Quotes about Renewal

Judas sought regeneration through revolution, instead of revolution through regeneration.

Changing the way we have lived for twenty or forty or sixty years is nothing short of a revolution. 4.

We imitate God by stopping our work and resting.

Sabbath is not dependent upon our readiness to stop.

death is a necessary prelude to resurrection. To bear long-term fruit for Christ, we need to recognize that some things must die so something new can grow.

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We are transferred out of darkness into the kingdom of light.

Our goal is the same: union with God in Christ, transformation into his image, and the freeing of our hearts from anything that stands in the way of Christ living in and through us.

The essence of being in God's image is our ability, like God, to stop. We imitate God by stopping our work and resting.

To become a Christian and to be adopted into God's family with the new name of "Christian" does not erase the past. God does not give us amnesia or do emergency emotional/spiritual reconstructive surgery. God does forgive the past, but he does not erase it. We are given a new start, but we still come in as babies drinking milk and are expected to die daily to the parts of our lives that do not honor God and follow Jesus.

way. Part of the sanctification process of the Holy Spirit is to strip away the false constructs we have accumulated and enable our true selves to emerge.

Play and Recreation The key here is to engage in activities that are pure and healthy and that breathe life into you.