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Sermon Clip: Addiction
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Addiction, Sermons, Shame, Woodland Hills Church
How does shame keep us in our sin? How does the enemy tell us lies about our mistakes to keep us entrapped in our cycles of failure and addiction? Here Greg names the enemies strategy…
Podcast: If Open Theism is True, Does it Make Sense to Pray For Intercession?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Open Theism, Prayer
Greg talks about prayer and freedom. Specifically, if free will is so important, why would God override it in answer to prayer? http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0123.mp3
Joy in the Midst of Struggle
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Depression, Hope, Joy
God wants you to experience his joy. But to do this, it is helpful to understand the difference between happiness that varies with external circumstances and joy which does not depend upon whether you are…
The Ultimate Goal of Life & What Stands in the Way of It
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Adam and Eve, Garden of Eden, Identity in Christ, Judgment, Shame
What is the point of it all? What is the highest good? What is the point of life? Greg addresses these huge question in this sermon clip, where he introduces the idea of the beautific…
Podcast: Could Jesus Have Sinned? (part two)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Dan presses Greg on the nature of Christ’s humanity. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0115.mp3
Podcast: Could Jesus Have Sinned? (part one)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Jesus, Jesus in the Desert, Sin
Greg considers the nature of temptation and the temptability of God. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0114.mp3
The True You
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: The Mind, Thinking
This initial sermon in Woodland Hill’s Overwhelmed series was a foundational message about the root of everything that holds us back. God has designed us to have power over our brain and our thought life and…
Podcast: How Do You Make Sense of the Killing of Ananias and Sapphira?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Verse: Acts 5
Greg considers: “Who actually killed Ananias and Sapphira.” This ancient murder mystery has enormous theological implications! Listen as Inspector Boyd hunts for clues and builds a most compelling case. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0108.mp3 Photo credit: jean louis mazieres…
Confessions of a Christian Nation: Native American/First Nations Oppression
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Brian McLaren, Brian Zahnd, Bruxy Cavey, Confession, Greg Boyd, Native Americans, Repentance, Rex Harsin
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
In this third part of the Confessions series, Brian Zahnd, Brian McLaren, Bruxy Cavey and Greg Boyd confess the sins of the Christian church against the Native American and First Nations people. Thanks to Rex Harsin…
Follow the Money Trail
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Money, Value
Greg talks about how currency developed, what it represents, and the principle that what you spend your money on illuminates your values. If you’d like to listen to the entire sermon you can find it…
Confessions of a Christian Nation – LGBTQ Discrimination
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Brian McLaren, Brian Zahnd, Bruxy Cavey, Confession, Greg Boyd, LGBTQ, Rex Harsin
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Here is the second installment of the Confessions series filmed by Rex Harsin. We pray that it will bring healing and opportunities for reconciliation.
King’s Kingdom Way
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Dennis Edwards, Justice, Martin Luther King, Racial Reconciliation
In this conversation between Greg and Dennis Edwards, they discuss why we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. and what King’s message of justice means for us today. If you are interested in hearing the entire conversation,…
Confessions of a Christian Nation (Racism)
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Apology, Brian McLaren, Brian Zahnd, Greg Boyd, Martin Luther King, Racial Reconciliation, Racism, Rex Harsin
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Greg Boyd, Brian McLaren and Brian Zahnd apologize to the African American community for the church’s complicity in the oppression of African Americans throughout American history. Video…
Good Gifts
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Blessing, Gifts, Gratitude, Kingdom Living
Every good thing in our lives is an unmerited gift from God. This includes your specific skills, strengths, and talents. Here Greg discusses the importance of recognizing that our gifts are on loan from God, and we are entrusted with them…
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…
Myth Become History
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Christmas, Jesus, Myth
The Gospel of John tells of the coming of Jesus in an unusual way. John writes: In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. Everything came…
Jesus, the Light that Blesses
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Blessing, Christmas, Israel, Jesus, Light
God spoke a promise to Abraham in Genesis 12 that his descendants would be a great nation and that all of the nations would be blessed through him. In this sermon clip, Greg discusses how Jesus…
God Became a Zygote
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Christmas, Incarnation, Jesus
Has the Christmas story become so familiar that you’ve lost any sense of how spectacular it is? The great creator of the universe became a microscopic zygote. The all-powerful being who spoke the stars into existence came…
Podcast: Will God Restore All of the Animals?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Animals
Greg considers animals, killed in the war zone, and discusses God’s place for them. Specifically, will my dog be in heaven with me? http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0084.mp3
Astronomy and God’s Greatness
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Creation, God, Transcendence
What does modern astronomy teach us about God’s Transcendence? Much indeed. Consider God’s words to Job about the universe: Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orionʼs belt? Can you bring…