199 results for tag: grace
God’s Love and Grace Lifts Us Up – by Greg Albrecht
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing… and doing things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry…The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river. – Will and Ariel Durant
We cannot ignore the warfare, bloodshed, brutality, oppression, poverty and disease that are a part of the river of history, a noxious, defiled sewer that contin...
Q&R: If grace is free, why a ‘price’? Brad Jersak
If grace and forgiveness is a free gift from God, why does the Bible use payment language, such as 'ransom,' 'redemption,' 'bought' and 'purchased' to describe the Cross?
CWR Video – Grace as a Gift
In this CWR Video, Greg discusses the topic of Grace and how Grace is a Gift.
https://vimeo.com/999193809
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Passing On Gods Grace
Are you passing on God's grace? Or, have you accepted God's grace and are you passing it on to others? Greg examines the parable of the laborers in the vineyard for its lessons about the grace of God.
October 2024
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Brad Jersak Simone Weil: An Astonishing Life – pg. 2
Greg Albrecht "Everyone Is Forgiven" – pg. 5
A Great Grace Give-Away — by Greg Albrecht
David asked, "Is there anyone still left of the house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for Jonathan's sake?" Now there was a servant of Saul's household named Ziba. They summoned him to appear before David, and the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" "At your service," he replied. The king asked, "Is there no one still alive from the house of Saul to whom I can show God's kindness?" Ziba answered the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan; he is lame in both feet." "Where is he?" the king asked. Ziba answered, "He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar." So King David had him brought from Lo Debar, from the house of Makir son of ...
Does God Have a Strategic Plan for You? – by Ed Dunn
We are in the midst of an exciting strategic planning process here at Plain Truth Ministries (PTM). This planning process, which involves our team here in the Pasadena office, along with Brad Jersak in Canada, gives us an opportunity to take a fresh look at PTM’s mission, magazines and partner letters, books, on-line content, as well as the operations and procedures that support all we do in this ministry. As a closeknit team, we approach every aspect of this planning process prayerfully, as careful and conscientious stewards, asking God for guidance and wisdom as we look to the future. By definition, Strategic Planning is a type of planning ...
Grace = No More Scorekeeping – by Greg Albrecht
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.—1 Corinthians 13:4-5
Keeping score is one of the fundamental predispositions of human beings. Keeping score is the way we operate, it's the way we gauge our progress and that of others and it is one of the primary ways in which our culture motivates us.
I learned to keep score at an early age via two of my passions—sports and music. The first score-keeping experience I had in sports was with the game of baseball. As I recall, I was about ten years old ...
August 2024
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Brad Jersak The Gospel According to A.I. – pg. 2
Greg Albrecht "Divine Appointments?" – pg. 5
Ed Dunn Running the Race – pg. 6
Alone No More – Ken Williams
Early in life I felt disconnected from God, family, and others. I felt I was on the “outside looking in.”
Circumstances beyond a child’s control contributed to feeling this way, but that wasn’t the problem. I didn’t know Jesus was with me and using my imagination, I chose to “escape”. I didn’t know it but God used the circumstances of life to prepare me to receive his Son, believe in his name, give me birth to be his child, and then welcome me home. It took time.
Circumstances? Mom and dad were grieving twin sons Johnny and Joel’s deaths. They were less than a month old. They isolated from one another as pains in life ...
Standing Firm in God’s Grace – Part 2
Can a Christian live anyway they like, walk on the wild side, live a permissive and immoral lifestyle and say they are justified in doing so because of God's grace? Is it possible they really are in Christ? How can they be saved if all of the evidence is to the contrary?
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0339.mp3
Standing Firm in God’s Grace – Part 1
In Galatians 5 Paul tells us to stand firm and not let ourselves be bound again in a yoke of slavery. What is this yoke of slavery Paul is talking about, and what does standing firm in God's grace mean? This is a critically important subject for Christians.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0338.mp3
High Risk Grace
One of the biggest objections many have to God's grace is where they think it leads? Do you know where it leads? Do you fully understand the implications of the grace God offers us?
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0354.mp3
The Grace of God Is Immoral? – by Greg Albrecht
A familiar captivity is frequently more desirable than an unfamiliar freedom. – C.S. Lewis
When many who are comfortable with their cherished religious practices and ceremonies hear about CWR (Christianity WITHOUT the religion) and how we as a ministry champion “religion-less” Christianity, they often accuse Christianity WITHOUT the religion and “religion-less” Christianity as being nothing less than permissiveness and immorality.
It’s a serious accusation – one the organized religion of Jesus’ day used to condemn him. As you know, the religious leadership of Jesus’ day insisted that Jesus was spending too much time ...
Getting Caught Up in a Religious Show – by Greg Albrecht
Acts 5:1-11 The story of Ananias and Sapphira
Here's a story that might seem as if it belongs in the Old Testament rather than the New. The story related by our keynote passage begins with an idyllic picture of new Christians, living together and sharing their lives. But then, in the midst of this upbeat picture of God's favor and blessings, comes a depressing story of a man and his wife who gave an offering to God, but misrepresented the actual amount of how much they gave. In the middle of this time when God's grace was so powerfully at work in them all (Acts 4:33) God took the life of this husband and ...
Extra Rewards for Those Who Run Further and Faster, Against Greater Obstacles, in the Race of Grace? – Greg Albrecht
Question:
I have just read your blog post titled “What is Our Eternal Reward”. I have a question. After we receive the gift of eternal life I believe we will sit at a fabulous banquet in the Kingdom, and those like me who haven't done much with our talents will be applauding people like Joni Ericson Tada who allowed God to use her, in spite of being a quadriplegic, to do an incredible work of serving many handicapped people around world. She, like many others like her, who devoted their lives to works of service, and have made tremendous sacrifices to serve others should be rewarded according to their works. And shmucks like me will be ...
Eternal Torture – Divine or Human Vengeance? by Greg Albrecht
Hell is a subject many religious people get all hot and bothered about. It's one of the most disputed and controversial teachings within Christendom. The squabbling is not about the surety of judgment for depravity and wickedness. Most Christians agree that there is and will be divine judgment for evil. The battle for hell is all about specifications, temperature and longevity. The debate involves comprehending and communicating divine justice—and in the process humans expose definitions of time and space into eternity.
But the Bible does not suggest that God needs to import our flawed perspectives into the perfec...
Righteousness by Law or By Faith – by Greg Albrecht
There's an old story about a young man who asked his rich grandfather, "Grandpa, how did you get so rich?" "Well," said grandpa, "during the Great Depression my family had no money whatsoever. I found two pennies in my old piggy bank, and I bought an apple with those two pennies. I shined that apple up, took it out on the street where people were hungry, and sold it for five cents. Then I took that nickel and bought two more apples for two cents each. I shined them all up, took them back out on the street, and sold them for five cents each."The grandfather paused, and then continued, "That was my first real job. I did real well selling apples during ...
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