Repentance Brings Refreshing
When you doiscover the true meaning of repentance, you escape the foolish and too small thinking that repentance is just about breaking a rule. It is so much more than that!
Christ is risen!
“A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.”
Yes, I bet you know that feeling of being so fed up with everyday life activities that you say, “STOP!”
And yet, why is it that too many of my vacations have been as stressful or more stressful than my regular schedule? It’s because an actual “refreshing” isn’t happening.
And why is that?
Because true refreshing is an internal reality.
True, your outward circumstances can help, but nothing takes the place of inner peace for rejuvenating your life!
The Wisdom of a Normal Orthodox life is filled with the disciplines that teach you how to control your thoughts, tame your passions, and discipline your desires so that they serve you instead of master you. This Normal Orthodox life is available to all of us IF we are willing and humble enough to do the one thing that starts the process!
OK, so how do you get that?
Look at our lesson today in Acts 3:19-26:
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