I loved this book. It was simultaneously challenging and comforting.

I wish I’d read it in my early years as a Christian, when I was being fed a heavy diet of ‘holiness’ classics that left me deflated and pessimistic. But Matt Aroney has created something rare: a call to radical transformation that won’t leave you feeling guilty.

His emphasis on God’s work in us—as the Master Builder of all the rooms of our house—dispels the gloom and points us to the bright light of Jesus Christ, into whose image we are being made. Individual Christians and church small groups would benefit enormously from reading this little gem.

—Rev. John Dickson (PhD Ancient History), Jean Kvamme Distinguished Professor of Biblical Studies and Public Christianity at Wheaton College, and host of Undeceptions.

Renovated: How God makes us Christlike, explores how God is working in your life. It is difficult to see the presence of God in the complexities of life, and we may be unaware of it, but God is deeply, profoundly moving within us.

We are a house, he has a renovation plan, our Father is showing us more of Jesus, so we can mirror Jesus. All of this is the work of his Spirit! It is not about what we do; it is how he is already transforming us, as Paul says in 2 Corinthians.

Gain a larger vision of Jesus in your life, and of your life itself, as you learn and think about the “renovating” work of God. What others say about this book:I loved this book.

It was simultaneously challenging and comforting. I wish I’d read it in my early years as a Christian, when I was being fed a heavy diet of ‘holiness’ classics that left me deflated and pessimistic.

But Matt Aroney has created something rare: a call to radical transformation that won’t leave you feeling guilty. His emphasis on God’s work in us—as the Master Builder of all the rooms of our house—dispels the gloom and points us to the bright light of Jesus Christ, into whose image we are being made.

Individual Christians and church small groups would benefit enormously from reading this little gem. —Rev.

John Dickson (PhD Ancient History), Jean Kvamme Distinguished Professor of Biblical Studies and Public Christianity at Wheaton College, and host of Undeceptions. This is a beautiful book: theologically rich, profoundly practical, and biblically true.

It is a book to stand back and admire, but then to rush in and explore all the nooks and crannies. It is architecturally designed, functional, but also aesthetically satisfying.

We are in desperate need of resources for discipleship for all of life, and I will be recommending this one. —Kara Martin, Head of Storytelling at The Different Co.

, and author of Workship and Keeping FaithRenovatedis a deeply refreshing tonic for the weary soul. Through the metaphor of the house in need of renovations, Matt Aroney shows us how the Father is at work within us and with us by the power of the Spirit to remake us in the image of his glorious Son.

To read this book is to find yourself struck once more by the compelling vision of a life made new in Christ. —Rev.

Michael P Jensen (PhD Theology), Rector of St Mark's Anglican Church, Darling Point, Sydney. About the Author:Matt Aroney is passionate about God’s work in the ordinary things of life.

An Anglican pastor at South Head Anglican, he, his wife, and three children live in Sydney, Australia. Matt is completing his PhD in Søren Kierkegaard’s theology at the University of Aberdeen.

He has an MTh from Moore Theological College, Sydney. .