Category: Church
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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;…
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Review: The Chosen (Seasons 1 and 2)
Last night we finished season two of The Chosen, a television show about the apostles. Mrs. Greenbean got so enthralled that every evening she would say, ‘I can’t go to bed until I see Jesus,’ which, taken out of context is fascinating. What she meant was — I need an episode. All in all, this…
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Galatians Six: Let No One Give Me Any More Problems!
It has been a joy to translate Galatians over the last two months and to share it with all three of my dear readers. In this last chapter, we are visited again by the muckety-mucks, called to remember Paul’s illness (eyesight causes big letters), and the joy of a new creation. He also gets a…
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Galatians 5 — Works of the Flesh and the Fruit of the Spirit
Christ-followers often come back to Galatians 5 because of the beautiful simplicity of the Fruit of the Spirit in verses 22 and 23. I know I do. However, that is only a fraction of how much is going on in this chapter. Paul really goes after his opponents and tells them things like they’ve rendered…