Quotes about Transformation

That's the fullness of God's salvation. It's not only deliverance from something but also deliverance to something. He not only delivers us from sin, but he also delivers us into a land of salvation that's flowing with milk and honey.

Many claim to have been born again, but the evidence for mature Christian discipleship is slim.

The reality that was inside of Jesus got outside of him so the disciples could see it.

As we grow into maturity in Christ our distinctiveness is accentuated, not blunted. General directions, useful as they are, don't take into account the details that face us as holiness takes root in the particular social and personal place we are planted.

Prayer is what develops in us after we step out of the center and begin responding to the center, to Jesus.

Psalm 134, The final Song of Ascents, provides the evidence. The way of discipleship that begins in an act of repentance concludes in a life of praise.

But there is a broad similarity between the directions in the psalm and the contemporary movement known as "behavior modification" which in a rough-and-ready way means that you can act yourself into a new way of being.

Many think that the only way to change your behavior is to first change your feelings.

But there is an older wisdom that puts it differently: by changing our behavior we can change our feelings.

Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.

Jesus didn't debase the holy into the secular; He infused the secular with the holy.

Don't waste your time on useless work, mere busywork, the barren pursuits of darkness. Expose these things for the sham they are. It's a scandal when people waste their lives on things they must do in the darkness where no one will see. Rip the cover off those frauds and see how attractive they look in the light of Christ. Wake up from your sleep, Climb out of your coffins; Christ will show you the light!