Category: Bible
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Patience/Fruit of the Spirit
What do you call people who are waiting outside a doctor’s office? Those people who are forced to ignore outdated magazines, look at bad artwork on the wall, and who look up like hungry people at a restaurant when the server comes by with a tray every time the door opens and someone steps out? […]
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Peace/Fruit of the Spirit
There are nine fruit of the Spirit, and in my view, these nine are grouped into three groups of three. The first grouping is love, joy, and peace. They are not so much checklists or even ideas as much as they are states of mind. For thoughts on love, click here. For thoughts on joy, […]
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Joy/Fruit of the Spirit
Joy is the second of the nine fruit of the Spirit. I once knew a woman whose name was Joy. That name gets a lot of sympathy from me because my mother’s name was Joyce, which is pretty much the same thing. This particular woman, though, was named Joy and she told me her father […]
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Love/Fruit of the Spirit
It should be the easiest, but perhaps it is the hardest. That might be why Paul leads with it. The good news is that if we can get love right, the other eight probably fall into place. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control; […]