The Jesus Prayer

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

Advice from Ogden Nash

To keep your marriage brimming,

With love in the loving cup,

Whenever you're wrong admit it,

Whenever you're right, shut up.

From Ritual to Repentance

Repentance is what makes religion more than ritual.

The Rewards of Repentance

Lloyd H. Steffen wrote in The Christian Century how when King Frederick II, an eighteenth-century king of Prussia, was visiting a prison in Berlin, the ...

God Won't Repent for You

God will take nine steps toward us, but he will not take the tenth. He will incline us to repent, but he cannot do our repenting for us.

Healing Requires Openness

Self-devastated people are often initially quiet; it hurts too much to air the sordid details. But healing cannot come without it.

In Death We Are All the Same

David Seamands ends his book Healing Grace with this story: For more than six hundred years the Hapsburgs exercised political power in Europe. When Emperor ...

Clean Hands

Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

Taking Out the Garbage

After I graduated from Dallas Seminary, waiting on my first ministry, I went home to live with my mother. My mom gave me chores. She said, "One of ...

Confession Dispells Lies

For him who confesses, shams are over, and realities have begun.