Tag: Fruit of the Spirit
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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 Those people who are forced to ignore outdated magazines, look at bad artwork on the wall, and who look up like hungry people at a restaurant when the server comes by with a tray every time the door opens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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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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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…