Quotes about Renewal

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.

twenty-four hours) to rest and delight in God.

The Sabbath calls us to build the doing of nothing into our schedules each week.

The Four Principles of Biblical Sabbath

Love deems this world worth rescuing.

About every five hundred years the Church feels compelled to hold a giant rummage sale. And, he goes on to say, we are living in and through one of those five-hundred-year sales.

The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.