What is Repentance?
Men, is being sorry you sinned the same thing as repenting of that sin? Is feeling bad that I sinned enough?
Men, is being sorry you sinned the same thing as repenting of that sin? Is feeling bad that I sinned enough?
The family is all sitting around the living room one Sunday afternoon when suddenly Tom says to his father, “Dad, I need to tell you something. When you show up drunk to watch me play baseball, it embarrasses me so much I want to hide.”
According to a CNBC report, the Halloween season is ranked seventh in the amount spent on gifts, food, travel, costumes, parties, etc., with approximately 10.4 billion forked over in 2021. And that is only in the United States!
The British writer and feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft, wrote in her 1792 treatise “Convince a man against his will, He’s of the same opinion still.”
Have you committed the “unpardonable sin?” Have you committed the one sin that God will not forgive? So many people worry themselves into this dark hole from which there sometimes seems no way out. It is the source of their doubt. So, how can one know whether they have committed this sin?
For many years I doubted that I was really a child of God. It was a tortuous time. For those of you caught in doubt, you know what I mean.
When I was a junior in high school the Key Club I belonged to sponsored a “Mess America” pageant. The idea was simple. Club members, who were all male, dressed up as women and in an attempt to be funny as the “contestants” paraded on stage in various outrageous styles of feminine dress…
My oldest son, Steve, is a contractor. As such he oversees a lot of renovations on people’s houses. Every once in a while, he will come across a house that the owner wants to refurbish but after looking it over, Steve will tell him the sad news…this house is not worth the time or money. The only option is to tear it down and start over….
Friend, how do you react when you are faced with a situation that seems difficult or maybe even impossible?