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What Should We Learn from the Rich Man’s Preaching in Hell? — Luke 16:19-31

April 2, 2018 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Repentance

A friend at church told me that he has been asked to explain the rich man and Lazarus. Another friend overhead and said that he too has been asked about that passage several times. Summary of the account: A rich man and a poor man named Lazarus both die. Lazarus ends up in the

Divorce, Of Course

November 30, 2016 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Divorce, Marriage, Repentance

by Shawn Lazar “I do funerals, but I don’t do weddings,” Buddy, my pastor, once told me. “Why not?” “Because when I do a funeral, I know they’ll stay dead.” That’s a sad commentary on the state of marriage today. I was reminded of this sad state this weekend, when I heard news about four

Is Repentance the Flip Side of Faith?

October 6, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - Faith, Repentance

by Bob Wilkin I heard it when I was on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ. I heard it in some of my classes at Dallas Theological Seminary. I’ve heard it a lot in the three decades since I graduated from seminary. It is often said that repentance is the flip side of faith. Imagine

God Wishes None Should Perish—2 Peter 3:9

September 14, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - Christianity, Mercy, Repentance

by Zane Hodges, originally published in the July/August 2009 edition of Grace in Focus The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9 Peter’s point, of course, is that what

To Repent or Not to Repent: John’s Doctrine of Repentance

July 15, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - GES, Repentance, theology

By Zane C. Hodges, originally published in the July/August 1998 edition of Grace in Focus Introduction In the last issue of Grace in Focus (May/June 98), we considered the fact that John is silent, in his Gospel, on the subject of repentance. In view of the purpose of the Gospel of John to bring people

The Enormity and Elusiveness of Repentance

October 15, 2012 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Doubt, monasticism, Orthodox, Repentance, Salvation, salvation by works, st sisoes

Whenever I hear it said that repentance is a condition of eternal salvation, I think of St. Sisoes the Great (d. 429). Sisoes was one of the first great monastics—St. Anthony’s successor—who lived deep in the Scetian Desert, in an area known today as Wadi El Natrun. I think of Sisoes because of the story