Posts with the tag “fruit-of-the-spirit”

Once we understand that goodness originates in God, we can begin to grasp what it looks like when it flows through human lives. And the most important thing to understand is this: goodness is never pa...  Read More

Kindness, then, is not a personality type. It is not something some people are simply born with while others are not. It is the love of God, grown in us by the Holy Spirit, pressing outward into the w...  Read More

In John 15:1, Jesus declares that he is the true vine and that his Father is the gardener. That single image carries an enormous amount of weight. A branch does not produce fruit by straining. It prod...  Read More

When everyone around you is panicking and you remain grounded, people notice. When a difficult diagnosis comes and your faith stays anchored, people notice. When your future is uncertain and you conti...  Read More

There is a kind of joy that most of us have never fully experienced. Not because it is rare or reserved for a select few, but because we have been looking for it in all the wrong places. We have been ...  Read More

Children who spend years around their parents begin to sound like them, adopt their expressions, mirror their habits. Time spent together produces resemblance. The same principle applies to our walk w...  Read More