Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and we may even hear it on Ash Wednesday,

when you had your ashes traced on your forehead, the priest or the deacon or the extraordinary minister

may have spoken this word.

Repent.

Repent and believe in the gospel as they trace those ashes on your forehead.

I'm going to talk about that word repent because it gets to the real heart of Lent.

You see, the word repent means literally to turn, to turn back, to turn away, the idea is

you're turning away from sin and you're turning back toward Christ in your life.

And that gets to the real heart of Lent.

I know we've been talking a lot about the practices of Lent.

We've been talking about the idea of picking up your cross daily to follow Jesus especially

in Lent, but here we're going to get to the real essence of it all, that Jesus wants to work at

change in you. Are you aware of the things he wants you to repent of,

the things he wants you to turn away from? You see, a true disciple of Jesus is aware that he has things he needs to change, that he has some brokenness inside, he has some disordered attachments, things he's to attach to and to focused on himself with and he needs to change.

Are you aware of those areas you need to repent of this Lent?

Have you been sensing, you know, I better stop doing this or I better start treating this person better or I shouldn't respond in this way when these things happen?

Are you aware of those things that you have to repentive?

That's what I want to talk about in this

week's podcast. How can we really experience the life of repentance in this Lenten season?

But I really want to zoom in on something that's going to be an obstacle for all of us living in this modern secular world today

because there's an alternative gospel message out there, an alternative gospel message that makes us a little less aggressive in our

desire for a repentance. It makes us a little softer in our repentance. You know, in our secular world today there's another message is not repent it's the message that

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