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Fruit of the Spirit: Faithfulness That Stays
The fruit of the Spirit includes faithfulness, a Spirit-grown life of trust, loyalty, and steady care.
Bible Verses for Thanksgiving: Scripture for a Grateful Table
Bible verses for Thanksgiving can help a family remember God's faithful love, receive food with thanks, care for neighbors, and make room for grief.
Fruit of the Spirit: Goodness and a Settled Heart
The fruit of the Spirit includes goodness, a Spirit-grown desire to seek what is true, right, and helpful. Goodness can shape private choices, public actions, and the way we use what God has given us for other people.
Fruit of the Spirit: Kindness Toward Real People
The fruit of the Spirit includes kindness, a Spirit-grown readiness to treat people with compassion and practical care. Kindness can be warm, gentle, and active.
Fruit of the Spirit: Patience With People and Time
The fruit of the Spirit includes patience, the Spirit-grown ability to respond slowly and faithfully when people or circumstances test us. Patience is more than a calm personality.
Fruit of the Spirit: Peace That Surpasses Understanding
The fruit of the Spirit includes peace. Biblical peace reaches beyond a calm feeling.
Fruit of the Spirit: Joy and What It Really Means
The fruit of the Spirit includes joy, a glad response to God and His saving work. Joy can rise with good gifts, and it can remain as hope during sorrow.
The Doxology of the Lord's Prayer: For Yours Is the Kingdom
The doxology is the traditional closing praise of the Lord's Prayer. Learn where it comes from and why many churches still pray these words.
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread: The Meaning of the Fourth Petition
Give us this day our daily bread means asking God to meet our needs today. The fourth petition of the Lord's Prayer teaches trust, gratitude, and care for one another.
Lead Us Not Into Temptation: The Meaning of the Sixth Petition
Lead us not into temptation is a prayer for God's protection. The Greek word can refer to temptation, testing, or trial.
Blessed Are the Pure in Heart: What Matthew 5:8 Really Means
In the Bible, the pure heart meaning is not a flawless heart but an undivided one. Matthew 5:8 names the pure in heart as those who want one thing more than anything else, and Jesus says they will see God. Pure here is closer to single, focused, or whole than to faultless.
What Does the Bible Say About Science?
What does the Bible say about science? The Bible was written long before modern science took its present form.
The Bible and Science: How Scripture Speaks to the Created World
The Bible and science help us understand the same created world in different ways. Science describes how the world works. Scripture tells us Who made it and why.
Blessed Are the Persecuted: Matthew 5:10
Jesus promises the kingdom of heaven to those persecuted for following Him. Read what Matthew 5:10 means and how to live with faith and hope.
Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness: Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness means that the people who deeply long to be made right with God, and to live rightly, are the ones God promises to satisfy. In Matthew 5:6, Jesus blesses not those who have arrived but those who are still aching for more of God's goodness in them.
Freedom in Christ: Free From Sin and From the Rules Too
Freedom in Christ means being set free from two things at once: from the guilt of sin, and from the exhausting effort to earn God’s approval by keeping rules. In Galatians 5, Paul says Christ set us free so that we would stand firm and not go back under a yoke of slavery, and that yoke can be open sin or a self-made list of religious performances. It is the freedom to be counted right with God by grace, and then to actually live by His Spirit.
Bible Verses for Kids: 12 Short Scriptures to Learn
The best scriptures for kids are short enough to remember and clear enough to use. Start with verses that show who God is, what Jesus has done, and how a child can respond when they feel afraid, angry, alone, or unsure.