Fear may indeed inspire regret, but not repentance. Fear can be dulled over time and guilt can be rationalised in an instant. And anyway, it is truer to say that we are punished by our sins, not for ...

Really? Why put ashes on your forehead?” A mark of ashes is intended to be an outward sign of inward repentance for our sin. But this is not just a modern liturgical symbol of western Christians.

On this third Sunday of Lent, we are invited to become aware of God’s presence through living things like bushes and fig ...

They mean a kind of repentance, which cleans the heart from pollutions, changes its dark spots into bright spots, and disburdens the heavy load of sins from the back of the human being in order to ...

If your gospel or “evangel” has no room for repentance from sin, which the Bible clearly defines as offensive to God, then you do not have a true gospel. Paul also summarizes the gospel in ...