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God’s Grace Is For Everyone
Since Jesus invites us to the kingdom of heaven in spite of what we have done, rather than what we have done, does that mean there are no limits to God's grace?
The Perfect Storm
While the storms of our lives do not define or limit our relationship with God, they can be traumatic and disconcerting. Join Greg as he offers fresh perspective about the blessed assurance we can all have in and through Jesus Christ.
Comfort For Everyone
Christ in us enables us to be wounded healers - transformed by God's grace that we may be vehicles of God's love, offering comfort for others in the same way we have been comforted by God.
The Great Reversal
Greg explains that Jesus' parable of "The Workers" in Matthew 20 is a picture of God's grace, and that the kingdom of heaven reverses the values and expectations of the kingdoms of religion. Luke records Jesus saying, "What is highly valued among men is detestable in God's sight."
The Commands of God and the Tradition of Men
Sin management is the focus of Christ-less religion - attempting to make bad people good, or at the very least better. But Jesus' mission is not about making bad people better. Jesus comes to make spiritually dead people live!
Knowing the One True God
God is seen and known only by and through Jesus, who came to reveal God. We pray for those who are yet to see and know the One true God.
Whatever Happened to Grace?
God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. His grace is resisted by religious high places, but the spiritual gravitational pull of grace causes it to flow to low places.
Religion Attempts to Overthrow Grace
The early New Testament church quickly learned that they could not deceive or manipulate God. The relationship he offered them, and that he offers us, is one that we can only receive, not gain or earn. We have nothing to offer God that he doesn't already have.
Downward Mobility
Jesus disciples all wanted to be rich and famous, but the kingdom of heaven is founded on an opposing value -- serving others rather than serving ourselves.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR262.mp3
Growing Beyond Our Expectations
What did Jesus mean when he said, Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me?
Making a Difference in Christ
Greg explains the real difference between the sheep and the goats of Jesus parable in Matthew 25.
Sitting With Others
As we remember the extraordinary legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. we think of how instrumental he was in bringing people of different races and cultures together. We consider Ezekiel's example of sitting among captives and exiles, and most of all the example of Jesus who became one of us, living among us, sitting with us.
Can You See His Hands?
Join Greg as he considers the difference between an open hand, like that of Jesus on the cross, and a clinched fist.
The God of Comfort
God comforts us so that we might act as his tools, his hands and feet, to reflect and radiate his comfort to others. God's comfort doesn't terminate with us!
How Big is God?
God is not somewhere, like heaven, while he is absent from another place or location. What does the fact that we cannot measure or completely fathom God mean for our relationship with him?
The Greatest Revolution
Of all revolutions, and of all the revolutionary anthems, this song is all about the greatest of them all.
Rest For the Weary
There is only One way to find true, eternal rest from the anxieties, burdens and obligations that weigh us down.
Fear and Faith
Doubts are not the opposite of faith, they are a necessary part of the process. The opposite of faith, the real enemy, is fear.
Cargo Cult Religion
Christ-less religion attempts to deceive us into thinking that outward form will always produce desired results. It’s a widespread deception — join Greg as he reveals more about form and substance.
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