Repentance: What it Means to Repent and Why We Must Do So

Written by J. C. Ryle

Narrated by Saethon Williams

Except you repent, you will all likewise perish. – Luke 13:5

It is indifference that leaves people alone and allows them to go their own way. It is love, tender love, that warns them and raises the cry of alarm. The cry of “Fire! Fire!” at midnight might sometimes rudely, harshly, and unpleasantly startle a person out of his sleep, but who would complain if that cry was the means of saving his life? The words Except you repent, you will all likewise perish might at first seem stern and severe, but they are words of love, and they could be the means of delivering precious souls from hell.

1. The nature of repentance: What is it?

2. The necessity of repentance: Why is repentance needful?

3. The encouragements to repentance: What is there to lead people to repent?

About the Author

John Charles Ryle (1816-1900) graduated from Eton and Oxford and then pursued a career in politics, but due to lack of funds, he entered the clergy of the Church of England. He was a contemporary of Spurgeon, Moody, Mueller, and Taylor and read the great theologians like Wesley, Bunyan, Knox, Calvin, and Luther. These all influenced Ryle’s understanding and theology. Ryle began his writing career with a tract following the Great Yarmouth suspension bridge tragedy, where more than a hundred people drowned. He gained a reputation for straightforward preaching and evangelism. He travelled, preached, and wrote more than 300 pamphlets, tracts, and books, including Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, Principles for Churchmen, and Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century. Ryle used the royalties from his writing to pay his father’s debts, but he also felt indebted to that ruin for changing the direction of his life. He was recommended by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli to be Bishop of Liverpool where he ended his career in 1900.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Author's Republic
• Release date: Apr 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9781662189159

J. C. Ryle

J. C. Ryle (1816–1900) was a prominent writer, preacher, and Anglican clergyman in nineteenth-century England. He is the author of the classic Expository Thoughts on the Gospels and retired as the bishop of Liverpool.

Reviews for Repentance

[Jin Kim · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Concise, clear, challenging and yet comforting! A classic style of Ryle's.

[Anganile · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very consise and straightforward. Easy to understand while being touching and moving. It makes you think about everything you may think is important but important can it really be in the face of eternity. My first Christian literature outside the Bible but it definitely won't be my last.