1763 results for tag: Greg Albrecht

All Show and No Go

Sometimes cars look sleek, fast and powerful, but are gutless wonders — all show and no go. Religion does that — it makes us more concerned with what people see and think about us than with the real substance of authentic Christianity — a one-on-one relationship with God.

Breakfast With Jesus

Jesus called the disciples to be fishers of men, but after his crucifixion they returned to their past, catching fish. Jesus gave them a miraculous catch of fish, made breakfast for them and said, in effect, there's no turning back.

If Ye Bite and Devour One Another – Greg Albrecht

“… If Ye Bite and Devour One Another, Take Heed …” (Galatians 5:15) As we in these United States approach the November elections, the cacophony of hyperbolic rhetoric resounding from the chasm between line-in-the sand dogmas of ideology, culture and politics is becoming a thunderous crescendo of dissonance.     Based on the racket of political acrimony and discord we hear it is not unreasonable to assume some prefer that we should become the Disunited States of America. The media broadcasts clamorous feuds, including immigration, crime, equality/inequality, racism, wokeism, the economy, sexual and gender issues and ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

July 27, 2024 - Quote for the Day:  “When I was in grade school, I had lots of girlfriends. A few of them, usually in a roundabout way, actually found out how I felt about them! Most of them were ‘secret loves’ – that’s the way it was in the olden days. My buddies and I liked girls, but as preteens in the 1950’s, we couldn’t bring ourselves to tell them. We didn’t want to be rejected (and what human of any age does?). Do you remember that game we used to play when we were kids? If my buddies and I wanted to know how a certain, special girl felt about us, without risking our ego by telling her personally, we would pick a ...

Too Good To Be True?

Mortality has its way -- we age, strength ebbs, self assurance fades, we sense how temporary this life is and begin to focus on eternity. God told Paul, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

July 25, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “God loves the entire world – ALL of us. That does not mean he condones all behavior, but he loves all despite our behavior, and not because of what God considers to be ‘good’ behavior. God allows all of us choices. The evil we see and the problems we face happen because God allows real human choices… God could stop wrong choices by simply forcing each of us to behave a particular way.  But he doesn’t – and never has. But again, despite the choices we all make, God loves ALL of us.  This is not to say God agrees with all our choices – many of our choices grieve him, but God ...

3 Levels of Christianity

Are you just barely getting by as a Christian? Do you feel you're swimming upstream? Greg uses cockroachs, squirrels and eagles as analogies of three levels of Christianity.

The Dangers of Externalism

Externalism is the idea that doing things enhances our relationship with God.  But is that true -- does doing things gain God's favor? https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0384.mp3

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

CLICK HERE to read now (PDF Format) Brad Jersak The Gospel According to A.I. – pg. 2 Greg Albrecht "Divine Appointments?" – pg. 5 Ed Dunn Running the Race – pg. 6

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

July 23, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “God’s perfect love is not just any kind of love. God’s perfect love is not the kind of love most people think of when they hear the word ‘love’ – not romantic love, not the love of infatuation, not the I’ll-love-you-as-long-as-you-are-lovable-and make-me-happy kind of love. God’s love is a love without limits.  God’s love is a completely selfless kind of love modeled for us in Jesus’ earthly life.  God’s love is generated and produced in only one way and by one Source – God.  God’s love is unconditional, in-spite-of, not because-of love. God’s perfect love is a ...

Hypocrisy to Reality

Do you sometimes feel like you're playing a religious game?  Do you do things that you think will appease God and then other times try to cover up other things you've done so God won't discover you?  This program will help you "get real." https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0377.mp3

Rules and Religion

In this tongue in cheek program Greg tells you how you can start a religion -- after all, many others have.  In this talk Greg illustrates the pitfalls and potholes of religion for authentic Christians. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0376.mp3

CWR Video – by Greg Albrecht – “Be Fruitful and Multiply”

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Reflections Along the Jesus Way

July 20, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “The god most people fear, the god who can’t wait to punish and torture you in an eternal hell is not the God of the Bible. That god is the god of religion.”  Originally published in: Spiritual Soup for the Hungry Soul, Volume 1 ------------------------------------- Help Us Help Others - Give Now

Christian Freedom

Galatians 5:1 tells each of us that freedom is available to us if we accept it.  "It's for freedom that Christ has set us free.  Stand firm then and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."  You can be free in Christ. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0375.mp3

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

July 18, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “If we pledge allegiance to Jesus, we will stand up for the rights, privileges and humanity of others – even those who are not like us at all. And because we are free in Christ, we will not allow others to bully us down the slippery path of political or religious conformity – even under banners of one-sided ‘freedom’ or ‘tolerance.’  Our spiritual pledge of allegiance follows Peter’s response to religious authorities, ‘We must obey God rather than men!’ (Acts 5:29). We obey God rather than nationalism. We obey the God revealed in the person of Jesus, rather than the God that religious ...

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

The Not Yet Kingdom Pt.3 – by Greg Albrecht

He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: "A voice of one calling in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him. Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low. The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth. And all people will see God's salvation.'"—Luke 3:3-6 As John the Baptist preached he quoted from the prophecy in Isaiah, which spoke both of his own ministry preparing for Jesus' ministry and Jesus' central message—the kingdom of God. Isaiah ...