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Karma Or Grace
Karma is a "you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours" cause and effect philosophical assumption that what goes around comes around. This religious idea is universal -- the idea that we get what we deserve. But what does the gospel say?
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 10, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“I believe that a Christ-follower may be more liberal than friends and family or more conservative than friends and family and still be a Christ-follower. Christ-followers are not political yellow pencils.
Within reason, excepting fanaticism (and definitions of fanaticism vary!), we can differ about political opinions while remaining respectful and understanding. Unfortunately, some feel as if their task is to bulldoze everyone into submission so that all agree with their political perspectives. This ‘warfare’ happens within Christendom as well – in fact, in some quarters ...
The Gospel of Lazarus
We turn our attention to the parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man. Greg discusses the implications of this parable in our world of "bad news religion."
Cleansed From the Muck and Mire of Religion
In this service we consider the vision given to the Apostle John of a great multitude in white robes as a picture of God’s kingdom of heaven. Join us as we discuss the kind of people you might meet in heaven.
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 7, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“God’s grace is not about human perceptions of entitlement or justice. It is perfectly natural to feel resentful about those who appear to be ‘getting away’ with something. Our sense of human justice cries out for them to ‘get theirs.’ We start this behavior early in life, as children we point out the shortcomings of others to authority figures such as parents and teachers, hoping they will be punished and penalized. There is, of course, one person whose shortcomings we do not point out to the authorities – our own.”
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Spiritual Vision
The Christian journey is a pilgrimage from darkness to light. This week the body of Christ joins Jesus as he travels to Jerusalem, a journey that ends as eternal light explodes out of the darkness of his tomb.
Comforting and Being Comforted by Greg Albrecht
“Comfort, comfort my people, says your God” – Isaiah 40:1
These uplifting words, among the most studied and often quoted words of Isaiah, speak of a time of comfort after the nation of Judah would bring self-inflicted destruction on its own head. Isaiah wrote at a time when corruption and injustice permeated the commercial, religious, and political culture – he prophesied that the end result of it all would turn the proud city of Jerusalem into a smoldering ruin, a heap of rubble.
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God is an assuring message for all of us during any time of desolation, bondage and ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 5, 2025 - Quote for the Day
“The phrase ‘upside down kingdom’ was popularized by Donald Kraybill in his 1978 book, The Upside Down Kingdom. Kraybill pointed out that Jesus, the king of the kingdom, is the king who triumphs through losing, who is victorious through the humiliation of the cross and who serves by dying. The kingdom of heaven 1) seeks out, serves and gives grace to the lost, the least and the last, 2) opposes religious scorekeepers who meticulously record both good and bad behavior, and 3) turns the kingdoms of religion upside down and every which way but loose.”
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Purpose in Diversity
Greg discusses the purpose God gives his diverse human family and that as Christians we can lose our purpose if we lose our focus on Jesus.
Who Are You?
The goal of the TV series CSI is to find out what happened at the crime scene. Jesus will visit our personal crime scene, and by his blood, and the power of his resurrection, give us new life.
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 3, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“Do you think Joshua and Caleb didn’t see the same giants and giant obstacles as the ten cynics who were LOOKING BACK? Though all twelve of the advance military ‘operatives’ saw exactly the same things as they explored and ‘spied out’ the land, Joshua and Caleb saw a glass half full while the ten merchants of doom and gloom described the glass as half empty. Joshua and Caleb saw the same difficulties, but they insisted on LOOKING FORWARD.”
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Letters to My Friends
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Gone Fishing
We invite you to go fishing with Jonah, Moby Dick, The Old Man and the Sea and Jesus' disciples on the Sea of Galilee.
Help Is On the Way
Today's sermon is for those who find themselves lost in a spiritual desert, baked by the blazing sun, desperately trying to find some shade, and above all, some life-giving water. The good news is that there is no “God-forsaken” place in which we may find ourselves where God is not present. Help is on the way!
What’s So Bad About Religion? – by Greg Albrecht
Some of our readers and listeners can't bring themselves to believe that religion is as bad as we say it is. They say things like, "you spend too much time talking about the negative things and too little about the good things." One person said, "What's so bad about religion? If you had more grace you wouldn't harp on religion so much."
If you have ever visited a prison, you walk away realizing it's a horrible thing to be incarcerated. When you are locked up, you are a slave, you have no freedom. If you know anything about institutionalized incarceration you will also know that inmates learn to depend on and work the ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
May 31, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“I was recently reading a brief essay by an unknown author – let me share some of it with you:
Religion enslaves; Christ liberates!
Religion condemns; Christ pardons!
Religion brings pain, heartache and tears; Christ heals and wipes the tears away.
Religion searches for meaning in life; Christ, who is our life, is the meaning of life.
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The Man in the Middle
Greg’s sermon focuses on Jesus as our man in the middle, in the middle of our lives and trials, reconciling us to God.
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
May 29, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“The Bible, some say, is the Word of God. That is a false supposition, according to the Bible. Jesus is the Word of God (John 1:1-14). Jesus is the Word of God. He alone occupies the throne of authority. He does not share that throne with a book.
Bible publishers have long titled the Bible as ‘holy.’ God alone is holy. God alone is infallible and inerrant. Humans are created, mortal and less than perfect – all that we touch and produce falls short of perfection and holiness.
Humans have determined the Bible to be holy, infallible and inerrant.&nb...
God Is Faithful
Given enough time, human beings will eventually let you down. But God can always be relied upon. God always comes through.
Child-like Belief
Spiritual re-birth from God renders us child-like again. What can we learn about faith from the trusting, open attitude of a child?
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