God’s Love
Do We Have Intrinsic Worth? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: God's Love, Self-Worth, Unsurpassable Worth
Spiritual economics. Greg considers the math of human worth. Episode 521 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0521.mp3
If Judgment is the Opposite of Love, How Can God Judge? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: God is Love, God's Love, Judgment, Love and Judgment
Greg considers how God’s judgment differs from our own, making it an expression of his love. Whereas, for us, judgment stands contrary to our love. Episode 488 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0488.mp3
Podcast: Is Holiness an Essential Part of God?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: God is Love, God's Love, Holiness
Greg looks at the relationship between love and justice. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0428.mp3
Podcast: Can a Perfectly Loving God Be Angry?
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Anger, God's Love, God's Wrath, Wrath
Greg talks about the role of anger in this heated episode. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0426.mp3
Podcast: Does God Love Satan?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: God's Love, Satan
Greg talks about the potential of Satan repenting. A great question by Matthew! http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0412.mp3
Podcast: Does God ALWAYS Act Out of Love?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: God is Love, God's Love, Love, Love of God, Triune Love
Greg talks about the nouns and verbs of God. Dan talks about unicorns named Gary. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0411.mp3
The Root of Broken Relationships
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Creation, God's Love, Love, Relationships
God’s goal for creation is for us to receive his perfect love in such a way that we all become prisms that reflect this love. However, you don’t have to look very far to notice…
Cruciform Theology in Four Steps
Category: General
Tags: Cross, Cruciform Theology, God's Love
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
The culmination of the biblical narrative of the cross reframes everything about who God is, what it means to have faith in God, and how we read the Bible! The entire Old Testament leading up…
God’s Love is Cruciform
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, God is Love, God's Love
Topics: Attributes and Character
Paul instructs us in what it means to follow Jesus, when he stated, “Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself…
What’s Your Worth?
Category: General
Tags: God's Love, Unsurpassable Worth
We know what something is worth to someone by what they are willing to pay for it. Out of love for us, God was willing to do nothing less than to go to the farthest…
The Ultimate Criteria for Theology
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, God's Character, God's Love, Theology
Topics: Theological Method
Theology is thinking (logos) about God (theos). It is a good and necessary discipline, but only so long as it is centered on Christ. All of our speculation and debate about such things as God’s…
Supported by God
Category: General
Tags: God's Love, Practicing the Presence of God, Prayer, Present Perfect, Spiritual Formation
Topics: Following Jesus
Here’s an exercise that has helped me experience God’s closeness and helped me feel “at home” regardless of my circumstances. It involves using the incredible gift of your physical body to help you remember God’s…
A Calvinist and an Arminian walk into a bar…
Category: General
Tags: Arminianism, Calvinism, God's Love, God's Sovereignty, Open Theism, Roger Olson
Toby Bradbury via Compfight Roger Olson posted A Conversation between a Calvinist and an Arminian about God’s Sovereignty that we thought was dead on. In fact, we kind of wonder if Roger is bugging some of the conversations…
Lighten Up: Taking Love for Granted
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Cartoons, God's Love, Humor, Lighten Up, Naked Pastor
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Terror in the Night
Category: Essays
Tags: Essay, Fear, God, God's Love, Q&A, Spiritual Warfare
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
I’ll never forget the night it first happened to me. I was thirteen, sharing a bedroom with my older brother. I woke up in the middle of the night and felt as if something was…
Are we God’s children by nature or adoption?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Adoption, God's Character, God's Love, Nature
Topics: Death and Salvation, Following Jesus
Greg addresses a reader question about our status as God’s children. Do we come by that by nature or by adoption? Scripture seems to give something of a mixed answer. What’s up with that?