84 results for tag: Plain Truth Ministries

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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

The Gate of the New Year – by Greg Albrecht

On Christmas Eve 1939, King George VI of England gave a BBC radio broadcast to the British Empire heard around the world. During his message, he quoted the preamble to a poem given to him by his daughter, Princess Elizabeth, written by Minnie Louise Haskins (1875-1957). Then titled “God Knows,” the poem later became known as “The Gate of the Year.”  Upon the death of King George VI in 1952, Princess Elizabeth became Queen of England – she was the longest living monarch in the world. She had “The Gate of the Year” engraved on brass plaques at Windsor Castle, where her father is interred. In 2002, when her mother, the Queen ...

God and Jonah: Ships Passing in the Night – by Greg Albrecht

Many, even those unfamiliar with the Bible, have heard of Jonah. Most remember the story of Jonah as it is depicted in children's books—a man named Jonah who was swallowed by a big fish and lived to tell the tale. As we go a little deeper into the story (deeper even than the whale went with Jonah) we see that Jonah is yet another biblical example of how humans can completely misunderstand God. We can misunderstand God as Jonah did, and in terms of our relationship with God, be, as he was, like two Ships that Pass in the Night.    The book of Jonah begins with God telling Jonah to go to Nineveh, the capital city of the Assyrian ...

New Creation in Christ – by Greg Albrecht

Friend and Partner Letter from January 2023: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation is come:  The old has gone, the new is here!  2 Corinthians 5:17 This New Year of 2023 is a great time to remember that we, as Christ-followers, and CWR/PTM Friends and partners, are friends of Jesus and we are, by God’s grace, New Creations! God creates us as new creations out of what we were. He makes us “something” in terms of our spiritual worth when before we were, by comparison, “nothing.” He finds us and we discover him, in the process we lose “the old” and we gain, by his grace, “the new”! We become new, ...

Great Exchanges – by Greg Albrecht

Your first thought at this time of the year might be those frenzied crowds in shopping malls and department stores on the days immediately following Christmas. People exchanging and returning gifts they received that were the wrong size, wrong color—or just plain wrong! But there's another exchange we need to keep in mind. This great exchange is the reality of the cross of Christ. Jesus Christ took our sin and died for it, paying the debt that we could not pay. In exchange, God, because of his grace, gives us eternal life. Our sin for eternal life! The great spiritual exchange. Great exchanges characterize the month of December for Christians ...