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Q&R with Brad: “Is reading the Bible through the Gospel ‘eisegesis'”?
Question:
Is reading the Bible through the Gospel 'eisegesis'?
"What I’m saying is that your criteria for judging a translation is not your linguistic ability or your academic credentials. It is your personal knowledge of who Jesus is, the nature of God as he revealed it, and the gospel he preached." Brad Jersak from "Gospel Before Translation"
Brad ... is that not getting a little close to eisegesis?
My personal growth is so much dependent on my openness to God revealing things to me about Himself and myself, that are sometimes very challenging of my ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
March 18, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“Beginning in the second grade, I lived in constant apprehension and fear of an impending doomsday. My family and I believed that “the end” could come at any time; we were convinced that we always lived in a window of a “few short years” from the events surrounding the second coming, I did not treasure the message of Revelation, I feared it. The specific “end times” interpretation I was taught exercised enormous power over me and many others. Decades later God’s grace completely changed my ...
The Body of Christ – “A” Church or “The” Church?
Some estimates are that 10-15 million Christians in the United States do not regularly attend a building that calls itself a church. What and where, exactly, is the body of Christ?
Let God’s People Go!
Those trapped by Christ-less religion are in a legalistic form of slavery. Listen in as Greg teaches "Let God's People Go!"
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR004.mp3
CWR Video – Spiritual Warfare
In this CWR Video, Ed shares a perspective on and the dangers of an incorrect understanding of spiritual warfare.
https://vimeo.com/1015760066
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Lost and Alone – Looking for Home – Greg Albrecht
Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?– John 14:3
Most of us have never been physically homeless, but all of us, at one time or another, find ourselves without a spiritual home. We all, at some point in life, are spiritually lost. Sometimes we enter the Father’s house but then we wander away. We may come and we may go. The door is always open. No coercion. No lock-downs.
Jesus says that the Father’s ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
March 15, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“I believe that physical death is not the end of God’s pursuit of us, and I base that belief primarily on the full and complete (as I understand it) revelation of God within the pages of the Bible.”
Originally published in:
Christianity Without the Religion magazine, February 2022
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A Few Thoughts From A Real Diver……..Dumpster Diver That Is – by Stuart Segall
In my world, I do volunteer work with people who are in nursing, care homes and other residences. I visit people who simply lack company or get very little of it. When I do, I listen to their stories of days gone by. Seniors, like all of us, love to tell their old stories. Often, they like to be read to. There are far more people than hours in the day so when I need to exit, I leave them beautiful flowers. I grow all I can, lots of roses, forty-seven bushes and counting. In the winter I do janitor work for a long-time business ...
When Religion Gives God a Bad Name
Faith dies when the spiritually hungry do not receive the Bread of Life, when those in desperate need are seduced by religious junk food and become convinced God can be gained or lost on the basis of human performance.
Giving Up Something for Lent? – by Greg Albrecht
During this time of the year, presuming that God will love them/love them more when they prove their love to him, many “give up” something for Lent. But the deeper question is beyond what we do to “give something up.” The question is, ultimately, who gives up what? When I think of God’s love I start at the cross of Christ, Jesus’ demonstration and revelation of God the Father’s own divine agape love – by willingly giving himself for you and me.
“Giving up something” for Lent is a twisted spiritual proposition – it’s just another ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
March 13, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“There’s an old story about a young man who asked his rich grandfather, ‘Grandpa, how did you get so rich?’ ‘Well,’ said Grandpa, ‘during the Great Depression my family had no money whatsoever. I found two pennies in my old piggy bank, and I bought an apple with those two pennies. I shined that apple up, took it out on the street where people were hungry, and sold it for five cents.
‘Then I took that nickel and bought two more apples for two cents each. I shined them all up, took them ...
The Courtroom of Our Lives
Greg talks about the courtroom in which we all find ourselves -- and how we need to understand who’s who in the courtroom.
In Remembrance of Me
Before we come to the Table of the Lord we consider the significance of remembering Jesus, and eating of the Bread of life.
CWR Video – What Do We Mean by “Christian Action”? – by Richard Rohr
6 minute video on "Christian Action" by Richard Rohr
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God’s Grace Is For Everyone – by Greg Albrecht
For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. —Titus 2:11
You are invited to the kingdom of heaven, and the invitation is called "the gospel" (good news) because it has no strings attached. You and I are invited to the kingdom of heaven in spite of what we have done! The body of Christ on earth is not the equivalent of an exclusive country club or a cloistered, highly restricted religious fraternity or union. Titus 2:11 says that God's grace is available to everyone—it doesnot promise or insist that everyone receives and ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
March 11, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“On his cross, Jesus once and for all demonstrated that peace, love and grace are stronger than hatred, violence and anger – and on his cross he provided the absolute proof that the eternal reality that will win, in the end, is God’s love.”
Originally published in:
Christianity Without the Religion magazine, June 2022
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An Offer We Can’t Refuse
God is having a banquet, and every seat will be filled - one way or the other! The seats at the table may not be filled with those you would expect to accept the invitation, but they will be filled.
Some Time Later
Elijah encountered times when the water ran dry, then some time later the food ran out, and then some time later death visited the home he was living in. As long as we live in our bodies of flesh, it's just one problem after another - but the good news is that God offers us new life!
Breakfast with Brad – Forgiveness, Resentment and Justice
PTM.org's 'Breakfast with Brad' - In which Brad must practice forgiveness against a great injustice lest his resentment morphs into malice, vengeance and violence. Without forgiveness, our attempts at justice become hateful and self-righteous. Notice too how Brad cleverly projects his own error (buying the wrong product) onto the supposed offender. Classic.
https://vimeo.com/1007821595
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