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Suffering as a Christian — Part 3

The final part of a three part series look­ing how Chris­tians are called to suf­fer on behalf of Jesus Christ. The final part to this series con­sid­ers what daily cross-carrying can mean. In con­clu­sion it exam­ines the impor­tant rea­sons we are called to suf­fer as Christians.

March 7, 2010 – 2:30 pm | By Anthony | Posted in Christian Living, Series Article | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)

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)