Repentance (150)
  1. Too often, we equate “repent” as the final warning to stop a particular sin before God ceases to love you and sends you to hell for your evil deeds.
  2. When we imagine we’re living an evil-shunning, virtue-practicing, morally superior Christian life, the problem is not that our halos are too small, but that our heads are too big.
  3. Jesus is in the business of proclaiming such a beautiful redundancy.
  4. God’s Law is a death sentence for us sinners. There is no winning beneath the Law of God.
  5. God has given us a way out of our plight of “ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” It is the way of the cross.
  6. Gone, abolished, put away with, undone, and destroyed are any and all notions that my repentance unlocks, sets free, or earns God’s forgiveness.
  7. Neither did Christ’s absolution “run out” nor “reach a limit” due to Judas’ sin.
  8. Repentance is not a call to improve. It is a call to die.
  9. The following excerpt comes from Chapter 7, “When Love Repents Us,” in Chad Bird’s new book, Night Driving: Notes from a Prodigal Soul.
  10. There is a mirror that we Christians look into with daily repentance.
  11. Our Lord has told us not to make these fine distinctions in grades of sin.
  12. What would be a fitting thing to give up, especially during the season of Lent?
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