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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.
May 2025 Plain Truth Magazine
The May 2025 Plain Truth magazine is now available for your reading pleasure. Check out the articles and items linked below.
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
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“The second is like it” – Loving God, loving neighbour – Brad Jersak
Matthew 22:35-40 "... and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?’ He said to him, ‘“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.’
This teaching of Jesus is remarkable on several significant fronts! For example, we are actually hearing Jesus' own ...
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 ...
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?
Francis & the Testimony of Jesus – Brad Jersak
The Testimony of Francis -
With the passing of Pope Francis, we will see a great wave for testimonials about him. We will witness a range of conflicting responses from those who adored him to those who abhorred him. It's complicated when people of other faiths or no faith offer words of praise while many conservative Catholics denounced him and even publicly wished him dead!
Speaking of conflicted, how does a ministry whose brand is "Christianity Without the Religion" pay tribute to the head of the largest religious institution on earth? Our inclination is to ...
Q&R: What is your take on the Nephilim? Brad Jersak
QUESTION"What is your take on the Nephilim?"
RESPONSE:
The brief mention of the Nephilim in Genesis is quite a mystery. The gaps in this fantastical story led to loads of creative fan fiction (the Jewish genre called 'midrash') and, more recently, bizarre conspiracy theories. Let's start with the initial text itself:
Genesis 6:
1 When people began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that they were fair; and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose. 3 Then the L...
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 ...
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?
Breakfast with Brad – Silly but Harmful
In which Brad eats Campbell's chicken noodle soup, spouts a silly (but harmless) childhood poem, then cites an example of a silly (but very harmful) theology. For the toxic citation, see below:
https://vimeo.com/1007830344
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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, ...
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"The Not So Accidental Gardener"
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Was it a coincidence that Mary thought the risen Jesus Christ was a gardener - or did Jesus plan that? Celebrate Easter with us!
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/CWR583.mp3
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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 ...
Everything For Nothing
Escape the misery of a life governed by something for something. Join us on Easter, and embrace our risen Lord, and his invitation to receive everything for nothing. He is risen!
Shining THE LIGHT – Greg Albrecht
Shining THE LIGHT - Reflecting and Refracting Him -
I am the world’s Light. No one who follows me stumbles around in darkness. – John 8:12, The Message
Immediately following the beatitudes that serve as the introduction to the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7), Jesus says that we, his followers, are lights that shine in our world. He is the uppercase Light of the world, but he shines and lives the Light of his glory in us, we become his lowercase lights.
…You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in this world… – Matthew 5:14, The ...
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