Posts regarding specific Spiritual Gifts
3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. 4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these…
I recently revisited a devotional on the topic of living with discernment based on The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471), a monk from the Monastery of Mount St. Agnes in the Netherlands. (You can find the devotional I reference [here].) Every time I read the following passage, I am amazed at how…
The spiritual gifts and the fruit of the Spirit are interconnected aspects of the Christian life, working together to reflect the character of Christ and build up His Church. While spiritual gifts are specific abilities given by the Holy Spirit to empower believers for service (e.g., teaching, healing, prophecy, administration), the fruit of the Spirit…
The Apostle Paul writes about the spiritual gifts in a number of his letters to various churches, at which time Christianity was beginning to spread throughout the world (1). The gifts are divine, given by the Holy Spirit, in order to support the church, which is referred to as the body of Christ (2). They are given not…