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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 8, 2023 - Quote for the Day:
“According to religious expectations and definitions, many of the parables of Jesus make the wrong person the hero. Who stars in the parables of Jesus? Who shines? The wasteful prodigal son, not the obedient elder brother – the good Samaritan (despised by religion) rather than Jewish rabbis (admired and honored by religion) – the scorned and reviled tax collector who did not even look up to heaven as he prayed rather than the righteous Pharisee – the poor, homeless beggar named Lazarus and not the rich man.”
Originally published in:
Wonders of His Grace
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Grace a Lot or Grace Alone?
Almost everyone loves to hear about God’s grace — they love to hear grace a lot, but when the message is grace alone, then almost everyone gets a little worried about the absence of law and regulation.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR495.mp3
Grace at His Table
“Working” for good is far more common than accepting an invitation to a fully paid, no strings attached banquet — but that’s the incredible, too-good-to-be-true invitation God extends.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR494.mp3
Why Did Jesus Call a Woman a Dog? – by Greg Albrecht
The Canaanites became mortal enemies of the Jews some 1,500 or so years before the time of Jesus when they resisted the new nation of Israel as it attempted to inhabit the Promised Land.
Matthew 15:21-28 relates the story of a Canaanite woman who was so desperate to seek healing for her daughter that she defied social and religious conventions as she publicly spoke to Jesus (a man she didn't know) —beyond that, a Jewish man.
We know, from everything else we read in the Gospels, that Jesus, God in the flesh, loved this woman, but it didn't seem that way to her when she first started talking to Jesus. She cries out, "Son of David, have ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 6, 2023 - Quote for the Day:
“During a recent visit to a local university campus, I happened to pick up the Borzoi College Reader published in 1966. I discovered the volume was a collection of short essays and stories, by distinguished and recognized authors, separated into sections designed to acquaint college students with important issues of their world, as well as introduce them to superb examples of writing and thinking.
One of the essays was titled ‘The Morning They Did It’ by E.B. White – first published in The New Yorker in 1950. White was a prolific writer who contributed a regular column for Harpers ...
The House of the Rising Sun
We can all identify with mournful, blues-like lyrics that speak of addiction and slavery, for we have all been prisoners. We’ll carefully study the glorious significance of “redemption in Jesus Christ.”
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR493.mp3
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 3, 2023 - Quote for the Day:
“Many sources contribute to what we know and what we think we know about God. If you’re like me, you were taught what to think about God from sources you trusted as unimpeachable, like religious authorities and their churches. Sadly, in some cases we found out later we had been bamboozled. Don’t you just hate it when you have been bamboozled?
So when you want to know more about God, as that great line from the 1984 movie Ghostbusters plaintively asked, ‘Who you gonna’ call?’
After reviewing the spiritual adventures, detours and wild goose chases I have taken thus far in life, I have ...
True Confessions
The Bible instructs us to “confess our sins” — but to whom and how?
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR492.mp3
Children and Parents
The lessons we learn as parents and children illuminates the supreme and matchless love of our heavenly Father and the relationship he so freely gives us.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR491.mp3
Women and Children First by Greg Albrecht
Survivors Of The Rms Titanic In One Of Her Collapsible Lifeboats, Just Before Being Picked Up By The Carpathia. Woman Are Sharing In The Rowing.
Most of us, thankfully, have not experienced the trauma of climbing into a lifeboat in order to escape a sinking ship. However, thanks to Hollywood, the vast majority of us have witnessed cinematic scenes when, in the aftermaths of disasters, women and children are given priority.
When thinking of a nautical catastrophe, many would immediately recall the classic 1997 film, Titanic, and the heart-rending historical, fictional story of Rose (Kate Winslett) and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio). ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 1, 2023 - Quote for the Day:
“Should we do good things? Of course. Should we exhort and encourage one another to do the right things? Yes. Should we browbeat and threaten one another about the consequences of not doing the right things? No. Should we imply that doing right things gains us some standing with God that we would otherwise not have enjoyed? No. Do many in Christendom promise that our reward, our standing with God and God’s opinion of us will increase if we do more of the right things? Yes. Should they, according to the gospel? No.”
Originally published in:
Between Religious Rocks and Life’s Hard ...
Where God Lives
We can never say it too often or too dogmatically: all that we are and all that we will ever be is a product of God’s grace!
We’ve Always Done It This Way
Join us as we explore facing change and living a new life in Jesus Christ.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR488.mp3
Forbearing, Bearing and Pouring Oneself Out – by Greg Albrecht
Friend and Partner Letter from August 2023
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love (Ephesians 4:2, KJV)
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love (Ephesians 4:2, NIV)
… pouring yourselves out for each other in acts of love, alert at noticing difference and quick at mending fences (Ephesians 4:2, The Message, by Eugene Peterson)
When we “forbear” or “bear with” or pour ourselves out” for others, among other things it means we do not act or react against someone, or say something negative about them, when we have the right (or think we have the ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 30, 2023 - Quote for the Day:
“As Luther studied the book of Romans, God enlightened him, and Martin Luther came to see that the Cross of Christ had set him free from trying to make himself worthy and acceptable to God. Luther came to see that Jesus made him worthy and acceptable, and that he, Martin Luther, was free to rest in the mercy, favor and grace of God – because of the work of Jesus on the Cross.
In the aftermath of religion, Martin Luther discovered Jesus, and as it turned out, so did tens of millions of others who followed him. Martin Luther and so many others, by God’s grace have discovered the good news ...
Your Money Is No Good Here
No humanly derived resources are accepted as valid currency in the kingdom of heaven. Religious currency is counterfeit money!
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR487.mp3
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 27, 2023 - Quote for the Day:
“Legalism infects every human being. We default to legalism. We resist grace, and, like iron filings to a magnet or moths to a light bulb we find ourselves fatally attracted to religious pills, potions and prescriptions. Legalism is a virus. It is a particular weakness of anyone who has been previously weakened by its relentless attacks – like an alcoholic or malaria survivor. Legalism leaves scar tissue.”
Originally published in:
Bad News Religion
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Married to Jesus
Being one in and with Jesus is not a quick-fix relationship - it's a long-term commitment.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR485.mp3
Browbeaten and Bullied at Church – by Greg Albrecht
One of the most gratifying experiences we have at PTM is when we hear from someone for whom God has "turned on the light." By God's grace they realize their primary allegiance is not to a human religious authority. They realize that churches and church leadership are fellow-servants and laborers for the gospel—and that such organizations and authorities lose their credibility the moment they allow the gospel to be subverted by religion and its legalisms.
The following letter is a wonderful example:
I recently wrote an article about tithing for our church newspaper. My conclusion is the same as that of PTM—"tithing" is an old ...
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