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See How He Loves You
Join Greg for a discussion of God's love, as centered and defined in the cross of Christ, illustrated by the differences C.S. Lewis noted between all-too-human Need Love and divinely given Gift Love.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR417.mp3
Loving God and One Another – Greg Albrecht
Ralph Woodrow
Several months ago, with invited guests and our Advisory Board, we celebrated and honored Ralph Woodrow for the 68 years he has ministered to others. Ralph and I have been friends for well over 30 years, and three years ago he agreed to serve on our Advisory Board. The plaque we presented him read: "In recognition of your many decades of service as a minister of Christ. You have faithfully followed the Way and the Truth and the Life. With admiration and appreciation. Plain Truth Ministries."
Ralph is, in my opinion, a bit of an iconic ...
God Believes In You!
Had someone betrayed, abandoned and disavowed us the way Peter denied Jesus, we would have a hard time ever talking to that person again. But after his resurrection Jesus made sure that Peter knew he still believed in him.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR365.mp3
Q&R with Greg Albrecht – “Do I need to learn ‘Christian-ese’?”
Question:
I’m finding it hard to communicate with some of the Christians I have met. No one I know talks the way people do in the church I am attending. Can you help?
Response:
There are several schools of thought about in-house Christian vocabulary. On the one hand, there are technical terms, as with any discipline or endeavor, needed to accurately define Christian belief and practice. Using specific terminology enables us to be concise and accurate, and to avoid misunderstanding.
Here’s a few technical terms that are ...
Tender Mercies: A Caregiver’s Promise – by Ruth A. Tucker
Bless the Lord who crowns you with tender mercies (Psalm 103, NKJV).
Waiting for a diagnosis. The hours and days drag on. I’ve experienced the tension of waiting for the results of a biopsy, though I’ve never faced that dreaded word—cancer. But for me, cancer is not my greatest diagnostic fear. Alzheimer’s tops the list? John, assuming he survives me, would be left largely alone with my care. How would he cope? To the very end he cared for Ruth and Myra, his first and second dearly departed ...
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
It's a meaningless little game we used to play when we were kids, thinking we could find out whether a person of the opposite sex liked us or not. Believe it or not, people use the similar approach to discover whether God loves them or not!
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR261.mp3
Sample One of Our Daily Radio Messages
"He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not"
It's a meaningless little game we used to play when we were kids, thinking we could find out whether a person of the opposite sex liked us or not. Believe it or not, people use the similar approach to discover whether God loves them or not!
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR261.mp3
Links to Our Daily Radio
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
February 11, 2026 - Quote for the Day:
“The Beatitudes are descriptive of what Jesus does and will do in the lives of his followers – they are not prescriptions or lesson plans for those who will become blessed because of their own blood, sweat and tears.”
Originally published in:
Beautiful Sayings – Beatitudes of Grace
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Songs From Our Hearts Pt 7
(Psalm 130) In the last of our seven-part series, we discover how Psalm 130 can help us watch for God and put our hope in him, and find the ultimate answers to our suffering and pain in the cross of Christ, the greatest ever demonstration of love.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR351.mp3
God’s Beloved Children – Greg Albrecht
What marvelous love the Father has extended to us! Just look at it—we’re called children of God! That’s who we really are. —1 John 3:1 (MSG)
We are his children, his cherished treasures and his pearls of great price. In this world filled with shattered dreams, populated with the broken hearted and abandoned, these superlatives sound like a hopelessly naïve exaggeration, but God is our own true love. We are his precious, priceless and beloved children. Our own true love loves us with an everlasting, no-matter-what love. We are loved and accepted and ...
Songs From Our Hearts Pt 6
(Psalm 121) If you are spending much of your time looking at real and present dangers in your life (not to mention potential future obstacles), you may be missing the dynamic, real presence of God, who is right next to you.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR350.mp3
God is Relational – Steve McVey
McVey-God Is Love from Plain Truth Ministries on Vimeo.
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
February 9, 2026 - Quote for the Day:
“God’s love says: ‘I know all about you and I still love you anyway.’
God’s love says: ‘I am going to love you forever – you can’t stop me loving you.’
God’s love says: ‘Nothing you can do, positively or negatively, can make me love you more or less than I already do. My love does not depend on what you do or fail to do.’”
Originally published in:
Letters to My Friends
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CWR Video – AI and The Gospel
In this CWR Video, Brad and Monte discuss AI and The Gospel..
https://vimeo.com/1154384257
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Christ or Truth: Dostoevsky vs Weil – Bradley Jersak
With Brian Zahnd a decade ago!
In 1854, Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote a private letter to Natalya Fonvizina, the woman who gave him a New Testament before he was sent to prison in Siberia. In that letter, he claims,
If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, Complete Letters, 1868-1871
Eight decades later, during the last year of her life (1942-43), Simone Weil wrote a series of letters to a priest, ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
February 7, 2026 - Quote for the Day
“The kingdom of God involves feasting and dancing and laughter. God – God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit – does not absent himself from such merrymakings. God is involved in the wining and the dining – he is the very center of the joke telling, the good-natured jesting, the singing and the offering of toasts. This is his banquet – he plans it, caters it and hosts it. God doesn’t absent himself from the party and sneak off to the library, reading the Bible in the original Greek or Hebrew. ...
Songs From Our Hearts Pt 5
(Psalm 84) The theme of a spiritual journey permeates Psalm 84, enhancing our comprehension of what it means to walk, as a pilgrim, with Jesus.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR349.mp3
All Things Beautiful #1 – Ken Williams
"Life Lived and Lessons Learned, All Things Beautiful!”
Upstate New York Winter…Beautiful?
Ken Williams
Winter in upstate New York is cold, gloomy, but beautiful. It was easier to see when I was younger, having more body heat, but still possible. In earlier years the beauty was tobogganing and sledding, cross country skiing, taking my kids downhill skiing and joining others ice fishing, or gathering with others for fun and food. Until recent years I took my grandsons hiking in the woods, teaching them to read animal snow tracks, and following deer trails in ...
Songs From Our Hearts Pt 4
(Psalm 51) It seems our world at large is becoming more resistant to saying "I'm sorry" - it truly is the hardest word. Join us as we embrace Christ-centered repentance.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR348.mp3
The Commands of God and the Traditions of Men – by Greg Albrecht
So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, "Why don't your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?" He replied, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: "'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.' You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions." —Mark 7:5-8
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, widely regarded as a 20th century martyr, put ...
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