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Showing posts with label Repentance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Repentance. Show all posts
Saturday, September 06, 2025

Trust in Christ Alone

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Sometimes satire bats 1000% when putting a fine point on the truth. President Donald Trump:  “I want to try and get to heaven if possible. ...
Tuesday, December 03, 2024

Jesus and our sin

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The Saviour of Sinners . 1 Timothy 1:15. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to ...
Friday, May 17, 2024

Calling sinners to repentance

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Luke 5:32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Jeremiah 3:22-25  22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will hea...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Repent, and be baptized

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Acts 2:38 - Two imperatives (“repent,” “be baptized”) and a promise (“ye shall receive”). Those who teach baptismal regeneration – that is,...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

An open letter to the Texas Republican Party chairman

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I interrupt the regularly scheduled blog post to bring you this important political message. I received no response, and so am posting here ...
Saturday, April 01, 2023

Applauding sin, repentance, and confession

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This link is provided for context rather than “pick on” one person. This scenario plays out over and over. A pastor or other church staff o...
Monday, November 11, 2019

The order of repentance and faith

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The sequential order of faith and repentance evidently makes a fun and fine debating point. Some of the debate is substantial, and other of...
Sunday, April 07, 2019

Seeking God

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The hymn “Seeking God” was written by Thomas Benson Pollock (1839-1896) and is one of two hymns he contributed to the 1889 Supplemental Hym...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Where's, O Grave, thy conquering glory?

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1. Pleased we read in sacred story,   How our Lord resumed his breath;   Where's, O Grave, thy conquering glory?   Where's th...
Monday, September 12, 2016

Christ, Without Repentance?

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Much of today’s evangelism offers Christ without repentance. Masses of today’s youth are reported to be turning on with Jesus. Little or no...
Thursday, April 02, 2015

The thief on the cross

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Luke 23:33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right h...
Friday, August 16, 2013

The First Baptist

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Lesson from Matthew 3:1-17 Present day Baptists would do well to be more like the first Baptist. Notice some facts about true Baptist prea...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Thou Art the Man by M.L. Vaughn

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In the Book of books we read of two of God's chosen men who committed great crimes, yet condemned those who committed them as being wort...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Repentance at the cross

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HYMN 106 C. M. Repentance at the cross. O, if my soul were formed for woe, How would I vent my sighs! Repentance should like rivers flow Fro...
Wednesday, November 28, 2007

The prodigal son

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The prodigal son, Lk 15:11-24 Afflictions, though they seem severe; In mercy oft are sent; They stopped the prodigal's career, And force...
Monday, November 19, 2007

The contrite heart

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The contrite heart. Isa 47:15 The Lord will happiness divine On contrite hearts bestow; Then tell me, gracious God, is mine A contrite heart...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Doing positive things

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"Any positive thing man does is done by God's grace. This has to be the case, because man is by nature a totally-depraved, totally-...