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Revelation — A Book For You?
In manipulating their hearers with the book of Revelation's bizarre images and doomsday scenarios the purveyors of pop prophecy create much fear and misunderstanding.
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 3, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“We are not alone. Jesus lives in us and we in him. We remain in Jesus, and he remains in us (John 15:4-7, 9-10)… Jesus doesn’t come to live with us and simply rent a room because he won’t be here that long. He doesn’t check in and check out depending on whether we are pleasing or displeasing him, as religion would have us believe… Jesus doesn’t just come to visit us when we really need his help, checking into a hotel nearby, visiting us, taking care of us, comforting us, and then, when we’re all better, he checks out and moves on to the next assignment. We aren’t just another ...
When Trouble Comes
Many historians believe that the 21st century started on September 11, 2001, when murder and mayhem rained down on America. We live in a time of fear and trouble. What encouragement does the Bible offer? Greg talks about our certain security when trouble comes.
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 1, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“Does our calling as Christians mean we should escape to a remote area, build a little log cabin, dig a well for fresh water, grow an organic vegetable garden and watch the world go to hell in a handbasket? Are we, as Christians, given the luxury of getting off the playing field of what it means to live in this world but not of it (John 17:14-16), and retiring to the grandstand, watching everyone else deal with the challenges of society and culture?”
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Honesty
Do morals and values matter anymore? Greg relates "Eight Blunders of the World" among which are politics without principle, commerce without morality and rights without responsibility. He goes on then to talk about honesty -- about integrity, truth and character.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0203.mp3
Are You Qualified to Be a Christian?
If you had to prepare a resume to enter God's kingdom of heaven, what qualifications would you list? Greg talks about our Christian credentials -- what really qualifies us to be Christians.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0258.mp3
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 30, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“As Billy Sunday, an evangelist of an earlier generation in America once said, ‘Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.’ We are placed in the universal body of Christ when we place our trust in Jesus as our Savior and surrender our lives to him. The church isn’t a sacred holding tank for Christians until their death. It is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. Many people fail to understand that the church is not a trophy case or a sacred museum where perfect Christianity is displayed. Rather, the church takes place in ...
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 ...
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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
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