Quotes about Renewal

New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart.

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

If we have the Word without the Spirit, we dry up. If we have the Spirit without the Word, we blow up. But if we have the Word and the Spirit, we grow up." In this way we can walk together in the fresh move of the Holy Spirit.

we are to work from our rest, not rest from our work.

Children make you want to start life over.

The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.

The Gospel is not meant to make people odd or less than fully human; it is mean to renew them in their genuine, image-bearing humanness.

The Word through whom all things were made is now the Word through whom all things are remade.

Sing these songs, and they will renew you from head to toe, from heart to mind. Pray these poems, and they will sustain you on the long, hard but exhilarating road of Christian discipleship.

Since sin, the consequence of idolatry, is what keeps humans in thrall to the nongods of the world, dealing with sin has a more profound effect than simply releasing humans to go to heaven. It releases humans from the grip of the idols, so they can worship the living God and be renewed according to his image.

sovereignty let loose through Jesus and the Spirit and aimed at the healing and renewal of all creation.