The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong.” – Sydney J. Harris Before we get into the study of virtues–before we dig any deeper–let’s start out by examining what virtues are, and why they are important to our walk with God. First and foremost we’re saved by grace. There’s nothing that we can do to earn our salvation. Salvation has been imputed to us by God through faith in His son, Jesus Christ. The thing is however that those who believe in Jesus, believe He is…

I love going through a new series, don’t you? Every time one ends on my blog I get to thinking about the next one. What could I write about? What would interest you? Where is the Lord leading? And so I’ve been tossing around the idea of going through the virtues one by one. Not every virtue, as I could write on this topic forever, but the seven that are commonly known: purity self control benevolence diligence patience kindness humility What I really like about this study is that virtue calls us to action. As we exercise each one of them, they bring our flesh in line with our Spirit. …