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Tag: <span>repentance</span>

Tag: repentance

Did Jonah fail? THe importance of sharing the Gospel

Just listened to a sermon where the preacher said something like:  ‘Jonah failed – we are not called to go and tell people to repent, but to display Jesus (His forgiveness / grace / love) to world’  First off, I full want to take on board his point: that we have received grace so should desire it for and show it to others. As a christian, I have no right to withhold forgiveness, to harbour hatred or ill feeling towards anyone – even those who hate or attack.  Attacks and hatred should be water off a ducks back to anyone …

Faith | False Religion / Cults   |

Fear of God is not Reverence

That stance / doctrine of ‘fear means reverence’ is at least partly to blame in my opinion. At times the word translated fear means terror, not ‘just’ fear, let alone reverence. No fear of God = no wisdom, no restraint, no repentance It has long been a grievance to me that people would focus on one element continually (love / grace / forgiveness) and quote things like ‘it’s God’s love that controls us (2 Corinthians 5:14), forgetting (or deliberately suppressing) the rest of the verse: “Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all …

for thought | Preaching   | |

Australia Day 2022 – Are you ready for the end of Australia as we know it?

This Australia Day, I gleaned a little from some of the mainstream media across the country and world. It is quite interesting to see just how clear the agenda of each news outlet is: many owned by the same umbrella company or person. They are very clever at the way they reach their target market and influence them towards the set agenda.  Of course, the position of the vast majority is that of the left, liberal or progressive ideals that will chop away at the country we love. (If you can’t handle that truth – I suggest you stop reading!) …

Culture | for thought   | | |