This week we look at the fruit of kindness. While kindness has undergone a bit of a popularity surge in our culture (“Be Kind!”), the Biblical notion of kindness is much more than niceness or random acts of service. It is a dedicated, costly commitment to another’s good.
Sermon Sources for 2/28
- Philip Kenneson, “Life on the Vine”
- Christopher JH Wright, “Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit”
- Barry Corey, “Love Kindness: Discover the Power of a Forgotten Hidden Virtue
- Arthur Brooks, “Love your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from a Culture of Contempt.”
- Jerry Bridges, “The Fruitful Life”
- Rosaria Butterfield, “The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert”
- “The Secret to Love is Just Kindness,” Emily Estafani Smith, The Atlantic, June 2014
- Jon Tyson, “Kindness in a Time of Harshness,” Sermon at Church of the City NYC, April 27, 202