Tag: Richard Owen Roberts

• Evidences of a Backslidden Condition

  Through the prophet Jeremiah the Lord dispenses a treasury of wisdom and insight. Perhaps among the most valuable of those insights, at least to my thinking, is found in Jeremiah 17.9: The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? The Lord also reminds us, through Jeremiah and scores of…

  Dennis Griffith

  March 21, 2014

  Gospel-Centered, Spiritual Formation

  25 Questions, Backsliding, Cold heart, Gospel, Revival, Richard Owen Roberts, Sin, Spiritual Inventory

• 7 Maxims of Repentance

  Jesus said: “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.”  (Luke 26.46-47) Seemingly few recognize that repentance is part of the message of the Great Commission.  But that is…

  Dennis Griffith

  September 29, 2010

  Christian Life, Grace, Reformed Spirituality

  95 Theses, Christian Life, Christian Spirituality, Grace of Repentance, Great Commission, Luther’s 95 Theses, Martin Luther, Reformed Spirituality, Repentance, Richard Owen Roberts, Sinclair Ferguson

• Grace of Repentance

    Today is Ash Wednesday. That does not mean much to many in my theological circles.  But for many other Christians it is a day that launches the Season leading to Easter – the Season of Lent.  This day is designated Ash Wednesday because of an ancient practice of marking believers with ashes as a symbol…

  Dennis Griffith

  February 25, 2009

  Books, Gospel, Reformed Spirituality, Spiritual Formation

  Ash Wednesday, C. John Miller, Christian Life, Gospel, growth in grace, Jack Miller, Martin Luther, Repentance, Richard Owen Roberts, sanctification, Season of Lent, Spiritual Formation, spiritual growth, Spiritual Maturity, Thomas Watson