Sonshine for your soul
Posted in repentance on Aug 9th, 2013
We’ve all seen the young males on powerful motorcycles zooming between cars on the freeway.
And we’ve all read the tragic stories about how many of them end up dead or disabled because of accidents attributed to their irresponsible speeding.
My wife Lori works in a hospital and has seen the calamitous consequences of such misbehavior far […]
Posted in personal holiness on Jul 30th, 2013
Satan loves to trap long-time Christians who have learned to set aside many of their past sinful habits.
He lures them into looking at how they are not as sinful as the world around them so that, as a result, they feel content with their measure of personal holiness.
You and I know, of course, that […]
Posted in repentance on May 14th, 2013
It’s wonderful that God offers forgiveness to repentant Christians.
There is more to repentance, though, than simply saying we’re sorry for doing or thinking or saying _____________.
If we don’t change our ways, we haven’t repented, have we?
We’ve simply confessed our sin.
That’s not good enough.
God deserves a better response from us after […]
Posted in repentance on Dec 12th, 2012
Nobody likes making mistakes and even more distasteful is being corrected for the error.
This is true for the small child misbehaving at home and for the veteran employee who is expected to avoid errors in performance or judgment.
Like you, I’ve made mistakes along the way in my secular and ministry careers.
Sometimes, the mistakes prompted difficult […]
Posted in God's grace on Nov 8th, 2010
Intellectually, we know that repentance is not only for drug addicts, fornicators, serial gossipers and others wallowing in cesspools of sin.
But actually internalizing the ongoing need that EVERY believer has for repentance is more of a struggle.
We see SO many people around us with lifestyles that resemble grease rags amidst just-washed dinner napkins. And […]
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Martin Drummond