Throughout the season of Lent, church employees encourage their group to deliver penitent hearts to the Lord. We plan Wednesday evening providers, rehearse particular music, provide assets that households can take dwelling, coordinate youth group Lenten meals, and put together Sunday faculty classes that assist youngsters perceive the importance of the season. Amidst all these acts of service it’s straightforward to lose contact with our personal meditations on repentance and redemption.
To help private time of reflection, we’ve produced the “Sincere Repentance” video collection. The free collection consists of six sermons written and preached by Dr. David Maxwell, Professor of Systematic Theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. Every of the 10-minute messages is theologically wealthy and personally relevant. We encourage you to make use of them in your time of meditation as you give attention to the cross this Lenten season.
“Repentance begins with being trustworthy earlier than God and ourselves about who we’re. On the subject of sin, everybody has a pure impulse to cover, however repentance means discovering the braveness to be trustworthy. It additionally means having religion within the promise of forgiveness.
“However being trustworthy about religion means recognizing that religion is contested on many sides not solely by society, however by our personal experiences, and generally even by the actions of God himself.
“Lastly, repentance means changing into extra human, not much less. As a result of our ideas, wishes,
and actions are so linked with sin, it’s straightforward to view repentance as preventing towards our humanity as if holiness meant making an attempt to stifle as lots of our pure human impulses as potential. However trustworthy repentance acknowledges that sin is the factor that stifles our humanity, whereas repentance leads to our pure impulses functioning extra as God designed them.”
—Dr. David Maxwell
David’s imaginative interweaving of the Previous Testomony foundations of our religion with the challenges we encounter in day by day life helped me probe deeper into what residing the entire life as a lifetime of repentance really means in taking the Phrase of the Lord into my very own life. Brutally trustworthy with and about himself, David opened up the hearers’ skill to face the wrinkles and crevices of our personal lives with the releasing message of forgiveness and acceptance that Christ offers us by his dying and resurrection.
—Dr. Robert Kolb, Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Dr. Maxwell preached the “Sincere Repentance” sermon collection at my church throughout Wednesday night Lenten providers. The photographs he described caught with me; I discovered myself eager about their theological significance all week. I felt each convicted and inspired.
—Jessica Bordeleau, member of Timothy Lutheran Church, Saint Louis
I listened to Dave’s sermons throughout our church’s Wednesday Lenten providers. Each sermon took me on an mental and religious journey by the Scriptures. And, for causes which can be nonetheless considerably of a thriller to me, every one among them engaged my coronary heart in ways in which stunned me. They modified me. They simply would possibly change you too.
—Dr. Tim Saleska, Professor of Exegetical Theology, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Week 1. Regulation
Creation: Genesis 1:1–2:3 or Genesis 1:1–10
Week 2. Chaos
The Flood: Genesis 7:1–5, 11-18; 8:6–18; 9:8–13 or Genesis 7:6–12, 17–21; 8:1
Week 3. Religion
Abraham and Isaac: Genesis 22:1–18
Week 4. Repentance
The Repentance of Nineveh: Jonah 3:1–10
Week 5. Purification
The Three Males within the Fiery Furnace: Daniel 3:1–30 or Daniel 3:13–30
Week 6. Salvation
The Crossing of the Purple Sea: Exodus 14:10–15:1
