Comments on: Repentance… The Key to Joy? http://blog.baldbrian.com/2008/02/22/repentance-the-key-to-joy/ . . . Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:41:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Joy… The Key to Worship? : Bald Brian’s Blog http://blog.baldbrian.com/2008/02/22/repentance-the-key-to-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Joy… The Key to Worship? : Bald Brian’s Blog Sun, 11 May 2008 05:54:08 +0000 http://blog.baldbrian.com/2008/02/22/repentance-the-key-to-joy.html#comment-15 [...] back in my college days at SBU. The culmination of that mental journey was an article that I titled Repentance… The Key to Joy? And once again I may be diving into this one a little early, because it is very new in my mind and [...] [...] back in my college days at SBU. The culmination of that mental journey was an article that I titled Repentance… The Key to Joy? And once again I may be diving into this one a little early, because it is very new in my mind and [...]

]]> By: cocull http://blog.baldbrian.com/2008/02/22/repentance-the-key-to-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-14 cocull Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:02:27 +0000 http://blog.baldbrian.com/2008/02/22/repentance-the-key-to-joy.html#comment-14 I was reading Luke 18:9-14, the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector praying. I find I am much more like the pharisee. I even confess my sins but am so busy comparing myself to others and justifing my sins that I am not truly repenting of my sins. So many of my sins are viewed as socially acceptable or even valued in this world. But we are not held to worldly standards. Instead I should have a heart like the tax collector and pray that God would have mercy on me because I am a sinner. I was reading Luke 18:9-14, the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector praying. I find I am much more like the pharisee. I even confess my sins but am so busy comparing myself to others and justifing my sins that I am not truly repenting of my sins. So many of my sins are viewed as socially acceptable or even valued in this world. But we are not held to worldly standards. Instead I should have a heart like the tax collector and pray that God would have mercy on me because I am a sinner.

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