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A Good Barometer for the Health of Your Marriage

Posted in Forgiveness, Marriage, Repentance, Sin on August 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

From Vitamin Z: I’ll break it down really simple.  Ask yourself this question:  How often do the words, “I’m sorry.  Will you please forgive me?” come out of your mouth towards your spouse? Not very often? If not, either your spouse is enabling your sin, you have a low view of your sin, or you [...]

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Peace Needs Confession

Posted in Peace, Repentance, Sin on April 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been reading Covenant of Peace: The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics by William Swartley. I will blog more about it in coming weeks, but for now I will post this quote, which addresses the need for repentance in peace. Peace involves restoration of relationship, possible only when misdeeds are duly acknowledged. [...]

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The Seven A’s of Confession

Posted in Peace, Repentance, Sin on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

From Peacemakers Ministries: As God opens your eyes to see how you have sinned against others, he simultaneously offers you a way to find freedom from your past wrongs. It is called confession. Many people have never experienced this freedom because they have never learned how to confess their wrongs honestly and unconditionally. Instead, they [...]

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“I am sorry, I was wrong, will you please forgive me.”

Posted in Repentance on October 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Repentance is the hardest thing to learn because it requires the very thing that comes least naturally: humility. Yet it is a prerequisite to true peace (both with God and with each other). I saw the following on Zach’s blog and thought I would repost it here. Chris Brauns: The Bible says that God gives [...]

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More on Repentance

Posted in Repentance, Sin on September 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Jonathan Dodson has some helpful thoughts on repentance at his blog. He notes that there are three key things that must happen when we repent: confession, mortification (this means putting to death), and faith. He then gives a question for each to help you in the fight. For confession, we ask, “What do I want [...]

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Sin Destroys Peace

Posted in Marriage, Peace, Repentance, Sin on September 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Last night my wife came home from a shopping trip having bought things that she and I had talked about.  She spent more money than I thought she was going to. I wasn’t angry. I was anxious. I was worried about extra expenditures and whether we would have the funds to pay for them. I [...]

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Repentance

Posted in Knowing God, Repentance, Sin, Theology on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I recently preached a sermon on the prophet Jonah (Yunus) so I have been thinking about repentance. For those who aren’t familiar with the story of Jonah, here it is in a nutshell (or you could read the whole book in the Old Testament in about 10 minutes). The Lord told the prophet Jonah to [...]

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