I wrote this essay, “Repentance: The Genuine Article (Part Six),” for CGG Weekly on April 8, 2011. “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” —Matthew 3:2 John the Baptist is the first of God’s messengers to address repentance in the New Testament: In those days John the Baptist came preaching …
This essay, “Repentance: The Genuine Article (Part Five),” appeared in CGG Weekly on April 1, 2011. “Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” —Job 42:6 We can learn a great deal from the sore trial of Job, particularly what God did to bring him to the point of repentance. Notice Job 40:1-4, …
I wrote this essay, “Repentance: The Genuine Article (Part Four),” for CGG Weekly on March 25, 2011. “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.” —II Peter 3:9 We would …
This essay, “Moses, Psalmist (Part Four),” was first published in CGG Weekly on December 7, 2001. “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.” —Deuteronomy 32:1 On anyone’s list of world religious figures of all time, Moses would certainly rank in the …
