is Love: Full Stop
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Attributes of God, Character of God, Love
Not many Christians would disagree that God is love, but many would quickly qualify that with some other kind of attribute such as justice. But love is not just one of the attributes of God alongside…
Christus Victor Atonement and Girard’s Scapegoat Theory
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Character of God, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Love, Rene Girard, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement, Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Many of the major criticisms of Crucifixion of the Warrior God that have been raised since it was published four weeks ago have come from folks who advocate Rene Girard’s understanding of the atonement. A…
When God Wears Masks
Category: General
Tags: Bride of Christ, Character of God, Cruciform Theology
Topics: Attributes and Character
At various times throughout the OT we find Yahweh assuming the role of a tester, refiner, punisher and even an enemy of Israel (e.g. Jer. 9:7; Lam. 2:5; Isa 63:10). Yet, when we examine these…
Yahweh as the Dark Knight
Category: General
Tags: Character of God, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Topics: Attributes and Character
I recently received an interesting analogy for The Crucifixion of the Warrior God from Aaron Reini. Thank you Aaron! In the final scene of “The Dark Knight,” Batman and Commissioner Gordon are standing over Harvey…
Renouncing Violent Appearances: CWG Excerpt
Category: General
Tags: Character of God, Crucifixion of the Warrior God
My ultimate hope for this two-volume work is that readers will acquire the cross-centered “Magic Eye” that allows them to discern the self-sacrificial, indiscriminately loving, nonviolent God revealed on the cross in the depths of…
The Trinity and the Crucified God
Category: General
Tags: Character of God, Cruciform Theology, Love, Nature of God, Trinity
Topics: Attributes and Character, Trinity
God has always been willing to stoop to accommodate the fallen state of his covenant people in order to remain in a transforming relationship with them and in order to continue to further his sovereign…
A Cruciform Dialectic
Category: General
Tags: Character of God, Cross, Cruciform Theology, Love
Topics: Attributes and Character
One of the most important aspects of God’s action on Calvary, I believe, is this: God revealed himself not just by acting toward humans, but by allowing himself to be acted on by humans as…
Overview of Crucifixion of the Warrior God
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Bible, Character of God, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Jesus
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Greg reviewed the content of his new book, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, as a part of the Woodland Hills Church Covenant Partner gathering on March 5, 2017. If you want a fairly succinct synopsis of…
Knowing and Experiencing God
Category: General
Tags: Character of God, Revelation, The Holy Spirit
Topics: Attributes and Character
The way we view God is in part conditioned by the state of our minds and hearts. Origen put it this way: “[T]he Holy Spirit addresses our nature in a manner appropriate to its imperfection,…
Can You Believe It?
Category: General
Tags: Character of God, Jesus, Truth
Topics: Attributes and Character
The origin of human sin and the world’s oppression goes back to a deceptive, untruthful picture of God given to Eve by Satan. Jesus came, in part, to finally reveal the absolute truth about God….
Why Does God’s Activity Seem So Arbitrary?
Category: General
Tags: Character of God, Free Will, Jesus, Prayer, Problem of Evil
Why? It’s the question that never goes away. Why is one infant born sickly and deformed when at the same time another is born perfectly healthy? Why does tragedy repeatedly strike one family while another…
The Cross Reveals God’s Love
Category: General
Tags: Character of God, Cross, Cruciform Theology, Easter, God, Jesus
The central way Christ functions as the perfect image and exact representation of God is by dying on the cross. While Christ’s entire life manifests the true God, Christ came primarily to die. It was…