What is hindering you from reaching your goals? What obstacles do you face? What is stopping you from achieving your goals? Why do you have the same goals year after year and never accomplish them? You can learn how to overcome hindrances in reaching your goals. Have you ever sat and really thought about what is causing this to happen? Some things that might come to your mind are things like — not enough time, not focused, or fear. Those…
Is kindness just, “be kind”, doing good and nice things? Is it holding the door for someone whose hands are full? Is it paying for the drink for the person behind you in line? Is kindness putting out bird seed when the ground is covered in snow? Those are all nice, polite, courteous, kind things to do but if we are thinking that this is what kindness as the Fruit of the Spirit is meaning, we are missing so much…
If I had more time, maybe then I could be patient. Do you ever feel like you don’t have enough time and therefore don’t have time to be patient. I don’t have time to be patient. You might not have time but we need to be patient and have patience. As we work through The Fruitful Year and the Fruit of the Spirit, this month we are looking at patience. The word patience in the Bible comes from two Greek…
What comes to your mind when you hear the word, peace? Is it a quiet calm time of the day. Or maybe it is just an anti-war slogan. Maybe it is something that you think will never happen. In the Bible the word “peace” often refers to peace with God, meaning that we are no longer at war with God. By God’s grace we have acknowledged that our sin has separated us from God, and through faith, we have accepted that…
Just three weeks into the new year and those were the words I said to myself. “That’s it, I quit.” Three weeks of working on one of my goals for the year and I was ready to quit. It was not going the way I planned. I didn’t see the results I wanted. It was not easy. It was restricting my life I was ready to quit. I know only three weeks into the year and I was ready to quit….