1. What is repentance, and how do we get it, or do it? In this episode, Gretchen and Katie talk about some common questions about repentance. How do you know if someone has repented enough? How do you know if you have repented enough? Where do we get repentance? What it comes down to is: what comes first, repentance or grace?
  2. Mankind’s “thoughts and ways” on the matter of pardon and forgiveness do not even come close to exhausting, let alone fathoming, God’s “thoughts and ways.”
  3. Beneath the calm, within the light, A hid unruly appetite Of swifter life, a surer hope, Strains every sense to larger scope, Impatient to anticipate The halting steps of aged Fate. Now listen to Ringside.
  4. Repentance means to turn or change your mind. It is not a turn from sin to righteousness. It is a turn from sin to the righteous Son of God who has defeated all sin.
  5. The truth is we’ve always mixed up the roles of penitent and priest.
  6. Being able to tell the difference between truth and lies is at the core of repentance.
  7. Jesus lives to intercede. So we needn’t bring him our feigned righteousness or our faux rehabilitation.
  8. Repentance means being cut down by the law’s declaration of judgment. It’s not an activity we do to prepare for grace, but a point of despair worked by God himself.
  9. There is joy in Lent, but it is the kind of joy that comes in being made whole.
  10. Because of my Advocate, there is no judgment or condemnation by God in my suffering.
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