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The Power of Repentance: How God Changes Lives
What is repentance? What does repentance look like? How do I live a life of repentance? This book, The Power of Repentance , addresses these questions, giving clear and insightful instruction regarding God’s gift of repentance and its employment in a life that turns from the darkness of sin and self into the light of life in Christ.
This book is perfect for the pastor looking for a gospel-centered treatment on repentance, the serious-minded Christian desiring to live a life more pleasing to God, or the skeptic seeking to discover what the Bible has to say about finding God, or rather, God finding you.
This book is perfect for the pastor looking for a gospel-centered treatment on repentance, the serious-minded Christian desiring to live a life more pleasing to God, or the skeptic seeking to discover what the Bible has to say about finding God, or rather, God finding you.
80 pages, Paperback
Published October 13, 2023
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July 11, 2024
A great, concise resource on what it truly means to repent. I may be a bit biased since the author is my father in law, but I would highly recommend it.
December 3, 2025
The promise of this title drew me to read it. The author is a former pastor who teaches education at Boyce College in Kentucky.
For too long, our culture has avoided or dismissed “repentance” as negative and judgmental, whereas it is a rich gift inviting us to wholesome, grace-filled, and restorative change.
Gibson introduces his purpose (xii): “… it is my goal and desire to lay out for you what repentance means, what repentance looks like, and how to live a life of repentance for the Lord Jesus Christ.”
He then lays out his short book in five chapters:
What is repentance?
What does repentance look like?
Portraits of repentance
Repentance in the life of the believer
A posture and prayer of repentance.
The book is easy to read and presents the basic theology and practice of repentance in an understandable and useful way.
Repentance is described helpfully using various writers such as the Puritan, Thomas Watson (6), J. I. Packer (7), Kevin DeYoung (37), and others. However, he does not present or examine the Hebrew or Greek words of the biblical text translated as “repent*.” Such an examination would have provided further insights and illustrations.
I found the writing style somewhat wordy, and it seemed to read like lightly edited sermon notes.
Despite the book’s limitations, I welcome its voice as it speaks into popular culture on an important, often ignored, and misunderstood topic.
This review first appeared on 'living theology' at https://www.johnbmacdonald.com/.
(I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.)
For too long, our culture has avoided or dismissed “repentance” as negative and judgmental, whereas it is a rich gift inviting us to wholesome, grace-filled, and restorative change.
Gibson introduces his purpose (xii): “… it is my goal and desire to lay out for you what repentance means, what repentance looks like, and how to live a life of repentance for the Lord Jesus Christ.”
He then lays out his short book in five chapters:
What is repentance?
What does repentance look like?
Portraits of repentance
Repentance in the life of the believer
A posture and prayer of repentance.
The book is easy to read and presents the basic theology and practice of repentance in an understandable and useful way.
Repentance is described helpfully using various writers such as the Puritan, Thomas Watson (6), J. I. Packer (7), Kevin DeYoung (37), and others. However, he does not present or examine the Hebrew or Greek words of the biblical text translated as “repent*.” Such an examination would have provided further insights and illustrations.
I found the writing style somewhat wordy, and it seemed to read like lightly edited sermon notes.
Despite the book’s limitations, I welcome its voice as it speaks into popular culture on an important, often ignored, and misunderstood topic.
This review first appeared on 'living theology' at https://www.johnbmacdonald.com/.
(I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.)
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