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How Grace Works – by Greg Albrecht
Billy was just finishing some art work, so he was the last first-grader to leave the classroom for recess. Just as he stood up and got ready to run out to the playground, he looked down and was horrified to see a puddle between his feet.
He could not remember when it happened nor could he imagine how it could have happened. His mind was already racing on fast forward – he visualized his humiliation when the boys and the girls came in from recess and made fun of him for wetting his pants. This was going to be the worst day of his life!
Billy was petrified by fear and then, to make matters worse, he saw his teacher, Mrs. Bartley, walking ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
May 15, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“I do not believe eternal destiny is ‘locked in’ at death. Nothing in Scripture would lead us to assume this, but of course much dogma within Christendom depends upon it. Many believe that their attempts to proclaim the gospel and ‘save’ people are the primary if not the only way God uses to channel his grace and to illuminate the minds of those whose hearts and minds are darkened. I say to that – if eternal destiny depends on religion, then God is not God!”
Originally published in:
Christianity Without the Religion magazine, February 2022
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Making All Things New
The focus of today’s sermon is that Christian life is always something new. Authentic Christianity often differs widely from the status quo of our culture. Authentic Christianity is also the precise opposite of religious traditions, prompting many in Christendom to protest, in a vain attempt to safeguard their traditions saying, "but, we’ve never done it that way before."
The True Riches
In today’s message, Pastor Greg shows how Isaiah is using money to draw attention to God’s amazing riches for us. Isaiah's message encourages us to buy into the heavenly economy of God's amazing grace.
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
May 13, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“A Pentecostal Christian was once invited by his friend to attend a staid Presbyterian church, where the services resembled a quiet library. The Pentecostal man was used to exuberant services of his church, which resembled an enthusiastic crowd at a basketball game. When the Presbyterian pastor made a particularly inspiring point in his sermon, the Pentecostal man yelled out ‘Praise the Lord.’
This passion troubled the solemn Presbyterian congregants. When the high-spirited visitor continued to voice his agreement with compelling statements made from the pulpit by yelling out ‘A-men’ ...
You Belong To God
Many ask some form of the question, “Am I getting all I want, all I need, out of life?” Pastor Greg discusses that question in the light of Paul’s admonition that we “present our bodies as living sacrifices.”
K.I.S. Prayer
Pastor Greg talks about keeping prayer simple, sincere and heartfelt, and he discusses the relationship between life’s rough spots and prayer.
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
May 10, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“Religious zealots who populate Christ-less religion, to use the words of a man named Reinhold Niebuhr, spend much of their time focused on the ‘temperature of hell and the furniture of heaven.’ They can think of little else than the grand rewards God will lavish on them because of their hard work – and the eternal torture to which they presume he will subject others, who fail to meet their religious standards.”
Originally published in:
Spiritual Soup for the Hungry Soul, Volume 1
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Love and Suffering – Part 2
Discover an answer for your own pain and suffering, and that experienced by our loved ones, when it intersects with the love and suffering Jesus demonstrated and endured for us.
10 Percent Grace and 90 Percent Law? – by Greg Albrecht
Recently I was asked about a church pastor who preaches 10 percent grace and 90 percent law. Apparently this church has a clock counter on its website to show how fast people are getting to hell. This church believes that one of the methods of "saving" people is to expose their sins, and (by embarrassing them) guilt them into obeying God.
This church is but one of many which believes that the Ten Commandments (and at times other portions of the old covenant) must be preached to sinners to prepare them to accept Christ.
The idea is taught in several different ways:1) People must be convinced that they have a problem (that they are ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
May 8, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“Did you ever stop to think that Jesus did not start his ‘professional life’ ministering, teaching, comforting and healing – by posting a sign outside of a building announcing healing services and prophecy seminars? Jesus didn’t wait for people to find him. Instead, he found people in the midst of their daily problems, dilemmas, challenges and struggles. Much of the time Jesus arrived in people’s lives unannounced and unexpected. Jesus didn’t expect people to get in their cars or jump on their donkeys so they could travel to a holy piece of real estate where whey would file into ...
Love and Suffering – Part 1
We celebrate Mother's Day by considering the contrast Paul provides between Hagar, the slave woman, and Sarah, the free woman. We study human love and suffering from a Christ-centered perspective.
Here Is Your Mother
Celebrate Mother’s Day in the context of the love and admiration Jesus had for his mother.
CWR Video – He Loves Us Anyway by Greg Albrecht
Short video on God's love by Greg Albrecht.
https://vimeo.com/124723042
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
May 6, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“Some people think God must not exist, or if he does, he doesn’t care because he allows disasters and accidents to happen. But God never told us in the Bible that such things would not happen. In fact, he said they would, to those who are believers as well as those who are not.”
Originally published in:
Between Religious Rocks and Life’s Hard Places
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Mothers and Grace
If you’ve ever munched on a bag of cookies you thought you purchased with your own “hard earned” money, only to find out that you were eating someone else’s cookies, you know the answer to the question: What do we have that we did not receive?
Wisdom in the Information Retrieval Age
Where is the wisdom that comes from heaven in this most educated and knowledgeable era in human history? What is that wisdom?
The Great Tribulation – Greg Albrecht
Question:
Can you please tell me who will be going through the tribulation? Is it the unconverted, is it God's people?
I have heard so many things about it and they don't make sense. Some say those a part of their church will be, just before the great tribulation, jetted away to safety on the wings of a great eagle. Some speak of a three and ½ year tribulation just before the Second Coming, others say it will be seven years. Who will have to endure it, and who will be saved from it? Surely the great tribulation is not God’s anger being taken out on those who fail to adhere to certain teachings?
Response:
Thanks for your ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
May 3, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“Penal substitution is a legal term, a forensic model of our relationship to and with God. But the gospel is not about forensic punishment, evening the score or paying our debt. The gospel is about forgiveness, grace, mercy and love, so that God seeks our love, not his satisfaction. God in Christ is not worried about the holiness of his name or reputation – they are set aside on the Cross, when Jesus endured and consumed all hatred, evil and sin forever. How? Not by a legal mechanism, but through the overflowing love of the Father, whom Jesus came to reveal.”
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