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Fruit of the Spirit
During the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the churches where I preached went into a shutdown phase, and I delivered devotionals to the congregation in the form of newsletters mailed out every week.
In addition to the newsletters, I also extended the devotional into a longer sermon, and added some Scripture readings and (with the help of my wife and her lovely voice) some hymns. We referred to these videos as "Church at Home" videos. Once I realized the quarantine was going to last through the entire series on "The Fruit of the Spirit," I decided it made sense to post all of those sermons here.
On each sermon page you will find the sermon transcript plus an embedded "Church at Home" video.
The Crown of all the virtues, and the first of all the fruitsLevi's dinner party, from Luke 5Becoming a peacemaker, living in peace with othersLiving in patience with one anotherLiving in patience with our circumstancesGentle kindness toward othersThe rightness of a heart lived in the spiritHosea gives us a metaphor for God's faithfulness to usThe Triumphal Entry and the temple cleansing teach us about meeknessThe final fruit listed in Galatians 5Paul's concluding comment on the list of fruitsLiving in the Spirit and Walking in the SpiritUnderstanding the difference between a flesh and spirit life.