The call to repent is a call to acknowledge I’m going the wrong way. It’s not a punishment, it’s a gracious invitation to stop, turn and come home. It’s a bittersweet familiar companion. There’s a grief of heart that comes from the conviction of wrong, a grief of heart that is amplified when offence to …
Sinclair Ferguson considers faith and repentance. Because they can be experienced differently and distinctly we might think they are separate. But that is unhelpful. From Ferguson: In grammatical terms, then, the words repent and believe both function as a synecdoche — the figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole. Thus, …
I’ve featured I Am Ashamed before, but not as a Sunday Song. ‘I Am Ashamed’ Lyrics by Don Carson; music by Sandra McCracken 1. I used to nurture bitterness, To count up every slight. The world’s a moral wilderness, And I have felt its blight. Self-pity ruled, resentment reigned; No one understood my pain. I …
Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 24 Chapter 15 – Of Repentance Unto Life (Cont.) (Paragraphs 4-6) IV. As there is no sin so small but it deserves damnation; so there is no sin so great that it can bring damnation upon those who truly repent. V. Men ought not to content themselves with …
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