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Grace a Lot or Grace Alone?
Almost everyone loves to hear about God’s grace — they love to hear grace a lot, but when the message is grace alone, then almost everyone gets a little worried about the absence of law and regulation.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR495.mp3
Footprints After the Storm – by Ruth A. Tucker
Bless the Lord who crowns you with tender mercies (Psalm 103, NKJV).
Tornados acknowledge no holidays—no holy days. Nor does weather of any kind. Many years ago, on an early September Monday, a young man stood up during a testimony time in chapel at a school where I was teaching. He praised God for the wonderful weekend weather. Not a cloud in the sky. He had taken a youth group for an outing on Lake Michigan. Having prayed, God blessed him with sunshine. Trouble was, local farmers were countering his prayers. Their crops were parched and needed more rain before ...
Grace at His Table
“Working” for good is far more common than accepting an invitation to a fully paid, no strings attached banquet — but that’s the incredible, too-good-to-be-true invitation God extends.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR494.mp3
How Far Will God Go For Love? – by Greg Albrecht
Greg Albrecht
Lending institutions place a cap or limit on the total amount of purchases you can charge to their card. They will only let you go so far before your credit runs out. How far can we go with God before he says to us "That's it—my grace has its limits!" Is it possible to use so much of God's love that our account will be "maxed out"?
Of course God's mercy, grace and love are endless. As and when we request forgiveness, God will always forgive us. That's one of the attributes that makes him God. But, is it possible to take advantage of God's good ...
The House of the Rising Sun
We can all identify with mournful, blues-like lyrics that speak of addiction and slavery, for we have all been prisoners. We’ll carefully study the glorious significance of “redemption in Jesus Christ.”
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR493.mp3
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 5, 2026 - Quote for the Day:
“The Bible is inspired, but God inspired human authors, and he used those human authors, warts and all, to record a message and a story. The Bible did not drop out of heaven – it was written by people. God could have, of course, bypassed humanity and parachuted the Bible out of heaven, but he did not. As a divine-human document of paper and ink, the Bible is not holy nor is it inerrant and infallible.
It is inspired in that God inspired the central teaching and focus of the Bible. Jesus, the theme of the Bible, ...
CWR Video – Belief Filters
In this CWR Video, Greg and Monte explore the belief filters that have been embedded in our minds that can shape the way we think and, if left unchecked, could lead us astray from God.
https://vimeo.com/1196067111
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True Confessions
The Bible instructs us to “confess our sins” — but to whom and how?
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR492.mp3
How do we Harmonize the Bible’s Judgment and Redemption texts? – Brad Jersak
Question:
How do we best harmonize the Bible's 'eschatological' texts? Some described unmitigated judgment and permanent destruction for the majority of the human race, while other passages seem to announce the redemption of everyone in the end. How do we hold both descriptions together? Can we? Or are these really contradictory?
Response:
Yes, it's true: those who pay very close attention to the actual words of Scripture note how difficult it is to reconcile its unmitigated judgment texts with all-encompassing redemption passages.
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"True Confessions"
The Bible instructs us to “confess our sins” — but to whom and how?
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR492.mp3
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Children and Parents
The lessons we learn as parents and children illuminates the supreme and matchless love of our heavenly Father and the relationship he so freely gives us.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR491.mp3
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 3, 2026 - Quote for the Day:
“We are not alone. Jesus lives in us and we in him. We remain in Jesus, and he remains in us (John 15:4-7, 9-10)… Jesus doesn’t come to live with us and simply rent a room because he won’t be here that long. He doesn’t check in and check out depending on whether we are pleasing or displeasing him, as religion would have us believe… Jesus doesn’t just come to visit us when we really need his help, checking into a hotel nearby, visiting us, taking care of us, comforting us, and then, when we’re all better, he ...
Why Did Jesus Call a Woman a Dog? – by Greg Albrecht
The Canaanites became mortal enemies of the Jews some 1,500 or so years before the time of Jesus when they resisted the new nation of Israel as it attempted to inhabit the Promised Land.
Matthew 15:21-28 relates the story of a Canaanite woman who was so desperate to seek healing for her daughter that she defied social and religious conventions as she publicly spoke to Jesus (a man she didn't know) —beyond that, a Jewish man.
We know, from everything else we read in the Gospels, that Jesus, God in the flesh, loved this woman, but it didn't seem that way to her ...
Our Fortieth – Started As a Romantic Lie – Brad Jersak
Brad Jersak
How I met Eden Jersak.
The Laugh of Freedom:
First, I heard her laugh and it sounded like freedom.
Let me back up. I was a first-year—make that first week—very single college student from a small town now plunked in a cafeteria of over 900 students, half of them young women. The imagined prospects were overwhelming, and I caught myself gazing at someone a few tables over. Her hairspray, eyeshadow, and lipstick gave off an 80s Barbie-doll vibe. As I scanned to see how obvious my ogling had been, I noticed at least two other guys gawking at the ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 1, 2026 - Quote for the Day:
“Does our calling as Christians mean we should escape to a remote area, build a little log cabin, dig a well for fresh water, grow an organic vegetable garden and watch the world go to hell in a hand-basket? Are we, as Christians, given the luxury of getting off the playing field of what it means to live in this world but not of it (John 17:14-16), and retiring to the grandstand, watching everyone else deal with the challenges of society and culture?”
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Where God Lives
We can never say it too often or too dogmatically: all that we are and all that we will ever be is a product of God’s grace!
Divine Grace by Jim Fowler
Grace the character of the Triune God
We’ve Always Done It This Way
Join us as we explore facing change and living a new life in Jesus Christ.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR488.mp3
Being Right or Being in Relationship – by Ed Dunn
Friend and Partner Letter from August 2026:
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry (James 1:19).
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. – William Shakespeare
There is no pastime so engrossing as being in the right. – Sylvia Townsend Warner
You would think I would learn. You would think you could teach a middle-aged dog a new trick or two every now and again. Well into my sixth decade of life, I still seem to make the same ...
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