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The Not Yet Kingdom – Pt 2
While the kingdom of God is very much present in our lives now, the kingdom also has a future tense, when it comes in its fullness.
The Already Here Kingdom – Pt 1
This first of a two part series examines the present reality of the kingdom of God - Jesus said that it is here, now!
The Crib and the Cross – by Greg Albrecht
Did you ever stop to think that Jesus did not start his “professional life” – ministering, teaching, comforting and healing – by posting a sign outside of a building announcing healing services and prophecy seminars? Jesus didn’t wait for people to find him. Instead, he found people in the midst of their daily problems, dilemmas, challenges and struggles.
Much of the time Jesus often arrived in people’s lives unannounced and unexpected. Jesus didn’t expect people to get in their cars or jump on their donkeys so they could travel to a holy piece of real estate where they would file into a holy building, take their places and ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
February 15, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“We are blessed to be able to extend mercy to others because God has first of all extended it to us, and in Christ, extends his mercy in and through us. 1 John 4:19 explains: We love because he first loved us. That’s a Christ-centered principle – we extend and show mercy because he first extended and gave his mercy to us.
An old story from the Wild West speaks of a rancher who had a huge ranch, often the target to thieves and rustlers who would steal the cattle. One day the rancher’s hired hands caught a cattle thief. They caught the thief red-handed and took him to ...
Just a Cold and Broken Hallelujah
Join us as we ponder and meditate about the love of God expressed to us and for us and with us in the life of Jesus, who experienced the disappointments, betrayals, and rejections common to us all — and through it all served us with his love — and he still does!
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not – by Greg Albrecht
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loveshas been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
February 13, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“You may remember the story of Sisyphus from Greek mythology, the king of the area known in the New Testament as Corinth. Because of the manipulative and deceitful way Sisyphus ruined so many lives, the Greek god Zeus sentenced Sisyphus to Hades, dooming him forever with the impossible task of trying to roll a boulder up a steep hill. Today we speak of a Sisyphean task as an incessantly recurring exercise in futility.
You and I, by God’s grace, have been released from religious confinement and captivity and from incessant, meaningless and endless ...
Love Is Action
God’s love, in action, is far from a dream-like never-never fantasy land. God’s love is real, it exists in and through the tough times, the trenches, the pits and ditches into which we fall — it is with us as we walk through dark valleys of our lives.
You Are My Friends
He doesn't call us a slave or a servant- nor does he insist that we keep our distance, as he is our teacher and we are merely his disciples and students.
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
February 11, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“Healthy faith has Jesus and the grace, mercy and love of God at its core. The Prince of peace is himself a river of living water (John 7:37-38), the spiritual Bread from heaven (John 6:37) and our healing Savior who leads us to his rest.
Whereas healthy faith is Christ-centered, unhealthy faith is centered on regulations and rituals, on formulas, traditions and ceremonies. Unhealthy faith (Christ-less religion) is often built on the teachings of a man or woman who founded a religion. Unhealthy faith may use and appropriate the name of Jesus, while denying who he is. Sadly, ...
All is Forgiven – Love, Papa
"To err is human, to forgive is divine." Divine forgiveness, illustrated in the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant, involves no bookkeeping.
The Widow’s Offering
Greg illustrates how easy it is to misunderstand and abuse the teaching available to us in the Bible - and confesses to doing so himself.
Q&R with Greg Albrecht – “How does a pastor preach to *perfect* people?”
Question:
I am a pastor and have long thought that the way we Christians present our doctrines and ideas leaves much to be desired. How do I, as a pastor, handle well-meaning people who have it all wrong?
For example, our denomination considers it important to live a holy life, not to earn salvation, but out of gratitude. Many of our members have misconstrued that to mean we must be perfect like Jesus in order to “stay saved” or we can't call ourselves Christians. I've actually heard some of them say they no longer sin. Our official doctrine makes perfection a goal to be worked toward, with no expectation to reach it in this life. If we continue ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
February 8, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“Many markets and outlets within Christendom are consumer-driven – they will give us what we want. They have done the studies. They are well aware of demographics and psychographics. Religious marketing experts know all about you. They know your preferences, your likes and dislikes. They also know what you would enjoy if you could afford it or if you had the time.
Religious corporations and institutions have done their homework about felt needs, as well. They know that humans want lists, programs and self-help manuals. Human beings are pragmatic. &...
Blowing in the Wind
It's the title of a famous folk song, but more importantly the wind is a metaphor describing the work of God. Join Greg as he explains John 3:8.
Reflections along the Jesus Way
February 6, 2025 -Quote for the Day:
“The gospel of Jesus Christ is not a ‘you do this and then I will do that’ message. The new covenant God offers to us is not a covenant of physical prosperity, but instead it is a covenant of adversity. We are asked to consider the needs of others as equal to our own.”
Originally published in:
Between Religious Rocks and Life’s Hard Places
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Why Is Jesus the “Good” Shepherd?
In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus used a person whose race and religion was despised as a metaphor of his own work - in the parable of the Good Shepherd he compared himself to a profession that didn't have the best reputation. Why?
Without Him, We Can Do Nothing!
Jesus' parable of the vine yields incredible insight into the nature of our relationship with him.
Intimacy With God – by Greg Albrecht
Here's some breaking news! God is head-over-heels in love with you. He loves you beyond your wildest imaginations. You might respond, "How can he love me that much? He knows all there is to know about me. And of course, anyone who knows that much about me could never really love me."
Corrie Ten Boom, a Dutch Christian writer who, with her family, helped many Jews escape the Holocaust, once offered a word picture to explain how God loves us—specifically she was talking about how he forgives all our sins—past, present and future. Corrie Ten Boom said that God takes all of our shortcomings, tragedies, flaws and scandals and throws them into the ...
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