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Speaking the Truth in Love

Elvis is alive and working in a Burger King in South Dakota! Not true, you say — but then how much of what we Christians say is true? And how do we say what we do?

We Don’t Need More Religion!

There is something in all of us that wants to be independent of God, and religion plays to that desire. Greg talks about how religion gets in the way of our relationship with God.

Q & R with Greg Albrecht – “How can I show love and compassion without condoning specific behavior?”

Question: My cousin had a child out of wedlock. Some time after the birth, my family had a baby shower for her. My father, who is Christian, did not feel it was right for him to attend due to the fact that the baby was born out of wedlock, and believed his attendance would only show that he tolerated this behavior. However, at the same time my father attended a funeral for a close friend of the family who committed suicide. I feel that he should have given the same support that he gave to a friend of the family to my cousin. I hate to compare and contrast sins, but isn’t it rather hypocritical of him? Response: Your question seems ...

Lighten Up — Trust Him — Be Free! by Greg Albrecht

  Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For in Scripture it says:  "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

February 6, 2024 - Quote for the Day “The kingdom of God involves feasting and dancing and laughter.  God – God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit – does not absent himself from such merrymakings.  God is involved in the wining and the dining – he is the very center of the joke telling, the good-natured jesting, the singing and the offering of toasts. This is his banquet – he plans it, caters it and hosts it. God doesn’t absent himself from the party and sneak off to the library, reading the Bible in the original Greek or Hebrew. God is right there in the middle of the festivities. The heavenly wedding ...

Where is God When I Need Him?

What about most of the time when God isn’t obvious in a burning bush or pillar of fire? Listen today as Greg examines a book of the Bible where God’s name is not mentioned once even though he’s acting powerfully in the background.

When God Broke His Silence

God has already visited this earth! And many religious people were not happy when he did so the first time.

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

February 4, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “You probably have heard about the God of wrath.  But have you heard of God throwing a party? How often have you pictured God as throwing back his head and laughing?   Has anyone suggested an image of God celebrating on the dance floor, tripping the light fandango?  Is God ever personified as being at the head of a banquet table, drinking and eating way into the night?  Those images are very much a part of how the Bible depicts God and his nature.  When Jesus describes God’s kingdom of heaven, he often does so by using the imagery of a joyful banquet.  In the book of Revelation, we read that ...

Is God Silent or are We Not Listening?

Many who’ve said, "God is dead" are themselves dead while God lives on. Could it be that God has already spoken and doesn’t need to repeat himself? Is the reason we don’t hear him because he’s saying things we don’t want to hear?

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

February 1, 2024 - Quote for the Day:   “God did not produce and create this world in all of its intrinsic beauty and intricate complexity because he was bored and needed something to do.  We are here – our world is here – because of his love.  We and all creation testify to his love.  Everything that is – all creatures great and small – all flora and fauna – all the created of this majestic planet earth – exists because of God’s love.”  Originally published in: Wonders of His Love ------------------------------------- Help Us Help Others - Give Now

Is God Really There?

There are only three choices we can make about God's existence.  We can deny it, affirm it, or be unsure about it.  Greg examines those choices in today's program the first of our 4 part series Making Sense of God's Silence. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0114.mp3

Cheerful Givers

When it comes to giving, many people will stop at nothing! Meanwhile, others give generously, but why? Greg examines motivations for giving as he talks about the connection between God and money.

The Tyranny of Numbers – by Greg Albrecht

Perhaps as never before seen in the history of planet earth, we in our advanced, so-called “first world” of 2024 are a culture that worships at the altar of numbers and measurements. If something or someone can be studied, measured, analyzed, weighed and tested then the presupposition is that scientific analysis can improve something or someone. One of the central beliefs of our Western world is that improvement, advancement, gain, and development can be achieved by improving numbers and data that measure progress and growth. This, I believe, is part of the tyranny of numbers! In our society and culture productivity, higher yields, longer ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

January 30, 2024 - Quote for the Day:   “Apart from God’s forgiveness, we all feel a sense of condemnation. Shame and guilt result when we fail to measure up to societal, ethical, biblical or family standards. The fact that everyone is imperfect does not help when we experience a major failure. Shame and guilt can be a burden carried and lived with, like a recuring nightmare, for decades.  Shame and guilt comprise spiritual swamps that imprison so many. Shame relates to how we feel about ourselves – who we think we are. Guilt relates to our behavior – what we have done. When overwhelmed by guilt, we say, ‘I did something ...

Letting Go, Rather than Hanging On

Your money or your life? In our materialistic world that’s a critically important question. In this program, the third in our series, “Your Money or Your Life?” Greg talks about hanging on to it or letting it go.

Benefits of Transferring Title of Your Treasures to God

Benjamin Franklin said there’s nothing in money’s nature to produce happiness. So, just what does the Bible teach about the place of money in our lives? Don't miss Greg in the second program of our four part series, “Your Money or Your Life?”

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

January 28, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “According to Jesus, the religious establishment had declared themselves spiritually healthy and assumed they were beyond need of the services of the Great Physician. It happened then, and it still happens today. Jesus did not accept their spiritual self-diagnosis. Jesus declared that the unqualified would be freely admitted to his new church, rather than membership granted on the basis of merit – the prevailing status quo of religious admissions policies. Those who had determined that they were immune from the spiritual disease Jesus came to heal did not respond to him. On the other hand, those who ...

Transferring Title to God

Our preoccupation with material things so easily overwhelms us, but what really is important? Greg talks about that in this first program in our "Your Money or Your Life?" series.

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

January 25, 2024 - Quote for the Day:   “The gospel transforms every dimension of our lives. Paul said it was not appropriate to drag old cultural/religious traditions into the gospel (in this case Jewish religious traditions).  Paul insisted, as Jesus said, that we cannot put the new wine of the gospel into the old wineskins of some former belief, some former religion, some former set of teachings. Jesus said that the new wine of the gospel cannot be enclosed in any religious container.  Eventually the gospel, as it grows, will ferment and then explode. The gospel will blow up any religious container that tries to remake ...

Living Under the Influence of God

What is authentic Christianity like? Don’t miss "Living Under the Influence of God", the fourth program of our series on the book of Ephesians. Greg examines what’s involved in the Christian life.