1751 results for tag: Greg Albrecht

How Free is Free Will? – by Greg Albrecht

How Free is Free Will How much choice does any individual human actually have? We speak of "free will"—but how much of a choice to accept God's grace does anyone have, given the brainwashing and propaganda to which they are subjected? How much of a choice to accept God's grace does a young boy in a radicalized Muslim school have? How much of a choice to accept God's grace does someone have who is ensnared by some ultra fundamentalist church, where performance-based religion rules?   Being in Christ is a divine invitation to an eternal relationship, open to everyone. But being in Christ is not an automatic, divinely ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

September 26, 2023 - Quote for the Day: “Our spiritual transformation is not a process where we sit and watch.  God does not force us to grow.  We must consent to our growth.  We consent initially, when we are spiritually re-born.  We consent on a daily basis, as we yield to our Lord Jesus Christ, as the Lord of our lives.  As we consent to him we grow, and with growth comes growing pains.  God mercifully and carefully and gradually changes us.  He challenges us.  He works with us, teaching us and slowly and inexorably making us his very own handiwork (Ephesians 2:10).  Our spiritual transforma...

7 Deadly Sins – Pride and Greed

Today we hear a lot about dysfunctions, shortcomings and chemical imbalances — but not much about the sin which plagues all of us. Greg begins this 3-part series on the Seven Deadly Sins with a look at the sins of pride and greed. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0040.mp3

October 2023

CLICK HERE to read now (PDF Format) Greg Albrecht: For Those Who Are a Little Banged Up – pg. 2 Richard Rohr: Adopting a Beginner’s Mind – pg. 6 Brad Jersak "What is God Teaching Me?" – pg. 7

Fear or Faith

In the midst of the storms we face in our lives we often ask, "Where is God?" And just like the fearful disciples on the stormy sea we ask, "Why is he sleeping?" Join us as we look at the contrasts between fear and faith. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0035.mp3

Does God Give Ultimate Authority to Human Leaders? – Greg Albrecht

Question: I have heard people say that they feel the leader of their nation has the God-given right to take military action without having any human question them. This seems to extend ultimate authority to human leaders, in the name of “the Bible says so.” What do you say? Response: When it comes to extending ultimate authority without question, people who religiously attend a brick-and-mortar building on a regular basis may be even more likely to blindly follow a charismatic leader. The tendency to radically place faith in human leadership, whether in the religious or secular world, is historically aligned with religious devotion...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

September 24, 2023 - Quote for the Day: “The stubborn insistence of the Christ-less perspective of Christendom at large about the appalling fabrication of eternal torture in hell as a just punishment for sinners is one of the most evil, reprehensible and diabolical of all dogmas and teachings – all in the name of God!” Originally published in: Letters to My Friends ------------------------------------- Help Us Help Others - Give Now

Living by Faith

In this first of two programs on the Godly virtue of faith, Greg states that faith is the only way we can thrive in the midst of our troubled times. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0034.mp3

The Master’s Voice – by Greg Albrecht

by Greg Albrecht "I tell you the truth, the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep. The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger's voice." Jesus used this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

September 21, 2023 - Quote for the Day: “It’s amazing what we humans find impressive.  Thinking back to religious places I have been, religious displays I have witnessed and religious rituals I have personally performed, I remember many times when I have been impressed by dead men and women walking.  Thinking back throughout my years spent deceived by the devices of institutionalized religion, I have taken plenty of tours in what amounted to spiritually whitewashed tombs.  When I was a dead man living within what was actually a spiritual tomb, I thought I was vibrant and alive.  I thought anyone not in my tomb was dead! ...

Without Hope, What’s the Use?

Without hope we are spiritually empty.  Without hope, what's the use of living?  Today Greg talks about the hope that God gives us and how it sustains us in difficult times. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0033.mp3

Hope – A Gift of God

Dostoyevsky said that man cannot live without hope.  Join Greg for the first of two programs on the Godly virtue of hope. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0032.mp3

CWR Video – Grace – Free Refills! – Greg Albrecht

Short video by Greg Albrecht on free and continuing refills of God’s grace. https://vimeo.com/119404656

Will God Forget Me if I Forget Him? – Greg Albrecht

Question: I am worried that I might find myself with diminished cognitive capacities – and in some way I might not remember God just like I may not remember other important realities.  What if I forget God – surely he won’t forget me? Response: Thanks for your comment and thoughts.   In brief, as I see God’s love in our lives: God loves the whole world God thus loves people even though they don’t seem to know he loves them. God thus loves people who once seemed to know God loved them and tried to love him back but now they don’t care or remember him anymore. God thus loves people even though they ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

September 19, 2023 - Quote for the Day: “As Christ-followers, we run the race marked out for us (Hebrews 12:1) and are united with all our fellow runners in Jesus, a great cloud of witnesses, both dead in Christ and alive… we need not all pray the same memorized prayers someone else wrote, we need not sing the same hymns or participate in the same traditions, rituals or ceremonies… We are not united because we wear the same uniform or have precisely the same doctrinal answers.  As we run our race, our unity in Christ is not a set of humanly produced theological propositions.”  Originally published in: Christia...

Love Never Fails

Someone once said that as old as the human race is, you would think we would have learned to love one another by now. Isn’t that odd since "I love you," are the three most powerful words we can hear? https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0031.mp3

The Greatest of These is Love

This is the first program of our six part series on the three Godly virtues of faith, hope and love. The Bible says that the greatest of these virtues is love, and that without love we are nothing. https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0030.mp3

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

September 17, 2023 - Quote for the Day: “In this image, there is no more sea.  In ancient times, the ocean was viewed as a realm of mythical monsters, a mysterious and frightening force that regularly took human lives.  In apocalyptic imagery, the sea is the source of the satanic beast.  The absence of the sea is therefore symbolic of the absence of evil from the earth. As we read symbolic literature, we are always tempted to try to reduce it to our world of reality; to take abstract, profound truth that is so overwhelming we cannot possibly embrace all that it means and whittle it down to our size.  Thus, we see ...

Worries and Fears – by Greg Albrecht

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. – Arthur Somers Roche A study conducted about why people worry revealed: 40% of the things people worry about never happen. 30% of the things people worry about already happened.  12% of the things people worry about concern their health. 10% of the topics that people worry about are somewhat trivial. 8% of the worries that people have are legitimate.  One man summed up his philosophy of worry like this: “I only worry about two things. The two worries I have right now are ...

Thy Will Be Done

Abraham Lincoln said, “I’ve been driven to my knees because I know I have no place else to go.” Hear what other famous people have said about prayer. How much do you know about prayer? https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0025.mp3