6/29/2025 Fruit Season

Guest minister Amy Hobby Rickard says she loves the fruits and vegetables that are available to us this time of year. June is when the juicy locally grown tomatoes and peaches make it to farm stands, and neighbors beg you to take the zucchini proliferating in their garden.  None of this fruit happens by accident. It requires planting and careful cultivation. The fruit of the Holy Spirit is no different.

Our passage from Galatians 5 may be familiar to you as Paul shares an extensive list of negative acts and habits that are unfortunately present in many of our lives, and a counter list of positive character traits that God wishes to see in us. We will explore how these ideas were presented to their original audience in the ancient congregation in Galatia, how they can inform us today, and how we can cultivate our own spiritual gardens.