The fruit of the Spirit cuts right through the image management of one’s reputation and straight to the heart of deepest identity.
Why isn’t gratitude a fruit of the Spirit? Because gratitude is the very seed of the kingdom, and it’s why the two most important words in any language are: Thank you.
There is a deep, dispositional Holy Spirit-endowed character formation that comes from the simple act of waiting—on anyone or anything and in any circumstance.
The opposite of peace is not war but a healthy and true attachment to God, ourselves, and others.
Joy can look like the denial of reality because it is witnessing to the much deeper reality of the abiding, presencing, perfecting love of Jesus.
Awakening is often filled with both travail and triumph; both suffering and singing.
Joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control are like the facets on the many faceted diamond of love.
Spiritual abiding is the process by which the Spirit seals our attachment to Jesus with whom we share in relationship with the Father and through which we flourish in the bearing of fruit.
The most important relationship in the universe is not my relationship with God. It is the relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Biblical self love is when a person loves God at the core of their being and thereby learns to appropriately love oneself.
For us to abandon ourselves to Jesus is to awaken to Jesus’s abandonment to us in love.
Often divine appointments cause two people caught up in books to be led to the One Book of Scripture, where God catches us up into his divine life.
