God’s Will
Doesn’t Peter Suggest Our Suffering is God’s Will? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: God's Sovereignty, God's Will, Suffering
Greg wrestles suffering out of God’s will. Episode 662 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0662.mp3
Where is Human Free Will in the Bible?
Category: General
Tags: Evil, Free Will, God's Will, Love, Problem of Evil, Theodicy
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
The Bible is emphatic on its teaching that humans possess free will and are capable of originating evil. Notice, for example, that in the very first chapter of the Bible God commands humans to be…
Podcast: When Will God Find Me a Spouse?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: God's Will, Marriage
Greg discusses God’s role in romance. Is God the Omni-Matchmaker? Does love happen only for the faithful? Will Mitch find his one true love? Answers to these questions, and MORE, in this romance-filled episode! http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0221.mp3
Podcast: Did God Harden Pharaoh’s Heart?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: God's Sovereignty, God's Will
Greg discusses the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart — — —Spiritual Arteriosclerosis. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0185.mp3
Resisting Evil
Category: General
Tags: God's Character, God's Will, Open Theism, Satan, Warfare Worldview
The New Testament refers to Satan as the “god of this age” and the “ruler of the power of the air” (2 Cor 4:4; Eph.2:2). In the first century Jewish worldview, “air” referred to the…
Good From Evil
Category: General
Tags: Evil, God's Character, God's Will, Open Theism, Warfare Worldview
The Bible is very clear that God has nothing to do with evil. There is “no darkness” in God. (I Jn 1:5). Far from intentionally bringing about evil, God’s “eyes are too pure to look…
What, Father, Do You Desire This Minute?
Category: General
Tags: God's Will, Obedience, Practicing the Presence of God, Prayer
Topics: Hearing God, Prayer
Frank Laubach, a 20th century missionary to Philippines, wrote about the challenge of being continually aware of the presence of God and learning to respond to God’s promptings. He wrote, “I feel simply carried along…
When God’s “Plan A” Falls Through, What’s Next?
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, God of the Possible, God's Will, Open Theism
Topics: Open Theism
Image by Katie Tegtmeyer via Flickr Suzanne was angry, to say the least. Since her early teens, her only aspirations in life were to be a missionary to Taiwan and to marry a godly man with…
God Does Not Always Get What He Wants
Category: General
Tags: Choice, Free Will, God's Will, Love, Problem of Evil, Salvation
Topics: Providence, Predestination and Free Will
One of the ways the Bible makes it clear that humans have free will and that God doesn’t predetermine human decisions is found in the responses God has toward human choices. Scripture consistently depicts God…
Analogies For Understanding Prayer
Category: General
Tags: God's Will, Partnering With God, Prayer, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Hearing God, Prayer
God is all-powerful, which means he owns all the “say-so” there is. But when he decided to populate the creation with free agents, he gave each human various units of “say-so.” [Click here for yesterday’s…
Prayer Matters
Category: General
Tags: God's Will, Kingdom Living, Prayer
Topics: Hearing God, Prayer, Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
Martin Sharman via Compfight Jesus taught us to pray in a way that recognizes that God’s will isn’t manifested in evil; it’s manifested when he and his people revolt against it. Jesus tells us that…
Romans 8:28: What Does It Mean?
Category: General
Tags: Determinism, Evil, Free Will, God's Will, Romans 8:28
The Bible is very clear that God has nothing to do with evil. There is “no darkness” in God. (I Jn 1:5). Far from intentionally bringing about evil, God’s “eyes are too pure to look…
Some Questions a Year After Her Child’s Death
Category: General
Tags: Blueprint Worldview, Calvinism, God's Will, Grief, Henry, Jessica Kelley, Open Theism, Prayer, The Jesus Event, Theodicy, Warfare Worldview
Jessica Kelley wrote a post for The Jesus Event that we wanted to share with you. You might remember that last year we were getting to know Jessica as she lost her four year old son Henry just…
Hearing and Responding to God: Part 6
Category: Q&A
Tags: Faith, God's Will, Hearing God, Listening, Prayer
Topics: Hearing God, Prayer
Greg has a couple additional thoughts about this topic so here’s part 6 and we’ll post part 7 tomorrow. Today, Greg discusses a way for us to discern the will of God. You can view…