203 results for tag: grace
When Were You Saved… And Does it Really Matter? by Greg Albrecht
Here's an email I received recently:
I said the prayer to be saved when I was ten years old. I don't remember much about it—just that my mom was upset that the church I was attending with my friend would baptize a child (me) who was not really sure what was going on. Many years later, in another church service, I asked Jesus to come into my heart again. The pastor announced to the church that I was rededicating my life. Yet looking back, I feel that God was with me all along.Is it possible that I was truly saved when I was age ten, even though I was unaware of its great importance? I know that God knows my heart and I have a great ...
Thanking God for the Riches of His Grace – by Greg Albrecht
Friend and Partner Letter for November 2023:
Teddy, only eight years old, was dying in the hospital of a rare blood disease. He was admitted two weeks before in critical condition, and his health had steadily gone downhill since then. One or both of his parents had been at his bedside for these two weeks, and then yesterday his doctors told them it seemed like Teddy’s condition had stabilized and he might have 4-6 weeks to live.
Teddy’s mother and father felt they could both go home for a day and take care of some pressing matters, and then return the next day. But during the day when his parents were gone, Teddy’s health ...
November 2023
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Articles:
60 Years Later... If JFK Could Talk – pg. 1
The Love of Thanksgiving – pg. 2
Should We Fear God? – pg. 5
A Sickness Unto Death – pg. 7
Quotes & Connections – pg. 8
Grace Without Reservations – by Greg Albrecht
And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, then grace would no longer be grace.—Romans 11:6
Have you ever had an altercation, a conflict or misunderstanding with your wife or husband, adult child or a good friend and wondered how in the world you could patch things up? We've all been there, haven't we? Perhaps we are "there" right now.
Let's suppose (and it's a safe supposition, isn't it?) that the mess we are thinking about is a mess that is our fault. We are to blame. After all, at some point in our lives, we have all been in the wrong, haven't we? At some point in our lives we have all been the major factor or cause behind a ...
CWR Video – All About Put Back, Not Pay Back – by Steve McVey
Short 2 minute video about God by Steve McVey.
Wins and Losses Don’t Matter – by Greg Albrecht
Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. – Matthew 10:39
The purpose of a Christ-centered life is not to gratify or satisfy the self, but to lose ourselves in the cause of something bigger and more important. When we lose ourselves in the service of Jesus, we find life – he gives us his life, and he lives his life in us now and forever. The primary purpose of life that motivates Christ-followers is far beyond merely consuming, acquiring and possessing. The purpose of life for those who walk with Jesus is to lose ourselves in the service of those who are hungry, thirsty, strangers, ...
October 2023
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Greg Albrecht: For Those Who Are a Little Banged Up – pg. 2
Richard Rohr: Adopting a Beginner’s Mind – pg. 6
Brad Jersak "What is God Teaching Me?" – pg. 7
CWR Video – Grace – Free Refills! – Greg Albrecht
Short video by Greg Albrecht on free and continuing refills of God’s grace.
https://vimeo.com/119404656
A Son or a Hired Hand? by Greg Albrecht
The Prodigal Son story told by Jesus in Luke 15:14-20 begins with a young man presumptuously asking his father for his inheritance ahead of time. He left home and went to a far country, where in his lavish and wasteful spending (hence the term prodigal) he soon saw that inheritance go up in smoke.
His resources had seemingly caused others to like him. Now his resources and his “friends” were gone. Out of money and out of food, he found himself working in a pigpen.
He came to his senses and went home, thinking the best he could expect was a job on his father’s farm—but to his astonishment (after all, the grace of God is amazing ...
Living Grace or a Culture of Ugliness – Greg Albrecht
At the Golden Globe awards in Los Angeles on January 5, 2020, Charlize Theron introduced Tom Hanks, who was being honored as the annual recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. Her introduction called attention to the kind and gracious mannerisms of Tom Hanks, a person who has existed for many years within the rarified air of A list Hollywood celebrities.
Theron recalled a time when she, a young actress, was auditioning for Hanks and others for the 1996 movie, “That Thing You Do.” She remembered how nervous she was and how Hanks responded. He interrupted her and apologized because, he said, he needed a five-minute break.
I...
Grace Doesn’t Make Sense
Jesus reveals and introduces the Father as our heavenly Father, rather than an accountant, mathematician or banker. God is not forever counting to determine the nature of our relationship with him.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR507.mp3
CWR Video – The New Math of God’s Grace – by Greg Albrecht
5 minute video on God's Grace.
Out-of-Control Grace
If anyone ever had the right to be a control freak with others, it was Jesus — but he turned down that job description.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR499.mp3
CWR video – by Ed Dunn – “The Great Verb Exchange”
Short 2 minute video with Ed Dunn.
Grace a Lot or Grace Alone?
Almost everyone loves to hear about God’s grace — they love to hear grace a lot, but when the message is grace alone, then almost everyone gets a little worried about the absence of law and regulation.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR495.mp3
Grace at His Table
“Working” for good is far more common than accepting an invitation to a fully paid, no strings attached banquet — but that’s the incredible, too-good-to-be-true invitation God extends.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR494.mp3
CWR Video – “Fly Me to the Moon” – by Greg Albrecht
Short 4 minute video by Greg Albrecht.
God Shed His Grace On Thee
Christ-followers seek peace - they are, by definition, good citizens of the countries in which they live - because of God's grace. But we are citizens of the kingdom, and our primary allegiance is to Jesus, not earthly governments and its authorities.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR229.mp3
Who Said Grace is Fair? – by Greg Albrecht
The inscription on John Newton’s granite tombstone in the small cemetery of the parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul in the town of Olney (population about 6,500), Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, reads:
John Newton, clerk [pastor], once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slavers in Africa, was, by the rich mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ preserved, restored, pardoned and appointed to preach the Faith he had long labored to destroy.
Newton, who wrote the hymn “Amazing Grace,” once shared these thoughts about the wonders of God’s grace: “If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders ...
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