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The Feasts of Repentance: From Luke-Acts to Systematic and Pastoral Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

In gospel proclamation today, the critical New Testament element of repentance can be far too often ignored, minimalized, or dismissed. Yet John the Baptist, Jesus himself, and those he commissioned to spread his gospel all spoke of the urgent need to repent. Michael Ovey was convinced that a gospel without repentance quickly distorts our view of God, ourselves, and each other by undermining...

healing has been linked with forgiveness and salvation (5:12–16 and 17–26 respectively), this angry reaction raises the question whether the Pharisees will obstruct Jesus’ ministry or not.23 Luke also paves the way for further unfavourable characterization of the Pharisees in 6:39–42 as Jesus teaches about a judgmentalism that ignores its own faults while attacking the faults of others (v. 41). The reader has certainly seen the Pharisees critical of the faults of others by this point. Such people
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