“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness….”
Goodness is virtuous, kind, pure, generous, excellent, benevolent. It is moral excellence.
What’s the opposite of goodness? Badness.
God is abounding and overflowing in goodness.
Exodus 34:6-7a And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding […]

It is ever the Holy Spirit’s work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan’s work is just the opposite of this, for he is constantly trying to make us regard ourselves instead of Christ. He insuinuates, “Your sins are too great for pardon; you have no faith; you do not repent […]

Married women have needs; unmarried women have needs. Little girls have needs, teenage young ladies have needs. There is no escaping it. I dare say men have needs too. God created us to be in fellowship with Him, and this is what puts us fundamentally right so that we are able and enabled to minister […]

Many years ago I read a book by Walter Trobisch on marriage, and I think the title was something like I Loved a Girl. I remember very well a quote of his. It went something like this: “There is not a man on earth who can satisfy the heart of a woman.” I reflected on […]

This is the first time I’ve tried to write in an airport, though my husband does it quite capably all the time. We’ve had a very blessed time in Virginia and then in Atlanta at the ACCS conference. It is a real pleasure to see our out-of-town friends. Quite a bit of mutual encouragement and […]

While we’ve been here in Virginia, one of the women asked me a very good question that made me ponder. She asked me what I did as a mother that made my children turn out to be so creative. First I had to think about my children in terms of that word, creative. (I had […]