Burp! Excuse me.

Psalm 7:12 If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword, he has bent and readied His bow

Ezekiel 14:6 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

Matthew 3:2 Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand (John the Baptist speaking preparing the way for Jesus)

Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Acts 8:22 Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you. (peter)

2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.


Eli is now three years old and His new hobby is pretty gross. He thinks that burping loud and often is absolutely hilarious. This is one of the few times when I can honestly say that one of my kid's bad habits did not come from me or Evie. We don't know where it came from, we just wish it would go away. In our best efforts as parents, we are trying to get him to stop and are using this as a teaching point on manners (since we are obviously failing him at this point). We have talked with him about his belching being wrong and rude, and we have taught him that you need to say excuse me when you do it for the sake of others. Well, I am pretty sure Eli has missed the big point of Stop Burping! He however has mastered the "excuse me" part and actually incorporated it into the burping routine itself. Burp, Excuse me. Burp,Excuse me. Burp, Excuse me. It appears that Eli thinks the "excuse me" part gives him the right to keep on burping."

If you stop and look, that is a picture of modern Christianity for the most part. People have bought in to a "synthetic- Man made grace" that really is just their ticket to do whatever they want and then just say "Forgive me Jesus", with no intentions of ever changing their ways.

Repentance is required to get in the Kingdom of Heaven. Repentance is not being sorry you got caught. Repentance is conviction that what you did was evil, hurt God and you agree to submit to Him so that he may change you. Repentance is agreeing with God that he alone is Holy, we are sinners and we need Jesus to save us! The bible is clear that every man and woman is born in sin (gen 8:21 and eph 2:1) and are headed for a Godless eternity until we meet Jesus, start to hate our sin as we agree with God that it is evil, and then turn from that sin and Follow Chrit!