You’ve sinned. You realize it. You do not excuse it. You are ready to admit it. The only right and proper Christian response to sin is repentance. Unfortunately, we are not clear on what repentance is and is not, and so it is too common that we do not really repent of our sins. I [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘repentance’
February 4, 2008
Sin Killers
James 4:4 says essentially that friendship with the world is enmity with God (hostility or opposition). So being the world’s friend is to act in opposition to God or hostility to God. But that’s exactly what we do with our sin. We make friends with it. We engage in sexual immorality and rather than repent [...]
January 30, 2008
Dealing With Guilt from Sexual Sin
From time to time I will link to posts from other blogs, news stories, sermons from people that I respect and learn much from, etc. This sermon was delivered by John Piper at the Passion ‘07 Conference and is all about what to do about guilt from sexual sin. It is POWERFUL and blunt and [...]
January 14, 2008
A Night on Repentance
Tonight we looked at Hosea 6:1-3 and the concept of corporate repentance. There is some debate among Christians over whether or not there can be such thing as corporate repentance. Those who say there can’t be argue that all repentance is individual, yet the Bible has countless OT examples of the call for the nation [...]
