Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There's a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
--"Anthem" by Leonard Cohen
Sermon excerpt:
The word “repent” sits like lead in our stomachs, like when we’ve indulged in too many Christmas cookies. The word “repent,” it feels heavy and uncomfortable and burdensome. To repent means we have to stop and think about and claim our sin—to go back and re-live those times we stuck our foot in mouths, when we lashed out in anger, when we treated a person like an object, and when we judged someone because of how they spoke or how they were dressed.
To repent, and to do it well, is a painful and quite possibly humiliating process.
But that need to repent is stirred in us, sometimes unwillingly, by the God who loves us and wants to initiate and extend a righteous relationship with us. So he prompts us and he stirs us and he illumines our eyes and the eyes of our hearts by his Spirit and begins the process of redeeming and regenerating us.
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