- Jesus wants us Christians to be fruity.
- Fruit doesn’t grow spontaneously.
- The usual substitutes for being fruity.
- There’s not just one list of the Spirit’s fruit!
- On love.
- The eight loves.
- “Love is a verb.”
- Love—as described in the Old Testament.
- What passes for love among Christians.
- The opposite of love.
- Love your enemies.
- Love and romance.
- “Tough love”: Anger disguised as love.
- Submission. It’s not domination.
- Affection—versus love.
- True compassion: Offer help, not just advice.
- On joy.
- Joy.
- Joy and the “happy Christian.”
- Fake joy, evil joy, and joyless Christians.
- Redefining joy “because happiness is fleeting.”
- On peace.
- Peace be unto you.
- The fear of phony peace.*
- False teachers and agitated students.*
- Some people don’t wanna argue. And they’re entirely right not to.*
- On kindness.
- Be kind. For once.
- Christian jerks.*
- Generosity.
- No seriously. Start giving.
- A “servant heart.”*
- On gentleness.
- Gentleness: Take charge of your emotions!
- When our anger gets us into trouble.*
- Get hold, and get rid, of your anger.*
- On self-control.
- Self-control: Get ahold of yourself!
- Flee gluttony!*
- The uncontrollable tongue.*
- Resolutions: Our little stabs at self-control.*
- On fruit versus doctrine.
- Are Mormons Christian?*
- On maturity.
- Elders: The grownups in the church.
- Spiritual maturity: It’s based on fruit, not knowledge.*
- Don’t just believe. Behave.*
- Don’t be all talk.*
- On fleshly works.
- Bad fruit: The “works of the flesh.”
- Jesus’s list of works of the flesh.
- The 𝘐 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴 list of works of the flesh.*
- Fleshly Christians.
- Fleshly supernatural.
- Faking the Spirit’s fruit.
- “Tough love”: Anger disguised as love.
- Angry Jesus.
- “You don’t know his heart.”
- Humility, and the “cage-stage” Christian.
- Hypocrisy. (Actual hypocrisy.)
- The seven deadly sins.
- The sinner’s prayer isn’t proof of your salvation.