200 results for tag: grace
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.
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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 ...
Invite Them—Bring Them—Compel Them: The Escalating Compulsion of Grace – Brad Jersak
The Parable of the Great Supper
15 Now when one of those who sat at the table with Him heard these things, he said to Him, “Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!”
16 Then He said to him, “A certain man gave a great supper and invited many,17 and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, ‘Come, for all things are now ready.’
18 But they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.’ 19 And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask ...
Grace Poured Out
The elements of bread and wine/juice instituted by Jesus are symbols of the limitless favor and lavish grace of God, poured out on us without measure.
Grace = No Condemnation
There is no place in the gospel for continually finding fault, threats and intimidation, even when Christ-less religion says that the end justifies the means.
How Grace “Works”
God "works out" and produces his good purpose, workmanship and handiwork in our lives, because he has already "worked in" the life of our risen Lord.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR436.mp3
From Garbage and Manure to New Life
The riches and treasures of God's grace arrive in amazing and miraculous ways in our lives, often coming from something that seems to have little or no value. God is in the recycling business!
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR433.mp3
Retribution… Or Restoration…?
God is concerned with relationship, expressed as restoration, redemption and reconciliation; rather than religion, which is so often defined as retribution, rules, revenge, and retaliation.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR431.mp3
Surprised By Grace
The parable of the Sheep and the Goats teaches us that God's grace is shocking because it insists that Jesus is absolutely the center of our lives - far more important than paying our dues and keeping our religious accounts in order.
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