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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
May 1, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“Our physical world is filled with death and decay. The cycle of life ensures aging and obsolescence. You buy a shiny new car and five years later it looks like it has been through a war. You move into a new house and you try to maintain it, take care of the plants and the lawn, keep the house painted – but sometimes, in spite of your best efforts, given the time you have, the house seems to start falling apart around you. You buy a computer, only to find out a few years later that it is obsolete. Or, you discover that your still ‘new’ computer needs new software – it ...
When Your Religion Fails You
Pastor Greg shows that Christ’s invitation for us to come to him promises rest FROM religion, its legalism, its demands and its failure to give us rest.
Our Debt Forgiven
At dinner in a Pharisee’s house, Jesus forgave a harlot. Her debt was great, yet she was forgiven. You will be forgiven too, if you accept Jesus Christ as your savior, but if you try to do it on your own as the Pharisee did, then your debt remains.
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
April 29, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“Legalistic religion can think of no more stinging rebuke than to call someone failing to measure up to its dictates, dogmas and dictums an antinomian (law breaker). When I tell people that by the grace of God I am part of the body of Christ, and that church is what I am rather than a brick-and-mortar building I attend, they ask me, in all sincerity, ‘Well, how are you going to be accountable? Who will discipline you when you need it?’
What they really want to know is who is going to give me my religious report card? They are concerned that if I’m not a member of a religious institu...
Helpless Christians
We can do nothing of eternal significance without the Holy Spirit working through us. The Holy Spirit eternally abides and lives in us — there is a permanence in that relationship.
Holy Help
Jesus promised his disciples the Holy Spirit. That same Holy Spirit is available to Christians today. Be encouraged in today’s sermon that the Holy Spirit is there for you.
Giving Birth – by Greg Albrecht
Friend and Partner Letter - May 2025:
When we ponder the crucifixion of Jesus, we seldom think of his death on his Cross as a symbol of birthing, much like that of a woman in the travail and labor of childbirth. We do speak of Jesus’ work on the Cross – that is, his labor.
Giving birth is not passive – it is active work. Mothers suffer pain, even risking their own lives, to bring forth a new life. Water and blood were part of the work on the Cross, just as they are part of the birth event for a woman who becomes a mother.
The night before he was crucified, five chapters in the Gospel of John (13-17) Jesus eating with his disciples, ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
April 26, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“You may have heard the story about St. Peter giving a tour of heaven. New arrivals boarded a tour bus with St. Peter as their guide. Early in their heavenly tour they drove past a gated community, surrounded by ten-foot-high brick walls covered with ivy. The enclave sported manicured lawns and beautiful hedges and flower gardens leading up to the gate where uniformed personnel ensured no one entered who was not worthy.
One new arrival said, ‘Who lives in there?’ St. Peter lowered his voice and in a pious tone said, ‘Please keep your voices down. The religious folks who live ...
Here’s How You Can Do It
Jesus tells us that apart from him we can do nothing, and the Apostle Paul tells us in Philippians that he can do all things through Christ who strengthened him. Listen to this encouraging sermon.
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
April 24, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“You know, almost every time that God came to someone in the Bible to tell them he wanted them to fulfill a certain responsibility, he received a similar response. Moses said he wasn’t fit for the job because he had a speech impediment. Jonah of course ran away in the opposite direction. When Peter became more aware that Jesus was God in the flesh, he told Jesus to get away – because Peter knew he was a sinful man.
I absolutely relate to such stories. I know that we humans generally feel fearful and intimidated when God seems to be telling us what he has in store for us and ...
He Is The Door
Jesus is “the door” and he opens up full and abundant life for us. Find out what that means — don’t miss today’s sermon.
May 2025
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Articles:
God = Grace, Love and Fellowship – pg. 1
The Comfort of Christ – pg. 2
"Thanks for shining Jesus' light in the darkness!" – pg. 4
We Don't Need Perfect Mothers – pg. 6
Mother Jones – pg. 7
Quotes & Connections – pg. 8
Do You Believe?
Christian faith is not a matter of swallowing religious beliefs. Christians should believe, but in what? Is your God too small?
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
April 22, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“The more oppressive and legalistic the church is, the more hell fire and brimstone condemnations will issue from pulpits, effectively trying to scare people into buying ‘fire insurance’ so they won’t be eternally basted on some spit in hell. It’s not a pretty picture, is it? But it is an accurate picture of the state of churchianity in North America today. Legalism has turned many churches into spiritually incestuous clubs of condemnation, where lists are made and modified – lists that condemn outsiders to hell… It’s interesting that legalistic religion focuses on certain ...
Doubt and Faith
Christians know about “Doubting Thomas” and generally don’t want to identify with him, but doubt isn’t the opposite of faith. Doubt helps us on our way to faith.
Where Do You Live?
Some people just can't get over the past -- their lives shackled to that past. Others myopically focus on present pleasures. And others, still, live in a future fantasy land where a lottery win makes them wealthy beyond all their dreams. Where do you live?
Who Is It You Are Looking For? – by Greg Albrecht
Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?" "They have taken my Lord away," she said, "and I don't know where they have put him." At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. He asked her, "Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?"—John 20:11-15
The religious lynch-mob convened an illegal trial, declared an innocent man guilty and condemned him to death. Of course, it wasn't the ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
April 19, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“We celebrate the resurrection of Jesus in a Christ-centered way, for it is about Jesus’ own personal, victorious bodily resurrection – the resurrection is about him. In and through him we have new life now! He is alive – he is our risen Lord!
But Jesus’ resurrection is also about our own future resurrection, and for that matter, the resurrection of the entire cosmos, when a new order of things will begin. The new order of things is by him and for him. At his Second Coming we will be bodily resurrected because he lives in us, and he will never die. Those who are in ...
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