Cruciform Theology
Podcast: By Celebrating Passover, Isn’t Jesus Tacitly Approving the Sacrificial System Passover Was Based On?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, passover
Is Jesus for or against slaughtering babies? Greg talks about exodus and sacrifice. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0405.mp3
Podcast: Why Must God Wait for Prayer to Meet Our Needs?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Free Will, Prayer, Providence
Is God a bad father? Greg explores the intricacies and nuances of prayer. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0404.mp3
Podcast: How Does God’s Wrath Fit within a Cruciform Theology?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, God's Wrath, Wrath
Greg considers God’s wrath. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0390.mp3
Podcast: Must We Believe in the Historicity of the OT Stories to Trust in the Bible and in Jesus?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Deep Literalism, Old Testament
Things get deep, literarily, as Greg discusses deep literalism. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0384.mp3
Podcast: Has Greg ‘Gone Liberal’ in His Cruciform Hermeneutic?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Hermeneutics
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
Greg consoles a disappointed fan and discusses Cruciform Hermeneutics. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0365.mp3
Podcast: What Do We Do When the Bible Sends Mixed Messages?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Hermeneutics
Greg considers how to interpret mixed commands in the Bible—where one verse advises differently than another. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0364.mp3
How the Church is Tempted to “Do Good”
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Myth of a Christian Nation
The previous post spoke of God’s call to the church to be resident aliens: a holy, distinct people who are set apart and peculiar when compared to the patterns of the world. The holiness of…
Podcast: Was Jesus’ Experience of Separation on the Cross a Hallucination or a False Belief?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion, Cruciform Theology, Trinity
Greg talks about the paradox of Trinity and Christ’s experience of separation on the cross. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0349.mp3
Podcast: A Cross Vision Reading of David & Goliath
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Non-Violence, OT Violence
Dan takes a shot at interpreting the David & Goliath story through a cruciform lens. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0294.mp3
Confronting the Divine Montage
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Verse: Colossians 2, Hebrews 1, Hebrews 10, John 1
The superiority of Jesus’ revelation over a montage view of God (see previous post) is captured when Paul and the author of Hebrews utilize an analogy of a shadow verses reality. Paul instructs his disciples…
The All-Too-Common Montage God
Category: General
Tags: Cross Vision, Cruciform Theology
Topics: Attributes and Character, Christus Victor view of Atonement
How do you picture God? It’s impossible to exaggerate the importance of a believer’s mental picture of God. The intensity of your love for God will never outrun the beauty of the God you envision…
Podcast: If Sin has Its Own Consequences, What Does God Actually Forgive?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cruciform Theology, God With Us, Sin
Greg talks forgiveness, reconciliation, consequences of sin, and the afterlife. All in less than 5 minutes. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0346.mp3
Podcast: How Does a Cruciform Hermeneutic Affect Your Reading of Homosexuality Passages?
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Homosexuality
Greg talks about accommodation, judgement, and homosexuality. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0337.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: Overflow Episode 1 — Dust, Flashlights, and Heathens
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Death
Dan and Brianna tackle some tough questions: —Is it okay for Christians to be cremated? —How can we preach from the OT with authority? —What should a Christian academic know in a secular school? http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0320_overflow_1.mp3
Podcast: Why Did Jesus Say He Came to Bring a Sword?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Greg considers what Jesus meant when he said he had come to bring a sword. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0312.mp3
Podcast: How Do You Recommend Reading the Bible to Kids?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Kids
Greg looks at reading the Bible to kids and considers where in the Bible one should start reading. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0311.mp3
Podcast: Where is the Foundation of Our Trust in the Old Testament?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Old Testament
Greg looks at what he considers the foundation of trusting in the Bible. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0310.mp3
Podcast: Is Cruciform Hermeneutics Simply Midrash?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Greg considers whether Cruciform Hermeneutics is just a complicated way of seeing what I want to see in the text, and offers nuanced thought for our more complicated hermeneutical challenges. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0307.mp3
God’s Kind of Warfare
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Verse: 2 Kings 6
Over and over, and in a variety of different ways, we are told that, while “[s]ome trust in chariots and some in horses,” Israelites were to “trust in the name of the LORD our God”…