For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another. “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.” This is arguably one of the best known of Paul’s verses, this list of the fruit of the Spirit found here in the middle of our passage in Galatians this morning. It’s a list … [Read more...]
Discipleship
To Know Christ
What do you value most in your life? A recently personality test that I took asked me to fill in “5 things that I can’t live without”. The respondents often write snarky things like oxygen or water, or honest things like their cell phone or coffee, or serious things like friends or family. If that question were posed to you, what would you answer? What would be the things you can’t live without? This answer naturally changes as we change throughout our lives. What I valued as a … [Read more...]
A True Child of the Father
In the 8th century before his birth, the prophet Isaiah announced Messiah’s coming: “Unto us a child is born.” (Isa. 9:6) “There is a childhood into which we have to grow, just as there is a childhood we must leave behind.” (19th c. Scottish novelist, poet, and theologian George MacDonald) Jesus’s tells us that unless we become like little children, we cannot enter the Kingdom of God. The childhood into which we have to grow is to share is that of the True Child, Jesus Christ. When I … [Read more...]
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