763 results for tag: daily sermon

Victory in Suffering Pt 3 – The Truth About Suffering

Many people assume that suffering is the result of a person doing something wrong or sinful in their lives, but is that true? In this third program of an 8 program series on suffering Greg tells the truth about suffering. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0366.mp3  

Victory in Suffering Pt 2 – A New Look at Suffering

This is a painful but very real part of life. We all go through suffering to one degree or another, and we ask the question, "Why did God allow. . .?" But let's also ask "Why does God allow so much good to happen?" Listen to this new perspective as Greg explores the purpose of suffering. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0365.mp3  

Victory in Suffering Pt 1 – Why Does God Allow Suffering?

Some of the most compelling, most difficult questions about God and about Christianity, center on the topic of suffering: Should Christians suffer? Why do Christians suffer? Why does anyone suffer? Stay with us in this 8 program series, "Victory in Suffering" https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0364.mp3  

Poverty and the Homeless

A caller to a talk-radio show suggested that the poor and homeless should be taken out and shot. Greg contrasts that attitude toward the needy with the early Christian church's example. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0221.mp3  

Running From God

We humans tend to run from God -- exactly in the opposite direction from where we think he is and what he wants us to do -- and in a way similar to the way Jonah ran from God. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0220.mp3  

Looking For God in All the Wrong Places

When you are looking for God where do you look? Better said, when God is looking for you, where will he find you? And is meeting God according to our drumbeat or His? https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0218.mp3  

Our Gracious Heavenly Father

Today an increasing number of parents are running away from their children. Thankfully our heavenly Father is not like us. He does not do that. In today's program Greg takes a look at God, as our heavenly Father, and the pattern God gives us for parenting. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0217.mp3  

No More Tears

Can we as Christians do anything about the pain and heartache in this world? Should we even try? After all, Jesus said his kingdom is not part of this world and promises to wipe away every tear -- but can we just sit in the grandstands watching all the suffering now? https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0216.mp3  

Do You Want to be Healed?

Jesus asked a man crippled for 38 years if he wanted to be healed. That healing changed everything about his life. Similarly, spiritual healing will change everything about our lives. Jesus asks you and me if we want to be healed. It's up to us. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0214.mp3  

It’s Not My Fault!

Will Rogers once said that history will record the passing of the American Indian, the passing of the buffalo and the passing of the buck. "Who me, I'm not responsible," is a popular human response for bad behavior. What is the biblical perspective about this? https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0213.mp3  

Love, Honor and Respect

Have we become angrier, more confrontational, more in-your-face? Are intolerance, disrespect, criticism, castigation and put-downs on a Christian "to do" list? https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0212.mp3  

Watch the Lamb!

Oskar Schindler saved the lives of 1,200 Jews during WWII but agonized over the thought that he could have done more. Similarly we can never do enough to rid ourselves of sin. The central message of Christianity is, "Look to the Lamb of God! Only he can remove the burden of our sins." https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0210.mp3  

Trapped By Religion

Has a normal, likeable friend of yours ever suddenly "got religion" and become an unreasonable, fire-breathing, hypercritical, placard-carrying, end-times-predicting kook? Why does religion do that? Is that what God wants? Greg discusses the dangers of religious fundamentalism. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0209.mp3  

Overcoming Fear

People are afraid of change, the future, getting older, death, pain, loneliness, failure and others who are different from us. Fear leads to distrust, alienation, bitterness and hatred. Greg talks about the antidote to fear in today's program. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0208.mp3  

What God Expects

Science tells us we are blobs of protoplasm. Psychology likens us to rats running through a maze. But who are we, and what does God expect of us? Greg discusses both what God does not expect and what he does expect from us.

Having the Experience — Missing the Meaning

There's a line in the musical "Cats" from T.S. Elliot which says, "We had the experience but we missed the meaning." Does that describe your life? Greg talks about spiritual maturity and how to avoid missing the meaning of our experiences.

The Pale Horse – Legalistic Religion Produces Dead Men Walking

Greg uses the pale horse in this last program of our four part series, The Four Horsemen of Legalism, to show that legalism produces people who seem to have life but are dead-men-walking. In contrast he talks about the life giving grace God offers us.

The Black Horse – Legalistic Religion is Bondage

This is the third program in our four part series, The Four Horsemen of Legalism, Greg shows how legalism has no life to give -- that it only gives bondage and leads to death. He explains that religious and legalistic teachings often become the "gospel" that is proclaimed rather than Jesus.

The Red Horse – Legalistic Religion Destroys Peace

In this second program of our four part series called The Four Horsemen of Legalism, Greg shows how legalism destroys peace, makes people miserable and distances us from God. If you think you may be involved in legalistic religion, you need to hear this program.

The White Horse — Legalistic Religion Conquers and Controls

In this first program of a four part series called The Four Horsemen of Legalism, Greg takes a look at the spirit of Anti-Christ -- at counterfeit Christianity -- at groups and people who fleece the flock rather than feed the flock and use God-talk to deceive and to conquer.