1798 results for tag: Greg Albrecht
Grace Doesn’t Make Sense
Jesus reveals and introduces the Father as our heavenly Father, rather than an accountant, mathematician or banker. God is not forever counting to determine the nature of our relationship with him.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR507.mp3
Unique and Exaggerated Truth Claims – Greg Albrecht
We are over a year away from the next US presidential election. But already the equivocations, prevarications, character assassinations and mudslinging are being slung from one side to the other.
In an attempt to help further educate (or is it “influence”) “fact checks” have attempted to serve us, the gullible public, by informing us about what are facts and what are lies. But now we hear claims that even “fact checks” have their own agenda. Say it ain’t so!
We thought that the incriminating accusations would have ended at the last election – but oh no, it will never be over – politics as usual will continue with ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 27, 2023 - Quote for the Day:
“When the power and purity of the gospel is preached, religious authorities whose religion is based on law cannot restrain themselves. The response of legalistic religion to the gospel of grace includes thundering, emotional and high-volume-laced threats about the importance of working harder and doing more, being diligent and always giving more energy, time and money.”
Originally published in:
Letters to My Friends
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Who Is Jesus? Part 2
Some years ago, a popular song asked the question “What if God Was One of Us?” Think about it — what if God knew what it was like to be betrayed, lonely, hungry, suffering and discouraged? It’s true — God has become one of us and he knows what its like!
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0004.mp3
Have You Forgiven God? – by Greg Albrecht
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither areyour ways my ways, declares the LORD. As the heavens are higher than theearth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than yourthoughts."—Isaiah 55:8-9
A few years ago I officiated at a funeral service for someone I hadnever known. I interviewed people who had known the deceased, and in theprocess I found out some dark and disturbing things.
What do you say at a funeral when you can't find anyone who ever knewthe person who has anything good to say about them? What can you say ata memorial service when surviving friends and relatives are having adifficult time forgiving ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 24, 2023 - Quote for the Day:
“By God’s mercy, we have freedom in Christ, but this freedom is not merely given to us that we might breathe clean, clear spiritual air now that we have been redeemed from the bondage of a religious prison. We are not free merely for ourselves, so that we might luxuriate in the life Jesus lives in us.
It is an incredible, unbelievable blessing to be free in Christ, but it’s not enough to give thanks for what has happened in our lives alone. Jesus is not the new Moses, setting us, as one of many captives, free, merely so that we might be free. There’s more to freedom in Christ ...
Who Is Jesus? Part 1
Was Jesus merely an enlightened teacher, like Buddha or Muhammad, who taught people how to behave better? Or is he God–who lives his resurrected life in us? Find out in part one of this two-part series.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0003.mp3
Life Keeps Coming and Life is Hard
Breaking news -- we humans don't live in the Garden of Eden! We live and exist in the spiritual wilderness, a parched and dry spiritual desert. Bad stuff happens and we can't always stop it. But there is good news!
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR506.mp3
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 22, 2023 - Quote for the Day:
“When Jesus came into this world, he was rejected by the most religious and pious and ‘righteous’ people because they simply could not accept a person who had no known ulterior motives. Jesus was happy to hang out with the last, the least and the lost. He wasn’t interested in ‘winning’ – he came to die, not to live as long as he possibly could. Jesus’s love was genuine and unconditional – he came to serve rather than with the expectation of being served.”
Originally published in:
Letters to My Friends
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Fool’s Gold
Christ-less religion is fool's gold, it glitters, giving false promises of wisdom, righteousness and power - but all that glitters is not gold.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR505.mp3
Loving God More Than Entitlements
Loving God and loving one's neighbor as oneself is the heart and core of the life that Jesus produces in those in whom he lives, removing one's focus from self-absorption to service of others in Jesus' name.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR504.mp3
Religion – Where Is the Love? by Greg Albrecht
Why do we speak about “Christianity WITHOUT the religion?” The answer was well-summarized by a slogan on a T-shirt I recently saw someone wearing: “Religion—Giving Hope to a World Torn Apart by...Religion.”
Religion, as it is known, believed and practiced throughout this world is a contradiction.
• It promises hope, but delivers fear.
• It promises peace, but delivers violence and bloodshed.
• It promises freedom and faith, but delivers authoritarian legalism.
Why do we proclaim Christianity WITHOUT the religion? Because we are serious about Jesus, the founder of Christianity, who said in John 13:35, “By this ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 20, 2023 - Quote for the Day:
“We are near to God, not because of our religion or race, we are close to God not because of our religious deeds and creeds, God is available to us because of Jesus. Up until the Cross of Christ, his resurrection and the new covenant, the Jews had been given a law by God. They felt that their law made them better and superior, though that was not God’s intent in giving them the law. They believed their law codes, the covenant of Sinai, and how they carefully obeyed that covenant meant that God loved them more.
The law with all its detailed ordinances of ceremonies and regulations ...
Two Brothers – by Greg Albrecht
Jesus continued: "There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the estate.' So he divided his property between them.
"Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
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CWR Video – The New Math of God’s Grace – by Greg Albrecht
5 minute video on God's Grace.
Snake-in-the-Grass Spiritual Narcissism
Few sins are as problematic and deeply rooted as the big lie that one's constant attention to one's own spiritual welfare will result in God's favor and pleasure. Spiritual Narcissism is toxic condition that results in one's efforts to make oneself better resulting in a ever worsening spiritual state.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR503.mp3
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 17, 2023 - Quote for the Day:
“You may have heard the story of a ‘golf widow’ who asked her husband why he wasn’t golfing anymore with his former golfing partner, Bob. As he was headed out the door for the golf course, the husband responded to his wife, ‘Would you keep playing with a man who moved his golf ball a few feet closer to the hole when you weren’t watching?’ His wife was appalled. ‘Well, no, I wouldn’t.’ Her husband said, ‘Well, neither will Bob.’”
Originally published in:
Rejecting Religion – Embracing Grace
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What About Me?
In an age of selfies and Instagrams, when the constant cry seems to be "look at me" and "what about me?" our suffering servant turns our focus to the needs of others.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR502.mp3
You Have Good Credit!
The credit granted by the bank of heaven is not based on our own credit record, but rather through righteousness that is given in Jesus Christ to all who believe.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR501.mp3
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