We often comfort ourselves by saying, “God knows my heart.” It’s true, He does. Proverbs 16:2 tells us, “All the ways of a ...

But the fruit of the Spirit, he writes, “is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

The same Spirit who overshadowed a young girl in Nazareth and created a holy thing inside her womb; the same Spirit who raised the girl’s son, the Word of God made flesh, to life 30 years later ...

The fruit—like Cézanne’s—is a single, multifaceted, organic whole. The Spirit grows within us something altogether lovely: a restoration of our longing to belong and to become, to be loved ...

Kindness is a fruit that is grown through the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. We are not born with it, but it begins to grow as we yield to Christian values and as we allow change to occur ...

Haney, who lives near Charlottesville and previously worked at Afton Christian School, now Appalachian Christian School, said this year’s themes are “Amor of God” and “Fruit of the spirit.” ...