What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?

The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.

Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Change yourself — you are in control."

And on their naked limbs the flowry roof/Show'r'd Rose, which the Morn repair'd.

To morrow to fresh Woods, and Pastures new.

but to create Is greater than created to destroy.

I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am

I say, then, mortification is not the present business of unregenerate men. God calls them not to it as yet; conversion is their work, -- the conversion of the whole soul, -- not the mortification of this or that particular lust.

The Spirit of God createth a new nature in us, which is the principle and next cause of all acts of the life of God.

It is about moving from ideas about merely being sustainable to ones that include regenerating areas devastated by agriculture, mining, and other destructive activities. It is about revolution. The transition from a death economy to a life economy is truly about a change in consciousness — a consciousness revolution.