Monthly Archives: September 2007

Fruitage of the Spirit — Part 6 “Kindness”

This month’s ele­ment of the fruitage of the spirit, is “kind­ness”. Kind­ness is very deed ori­ented as it is impos­si­ble to show kind­ness with­out recip­i­ents. Kind­ness thus pro­motes works that can be called “acts of kind­ness”.
The Hebrew word for kind­ness, che’sedh often calls for not sim­ply peform­ing a pass­ing act

Simplicity is Beautifully Deep

It was on the drive back from the creek where I was bap­tised that I reflected on the sim­plic­ity of that act of immer­sion. You sim­ply go under the water and you come back up.
When I wrote to my friends and fam­ily to tell about my bap­tism my sis­ter wrote back, “Looks like all