Christian Living
How Can Mega-Church Preachers Keep Their Ego in Check? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Christian Living, preaching
Greg confesses his own early insecurities as a church leader and shares some of the insights that helped free him from destructive thinking. Episode 568 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0568.mp3
How Do You Handle Feelings of Being Overwhelmed? (podcast)
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Christian Living, Kingdom Living
Greg talks about being overwhelmed. Episode 500! http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0500.mp3
Storming the Gates of Hell
Category: General
Tags: Christian Living, Church, Satan, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Jesus said: “I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.” (Mt 16:18) To understand Jesus’ teaching here, there are a few things you should know. First, “Hades” was…
Christians & Politics: Where Do You Stand?
Category: General
Tags: Christian Living, National Idolatry, Politics, Power
In the 1980’s, Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson were leaders in the Moral Majority, a conservative evangelical social and political movement that attempted to rally “moral” people to change public policy. The movement died out…
Greg Interviews Jeremy Jernigan on “Redeeming Pleasure”
Category: General
Tags: Christian Living, God's Character, Interview, Jeremy Jernigan, Redeeming Pleasure
Greg: Thanks for agreeing to this interview Jeremy. Having read your soon-to-be-published book Redeeming Pleasure, I’m really looking forward to its September 15 publication. Okay, to get started, suppose I’m a stranger and we meet in an…
Is Islam Inherently Violent? – Further Thoughts
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Christian Living, Islam, Love, Non-Violence, Violence
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Greg originally posted some thoughts on Islam here. In this video, he discusses some responses he received, and further thoughts on a Kingdom posture toward Muslims.
Dying to Live
Category: General
Tags: Benjamin L. Corey, Christian Living, Death, Experiencing God, Holy Land
Image by Benjamin Corey A few days ago, Benjamin Corey over at Formerly Fundy posted a blog about an encounter he had with God in the Holy Land. He shared that he’s been going through…
Hearing and Responding to God: Part 4
Category: Q&A
Tags: Christian Living, Hearing God, Listening, Magic, Prayer
Topics: Hearing God, Prayer
Are you inadvertently appealing to magic when you listen for God’s voice? Greg continues his series on hearing and responding to God by pointing out the difference between communion with God and Christian magic. You can…
Quotes to Chew On: Desires
Category: General
Tags: Christian Living, Desires, Kingdom Living, Quotes, Temptation
Marcos de Madariaga via Compfight Here’s a quote that comes to us via Andrew Sullivan’s blog: “We are rarely presented with an authentically fulfilling trajectory for our desires… If we are created for infinite satisfaction,…
Tips on what NOT to say to someone struggling with their faith
Category: General
Tags: Abuse, Christian Living, Doubt, Faith, support
Neal Fowler via Compfight Here’s a post from a year ago from Elizabeth Esther on What NOT to say to someone struggling with their faith. Historically, the church has been a very unsafe place for…
N.T. Wright on the Whole Sweep of Scripture
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Christian Living, N.T. Wright, Scripture
Here’s a really fine video message from N.T. Wright on how to read Scripture. So many of the misunderstandings we take away from Scripture happen when we pick out a verse here and there and…
Do Something Beautiful
Category: General
Tags: Art, Beauty, Christian Living, Richard Beck
Wonderlane via Compfight Richard Beck posted this reflection of the woman who anointed Jesus’ feet with her hair and the idea of a Christian aesthetic. It’s inspiring. From the blog: More and more, I’ve come to…
Xmas
Category: General
Tags: Christian Living, Christmas, Consumerism, Jesus
Kevin Dooley via Compfight Zach Hunt brings a huge challenge in this article about the ongoing lament about the “liberal attack on Christmas.” Maybe the real problem is not with the media or the “liberals”…
Divine Drama
Category: General
Tags: Christian Living, Theology
Jeff K. Clark posted last week on God as Master Story-Teller and Finding Our Place Within the Divine Drama. There’s an enormous difference between talking about God using abstractions versus locating him in the stories…