Girl On A Hill

We’re wrapping up our Fruits of the Spirit series by getting honest about self-control, and our lack of it! We get real about the role our negative emotions (and our refusal to deal with them) plays in our inability to control ourselves and talk about how our lack of control is sabotaging our goals. We’re wrestling with our temptations, talking about our triggers, and getting to the root of the things binding us to our old habits. We’re saying goodbye to over-indulgence and poor coping skills and saying hello to the disciplined and balanced life God has called us to.

Gentleness is a fruit of the Spirit that sounds easy enough - until you understand being gentle means dealing with your anger, living a life full of grace, and keeping your emotions in check for the benefit of others. We get honest about all of it and provide you with a few ways you can start to cultivate gentleness in your day-to-day life. We’re working to love others (even when they’re difficult), slow down our judgements and responses, and learning how our belief in God’s goodness helps us to live gently.

We’re digging into the topic of faithfulness today, as we wrestle with our own reliability as well as our response to God when things get tough. We talk about what faithfulness looks like lived out and why we struggle with both our own dependability and our hesitancy to depend on the Lord. We share some challenging (but necessary!) ways to cultivate faithfulness in our everyday lives and wrap it up with a few truths and some important thoughts about trust.

We continue our series on living out the Fruit of the Spirit in our everyday lives by discussing the concept of goodness. We hear the word “good” a lot - but do we really know what it means? We talk about what goodness looks like lived out and share why we struggle. We address our selfishness and get to the root of what our motivation needs to be to reflect true goodness. We wrap it up by sharing ways to cultivate goodness and some painful but necessary truths to embrace as we seek to live lives that bless others and reflect our good Father.

Kindness is a trendy word and something we all like to think we show, but do we truly understand biblical kindness? We talk about what a kind person looks like, share why we struggle to be kind (including a few reasons you may not have considered before), and share some difficult but doable ways to cultivate kindness in your daily life. We wrap it up by sharing some truths that challenge our motivation and just might cause us to rethink the way we think about what kindness is and what it isn’t.

We’re continuing our Everyday Fruits of the Spirit series by digging into patience. We all know we need more of it, but if we’re being honest, most of us don’t really want it. And we get honest about why waiting is so hard! We bring up uncomfortable words like control, flexibility, and uncertainty and get real about how we make patience even harder than it has to be. We share a few ways you can start cultivating patience in your daily life and wrap it up with some painful but necessary truths to help us start to walk in patience and find peace in the wait.

We’re continuing our series on living out the fruits of the spirit in our everyday lives by talking about peace. We tackle some tough questions like, “Do we really understand what peace is?” and “Why are we rejecting the peace of God that’s available to us?” We get brutally honest about how our own behaviors and thought patterns keep us from experiencing the calm heart we long to have and share some practical ways to cultivate peace in our day to day lives. It’s time to end the spiral, trust our Savior, and embrace the peace-filled life intended for us.

We’re continuing our series on living out the fruits of the spirit in our everyday lives by talking about peace. We tackle some tough questions like, “Do we really understand what peace is?” and “Why are we rejecting the peace of God that’s available to us?” We get brutally honest about how our own behaviors and thought patterns keep us from experiencing the calm heart we long to have and share some practical ways to cultivate peace in our day to day lives. It’s time to end the spiral, trust our Savior, and embrace the peace-filled life intended for us.

We continue our series on the fruits of the spirit by talking about joy. We all want it, but what is it, and what's keeping us from experiencing it? We get honest about why we struggle to be joyful, acknowledging that joy requires intense vulnerability and a choice. We share what joy looks like, ways to cultivate joy in our everyday lives, and wrap it up by sharing some truths about joy all wrapped up in hope.

Today begins our series on living out the fruits of the spirit in our everyday lives and we’re jumping into the deep end today as we discuss love. We say we love pizza, our husbands, our friends - and we’re commanded to love our neighbor, but do we really understand what love is?

We talk about what love is, what it looks like, and why we struggle to love the people in our lives. We share ways to cultivate our love and wrap it up with a few truths we need to hear if we want to live the lives of love we were called to.