This article explains the difference between vain responses to guilt that avoid gospel repentance, and responses that form a pattern of gospel repentance.

Until recently the phrase "conversion experience" could be heard everywhere in the Christian world. Though this term may have fallen into disuse of late, the concept of some type of emotional, psychological or religious "experience" marking the initiation of the believer into a relationship with Jesus Christ, remains an important part of modern Evangelical theology.

This article is about backsliding and returning to God, and the faithfulness of God in our spiritual decline. The author also discusses the confessing of sin in our returning to God, the chastising of God, the antithesis of church and world, and the place of the Word of God in revival.

What is repentance? How do you know if you have repented? This article explains ten things you should know about repentance, including the matters of conviction of sin, confessing sin, a sense of remorse, worldly repentance, and divine discipline.

This article considers the saying, "Just ask Jesus into your heart," and why a version of it can be helpful when emphasizing a personal, heartfelt response to the gospel, but why it is problematic when implying that man initiates salvation or when setting up a culture of easy-believism.

This is an article discussing repentance, and the various principles undergirding it. It stresses the need for confession, facing the pain that the sin has caused others, asking forgiveness, and remaining accountable.

What is repentance? This article explains the meaning and the fruits of repentance.

What should drive biblical repentance? There are four foundational aspects of repentance: it is from God, is centred on God, produces life-giving joy, and should be sought in community

Repentance is part of the joyful duty of putting sin to death and coming alive to righteousness. This article discusses four principles for repenting of sin.

How can Christians handle their past experiences? This article looks at the life of the apostle Paul to answer this question. It argues that Christians cannot judge each other based on their past experiences, and that no sinner, no matter how sinful his past, needs to despair of Christ's mercy.

If true repentance will always show itself in a change of attitude and behaviour, then phoney repentance is the opposite. This article uses Ahab as an example of superficial repentance, to shows what true repentance is.

The only way to avoid the trap of self-righteousness is to always remember that the entirety of the Christian life is that of repentance. This article will explain.

Repentance is essential, since without it we will all perish. Repentance is the center of gospel preaching. This article shows what true repentance involves.

Conversion is the fruit of regeneration, and leads to obedience and trust in God, as well as forsaking ungodly actions.

This article addresses the matter of conviction for sin. It is here noted that conviction in itself does not necessarily mean that one will truly repent.

This article advises on how one becomes a Christian.

Kuyper discusses what he calls the calling of the regenerate or the calling to repentance in the order of salvation. It is a stage that follows the regeneration of the elect sinner, the quickening, endowment with faith and uniting with Jesus Christ. In the order of salvation this is the stage where the Word brings the sinner to repentance.

This article addresses a number errors that people associate with repentance. These include the proper understanding of one's sinfulness and God's perfect justification through Jesus Christ.

This article addresses a number of acts that men may mistake for conversion. It shows that conversion is not taking upon us the profession of Christianity by mouth, putting on the badge of Christ in baptism, practicing moral righteousness, or external conformity to the rules of piety. Conversion is not the same as conviction.

When Zacchaeus the tax collector was converted, he vowed to give back fourfold to anyone he had defrauded. Here is a fictitious conversation he might have had when returning the money. This story serves to show how God works to rid us of our individual idols.

The author of this article investigates what he calls the miracle of conversion, considering the process, the various individual experiences of conversion, and the true nature of the fall of man.

It may surprise some to find that the word "conversion" does not appear in the Westminster Confession or Catechisms. But the verb "convert" does appear in the chapter on free will: "When God converts a sinner...". The words "convert" and "conversion" are equally rare in the Bible. Even though the word itself may be rare in the scriptures, the reality of a new life in which people turn to God and away from a sinful life, is not foreign at all.

Is conversion a sudden experience, or a gradual change? Pete Wilcox addresses this question by discussing John Calvin's perspective on conversion and regeneration.

In detail, the author discusses the subject of repentance and includes in the discussion the necessity, nature, implications, and fruits of repentance.