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Fruit of the Spirit: Gentleness
God the Father and gentleness. You know what’s hard to grasp about that sentence? We usually don’t associate gentleness with fathers (and even sometimes mothers). I don’t know why but growing up one of the most ideal prototypes of a great father was Vito Corleone from the Godfather. The patriarch of the Corleone family. Sure he oversaw a huge mafia family and at a snap of his fingers could get someone killed instantly, but he loved his family, had a (somewhat) moral code when

Mateo Arias
Oct 314 min read


Fruit of the Spirit: Faithfulness
“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness” ...

Denesha Arias
Oct 73 min read


Fruit of the Spirit: Goodness
“God is good all the time. And all the time, God is good.” Whether raised in church or new to it all, whatever ethnicity or culture you...

Mateo Arias
Sep 165 min read


Fruit of the Spirit: Kindness
“Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.” The Webster 1828 Dictionary...

Denesha Arias
Sep 33 min read


Fruit of the Spirit: Longsuffering
The Greek word for longsuffering used in Galatians 5 (patience, forbearance in other bible versions) is defined by one word: longanimity;...

Mateo Arias
Jul 234 min read


Fruit of the Spirit: Peace
“You will keep the mind that is dependent on you in perfect peace, for it is trusting in you.” I remember when I started studying the...

Denesha Arias
Jul 93 min read


Fruit of the Spirit: Joy
Try and see this picture. Imagine happiness and contentment found each other at church. We fast forward to them married & now having a...

Mateo Arias
Jun 305 min read


Fruit: Agape Love
“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal...

Denesha Arias
Jun 243 min read


Intro to the Fruit of the Spirit - Walking in the Spirit
God loves giving people a choice. Look at what happened in the garden of Eden where one of the most significant choices took place. In...

Mateo Arias
Jun 33 min read


Remember God - Ecclesiastes 12
“For the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.” The simplistic yet profound truth provided in...

Denesha Arias
May 253 min read


No More Holding Back - Ecclesiastes Ch. 11
In the book of 2 Kings chapter 13 we come across Joash, the king of Israel at the moment. He goes to meet the dying prophet Elisha who...

Mateo Arias
May 164 min read


Wisdom vs. Folly - Ecclesiastes 10
“Wise words bring approval, but fools are destroyed by their own words.” Wisdom is to be considered as a faculty of the mind, it is the...

Denesha Arias
May 73 min read


Living Dog vs. Dead Lion - Ecclesiastes Ch. 9
As an amateur film buff, one of my favorite movies is Dead Poets Society starring Robin Williams. As his first day of teaching at his...

Mateo Arias
Apr 293 min read


Obedience to the King - Ecclesiastes 8
“When I determined to load up on wisdom and examine everything taking place on earth, I realized that if you keep your eyes open day and...

Denesha Arias
Apr 253 min read


The Darkroom - Ecclesiastes 7
“Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men; and the living will take it...

Mateo Arias
Apr 153 min read


Intentional Living - Ecclesiastes 6
What is the morality of life? Ecclesiastes Chapter 6 offers an interesting truth about virtue and the worthiness of existence. Solomon...

Denesha Arias
Apr 93 min read


I Do - Ecclesiastes Chapter 5
Before getting into it, let’s take a moment to stop and breathe, prepare our hearts for what God wants to say. Just as Solomon starts...

Mateo Arias
Mar 313 min read


Struck Down, But Not Destroyed - Ecclesiastes Chapter 4
There are times in life where we feel we have nothing else to give. We feel we can’t push through for ourselves, so how the heck can we...

Denesha Arias
Mar 243 min read


Really? Everything Beautiful? - Ecclesiastes Chapter 3
You’ve ever been in a sticky situation and narrowed it down to the wrong place, wrong time? Or someone criticizing you for sleeping in...

Mateo Arias
Mar 184 min read


What God Gives - Ecclesiastes Chapter 2
Solomon was a man of great intrepidity. When God called him to be King proceeding his father David, God spoke to Solomon in a dream and...

Denesha Arias
Mar 153 min read
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