1560 results for tag: Greg Albrecht

December 2023

CLICK HERE to read now (PDF Format) Greg Albrecht: Not What Religion Expects – pg. 2 Kenneth Tanner: One-Sided God – pg. 6 Brad Jersak God in Our Image – pg. 7

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

October 31, 2023 - Quote for the Day: “I am a critic of religious legalism, but more importantly I am a deeply devoted Christian.  I am also a recovering legalist, and I know the deadly power of religious legalism.  I know that Christ set me free from its bondage.  I know that I was blind but now I see (John 9:25).  I must report what I see and who healed and rescued me, whether modern religious Pharisees like the implications of my story or not. Grace helped me see that it is a travesty and a perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ to be calling oneself a Christian while insisting that the work of salvation is ...

God Is In Your Corner

God will take care of us. Christ died for us that we might live eternally. You can be assured of God's love. You can be assured that God is in your corner. https://ptmorg.dreamsites.io/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0071.mp3

What We Can Expect From God

What can we expect from God? This is the first in an eight program series on the book of Romans. This book gives insights about what we can expect from God. https://ptmorg.dreamsites.io/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0070.mp3

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

October 29, 2023 - Quote for the Day: “… salvation is not BY works, but FOR works.  God saves and rescues and re-births us, Christ in us, the hope of glory, works in our lives, producing in and through us the fruit of the Holy Spirit.  Only God can create a tree. And the only reason a tree brings forth fruit is that God created the tree and vibrant systems within the tree that enable fruit-bearing.  No stick of wood can plant itself in the ground, and by rigorous effort, expect fruit to be borne on its branches.  Jesus said, ‘I am the vine, you are the branches… without me, you can do nothing (John 15:5).” Originally ...

God’s Service Manual

In the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard the workers' expectations are turned on their head.  What does this teach us about our service to God?  Are we under contract to Him? https://ptmorg.dreamsites.io/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0067.mp3

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

October 26, 2023 - Quote for the Day “In our world, whether it’s the workplace or the church, the relationship others are willing to have with you is normally based on a bottom line.  The relationship you have with a bank is based on the money you have on deposit.  If your checkbook doesn’t balance, you are an undesirable.  You must maintain a minimum balance.  In the spiritual realm, many are led to believe that if they don’t show up at church often enough the religious bankers will start adding service charges to their account – or just show them the door that supposedly leads directly to eternal torture in hell.  The kingdom ...

When Good Just Isn’t Good Enough

Could you be struggling with a false sense of security about your own goodness simply because you think you score high in the spiritual comparison game? https://ptmorg.dreamsites.io/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0066.mp3

November 2023

CLICK HERE to read now (PDF Format) Articles: 60 Years Later... If JFK Could Talk – pg. 1 The Love of Thanksgiving – pg. 2 Should We Fear God? – pg. 5 A Sickness Unto Death – pg. 7 Quotes & Connections – pg. 8

The Expensive Delusion

Do money and possessions make for success? Another question, how much will Bill Gates leave behind when he dies? The parable of "The Rich Fool." https://ptmorg.dreamsites.io/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0065.mp3

Grace Without Reservations – by Greg Albrecht

And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, then grace would no longer be grace.—Romans 11:6 Have you ever had an altercation, a conflict or misunderstanding with your wife or husband, adult child or a good friend and wondered how in the world you could patch things up? We've all been there, haven't we? Perhaps we are "there" right now. Let's suppose (and it's a safe supposition, isn't it?) that the mess we are thinking about is a mess that is our fault. We are to blame. After all, at some point in our lives, we have all been in the wrong, haven't we? At some point in our lives we have all been the major factor or cause behind a ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

October 24, 2023 - Quote for the Day: “The word ‘religion’ itself, even while it has positive meanings attributed to it, is, at its core, a toxic faith. The etymology of the word goes back to the Latin religare – to bind – and religio – obligation (to the gods).   The use of the word ‘religion’ today generally points toward the practices and beliefs individuals accept as being a true definition of what God (or the gods) expects of them… Toxic faith is religious in the sense that religion binds and imprisons it followers in belief systems that control them.  Healthy faith is Christ-centered in the sense that ...

Forgiven to Forgive

"Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive,..." (C. S. Lewis). Yet Jesus said we're to forgive seventy times seven. What was he saying? https://ptmorg.dreamsites.io/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0064.mp3

Who is the Good Samaritan?

Jesus' parable of the Good Samaritan was a response to two questions, "What must I do to inherit eternal life?" and "Who is my neighbor?" Jesus turned the second question around -- why? https://ptmorg.dreamsites.io/mp3/FreeDwnld/PTR0063.mp3

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

October 22, 2023 - Quote for the Day: “Quid pro quo means ‘something for something – something received or given in return for something else.’ We humans learn quickly that we must work for what we get in our world. We earn wages for services we render. Quid pro quo. We earn approval and acceptance by deeds we perform. Quid pro quo. People like and love us if we help them, serve them, and make them feel or look good. Quid pro quo. Grace is the opposite of quid pro quo. God is grace.  He gives and loves, without guarantee or prior evidence of any return on his investment.  Not only does God not reward us for what we deserve, ...