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The Ultimate Declaration of God’s Grace – by Greg Albrecht

Grace

Who Is It You Are Looking For? – by Greg Albrecht

Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?" "They have taken my Lord away," she said, "and I don't know where they have put him." At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. He asked her, "Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?"—John 20:11-15 The religious lynch-mob convened an illegal trial, declared an innocent man guilty and condemned him to death. Of course, it wasn't the ...

Why Did Jesus Die? – by Greg Albrecht

"Why did Jesus die?" may seem like an easy question, because the answer seems obvious, doesn't it? Normally, most Christians immediately answer the question something like this: "He died to atone, that is pay for, our sins. As the Lamb of God, he took away the sins of the world, redeeming us from sin through his precious blood. He died that we might die to sin, so that he might live in us, producing his righteousness within us." That answer is true—but it's not the whole story. Much of the Bible, both in the Old and New Testaments, presents the cross of Christ as a forensic event. That is, God uses the language and word pictures of ...

Things That Are Not What They Seem – by Greg Albrecht

  Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom people hid their faces, he was despised and we esteemed him not (Isaiah 53:1-30. The vast majority of Christians believe that Jesus was a goodlooking, well-proportioned embodiment of manliness. More often than not, when Jesus is depicted in art and movies, he is outwardly ...

Go to Him Outside the Camp – by Greg Albrecht

On what we now call Palm Sunday, almost 2,000 years ago Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a humble donkey. He was welcomed by people who had heard him preach—among whom were the poor, the diseased, the disenfranchised and outcasts, all of whom shouted "Hosanna!" to Jesus (Matthew 21:9, 15). Many Christians think "Hosanna" has always been defined as a joyful worship word. It hasn't. Hosanna means "save us now"— it was a cry of desperation, shouted at Jesus by the crowds as he entered Jerusalem. Most who greeted Jesus with "Hosanna" wanted physical relief from their physical problems and afflictions—but, in addition, there may well have ...

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.