1753 results for tag: Greg Albrecht
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 29, 2023 - Quote for the Day:
“Many Christians are missing the point of Revelation because they’re reading it as though it were a newspaper, with verses lined up and seemingly corresponding to an event in today’s news, or the news they’ve been told will almost certainly be printed in the newspaper in the next month or next year.
Reading the book of Revelation as if it were an advance copy of next week’s or next month’s newspaper has resulted in many people losing faith in God when world events don’t work out the way they were told they would. Whose fault is that? Is it God’s fault, or the bogus interpreta...
The Jesus I Know is Who I Am
Join Greg as he discusses how our lives truly become significant when we know Jesus and when he lives his life within us.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR456.mp3
Communication, Community and Communion
The eternal relationship God give us, by his grace, can be defined and understood more fully by the way the meaning conveyed by these three words co-operate with and complement each other.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR455.mp3
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 27, 2023 - Quote for the Day:
“When I was a young boy my mother and I used to sit on my grandmother’s front porch, on North 8th Street in Herington, Kansas, looking into the summer sky. I never knew my father, since he was killed when I was only 15 months old, so my mother would tell me that my father was one of the stars twinkling up in the sky. So because my mother, the ultimate authority in my world at the time, told me so, I thought my father was ‘up there’ with God.
As I grew older I realized that my father was not a twinkling star up in the heavens, any more than Santa Claus delivers presents to all the ...
Looking For Jesus
Unless we realize that Jesus is often experienced and found in unexpected places and in the lives of those we would least expect, when we look for Jesus we may be looking in all the wrong places.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR454.mp3
He Knows Just How You Feel
While it is physically impossible for a family member or friend to know exactly how we feel as we suffer and endure, we may be assured that Jesus knows JUST how we feel.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR453.mp3
Citizens of God’s Kingdom – by Greg Albrecht
Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. "Teacher," they said, "we know you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren't swayed by men, because you pay no attention to who they are. Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"
But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, "You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? Show me the coin used for paying the tax." They brought him a denarius, and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?"
"Caesar's," they ...
What is Happening to the Church in North America? – Greg Albrecht
Question:
What is happening to Christianity in North America? Magazines and television documentaries are filled with reports that people are no longer going to church – by the droves! Why is this happening? Is Christianity as we know it in danger of becoming obsolete?
Response:
A recent article in Economist (titled “Counting Christians”) ponders why American religion (the context of the article reveals the Economist actually meant North American Christianity) is in decline.
My history with this topic, following the dynamic I believe to be one of the biggest religious news stories of this early part of the ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 25, 2023 - Quote for the Day:
“Christ-less religion convinces its followers that they have a need to be right on all the issues, and further, according to religion (especially fundamentalist religion) its followers believe that they need to categorize all those who differ with them as having less religious value than themselves. Out of such warped thinking comes terms like heathen, heretic, unsaved, unbeliever and pagan – words that are used to describe the ‘other side.’”
Originally published in:
Spiritual Soup for the Hungry Soul, Volume 1
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Giving and FOR-Giving
God's forgiveness means that we have been forgiven once and for all. Once we have received his forgiveness, there is no need for us to feel un-forgiven until we formally ask God to forgive us again.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR452.mp3
July 2023
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Articles:
Mental Health Care: A Christian Response – pg. 1
Show Your Cards, Not Your Trophies – pg. 2
Two Ships that Pass in the Night – pg. 5
Elevator Dogmatics – pg. 7
Quotes & Connections – pg. 8
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 22, 2023 - Quote for the Day:
“1) In terms of your relationship with God, do you think of what you do as more important that what you are?
By God’s grace, we are friends of Jesus. He offers us that intimate relationship so that we can…bring forth fruit (John 15:16). We are enabled to bring forth the fruit Jesus desires because he is our friend. Our flesh is capable of bringing forth fruit. But, if we are not friends of Jesus then any fruit we produce is not worthy of him – it will always fall short of the kind of fruit he can produce. Any fruit we are capable of producing is not worthy to be ...
You and Me and Our Father
Religious hard-liners choke on the beauty and depth of God's love, accusing those who believe in God's love as permissive fools, soft headed and soft hearted, lacking standards and rules. Funny - that's what a well known parable seems to say about our Father and his no limits love for you and me.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR468.mp3
More Blessed to Give Than Receive
Join us to discover the immense, far-reaching dimensions of grace-based teaching behind this short saying of Jesus, proclaimed by Paul in Acts 20:35.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR451.mp3
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 20, 2023 - Quote for the Day:
“…the most popular religious messages on billboards across the United States are statements attributed to a direct quote from God: 1) ‘Don’t make me come down there,’ and 2) ‘You think it’s hot here?’ (usually found in the south and in sunbelt states).
Legalistic religion is selling us a bill of goods. Performance-based religion is convincing us that God is angry, and of course that’s easy for us to believe because we already believe God has every reason to be angry with us. We know Jesus Christ is justified in coming back to this world, wiping us all out, and starting all ...
Is God Fair?
We've all asked this question more than once, and before it's all said and done, we'll re-visit the dark dilemma of God's seemingly unfair decisions.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR450.mp3
Dangerous Unselfishness
The day before he was assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a sermon in which he encouraged "dangerous unselfishness."Join Greg to more fully discuss and consider what it means to be dangerously unselfish.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR449.mp3
Q & R: Greg Albrecht – The Bible and the Gospel
Question
Some people tell me they don't believe the Bible because some old books were left out. I believe the Bible and tell them they have to listen to God's still small voice. What else can I tell them?
Response
My sense of this discussion is that it is focused on a topic upon which we may differ as Christians and still be brothers and sisters. Of course there are those who might deny any of the Bible to be true and edifying, but then there are folks who deny the existence of God as well. The Bible and its original documents, transmission, preservation and translation is a huge conversation and a massive study and there are a variety of ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 18, 2023 - Quote for the Day:
“Some say that they are mad at God because, in spite of everything they have done for him (!?), he hasn’t given them what they feel they deserve. Is that what we want – really? Do we want God to give us what we deserve?”
Originally published in:
Christianity Without the Religion magazine, August 2021
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A Father’s Love
While the love of physical fathers can be profound, our heavenly Father’s love, expressed through his grace, astonishes, astounds and amazes us.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR227.mp3
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