82 results for tag: Plain Truth Ministries

The Paradox of Life and Death – by Greg Albrecht

Friend and Partner Letter from April 2025:                                                   “… I am the resurrection and the life.  The one who believes in me will live, even though they die, and whoever believes in me will never die.  Do you believe this?” (John 11:25-26). Jesus says those who believe in him will live, even though they die, but yet, those who believe in him will never ...

Persona Grata – by Lloyd Briggie

Spiritual Unity - A Testimonial: I’m privileged to work at a Macy’s fulfillment center with colleagues from various countries having ten different languages and dialects. Occasionally I’ve introduced my perspective that “everyone is a child of God, limited edition.” Scriptures inform us that we are all created in the image of God, male and female. Indeed, everyone is hardwired for love, both receiving and sharing, for God is love. I love seeing everyone in my world, and the world, through the lens of Jesus, reconciled to God! Noting that “God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins ...

A Covenant – Not a Contract! – by Greg Albrecht

There is probably no other human endeavor quite like marriage—sadly, many of these partnerships that begin with such hope and expectation regularly fail. One of the reasons marriages fail is because many see marriage and the entire relationship through the eyes of a contract rather than through the perspective of a covenant. Marriage, an example of a human covenant, can help us to understand the divine relationship God offers to each of us. He offers us the new covenant in Christ, not the new contract in Christ. It's a covenant, NOT a contract! CONTINUE READING We hope that our articles and resources bring comfort, hope, encoura...

Being in Christ – by Greg Albrecht

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other.—John 15:12-17 When we consider our relationship with God ...

This is CWR/PTM – What We Do

Here’s what we offer at Christianity Without the Religion and Plain Truth Ministries: Check out our many resources and ministries, centered in faith alone, grace alone and Christ alone. Our focus is all Jesus, all the time. There’s always something new happening on our website! Check out the many short articles and blogs on the CWR-blog. Join us for sermons and services anytime at Christianity Without the Religion. Listen to Plain Truth Radio and CWR Unplugged—available 24 hours a day. Browse current and back articles from our flagship CWR magazine, as well as Plain Truth magazine. Find Answers ...

The Christ-Centered Mission of CWR/PTM – Greg Albrecht

How CWR/PTM fulfills our mission as a media ministry, and the resources and services we offer, often leads to questions and comments about how we in some ways function as or like a church, and then to comparisons of our ministry with a more conventional, traditional brick-and-mortar church.   We conclude, as many do, that we are a media ministry, and a bit more. Being more than just an electronic media ministry means we are a para-church ministry working outside and across denominations and congregations that worship in a brick-and-mortar building.  Perhaps it would help to understand how CWR/PTM is both a Christ-centered media/...

How Plain Truth Ministries Serves Those Who Are Hurting – CWR Video

In this CWR Video, Greg Albrecht and Brad Jersak discuss Plain Truth Ministries’ mission, ministry, and service to those who are hurting in our world today. https://vimeo.com/897928378 If this post has helped you, please subscribe and share it freely. We also invite you to help us continue to help others with a donation. Click here if you're able to partner with us.

CWR Video – Plain Truth Ministries and Politics

In this CWR Video, Brad Jersak and Ed Dunn explore the topic of PTM and Politics. https://vimeo.com/904182520 If this post has helped you, please subscribe and share it freely. We also invite you to help us continue to help others with a donation. Click here if you're able to partner with us

CWR Video – Our Communications With You – by Ed Dunn

In this CWR Video, Ed Dunn discusses the joy of Plain Truth Ministries' relationship with YOU! https://vimeo.com/911279906 If this post has helped you, please subscribe and share it freely. We also invite you to help us continue to help others with a donation. Click here if you're able to partner with us

June 2024 CWR Magazine

CLICK HERE to read now: Ed Dunn 8 Decades Later – pg. 2 Steve Brown The Father Never Leaves Us – pg. 5 Stuart Segall Navigating Grief – pg. 6 If you have found our magazines helpful, please consider subscribing (free online). And if you'd like to help us help others, please consider sharing it with others and hitting the "GIVE NOW" button below. TO GIVE NOW

Meet Our Leadership Team

Advisory Board of Directors – left to right: Ed Dunn, Dennis Warkentin, Ralph Woodrow, Laura Urista, Greg Albrecht, Monte Wolverton, Brad Jersak. Greg Albrecht - President, Chairman of the Board Greg Albrecht is President and Chairman of the Board of Plain Truth Ministries. He pastors, teaches and writes in and through all of the many ministries of PTM, including daily audio, a monthly ministry letter, and via our two magazines, for which he also serves as Editor-in-Chief.    Greg was born in Kansas and grew up in Texas and California. He received his BA in theology in England, and later an MA in religion/biblical studies ...

What Makes Plain Truth Ministries Different? – CWR Video

In this CWR Video, Brad Jersak and Ed Dunn explore the mission, ministry and audience we serve at Plain Truth Ministries. https://vimeo.com/897931279 If this post has helped you, please subscribe and share it freely. We also invite you to help us continue to help others with a donation. Click here if you're able to partner with us

Life in Christ Jesus – CWR Video

In this CWR Video, Brad Jersak and Ed Dunn explore what it means to live our lives in Christ Jesus, as Christ Jesus lives his life in us. https://vimeo.com/897925995 If this post has helped you, please subscribe and share it freely. We also invite you to help us continue to help others with a donation. Click here if you're able to partner with us

The Girl with the Goat – by Ruth A. Tucker

“Countless verses have been written on the puppy and the kitten.” These are the first lines of a poem written by my eighth-grade Latin teacher who was hands-down the most popular poet at the middle school located high on a hill in the small town of Spooner, Wisconsin. He would often read one of his poems before he put on his stern face and ordered oral exercises in declining nouns and conjugating verbs. Students repeatedly asked him to write a poem for them. He knew better. Do it for one, you’ve got to do it for all. I was very specific in my request, however, begging him to write a poem about Buzzy. Finally, after months of refusal, he ...

CWR Video – Incredibly Good News

Short video by Plain Truth Ministries.

When Your Dreams Wind Up in the Pit – by Greg Albrecht

Keynote Scripture: GENESIS 37:19-36 "Here comes that dreamer!" they said to each other. "Come now, let's kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we'll see what comes of his dreams."  The background to our story involves a 17-year-old boy named Joseph. He lived with his father Jacob and his ten brothers in the land of Canaan. Joseph was Jacob's favorite son. Showing favoritism to one child is a huge mistake for any parent, but it is the stuff of real life, is it not? The ongoing story of the family of Abraham given to us in the book of Genesis reads like a soap opera. This specific ...

CWR Video – What is the Bible? – by Peter Enns

Peter Enns: What is the Bible? from Plain Truth Ministries on Vimeo.

Son of a Preacher Man – by Greg Albrecht

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?" —Matthew 16:24-26  The passage in Matthew that forms the basis of our message talks about losing your life so that you might gain it. At first it may seem to you that Jesus' assertion amounts to little more than theological double-talk. But this teaching begins to make profound spiritual sense ...

The Pearl of Great Value – by Greg Albrecht

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.—Matthew 13:45-46 We turn our attention to one of Jesus' parables about the kingdom of heaven. In the Authorized King James Version the parable is called The Pearl of Great Price. As I normally use the New International Version, we'll refer to it by the title given to it in that translation, The Pearl of Great Value. Here's the widely accepted Christian interpretation of this parable: The merchant is you or me. We decide to look for Christ, and finally, after much effort, we find ...

CWR Video – Waking Up on Third Base – by Greg Albrecht

https://player.vimeo.com/video/77715973 Short video by Greg Albrecht. Offers book Spiritual Soup vol. 1