Fruit of the Holy Spirit

These articles were featured as a series within the Good News magazine. The articles examine each of the special aspects of the fruit of the Holy Spirit listed in Galatians 5—to thoroughly understand them, to see how we can cultivate them and to see how we can use them in serving God and one another.

“…love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control” (Galatians 5:22-23, New International Version).

 

Magazine Issue

Compass Check: Summer 2021

Do you ever get hard questions in life? I don’t mean things like, solve for x when x 2+2x+1 = 4, but questions about life. As a pastor, I get hard questions all of the time, and to be honest...
Sermon

Christ - The God of the Passover

In a webcast sermon before the Atlanta and Buford congregations, Dr. Steve Holladay, a deacon serving both churches, discusses five (5) attributes of our Passover God.
Sermon

Seeking and Practicing Silence

In the Old Testament three lessons and rewards may be gained from actively seeking silence. We may also learn from Christ's example in the NT that practicing silence develops the spiritual fruit of self-control.
Sermon

What Attribute is Key to Being a Fruitful Christian?

Hours prior to Christ's crucifixion He shared with those closest to Him the quality that would allow them to be very fruitful in their walk with God and in their life's work. What quality did Christ articulate? This sermon will…
Sermon

Kind After God's Own Kindness

Terry Johnson discusses aspects of kindness versus grace and how we should be kind in the same manner as God by which His overall character is defined.
Sermon

The Fruit of the Spirit

We find ourselves living in an evil world and we find that we must live in this world while developing the character of God in us. This sermon continues a series on the fruit of the spirit. In this message…
Sermon

What Attribute is Key to Being a Fruitful Christian?

Hours prior to Christ's crucifixion He shared with those closest to Him the quality that would allow them to be very fruitful in their walk with God and in their life's work. What quality did Christ articulate? This sermon will…
Sermon

Welcome to United: Here are our Beliefs

In a split-sermon, pastor Philip Aust gives four biblical criteria that identify God's true church.
Sermon

Be Merciful As God is Merciful

What is mercy and how should we apply it in our lives? After all, God is merciful to us and He wants us to be like him. Therefore, we should also be merciful.
Sermon

The Fruit of the Spirit

God placed His spirit in man that would help His followers respond to Him. A change took place in man that would cause a struggle within himself because we begin to see how we must change and live by the…