Category Archives: Fruitage of the Spirit

An explo­ration of the indi­vid­ual aspects of the Holy Spirit.

Fruitage of the Spirit — Part 7 “Goodness”

This month we have the oppor­tu­nity to take a look at the qual­ity of “good­ness”, which is the next ele­ment of the fruitage of the Spirit. Through­out Scrip­ture good is con­trasted with evil — some­times in the form of light verses dark­ness. Good rep­re­sents what is bright, moral and vir­tu­ous as opposed the …

December 30, 2007 – 3:49 pm | By Anthony | Posted in Fruitage of the Spirit | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

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 …

September 30, 2007 – 11:33 am | By Anthony | Posted in Fruitage of the Spirit | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Fruitage of the Spirit — Part 5 “Patience”

This month the Spir­i­tual qual­ity that we will con­sider is patience. The Greek word for patience is makrothymia and it lit­er­ally means “long­ness of spirit”. This qual­ity encom­passes being slow to anger and pur­pose­ful endurance and for­bear­ance while suf­fer­ing. A per­son who is patient can be con­sid­ered as being stead­fast — reli­able, faith­ful, …

August 7, 2007 – 7:04 am | By Anthony | Posted in Christian Living, Fruitage of the Spirit | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Fruitage of the Spirit — Part 4 “Peace”

The next qual­ity in the fruitage of the Spirit that we will con­sider is peace. When Jesus, as Israel’s Mes­siah, was born into the world the heav­ens split open and an angelic cho­rus declared, “Glory to God in the high­est, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.” (Luke 2:14)
The idea …

June 1, 2007 – 6:55 am | By | Posted in Christian Living, Fruitage of the Spirit | Comments (0)