1754 results for tag: Greg Albrecht
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
February 16, 2023 - Quote for the Day:
“The Prosperity Gospel teaches that God’s will is for us to be healthy and wealthy. It amounts to selling religious lottery tickets to the weak, sick and poverty-stricken, who are the ones most easily seduced by this teaching. Health-and-wealth churches are extremely popular in inner city areas in the United States and in disadvantaged, economically challenged areas around the world.”
Originally published in:
Between Religious Rocks and Life’s Hard Places
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The Highest Calling
Dale Carnegie taught about how to win friends and influence people, whereas Jesus offered a kingdom where power is not defined by riches or fame and where leaders are identified as servants.
See How He Loves You
Join Greg for a discussion of God's love, as centered and defined in the cross of Christ, illustrated by the differences C.S. Lewis noted between all-too-human Need Love and divinely given Gift Love.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR417.mp3
Grace at Church – by Greg Albrecht
KEYNOTE SCRIPTURE:
To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: "God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get. But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, "God, have mercy on me, a sinner." I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
February 14, 2023 - 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 ...
God Believes In You!
Had someone betrayed, abandoned and disavowed us the way Peter denied Jesus, we would have a hard time ever talking to that person again. But after his resurrection Jesus made sure that Peter knew he still believed in him.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR365.mp3
Build Your House on a Rock? – Greg Albrecht
Question:
I am getting in the habit of listening to the daily audio messages. Thank you! However, I am confused and have a question about a comment from a recent message, “Faith in Sinai or Faith in Jesus?” The scripture Matthew 7:24-25 was read and Jesus was referenced as the rock. I get that. But verse 24 implies that in order to build your house on the rock, you need to hear and do Jesus' previous sayings. Which is all of chapters 5-7 which of course is impossible to achieve in this life, even through Jesus. Or do we achieve it anyway because Jesus has achieved it for us? Can you clarify this? Thanks .
Response:
Delighted to hear ...
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
It's a meaningless little game we used to play when we were kids, thinking we could find out whether a person of the opposite sex liked us or not. Believe it or not, people use the similar approach to discover whether God loves them or not!
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR261.mp3
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
February 12, 2023 - 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 ...
Law Enforcement or Healing? – by Greg Albrecht
Friend and Partner Letter from February 2023
Let’s start with a quiz: If you had to choose between two images of Jesus which would it be:
1) someone who serves in the law enforcement profession, such as a police officer or judge, or
2) someone who serves in the healing profession, such as a doctor or a nurse?
When those two images are compared and contrasted, a doctor or nurse is the Christ-centered, healing answer.
BUT – why does the vast majority of Christendom lean toward a depiction of Jesus as an agent of law and order? More than that, WHY do so many within Christendom feel that any picture of ...
Songs From Our Hearts Pt 7
(Psalm 130) In the last of our seven-part series, we discover how Psalm 130 can help us watch for God and put our hope in him, and find the ultimate answers to our suffering and pain in the cross of Christ, the greatest ever demonstration of love.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR351.mp3
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
February 9, 2023 - 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, ...
Songs From Our Hearts Pt 6
(Psalm 121) If you are spending much of your time looking at real and present dangers in your life (not to mention potential future obstacles), you may be missing the dynamic, real presence of God, who is right next to you.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR350.mp3
Songs From Our Hearts Pt 5
(Psalm 84) The theme of a spiritual journey permeates Psalm 84, enhancing our comprehension of what it means to walk, as a pilgrim, with Jesus.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR349.mp3
God Really LIKES You! – by Greg Albrecht
"We desire to connect with God; we desire to know God and be known by God. God has created us with a desire for connectivity." - Greg Albrecht
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
February 7, 2023 - 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. &...
Songs From Our Hearts Pt 4
(Psalm 51) It seems our world at large is becoming more resistant to saying "I'm sorry" - it truly is the hardest word. Join us as we embrace Christ-centered repentance.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR348.mp3
Songs From Our Hearts Pt 3
(Psalm 42-43) Psalms 42 and 43 focus on discouragement and depression - addressing real issues of our lives and helping us find the solution.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR347.mp3
How Sorry Are We? – Greg Albrecht
A SIGN OF WEAKNESS?
Were we to take our cues from Hollywood on the topic of being sorry, apologizing and seeking forgiveness, we might remember the message from a 1949 Western movie titled “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon” in which John Wayne’s character says, “Never apologize and never explain—it’s a sign of weakness.”
Or, if we persist in consulting movie “wisdom,” we might remember the line, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry,” from the classic 1970 tale “Love Story.”
With “apologies” to John Wayne, the gospel of Jesus Christ teaches us that making amends is incredibly important. As Christ-followers ...
Reflections along the Jesus Way
February 5, 2023 -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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