Ecclesiastes 3:1 tells us that there is “a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven”. What time is it in your life? And how are you using His time? That’s right, if God is Lord of our lives, the time is His, not ours. How we use His time day after day is a clear indicator of the kind of disciple each one of us is growing to become.

“Guard your heart above all else for it determines the course of your life. ”Proverbs 4:23 (NLT) God created us to have relationship with Him and with others. As believers, we are all children of a loving God, who asks nothing more than to love Him and to love others.

How we use (or don’t use) the gifts God has given us tells us something about the condition of our heart. Read 1 Corinthians 12 (Gifts and the Body of Christ) and Matthew 25:14-30 (Parable of the Talents)

As we continue to grow as disciples of Christ and become more like Him, it’s important for us to examine the place that money holds in each of our lives. It’s a matter of the heart...and the heart matters!

As we continue to grow as disciples of Christ and become more like Him, it’s important for us to examine the place that money holds in each of our lives. It’s a matter of the heart...and the heart matters!

“Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.” (Prov. 4:23) – So where is your

life going? In the same direction that your heart is? We begin our “Heart Matters” mini-series with a look

at our heart and how pivotal it is for each one of us to grow as disciples of Jesus.

At the birth of the church in Acts 2, it says that the disciples were in one accord in one place. A characteristic of Growing Disciples is “oneness” - a unity in the Holy Spirit. What areas of difference are healthy and what are the areas where we must be unified and one? Let’s discover the “secret” to a unified body of Christ!

The Holy Spirit produces “fruit” and valuable characteristics in each of us. By inviting and allowing the Holy Spirit to be our counselor, comforter, teacher and guide, and by receiving his gifts “by faith” and inviting him daily into our hearts and thoughts… through THIS kind of LIFESTYLE: The Holy Spirit produces great fruit in us. The fruit can be seen and enjoyed in our relationship with God, with others and experienced within ourselves.

The Holy Spirit produces “fruit” and valuable characteristics in each of us. By inviting and allowing the Holy Spirit to be our counselor, comforter, teacher and guide, and by receiving his gifts “by faith” and inviting him daily into our hearts and thoughts… through THIS kind of LIFESTYLE: The Holy Spirit produces great fruit

in us. The fruit can be seen and enjoyed in our relationship with God, with others and experienced within ourselves.

How can we experience and exhibit the fruit of the Holy Spirit that Paul lists in his letter to the Christians

in Galatia? These characteristics are universally appreciated; let’s discover how being a disciple of Jesus

produces these desirable qualities in our lives.