Tag: repent
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Crushed
Let’s get something straight: You are not good enough for Heaven. I am not even good enough for my church, my wife or my child. If we cannot do enough good works to earn our place with a Holy God, how will we ever pay what we owe for our many sins? Answer: We can not.…
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Ashes of Ash Wednesday + a Preparation of Repentance
Ash Wednesday We pause momentarily today [AD 2022] from consideration of God’s love to prepare for the season of Christ’s Blood of Sacrifice. Consider your own unrighteousness to receive any grace. Bow down in the dust of your crumbling bones; cover with ashes your sin-consumed flesh. Will the LORD not have mercy on me, a sinner?…
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Good News, Bad News
I had dropped off my car for a routine procedure and would pick it up later. Then came the call from the mechanic: “I have good news and bad news.” The ‘good news’ was that I did not need the procedure I thought. So what was the bad news? Isn’t that the question always lurking…
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Wisdom Cries Out
Proverbs 8: NKJV Does not wisdom cry out, And understanding lift up her voice? 2 She takes her stand on the top of the high hill, Beside the way, where the paths meet. 3 She cries out by the gates, at the entry of the city, At the entrance of the doors: 4 “To you, O men,…