Keeping in Step with the Spirit Part 16: Clarity About the Fruit: Faithfulness In the story about Rilla, the youngest daughter of Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery brings the reader to a decisive moment that was steeped in tragedy. WW1 is raging and Rilla’s...
Keeping in Step with the Spirit Part 15: Clarity About the Fruit: Goodness The first thing that popped into my mind as I thought about goodness as fruit of the Spirit was the old Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem, There was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in...
Keeping in Step with the Spirit Part 14: Clarity about the Fruit: Kindness Unless you’re heartless, you undoubtedly enjoy watching videos that showcase acts of kindness. I watched one this week in which a newly employed high schooler bought a friend a pair of much...
Keeping in Step with the Spirit Part 13: Clarity About the Fruit: Patience Don’t you get weary of people and their problems? Especially when they are the problem? How do you endure the unfathomable things people do? Do you respond by wishing God’s judgment on them? Or...
Keeping in Step with the Spirit Part 12: Clarity about the Fruit: Peace Peace is an elusive quality in the lives of many followers of Jesus. Chaos, disruption, anxiety, and uncertainty seem to be the more common experience. Yet Paul tells us that peace is something...
Keeping in Step with the Spirit Part 11: Clarity About the Fruit: Joy You could rightly say that joy is rooted in the phrase, “I know something you don’t know.” I heard that particular singsong chant from my multiple siblings plenty of times when I was growing up. It...
Keeping in Step with the Spirit Part 10: Clarity about the Fruit: Love In the words of a Clint Black song, love is something that we do. When people think of Christians, love should be the first word that comes to their mind. Unfortunately, this isn’t often the case,...
