Survivors of domestic abuse often feel that God doesn't love them much. You can know in your head that Jesus loves all believing Christians, but that's not the same as knowing it emotionally, in your heart and your belly. A survivor recently expressed this to me in an email. She's given me permission to use… Continue reading I don’t feel that God loves me much
Month: May 2012
Counterfeit Repentance — by Thomas Watson, 1668
COUNTERFEITS of Repentance (from Thomas Watson's The Doctrine of Repentance, Puritan Paperbacks series) — To discover what true repentance is, I shall first show what it is not. There are several counterfeits of repentance, which might occasion that saying of Augustine that "repentance damns many". He meant a false repentance; a person may delude himself… Continue reading Counterfeit Repentance — by Thomas Watson, 1668
