regeneration

This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father "in heaven," and ascends to devout adoration, "Hallowed be Thy name." The child lisping, "Abba, Father," grows into the cherub crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy.

The church should become a place of regeneration and reformation

He is himself again, more himself than at any time on this Earth." Nancy Reagan on her husband

It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.

When the convert emerges from the water, the world seems changed. The world has not changed, it is always wonderful and horrible, iniquitous and filled with beauty. But now, after baptism, the eyes that see the world have changed.

Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.

We must remember that all stations are as much about life as they are obviously about death. All is redeemed. All is grist for transformation and glory.

How has Paul kept his wonder? He never forgot who he had been.

Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.

I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son.

The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ, is that he is more clearly aware than other men of the rebelliousness and perennial pride of the flesh, he is conscious of his sloth and self-indulgence and knows that his arrogance must be eradicated. Hence there is a need for daily self-discipline.

But in his lapsed and sinful state, man is not capable, of any by himself, either to think, to will, or to do that which is really good, but it is necessary for him to be regenerated and renewed in his intellect, affections or will, and in all his powers, by God in Christ through the Holy Spirit, that he may be qualified rightly to understand, esteem, consider, will, and perform whatever is truly good. When he is made a partaker of this regeneration or renovation, I consider that, since he is delivered from sin, he is capable of thinking, willing, and doing that which is good, but yet not without the continued aids of Divine Grace.

That I growed up a man and not a beast says something for me.