Category Archives: Repentance
“Rejoicing and repentance” by Timothy Keller
“Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change. Indeed, it is when we rejoice over Jesus’s sacrificial love for us … Continue reading
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“The repentance that Christ requires” by J.I. Packer
“The repentance that Christ requires of His people consists in a settled refusal to set any limits to the claims which He may make on their lives. Our Lord knew– who better?– how costly His followers would find it to … Continue reading
“The race of repentance” by John Calvin
“The Lord is pleased completely to restore all those he adopts to the inheritance of life. And this restoration is not accomplished in a single moment, or day, or year; but by continual, and sometimes even tardy advances, the Lord … Continue reading
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“A sensory feast but a hearing famine” by Sinclair Ferguson
“Worship is increasingly becoming a spectator event of visual and sensory power, rather than a verbal event in which we engage in a deep soul dialogue with the Triune God. Contemporary evangelicalism tends to focus on what ‘happens’ in a … Continue reading
“Two sides of the same coin” by Sinclair Ferguson
“I cannot come to Christ in faith without turning from sin in repentance. Faith is trusting in Christ; repentance is turning from sin. They are two sides of the same coin of belonging to Jesus.” –Sinclair Ferguson, The Grace of … Continue reading
“Repentance is man’s coming undone” by C. John Miller
“Repentance has nothing to do with what man has done. Rather it is man’s coming undone in respect to all human righteousness, followed by his going outside himself in faith to Christ alone for salvation.” –C. John Miller, Repentance and … Continue reading
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Lord’s Day Hymn – “Affect, subdue, and break my stubborn heart”
“O Thou Who Hast Our Sorrows Borne” By John Wesley, 1780 O Thou who hast our sorrows borne, Help us to look on Thee and mourn, On Thee whom we have slain, Have pierced a thousand thousand times, And by … Continue reading
