Repentance is what leads us to faith. If you need greater faith in your life, greater confidence

in God, greater trust in God, I can tell you the pathway, the doorway to that. It's not

more biblical knowledge, it's not another Bible study, it's your facility, your

comfort, your willingness to practice repentance. See I think we've imagined that repentance was only for people who were engaged in gross

immorality, some dark deep dive into the occult. Repentance should be a part of the occult.

Rependance should be a part of the routine of our lives,

of our spiritual discipline.

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Be blessed.

We're in the midst of a study under this general theme of thriving in the midst of big trouble.

The biblical world for big trouble is tribulation.

In fact, the concluding book of the New Testament

talks about the ultimate tribulation,

the ultimate big trouble but before that big trouble

arrives the the trouble will go will escalate the Bible uses the imagery of birth pains, something that increases in frequency and intensity.

And I believe the pandemic that we were introduced to a couple of years ago was a tipping point, a

transition point, a hinge point in the story of our lives and I don't see that as a

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