1789 results for tag: Greg Albrecht

A Matter of Life or Death

Our freely-given relationship with God is literally a matter of life or death. As we prepare to remember his death and celebrate his resurrection, we turn our minds and hearts to Jesus, who is the author and finisher of our faith.   https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR370.mp3

How God Chooses His Team

When Jesus chose his disciples, his decision wasn't based on who had the best personality or who showed the most academic promise - how does God choose us for his team, exactly?   https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR368.mp3

His Love Endures Forever

God's hesed love does not give us immunity from pain and suffering. God's hesed love isn't always immediate pleasant or easy, but it declares that he will stop at nothing to demonstrate his unending love for you and me.   https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR367.mp3

Q & R with Greg Albrecht – Do people go to heaven when they die? Where is it?

Question: There has been some discussion among friends about do people go to heaven as soon as they die? Also, where is heaven? Response: A response to your questions could fill a book, or it can be brief – which, given the nature of blog, this answer will be.  That said, this is a HUGE topic.  As soon as people die they go to God – most scholars and theologians call this “place” the intermediate state. Many people say that people who die go to heaven – and while that description is not wrong, it can be misleading depending on what people visualize as heaven.   People who die go to an intermediate ...

God’s Grace Has You Covered – Pt 2

God's grace is sufficient - there is enough of his grace to cover you and me during our suffering. In Christ we see God's grace personified and exemplified - he entered into our pain so that we might grow and mature in him.   https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR364.mp3

God’s Grace and Our Pain – Pt 1

In this first of a two-part series on pain and suffering we ponder the paradox Paul explained - when he was physically weak he was strong (2 Corinthians 12:10). Join us as we discover that in Christ our suffering does not need to be meaningless and how God can transform us in the midst of our pain.   https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR363.mp3

As If He Needed Anything

Paul told the Athenians that they were very religious because their gods needed them. The one true God, according to Paul, doesn't gain or profit nor is he in anyway enhanced by human attention or activity.   https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR366.mp3

What’s So Bad About Cults? – by Greg Albrecht

If PTM.org wants to get lots of letters from readers, all we need to do is publish an article explaining and defending Christ-centered-Christianity against some wrong teaching or biblical misinterpretation.  Defending and explaining biblical doctrines is called apologetics. An apologetic article in The Plain Truth or CWR magazine usually results in a tidal wave of letters and emails, pro and con. The cons often go something like this:  "Why are you so critical of other Christians? Why don't you just leave other people alone and let them believe what they want?" Most Christian denominations were originally formed because they disagreed ...

March 2023

CLICK HERE to read now (PDF Format) Articles: Come Out of Her and Come to Me! – pg. 1 Confronted by Christ – pg. 2 Which Thief Are You? – pg. 5 Master Potter – pg. 7 Quotes & Connections – pg. 8

Whatever Happened To … ?

Fads, fashions and conspiracy theories so popular in some parts of Christendom are often here today and gone tomorrow, in contrast with Jesus who "is the same yesterday and today and forever"

Wake Up and Grow Up

If you have ever wondered about the line from the children’s prayer –..if I should die before I wake… then you do not want to miss Greg’s opposing suggestion: how about praying ..help me wake up before I die..   https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR356.mp3

Wrath or Love – by Greg Albrecht

The nature of God – who he is, and how he is – is without doubt the most misunderstood topic within all of Christendom. If God is filled with wrath and retribution, then any number of Christ-less teachings and practices make sense – but God IS NOT wrath. God IS love.  Love is the one-word definition of God. God is love, he is not filled with wrath, therefore: God the Father was not looking for payback from God the Son on the cross;  There is no such thing as eternal conscious torment in hell;  God is not mad at you and me, and  God does not expect us to do the impossible, which would be to earn and ...

Seeking the Kingdom

As we discuss the kingdom of God, we will take some time to study five specific facets of God’s love that illustrate his kingdom.   https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/RCWR355.mp3

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 ...

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

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 ...