When the Holy Spirit comes in convicting power and opens blind eyes and shines the glory of Christ in our hearts, He grants to us the gift of repentance. We turn from sin and we turn to Christ. But ...

How would you define repentance? Your friend says they are a Christian. Maybe they said they made a confession of faith or joined a certain church. Or they may have said they walked an aisle and shook ...

1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: •2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his ...

In these weeks leading up to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, it seems that the need to understand what repentance is and why it matters is more urgent than ever, writes the author of “Repentance: The ...

A series of writers answer the question: Do we still know how to atone? The evidence is everywhere: Bernie Madoff announces that he is sorry to have caused his family pain, but then defends himself, ...

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To make a real apology has always been hard. Our forebears in the garden, when confronted with their wrongdoing, passed the blame to others. Adam had the gumption to blame God as well as “the woman ...

A Catholic archbishop reminded the faithful that genuine repentance is a necessary step to conversion. In his Lenten message, Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan said repentance and ...

Kelly Ogden, professor of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University, spoke on the miracle of repentance at Tuesday’s campus devotional. “There is no principle of the gospel more important than ...

Text: Isaiah 53:1; 59:1-2; Ezekiel 20:33-38; Acts 13:17 Isaiah 53:1 When you repent, your sins are cleansed off, blotted out, erased from the record of God, there is reconciliation and God is no ...