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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
January 23, 2025 - Quote for the Day
“In both his behavior and his teachings Jesus reached out to the downtrodden, offering healing and grace to all those in bondage. He pierced through the crippling aggression of the rich and the slavery of religious power brokers. Jesus flipped the script of what is fair and just, upending traditional ethical assumptions and religious traditions. The Beatitudes then seemed so illogical and counter-intuitive and they still do. Jesus’ teaching reveals the eternal and divine value of vulnerability in the face of danger and gentleness in the face of hatred.”
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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.
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February 2025
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Greg Albrecht "You Don't Love Me!" – pg. 2
Richard Rohr God, the Lover of Life – pg. 5
Brad Jersak "God is Love, but..." Nothing! – pg. 7
Growing Beyond Our Expectations
What did Jesus mean when he said, Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me?
When Christ-less Religion Meets God’s Grace – by Greg Albrecht
All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.—John 16:1-3
What happens when fear, shame and guilt meet God's unconditional love? Human history is a record of titanic struggles and classic confrontations. Biblically, we think of Moses and the seemingly defenseless Israelites, hemmed in by the mountains, with the Red Sea at their back, being pursued by the finest, most well-equipped and trained army in the world at that time. We ...
Q&R with Greg Albrecht – “Law or Grace: A Debate”
Question 1:
I have read repeatedly in the Bible about the “wedding garment” – most importantly, the passage where the man in heaven is seated at the table of the feast and is found not to have a wedding garment on. He is asked why and is speechless. So he is bound and thrown into “the darkness, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Matthew 22:13). How do I know if I will have a “wedding garment”?
Response 1:
Great question! A study of wedding garments in the New Testament reveals that only Jesus can provide the wedding garment. The wedding garment is given, by grace, not by works. No amount of sewing or shopping on our part ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
January 21, 2025 -Quote for the Day
“When truth is fixed, reality adapts to unequivocal, eternal verities. When truth is no longer truth, and every opinion equal, then subjective decisions are more likely to be accepted and tolerated. Every generation that seeks to right all wrongs, finds itself battling with the unsettling reality that others in the past differed, and the notion past generations may have had it more ‘right’ than we do now is not only inconvenient, it is a painful and disconcerting possibility. So why not reject such notions for ‘convenient truth?’”
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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.
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
January 18, 2025 - Quote for the Day
“In a sad but twisted irony, religion not only seduces and deceives its followers (addicts and slaves), but it assures them that they need to endure misery and abuse in order to please and appease God. What a travesty! Religious legalism has turned many of its followers into the walking dead.”
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Unplugging from Religion – Connecting With God
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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.
Looking Ahead or Looking Back – by Greg Albrecht
As the covered wagon rolled and pitched
Along the prairie track, One sat looking forward
And one sat looking back. One searched the wide horizon For a bright and better day:
And, one saw the disappointing road
Til’ it too slipped away. ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
January 16, 2025 - Quote for the Day
“… running around in circles, so consumed with doing and fulfilling religious duties that there is little time to do anything else, let alone think, does not equate to following Jesus Christ… One can think that the highways and byways of Christ-less religion are paths of pleasing and appeasing God, while being absolutely deceived about who God actually is. I was once making excellent progress on a narrow road that was in reality the broad road Jesus spoke of, but in terms of following Jesus I was going nowhere fast.”
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Letters to My Friends – Our ...
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?
CWR Video – Do Your Possessions Possess You? – by Greg Albrecht
Short video on your possessions by Greg Albrecht
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Grace – Up on the Roof – by Greg Albrecht
The second chapter of Joshua tells us that a woman named Rahab found grace in the most unexpected manner and place. This story would make a great Hollywood action-thriller. It's a story that includes adventure, suspense, military conflict, spies—and, of course, a beautiful woman. It has all the elements of a block-buster hit at the box office.
The leading character of this drama is a prostitute named Rahab. We can be fairly certain that Rahab was not invited to join the important clubs in Jericho where she lived, because she lived and worked on the fringes of polite society. While Rahab's way of earning a living may have been more acceptable in ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
January 14, 2025 - Quote for the Day
“We don’t pay our own way into the kingdom of heaven. There is no way to honor the Son, no way to accept the invitation, on our terms. There is nothing we can do. We can’t buy a ticket – the invitation is free, without charge. We can’t get in the back door of the kingdom of heaven as a result of purchasing a pass through a religious power broker.
It doesn’t matter how ‘true’ your church is – your church can’t give you a pass into the kingdom of heaven. You may belong to one of the many ‘only true churches’ I have run across in my ministry, but that ...
The Greatest Revolution
Of all revolutions, and of all the revolutionary anthems, this song is all about the greatest of them all.
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