repentance

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What is repentance? Turning from sin to God

by Joel Radford

In these bulletin articles, we’ve been going through a list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism, published in the 17th Century. Recently, we’ve been looking at the mediation Christ makes for his church and we’ve seen that part of Christ’s mediation is granting repentance. We learnt that repentance involves sensing the […]

What is repentance? Hatred of sin

by Joel Radford

In these bulletin articles, we’ve been going through a list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism, published in the 17th Century. Recently, we’ve been looking at the mediation Christ makes for his church and we’ve seen that part of Christ’s mediation is granting repentance. We learnt that repentance involves sensing the […]

What is repentance? Grieving over sin

by Joel Radford

In these bulletin articles, we’ve been going through a list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism, published in the 17th Century. Recently, we’ve been looking at the mediation Christ makes for his church and we’ve seen that part of Christ’s mediation is granting repentance. We then learnt that repentance involves sensing […]

What is repentance? Apprehending God’s mercy

by Joel Radford

In these articles, we’ve been going through a list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism, published in the 17th Century. Recently, we’ve been looking at the mediation Christ makes for his church and we’ve seen that part of Christ’s mediation is granting repentance. We then learnt that repentance involves sensing the […]

What is repentance? Seeing the filthiness of sin

by Joel Radford

In these articles, we’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism, published in the 17th Century. Recently, we’ve been looking at the mediation Christ makes for his church and we’ve seen that part of Christ’s mediation is granting repentance. Last time we started examining repentance and […]

What is repentance? Sensing the danger of sin

by Joel Radford

In these articles, we’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism, published in the 17th Century. Recently, we’ve been looking at the mediation Christ makes for his church. We saw that part of Christ’s mediation is sanctification, which is an act of God’s grace by the […]

What is sanctification? Receiving repentance

by Joel Radford

In these articles, we’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism, published in the 17th Century. Recently, we’ve been looking at the mediation Christ makes for his church and what that mediation entails. We saw that part of Christ’s mediation is the justification and adoption of […]

Regular repentance

by Joel Radford

Last week we saw what it means to repent of our sins. Repentance involves an intellectual acceptance that we are sinners, an emotional grief over our sin and active turning from our sin to serve in obedience. But do Christians only need to repent of their sins at conversion? Or do they need to repent […]

What is repentance?

by Joel Radford

Jesus says ‘But unless you repent, you too will all perish. (Luke 13:3). Thus repentance is clearly something you need to be saved. But what does it mean to ‘repent’? Firstly, to repent assumes an intellectual understanding that you have sinned and this is wrong. Noone can truly repent unless they have recognised that they […]