"By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things." —Galatians 5:22-23 What Grows in Your Garden? When I was six, some adult convinced me that if I swallowed watermelon seeds, I&
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A Step-by-Step Analysis
Why 'We're All Equally Sinful' Protects Injustice
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way. It is not irritable. It keeps no record of wrongs. It does not rejoice in injustice but rejoices in the truth. Love bears all things, trusts
Jesus didn't come to make Rome nicer. It came to make Rome obsolete. The fact that Rome is back, wearing Jesus' name tag, should enrage every single one of us.
When Faith and Works Stop Fighting: What James and Paul Actually Agree On
"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love." (1 John 4:18) No more than two or three weeks after my friend Marcus married his husband—a
Anybody else remember Obama's "You didn't build that" moment? It was 2012, and he was making a point about infrastructure, education, and the collective foundation that makes individual success possible. "If you've got a business, you didn't build that.