1743 results for tag: Greg Albrecht
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
November 9, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“The Bible is and has been many things to many people. Selections from the Bible have become, over time, what people have made them to be. The Bible has been used and abused – it has been used to condone the practice of slavery, permit polygamy, promote racism, oppress women and justify war. Each and every time the Bible is read and studied, it is being interpreted. Everyone tends to read the Bible through their own lens of experience and culture. Everyone brings their own baggage packed with assumptions and prejudices to the process of reading and understanding the Bible.”
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Maybe You Just Need to Try Harder
Religion tells us that we should maybe just try harder, that we should pull ourselves up by your own bootstraps.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0268.mp3
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
November 7, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“The topic and theme of the Book of Revelation is Jesus Christ, not some geo-political, predictive timetable of future world events. The key to the Book of Revelation is its Christology, not its chronology. The guiding interpretive principle to be used in understanding Revelation is ‘who,’ not ‘when.’ Minimize the importance of the when; maximize the importance of the who. Revelation teaches that our human future is not the primary issue, but the future of Revelation is in and with Christ. The future in Revelation is all about Jesus Christ and His future… The gospel of Jesus Christ is all ...
Bad News Religion Part 4 of 4
The biggest threat to Christianity isn't apathy, indifference or its own woefully inadequate example - nor is it from Islam, New Age thought or the myriad cults. The greatest challenge to Christianity is religion insidiously thriving under the flag of Christianity.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0327.mp3
Bad News Religion Part 3 of 4
Christianity is in a completely different category from other religions. In fact, it is opposed to all religion - including religion appropriating the name of Jesus Christ. Religion is bad news - the polar opposite of the gospel of Jesus Christ - which is by definition, good news.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0326.mp3
Rest for the Weary – by Greg Albrecht
I heard a story about an American missionary named David who served in an African town several decades ago. David was amazed to see the heavy loads and burdens the Africans carried on their heads as a part of their regular jobs.
The most astonishing individual he met, in this regard, was a lady who had perfected the technique of carrying heavy loads on her head to such a degree that her peers called her "the human delivery truck." Amazing at it seems to us, she delivered engine blocks from cars and trucks from one repair shop to another. According to the story, four men would lift the engine block on to a tray that she carried on her head—she ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
November 5, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“Jesus is God with a zip code (or a postal code for some readers). His spiritual address is the same as yours and your spiritual address is the same as his. Jesus has prepared eternal places for you and me, and he says he will ‘take you to be with me that you may also be where I am’ (John 14:3).”
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Unplugging from Religion - Connecting With God
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Bad News Religion Part 2 of 4
Organized religion frequently tries to solve the problems of this world, encouraging involvement in all sorts of causes and even political action, but that "religion" can become a substitute for our relationship with God - for authentic Christianity.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0325.mp3
Bad News Religion Part 1 of 4
Religion assures us that if we do stuff - if we comply with its rituals, its formulas and its prescriptions - that we'll be able to please and appease God. Religion supplants Jesus Christ by telling us we have to be involved with and rely upon it to "make it to heaven."
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0324.mp3
Election – Fever Pitched Anxieties – Greg Albrecht
These must be the last days. Politicians are running hither and yon, desperately trying to say things that will influence followers and persuade the persuade-able. Listening to the hand-wringing anxiety and the fever-pitched appeals I was reminded “your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour” (1 Peter 5:8).
“I’m from the government and I am here to help you” has come to be accepted as one of the great lies of our time. As we live through the last days of October the rhetoric is hot and heavy. People are energetically touting the wares of their candidates. ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
November 2, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“God is not forever engaged in making sure that you and I get what’s coming to us. God is not consumed with making sure we pay all the penalties we deserve – his primary motive is love – his primary care for you and me is his relentless and never-ending love.”
Christianity Without the Religion magazine, April 2022
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Our Biggest Problem
What's our biggest problem as Christians...is it religion? Is it legalism? Is it a lack of knowledge of the Bible? Is it too little obedience? You may be surprised.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0266.mp3
Empty Your Pockets – by Greg Albrecht
Friend and Partner Letter for November 2024:
Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) was a beloved American writer. Her humor, in newspaper columns and 15 books, was flavored with inspiration and wisdom. She concluded a newspaper column published on March 10, 1987 with these insights (my emphasis in bold):
“I always had a dream that when I am asked to give an accounting of my life to a higher court, it will go like this: ‘So, empty your pockets. What have you got left of your life? Any dreams that were unfulfilled? Any unused talent that we gave you when you were born that you still have left? Any unsaid compliments or bits of love that you haven’t ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
October 31, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“I offer Revelation Revolution 1) as a Christ-centered remedy to the sensationalism of prophetic teaching and 2) from a compelling sense of duty in an attempt to spare others the inevitable loss of faith in God that is invariably left behind in the wake of such flawed and failed teaching. I am grieved to see that the same old broken-beyond-repair methodology of prophetic teaching continues to tease and allure millions into its destructive clutches.”
Originally published in:
Revelation Revolution
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Is It Possible to OD on Grace?
Religion and legalism are uncomfortable with God's grace, claiming that the grace of God encourages people to sin. But can we have too much grace -- is it possible to overdose on grace?
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0265.mp3
What is a Real Christian?
What do true Christians say and do -- what are they like? How righteous does a Christian have to be? Would you identify a real Christian mostly by what they don't do -- by actions and habits they avoid?
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0261.mp3
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
October 29, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“There are those, as you know, who say that the Jews deserved the Holocaust. I absolutely reject that insane notion. There are also those who say that billions of people will be slow roasted, for all eternity, tortured in hell, condemned by God because they didn’t measure up to his standards. I absolutely reject that notion as the epitome of un-grace. Preachers fulminate about those who will get eternal torture (what they deserve) because they weren’t baptized with the right amount of water at the right age by the right religious authority using the right religious creed. Many will suffer ...
Counting the Cost
The Bible admonishes us to count the cost before we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior, but once we've done that, we're to stop counting. What do we stop counting? For one, how good we are, but listen as Greg discusses other things the Bible teaches we no longer count.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0254.mp3
4 Ways to be Successful in Religion
This tongue-in-cheek program suggests four things you can do to be successful in religion (as opposed to authentic Christianity). These four strategies are prominent in our religious world today. See if they don't ring a disturbingly familiar bell with you.
https://www.ptm.org/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0252.mp3
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