Walt Albritton Articles

What ‘Surrender to Jesus’ means

BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION — Submit to God. Humble yourself. Admit you need help. Surrender to Jesus. Ask Jesus to take over management of your life. This is the attitude one must have to become an authentic follower of Jesus. But pride stands in the way. Pride says,...

Did you catch any fish?

OPINION — Peter and his brother Andrew were fishermen. One day, when they were busy casting their nets in the Sea of Galilee, Jesus walked by. Jesus invited the two men to follow him, and added this promise: “I will make you fishers of men.” Their response, as...

Life together

OPINION — After he was hanged by the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s writings became a treasured testimony for Christians around the world. None has blessed me more than his book, Life Together, in which he shares his experience of Christian community during...

The farmer Jesus unchained

OPINION — What happened to Simon Peter can only be explained by the life-changing power of Jesus Christ. The leader of the twelve disciples chosen by Jesus, Peter had a gift for putting his foot in his mouth. Once Jesus rejected Peter’s counsel so strongly that he...
Every Person Needs Help

Every Person Needs Help

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — Years ago, I heard an unusual testimony by a man who was born with no arms. He said his mother dressed him until he...

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The Lesson of the Sunflowers

The Lesson of the Sunflowers

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — Since the heinous Russian invasion of Ukraine, much has been written about sunflowers. That’s because the...

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The Lesson of the Sunflowers

The Smorgasbord Bible

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — Once there was only the King James version. Now there are dozens of different translations of the Bible. Many...

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The Lesson of the Sunflowers

Wrestling with Weaknesses

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — As I have grown older, I have grown weaker physically. It is one of those problems that I call the fleas that come...

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The Lesson of the Sunflowers

I Need Jesus

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — Way back in the ‘50s, the Methodists often sent young preachers, who were still college or seminary students, out in...

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The Lesson of the Sunflowers

Keeping Hope Alive

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — There are bewildering questions for which I have no answers. Why do men suffer? If God is good, why does He allow us...

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The Lesson of the Sunflowers

The Main Thing

By WALTER ALBRITTON The popular Baptist preacher Peter Lord got an “Amen” from me when I heard him insist that churches need to “make the main thing...

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