Repentance
I don't know if God is trying to teach me something here but "repentance" has been a dominate theme in most of my study over the last month. On Sunday nights we have been looking at the book of Isaiah. The theme there is: things are bad and they will get worse until you repent. When you repent things will get better. So why not just repent now? That is theme for each of the nations that are being judged. If you would just repent you would not have the terrible time that is coming to you. You are too proud to repent so you will be smashed. If you would have repented you would have no problems, dummy (I added the last word for emphasis.) On Sunday mornings we are in the very beginning of the book of Acts. Peter has two sermons to start it off. He preaches one right after the Pentecost. He preaches the second right after a healing is performed. In both cases people look to Peter and ask him, "What must we do to be ...