2 Ways We Misinterpret God’s Promises

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In the church where I first found Christ, we used to sing a hymn called “Standing on the Promises of God.” The hymn itself isn’t bad, for it focuses entirely on our relationship with God….

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What is the Relationship Between Behavior and Belief? (podcast)

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Greg reflects on what it means to love God, and how that relates to beliefs and behaviors. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0808.mp3

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How Can I Believe in God as a Rational Empiricist? (podcast)

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Greg and Dan fight through despair to defend reason and empiricism and to find purpose and meaning. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0768.mp3

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Does God Love Me, or Simply Jesus-In-My-Place? (podcast)

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Greg looks at how atonement theories reveal God’s love for us.  http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0738.mp3

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Virtue or Faith? Which is the Opposite of Sin? (podcast)

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Greg discusses faith, sin, and Soren. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0709.mp3

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9 Reasons Faith ≠ Certainty

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One of the things that Christians typically believe in and that I’ve struggled with a great deal is the concept of faith. Like most Christians, I once assumed a person’s faith is as strong as…

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What Type of Faith Do You Have?

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Genesis 32 tells the story of Jacob, wrestling through the night with a nameless man, revealed to be none other than God Himself. We read that when this man “saw that he could not overpower”…

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Christ the Center

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The center of the Christian faith is not anything we believe; it’s the person of Jesus Christ. The foundation of my faith is a person, not a book and a set of beliefs about that…

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Covenant vs. Contract

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Here’s another video clip that came out of Greg’s interviews with Travis Reed from The Work of the People. Is your faith covenantal or contractual?

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The Accelerating Train

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If you aren’t experiencing it yet, you will. Each year goes by faster than the previous one. The reason is that, as you get older, each year is a smaller fraction of your life. I…

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Why Did God Heal or Not?

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In 1996 a 27-year-old man in my church named David was diagnosed with an inoperable brain cancer. The doctors decided to send David to the Mayo Clinic to receive some experimental treatments on the slim…

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Does God Still Heal?

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In the ancient world Jesus was known first and foremost as an exorcist and a healer. These two activities are mentioned in every summary of Jesus’s ministry found in the Gospels. It’s common for Western…

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Why Doesn’t God Heal When We Ask?

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If we are called to manifest what Jesus manifested and revolt against what Jesus revolted against, and Jesus carried out the kingdom through healing, then why doesn’t God heal those we pray for? One of…

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When Jesus Questioned the Father

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Though the sinless Son of God had perfect faith, we find him asking God the Father to alter the plan to redeem the world through his sacrifice—if it is “possible” (Matt. 26:42). As the nightmare…

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Is There Room for Doubt in Faith?

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Many Christians today assume that faith is the antithesis of doubt. In this view, a person’s faith is thought to be strong to the extent that they don’t question their beliefs or struggle with God…

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Benefit of the Doubt


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In Benefit of the Doubt, influential theologian, pastor, and bestselling author Gregory Boyd invites readers to embrace a faith that doesn’t strive for certainty, but rather for commitment in the midst of uncertainty. Boyd rejects…

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Isn’t Faith Inherently Irrational?

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Is Faith Inherently Irrational? Many people seem to assume that faith is giving credence to things that don’t make much sense and for which there is little or no evidence. Take the doctrine of the…

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