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It’s Good to Be Alive – by Greg Albrecht

It's one of two times in the year when brick-and-mortar churches have their highest attendance. It's without a doubt the most meaningful time of the year for Christians, but Easter lilies, bunny rabbits, Easter hams, painted and chocolate eggs can take our attention away from the vital life-giving significance of this spiritual victory we celebrate every spring. Easter signals new life springing from what is seemingly dead and lifeless. Gray gives way to green. Ice melts and snow is replaced by the promise of buds and sprouts. Light overcomes darkness. The light and life that comes bursting from an empty tomb triumphs over death on the cross, a ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

March 5, 2024 - Quote for the Day:   “In what is certainly one of the great mysteries of God’s love and grace, Jesus, revealing the love and grace of the Father, extended and offered forgiveness instead of retribution and retaliation. Indeed, the mere idea of turning the other cheek appears to most humans to be one of the most ridiculous and illogical teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The knee-jerk response to God’s grace and love is that it is impractical and perhaps even impossible. The immediate response to Jesus’ teaching that we pray for our enemies and stop the endless cycle of returning evil for evil is that ...

Is God Unfair?

Is human suffering the result of God's displeasure? Are the food shortages and AIDS epidemic in Africa because of God's anger? Greg talks about God and human suffering in this program.

How Big Is God’s Tent?

Many Christians think they have an exclusive franchise on God; that they are the "one and only" or at least the best, but is that true? Who is a Christian? How big is God's tent?

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

March 3, 2024 - Quote for the Day:  “Years ago I met the gifted and celebrated French author, Dominique LaPierre in his home in Paris. Though he had written many best sellers, I was most interested at the time in his most recent novel, City of Joy (published in 1985), later turned into a movie by the same name. In the movie, City of Joy, actor Patrick Swayze plays a medical student confronted with overwhelming poverty. In the movie, a woman confronts the young medical student with one of three choices: You can run. You can watch.  Or you can count on getting involved with compassionate response.”  Originally published in: ...

What Christians Believe

Christians believe all sorts of things that aren't from the Bible. In this program Greg examines some of these beliefs and suggests four easy things to do to discover what the Bible really teaches.

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

February 29, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “God’s grace is dynamic – it flows. It’s more like a river than it is a lake or a reservoir.  God’s grace is not given to be held in trust in a religious safe deposit box. God’s grace is not given so that we may bury it in a napkin and present it to the Lord upon his return, proving to him that we stored it up, saved it and never lost it. God’s grace is given to be given. God’s grace is a free-flowing river – religion endeavors to be a reservoir of good deeds. God’s grace grows as it is used, it is a gift which must be given, not merely to be replenished, but to grow. God’s grace ...

Can You Hit the Curve Ball?

Have you ever been hoodwinked by someone making a pitch for your attention with false information? It's hard to recognize truth -- easy to be deceived. Be sure to listen to our program today to find out how to know what's true.

The Exclamation Point of God’s Love – Albrecht and Jersak

Greg Albrecht and Brad JersakGreg Albrecht: Hello everyone, this is Greg Albrecht. We’re going to remember and discuss our Lord’s ultimate sacrifice for us and reflect on his life, death, burial and of course the significance and meaning of his resurrection. Helping us with his insights and observations is Brad Jersak. Brad is Senior Editor of our magazines and a Christ-centered professor, speaker and author from Abbotsford, British Columbia. Brad, in one sense it seems to me that these two events, the crucifixion and the resurrection, are the crowning jewels in God’s demonstration and revelation of his love for us. When I think of the ...

What God Wants You to Know

Is your stock with God up or down - or does God even look at us that way? Listen to find out what God is looking for in us.

Coming Home – by Greg Albrecht

Friend and Partner Letter from March 2024: No doubt you have heard someone say, as they prepare to tell a story which others might have been heard or read before, “stop me if you have heard this before.” You are well aware of this story I want to rehearse, so don’t stop me please! This is one of the best stories ever!  Let’s enjoy this brief re-telling again, together!! Once there was a father with two sons. He loved them both, with all his heart. The youngest of the two sons was a “free spirit.”  He was a party waiting to happen, the life of every gathering, a handsome playboy who felt his father owed him a living.&...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

February 27, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “Given the prevailing assumption that a little grace is good but too much can be hazardous to your spiritual health, ‘old-fashioned’ holiness preaching often immediately follows a message of grace with a legalistic counterpunch that brings a congregation back to its senses. Such preaching centers on external acts and behaviors that we humans do or don’t do, and, given such an emphasis, is an absolute contradiction to the gospel of Jesus Christ that is based upon faith alone, grace alone, and Christ alone.” Originally published in: Bad News Religion ----------------------------...

First Things First

Putting first things first is good advice, but what is first? Is it success, money, possessions? What's your answer?

Forgiveness

Mercy and forgiveness are way outside of our human dimension. We like to get even —- we’d rather see justice than mercy. Forgiveness turns the world upside down.

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

February 25, 2024 - Quote for the Day:   “The crowds who greeted Jesus making his triumphal entry into Jerusalem – triumphal in terms of their welcome, in terms of the accolades they heaped on him and the acclaim they gave him – projected their hopes on to Jesus, seeing him as a military savior. The crowds wanted to see blood – the blood of their oppressors. Jesus gave them blood, but not the blood of those from whom they wanted revenge.”  Originally published in: Spiritual Soup for the Hungry Soul, Volume 1 ------------------------------------- Help Us Help Others - Give Now

The Real Gospel

Greg digs into the parable of the rich young ruler, explores the message behind the better wine Jesus made from water and examines Jesus instruction to become like little children — all to make The Real Gospel clear.

March 2024

CLICK HERE to read now (PDF Format) Articles: New Birth Through the Resurrection – pg. 1 What's in an Anniversary? – pg. 2 Prophecy Pays: The Gospel Frees – pg. 5 Inside and Out – pg. 6 Sidewalk Wrinkles – pg. 7 Quotes & Connections – pg. 8

The Suffering Judge – by Greg Albrecht

    … If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.—Romans 8:31-34   You probably have heard of honor killings. An "honor killing" is the term used to describe a practice in which one or more males murders a female relative who, according to their perspec...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

February 22, 2024 - Quote for the Day:   “While it is a complex book to study, Revelation is a breath of fresh air. Revelation contains no ambiguity, no shades of gray. It is not hamstrung by political correctness.  It minces no words in describing sin and evil. Revelation is clear about the evils of performance-based religion. The apocalyptic imagery of Revelation is inked in stark black and white. There is no middle ground. The people described in Revelation are either followers of Antichrist or followers of Christ.  If you are not with Christ, you are part of the enemy camp. Revelation calls us out of complacency and our ...

The Heart and Soul of the Gospel

Ponder the miracle of forgiveness, through the example of an unworthy, un-named woman and her wholehearted devotion to Jesus. Compare how Christ-less religion responded to her with the response of our Lord.