Inspiration
How is the Bible “God-Breathed”?
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Bible Interpretation, Cross, Cruciform Theology, Inspiration, Jesus
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
The historic-orthodox church has always confessed that all canonical writings are “God-breathed” (1 Tim 3:16). But what exactly does this mean? How could God guarantee that the writings that his “breathing” produces are precisely what…
Podcast: Why Should We Trust that the Bible is Divinely Inspired?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Inspiration
Greg argues why he thinks we can trust that the Bible is divinely inspired. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0225.mp3
How the Bible is Trustworthy
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, Inspiration
All of God’s communication in the Scriptures are covenantal in nature. Expressing his covenantal love and faithfulness, God stoops to “breath” Scripture as a means of bearing witness to his covenant relationship with Israel, and…
Podcast: Defending the Manifesto (5 of 10)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Inspiration
Greg responds to challenges by William Lane Craig from Craig’s podcast “Reasonable Faith.“ Craig argues that Greg’s model of reading the bible through the lens of Jesus Christ is simply Greg’s way of rejecting the…
Friday Lights: Connection
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Friday Lights, Inspiration
Each Friday we post content sent to us by our readers that is inspiring, funny, lighthearted or just generally fun. If you’d like more information on submitting content for this feature you can get more information here.
Friday Lights: Kindness
Category: Lighten Up
Tags: Friday Lights, Inspiration, Kindness, Light
This story is from our own backyard here in the Twin Cities. Alana Kish and her young daughter Annie (who calls herself a “kindness fairy”) have made it their mission to spread kindness wherever they…
Friday Lights: Perspective
Category: Lighten Up
Tags: Friday Lights, Inspiration
Each Friday we’ll be posting content sent to us by our readers that is inspiring, funny, lighthearted or just generally fun. If you’d like more information on submitting content for this feature you can get…
New Feature: We Need YOU!
Category: General
Tags: Community, Fun, Hope, Inspiration, Lighten Up
For the last several years we’ve been running a feature every Friday called Lighten Up. It was fun for a while, but it’s gotten harder and harder to find light-hearted, relevant content. That’s where you…
A Dialogue with Derek Flood Part 2: Is ALL of the Bible Inspired?
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Biblical Authority, Book Reviews, Cruciform Theology, Derek Flood, Disarming Scripture, Inspiration, Jesus
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Image by TheRevSteve via Flickr Yesterday, I offered the first part of my response to Flood’s comments regarding my review of his book. Today I’ll finish up my thoughts. Scripture and Its Interpretation Flood confesses that he is…
A Dialogue with Derek Flood: Is the Bible Infallible?
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Biblical Authority, Book Reviews, Cruciform Theology, Derek Flood, Disarming Scripture, Infallibility, Inspiration, Non-Violence
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
I’m happy to see that Derek Flood has responded to my four part review of his book, Disarming Scripture. His response—and, I trust, this reply to his response—models how kingdom people can strongly disagree on…
Lighten Up: Gratitude
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Beauty, Gratitude, Inspiration, Life, Lighten Up, Louie Schwartzberg, Thankfulness, Video
Here’s a 6 minute meditation on gratitude by Louie Schwartzberg. Take our word for it. It’s worth the time.
Lighten Up: Unexpected Generosity
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Generosity, Inspiration, Kindness, Soul Pancake
When have you experienced unexpected generosity? And another good question is: when have you extended unexpected generosity to someone else? Let’s surprise someone with some of that today.
Lighten Up: The True Story of Kid President
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Inspiration, Kid President, Lighten Up
This is not just something that will make you laugh. It will also inspire and challenge you. Peace.
A Review of a Review of Benefit of the Doubt
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Bible, Book Reviews, Greg Boyd, Historical Criticism, Inerrancy, Inspiration, Reviews
I’d like to offer a brief response to a curious on-line review of Benefit of the Doubt, published on thechristians.com. It’s titled, Which came first, Jesus or the Bible? A clever heretic draws a false…
Lighten Up: Keep Going
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Encouragement, Inspiration, Kid President, Lighten Up, Soul Pancake, Unity
Yes.
Lighten Up: If This Guy Can Laugh…
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Inspiration, Lighten Up, Shane Burcaw
There’s some pretty raw language in this video and it’s longer than what we normally post, but we thought it was worth it. So inspiring.