What keeps the wild hope of Christmas alive every year...is the haunting dream that the child who was born that day may yet be born again even in us and our own snowbound, snowblind longing for him.
03439 – Keeping Hope Alive
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01988 – Highlighting the Parts We Like
You're all into the 'born-again' thing. And that's great -- Jesus said that to a man named Nicodemus, to enter the Kingdom of God you need to be born again. But if you tell me that I've got to be born again, I can tell you that you need to sell everything you have and...
01349 – We are Loved!
We are not loved because we are so beautiful and good. We are beautiful and good because we are loved. from Theology of Joy
01311 – Rebirth: Radical Transformation
The metaphor of rebirth, being born of the Spirit, is an image of radical transformation. An old life has been left behind, and a new life has begun. It has a number of metaphorical equivalents in the New Testament. In Paul, dying and rising with Christ, being...
00402 – Born-Again Means New Life
Being born-again is a new life, not of perfection but of striving, stretching, and searching—a life of intimacy with God through the Holy Spirit. There must first be an emptying and then refilling. To the extent that we want to know, understand and experience God, we...
00401 – Being “Born-Again”
Jesus was not interested in making people religious, but leading them to a loving relationship with himself, and therefore with God. He offered forgiveness and healing to sin-sick souls as the basis of new life, opening up a path of discipleship, compassion and...