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Repentance (General)

How Repentance Leads to Christ-Centred Joy

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  • David E. Prince

This article explains the difference between vain responses to guilt that avoid gospel repentance, and responses that form a pattern of gospel repentance.

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Repentance and Faith

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  • Jason P. Van Vliet

The regeneration wrought by the Holy Spirit should result in repentance and faith. What are repentance and faith? This article explains the two.

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Repentance

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  • Thomas Watson

Repentance is proved by one's attitude to sin. This article shows how true repentance relates to sin.

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Biblical Conversion and the Modern Church

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  • Kim Riddlebarger

Until recently the phrase "conversion experience" could be heard everywhere in the Christian world. Though this term may have fallen into disuse of late, the concept of some type of emotional, psychological or religious "experience" marking the initiation of the believer into a relationship with Jesus Christ, remains an important part of modern Evangelical theology.

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Returning to the Lord

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  • Arie DenHartog

This article is about backsliding and returning to God, and the faithfulness of God in our spiritual decline. The author also discusses the confessing of sin in our returning to God, the chastising of God, the antithesis of church and world, and the place of the Word of God in revival.

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Repentance

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  • J. I. Packer

Repentance describes the change that happens in the believer that leads to living a new life. This article explains it.

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Ten Things You Should Know about Repentance

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  • Sam Storms

What is repentance? How do you know if you have repented? This article explains ten things you should know about repentance, including the matters of conviction of sin, confessing sin, a sense of remorse, worldly repentance, and divine discipline.

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Taking Back Christianese #5: "Just Ask Jesus into Your Heart"

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  • Michael J. Kruger

This article considers the saying, "Just ask Jesus into your heart," and why a version of it can be helpful when emphasizing a personal, heartfelt response to the gospel, but why it is problematic when implying that man initiates salvation or when setting up a culture of easy-believism.

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What Is a Biblical Conversion?

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  • C. Vogelaar

This article explains conversion, including the elements that are essential to conversion: conviction, faith, and repentance.

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Six Principles for Repentance

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  • Ron Allchin

This is an article discussing repentance, and the various principles undergirding it. It stresses the need for confession, facing the pain that the sin has caused others, asking forgiveness, and remaining accountable.

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What Is Real Repentance?

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  • Leah Baugh

What is repentance? This article explains the meaning and the fruits of repentance.

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Four Anchors of Repentance

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  • Jake Ledet

What should drive biblical repentance? There are four foundational aspects of repentance: it is from God, is centred on God, produces life-giving joy, and should be sought in community

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Running a Different Race

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  • Tom Aiken

From Numbers 5, this article shows that repentance is characterized by confession, restitution, and atonement.

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Four Key Principles of Repentance

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  • Tim Challies

Repentance is part of the joyful duty of putting sin to death and coming alive to righteousness. This article discusses four principles for repenting of sin.

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Our Pasts Don't Have to Matter

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  • R. Fowler White

How can Christians handle their past experiences? This article looks at the life of the apostle Paul to answer this question. It argues that Christians cannot judge each other based on their past experiences, and that no sinner, no matter how sinful his past, needs to despair of Christ's mercy.

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Phoney Repentance, Abundant Mercy

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  • Roger Ellsworth

If true repentance will always show itself in a change of attitude and behaviour, then phoney repentance is the opposite. This article uses Ahab as an example of superficial repentance, to shows what true repentance is.

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Repentance – Natural, Legal, or Evangelical?

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  • John Colquhoun

What is genuine repentance? This article answers this question by showing the difference between natural, legal, and evangelistic repentance.

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Backsliding

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  • William MacLeod

Showing that backsliding is turning away from God and toward sin, this article shows the causes of such backsliding, examples from the Bible of those who turned from the Lord, and the hope we have in God’s mercy for those who repent and return to the Lord.

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Repenting Always

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  • James Montgomery Boice

The only way to avoid the trap of self-righteousness is to always remember that the entirety of the Christian life is that of repentance. This article will explain.

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True Repentance

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  • Ken Wimer

Repentance is essential, since without it we will all perish. Repentance is the center of gospel preaching. This article shows what true repentance involves.

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Conversion

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  • Andrew Johnson

Conversion is the fruit of regeneration, and leads to obedience and trust in God, as well as forsaking ungodly actions.

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Repentance

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  • Peter Anderson

Jesus calls us to repent. True repentance involves a change of mind, emotions and actions.

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Yanking out Handfuls of Hair

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  • George P. van Popta

This article is about two passages, Ezra 9:3 and Nehemiah 13:25, and the difference between them. This article shows two different reactions to sin, by two people in different offices.

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Conversion: Is It Still Possible?

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  • B. Vander Heiden

This article explores the necessity, possibility, and content of conversion.

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Conviction for Sin

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  • Gardiner Spring

This article addresses the matter of conviction for sin. It is here noted that conviction in itself does not necessarily mean that one will truly repent.

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What Is Repentance?

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  • Derek Prime

What is repentance and why is it necessary? This article defines repentance and shows the necessity of it, its nature, characteristics, motives, and evidences.

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How to Become a Christian

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  • James Montgomery Boice

This article advises on how one becomes a Christian.

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Repent!

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  • W. Vander Jagt

This article looks at Luther and the sacrament of penance, indulgences, and repentance. 

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The Calling of the Regenerate

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  • Abraham Kuyper

Kuyper discusses what he calls the calling of the regenerate or the calling to repentance in the order of salvation. It is a stage that follows the regeneration of the elect sinner, the quickening, endowment with faith and uniting with Jesus Christ. In the order of salvation this is the stage where the Word brings the sinner to repentance.

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The Difference between True and Counterfeit Repentance

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  • John Colquhoun

This article addresses a number errors that people associate with repentance. These include the proper understanding of one's sinfulness and God's perfect justification through Jesus Christ.

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Mistakes about Conversion

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  • Joseph Alleine

This article addresses a number of acts that men may mistake for conversion. It shows that conversion is not taking upon us the profession of Christianity by mouth, putting on the badge of Christ in baptism, practicing moral righteousness, or external conformity to the rules of piety. Conversion is not the same as conviction.

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Dismembering an Idol

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  • Jon Bloom

When Zacchaeus the tax collector was converted, he vowed to give back fourfold to anyone he had defrauded. Here is a fictitious conversation he might have had when returning the money. This story serves to show how God works to rid us of our individual idols.

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The Great Change

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  • Arthur W. Pink

The author of this article investigates what he calls the miracle of conversion, considering the process, the various individual experiences of conversion, and the true nature of the fall of man.

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God Glorified in Conversion

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  • Roger R. Nicole

It may surprise some to find that the word "conversion" does not appear in the Westminster Confession or Catechisms. But the verb "convert" does appear in the chapter on free will: "When God converts a sinner...". The words "convert" and "conversion" are equally rare in the Bible. Even though the word itself may be rare in the scriptures, the reality of a new life in which people turn to God and away from a sinful life, is not foreign at all.

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Conversion in the Thought and Experience of John Calvin

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  • Pete Wilcox

Is conversion a sudden experience, or a gradual change? Pete Wilcox addresses this question by discussing John Calvin's perspective on conversion and regeneration.

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Repentance

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  • Arthur W. Pink

In detail, the author discusses the subject of repentance and includes in the discussion the necessity, nature, implications, and fruits of repentance.

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