This website is a means of sharing writings and messages about New Covenant Christianity in post-Christian America. We are instructed in scripture to, "Gird up the loins of our minds."
Robert Wurtz II So with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people (Luke 3:18 ESV). My objective for this entry is to continue doing my part to reverse the bad press and hostility that accompanies the good news of repentance so that we have a more biblical view of the subject. We... Continue Reading →
Robert Wurtz II The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance (2 Peter 3:9 ESV). Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as... Continue Reading →
Robert Wurtz II Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has... Continue Reading →
Robert Wurtz II A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:34–35 ESV). We know that we have passed... Continue Reading →
The Whole Counsel of God Robert Wurtz II Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word (Acts 4:29 NKJV). Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare... Continue Reading →
Robert Wurtz II For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God. (1 Peter 2:20 NKJV) In the ancient world, unlike Romans Citizens, Roman slaves were subject to corporal punishment, torture, or the death... Continue Reading →
Robert Wurtz II “For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely. They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not... Continue Reading →
Robert Wurtz II As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight,... Continue Reading →
Jesus Defines Repentance Robert Wurtz II The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here. (Luke 11:32 NKJV) There is a generation that heaps to itself teachers who tickle the ears saying,... Continue Reading →