1782 results for tag: Greg Albrecht

Giving and FOR-Giving

God's forgiveness means that we have been forgiven once and for all. Once we have received his forgiveness, there is no need for us to feel un-forgiven until we formally ask God to forgive us again. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR452.mp3

July 2023

CLICK HERE to read now (PDF Format) Articles: Mental Health Care: A Christian Response – pg. 1 Show Your Cards, Not Your Trophies – pg. 2 Two Ships that Pass in the Night – pg. 5 Elevator Dogmatics – pg. 7 Quotes & Connections – pg. 8

You and Me and Our Father

Religious hard-liners choke on the beauty and depth of God's love, accusing those who believe in God's love as permissive fools, soft headed and soft hearted, lacking standards and rules. Funny - that's what a well known parable seems to say about our Father and his no limits love for you and me. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR468.mp3

More Blessed to Give Than Receive

Join us to discover the immense, far-reaching dimensions of grace-based teaching behind this short saying of Jesus, proclaimed by Paul in Acts 20:35. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR451.mp3

Is God Fair?

We've all asked this question more than once, and before it's all said and done, we'll re-visit the dark dilemma of God's seemingly unfair decisions. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR450.mp3

Dangerous Unselfishness

The day before he was assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a sermon in which he encouraged "dangerous unselfishness."Join Greg to more fully discuss and consider what it means to be dangerously unselfish. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR449.mp3

Q & R: Greg Albrecht – The Bible and the Gospel

Question Some people tell me they don't believe the Bible because some old books were left out. I believe the Bible and tell them they have to listen to God's still small voice. What else can I tell them? Response My sense of this discussion is that it is focused on a topic upon which we may differ as Christians and still be brothers and sisters.  Of course there are those who might deny any of the Bible to be true and edifying, but then there are folks who deny the existence of God as well. The Bible and its original documents, transmission, preservation and translation is a huge conversation and a massive study and there are a variety of ...

A Father’s Love

While the love of physical fathers can be profound, our heavenly Father’s love, expressed through his grace, astonishes, astounds and amazes us. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR227.mp3

A Father’s Legacy

This week as we celebrate Father’s Day we consider the high calling of human fatherhood, and we give thanks for our gracious and loving heavenly Father. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR122.mp3

Old Time Religion is Not Good Enough!

The hymn, which dates to 1873, declares "Give me that old time religion, it's good enough for me." https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR448.mp3

Who Said Grace is Fair? – by Greg Albrecht

The inscription on John Newton’s granite tombstone in the small cemetery of the parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul in the town of Olney (population about 6,500), Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, reads:  John Newton, clerk [pastor], once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slavers in Africa, was, by the rich mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ preserved, restored, pardoned and appointed to preach the Faith he had long labored to destroy.  Newton, who wrote the hymn “Amazing Grace,” once shared these thoughts about the wonders of God’s grace: “If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders ...

Christ Followers Cannot Not Forgive

C.S. Lewis insisted "If God forgives we must forgive. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than him." A Christ follower in whom Jesus lives cannot not forgive. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR447.mp3

Spiritual Forces

The basic religious forces of our world enslave us to false gods that intimidate and bully with their required observances of traditions, taboos and superstitions that supposedly make God happy. But these religious forces are paper tigers that are powerless to set us free and bankrupt because they provide no eternal inheritance. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR446.mp3

Love or Fear? – Greg Albrecht

Question: 1 John 4:18, which tells us that love drives out fear, used to be my go- to verse for times when I was living in fear. Then a preacher told me that this verse means that one should not fear unless they are not "obeying" God. Now I just live in fear. Can you help me understand how 1 John 4:18 should be interpreted. Response: Your question is real and authentic.  Many people, if they are honest, live in fear.  In some respects, we all do to some level.  But a Christ-centered understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ explains that fear is the motivational factor of all that is anti-Christ, and I use that term not in some ...

The Kingdom of Service – by Greg Albrecht

by Greg Albrecht Also a dispute arose among them as to which of them was considered to be greatest. Jesus said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors. But you are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves. For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves. You are those who have stood by me in my trials. And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me, so ...

Beatitudes #5

In this fifth and last sermon in our series on the beatitudes, we ponder why we would ever be persecuted for "righteousness sake" and why a Christ follower experiences inner peace and joy while being persecuted.

Experiencing His Peace – by Greg Albrecht

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.   For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one ...

Beatitudes #4

Keeping in mind that these eight fruits of God's favor are descriptive of what he does rather than prescriptions for what we must produce via our own hard work, we'll take a closer look at how God empowers us to be pure in heart and to become peacemakers.

Beatitudes #3

As we ponder what it means to be blessed by hungering and thirsting for righteousness and being merciful, we remember that these be-attitudes are God's gift, his handiwork, lived in our lives by and through Jesus.

“Come, you also!” – The Stupor of Grace in Dostoevsky – Greg Albrecht

Consider what the famed Russian novelist, Dostoevsky, wrote about the judgment of God and the gospel of grace, in his classic work, Crime and Punishment. At the last Judgment Christ, will say to us, “Come, you also! Come, drunkards! Come weaklings! Come, children of shame!”  And he will say to us: “Vile beings, you who are in the image of the beast and bear his mark, but come all the same, you as well.”  And the wise and the prudent will say, “Lord, why do you welcome them?” And he will say, “If I welcome them, you wise men, it is because not one of them have ever been judged worthy.”  And he will stretch out his arms, ...