New Beginnings
The theme of new beginnings in the Bible: renewal, a new heart and leaving the past behind. Key chapters on the God who makes all things new.
In the Bible, a new beginning is less about erasing the past than about God's inward renewing of a person. The chapters below treat repentance, the promise of a new heart and looking forward in hope from different angles. Each link takes you straight to the reading page.
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- Isaiah 43
- Lamentations 3
A chapter of hope emerging at the very center of a book woven through with mourning, describing how, even in the darkness of great loss, one can hold to a mercy renewed each morning.
- Ezekiel 36
- 2 Corinthians 5
A chapter on the radical change that comes through faith, painting a picture of a 'new creation' that leaves the past behind and describing believers as carriers of a ministry of reconciliation.
- Philippians 3
- Revelation 21
A vision of hope near the Bible's close — the promise of a 'a new heaven and a new earth' where tears, pain and death come to an end.