The Holy Spirit
Does the Holy Spirit Still Do New Things? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: The Holy Spirit
Greg explores the nature of God’s revelation, as it pertains to scripture and the Holy Spirit. Episode 636 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0636.mp3
Are the Holy Ghost and the Holy Spirit Referring to the Same Entity? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: The Holy Spirit
Greg clears up some confusion about the Holy Spirit and the Holy Ghost. Episode 594 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0594.mp3
If salvation depends on our free choice, how are we saved totally by grace?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Free Will, Grace, Predestination, Q&A, Salvation, The Holy Spirit
Topics: Death and Salvation, Providence, Predestination and Free Will, Trinity
Question: I’m an Arminian-turned-Calvinist, and the thing that turned me was the realization that if salvation hinges on whether individuals choose to be saved or not, as Arminians and Open Theists believe, then we can’t…
Podcast: Must We Try So Hard to Listen to God?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Listening, Spiritual Formation, The Holy Spirit
Cody and Dan are walking in darkness. Greg tries to show them the light. Also, consider supporting ReKnew. You can do so HERE. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0437.mp3
Podcast: Can God Be Disappointed in Us?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Discernment, Fruit of the Spirit, The Holy Spirit
Greg reflects on what it means for God to trust us, love us, and have expectations for us. Also, consider supporting ReKnew. You can do so HERE. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0435.mp3
Podcast: Is there Any Kind of Indicator or Sign that I’ve Received the Holy Spirit?
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Gifts, The Holy Spirit
Greg talks about his background in the Pentecostal Church, and offers his own thoughts on what it looks like when we are full of the Holy Spirit. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0351.mp3
The Holy Spirit Behind the Scenes
Category: General
Tags: Love, The Holy Spirit, Trinity
In John 17 we read Jesus’ prayer to be one with each another in Christ. Jesus prayed that his disciples … may be one. As you, Father are in me and I am in you,…
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: How Can We Say God Accommodates Biblical Writers When They Were ‘Carried Along by the Spirit’?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Hermeneutics, The Holy Spirit
Verse: 2 Peter 1
What does it mean for a Biblical author to be ‘carried along by the Spirit’? Greg discusses 2 Peter 1:20-21. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0194.mp3
Greg and N.T. Wright at the Missio Alliance Gathering!
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Cross, Greg Boyd, Missio Alliance, N.T. Wright, The Holy Spirit
The Missio Alliance North American Gathering will be held April 27-29 in Alexandria, Virginia. The theme this year is Awakenings: The Mission of the Spirit as the Life of the Church. Featured speakers this year…
On the Trinity and the Holy Spirit
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: The Holy Spirit, Trinity
For many of us, the Trinity is something that we confess, but if we are honest, we are not sure what it means. While the Trinity is a mystery, there are helpful ways of thinking about…
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,…
Overcoming the Flesh
Category: General
Tags: Experiencing God, Fruit of the Spirit, Imaginative Prayer, The Holy Spirit, Transformation
In Monday’s post, we talked about the nature of the flesh. Here let’s introduce the work of the Spirit in overcoming the flesh. The Holy Spirit’s goal in pointing us to Christ is to replace…
A Brief Theology of the Trinity
Category: General
Tags: God, God is Love, Jesus, The Holy Spirit, Trinity
Topics: Trinity
“The economic Trinity is the immanent Trinity, and the immanent Trinity is the economic Trinity.” This is the maxim introduced by the Catholic theologian Karl Rahner that should shape our discussion of the Trinity. It…
Lies, Truth, and the Holy Spirit
Category: General
Tags: Jesus, Kingdom Living, Lies, The Holy Spirit, Truth
The root of the flesh is a lie about who God is and who we are. Satan brings us into bondage of the flesh by convincing us that God is not the loving God he…
Are the Charismatic Gifts for Today’s Church?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Gifts, The Holy Spirit
Topics: The Church
This week, we have offered a brief series on the Holy Spirit touching on what the Spirit does, how it changes us, and how the fruit of the Spirit is produced. Now we will look briefly at the gifts…
How to Produce the Fruit of the Spirit
Category: General
Tags: Fruit of the Spirit, Imaginative Prayer, Jesus, Peace, Prayer, Seeing is Believing, The Holy Spirit, Transformation
When the New Testament tells us to be loving, joyful, peaceful, kind and so on, it is not giving us a new set of behaviors that we are to strive to accomplish. Striving to attain…
How the Holy Spirit Changes Us
Category: General
Tags: Imagination, Imaginative Prayer, Seeing is Believing, The Holy Spirit
The Bible is full of stories of people who experienced the presence of God. If we are to experience something similar today, we must, through the Spirit, cultivate the spiritual capacity of an inner life…
What Does the Holy Spirit Do?
Category: General
Tags: The Holy Spirit, Trinity, Truth
The true God breaks into our deception-filled world to reveal himself to us in the person of his Son. In and of itself, however, this doesn’t lift the deception of the flesh from our hearts…
Does the Doctrine of the Trinity Matter?
Category: Q&A
Tags: God, God is Love, Jesus, Love, The Holy Spirit, Trinity
Topics: Trinity
Jesus reveals the greatest, most beautiful, and mysterious aspect of God when he, despite being himself God Incarnate, relates to God as his “Father” and refers to God as “the Holy Spirit.” There is, of…