Family Worship in the New Year

I am not the kind to make New Year’s resolutions.  Maybe I am more cynical than most, but all I see myself doing is making a promise that I am pretty sure I will break in a couple of months.  So I console/justify myself by not even traveling that road to save some heartbreak.  Yet, [...]

Merry Tossmas

The Nature Of True Repentance

The Doctrine of Repentance by Thomas Watson
I shall next show what gospel repentance is. Repentance is a grace of God’s Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed. For a further amplification, know that repentance is a spiritual medicine made up of six special ingredients:

Sight of sin
Sorrow for sin
Confession of sin
Shame for sin
Hatred [...]

The Dark Knight

I liked the first.  This one looks to be as good.  I have a feeling I am going to like Heath Ledger as the Joker.

Sexyback Parody…Saviorback

The Dangerous Crusader is back at it again. I think he pulls off a good parody of Justin Timberlake’s SexyBack.
SYNOPOSIS: Set off by a young lady reading Your Best Life Now, the Dangerous Crusader suits up and races to rescue the damsel in distress from the hands of demonic forces and the deception of [...]

That’s Amore

Counterfeit Repentance

The Doctrine of Repentance by Thomas Watson
To discover what true repentance is, I shall first show what it is not. There are several deceits of repentance which might occasion that saying of Augustine that `repentance damns many’. He meant a false repentance; a person may delude himself with counterfeit repentance.
1. The first deceit of repentance [...]