We want to live loving, joyful, anxiety-free lives. Yet how can we live in grace when we’re so busy battling our old patterns of behavior? Jerry Bridges explores the nine aspects of the “fruit of the Spirit” described in Galatians 5:22-23: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. These qualities of character can truly mark our lives if we devote ourselves to a twofold pursuit: God-centeredness and God-likeness. Jerry shows us how to practice the fruit in daily life. When The Fruitful Life first released, Jerry said, “It was the book I had wanted to write that included everything I forgot and/or learned since The Pursuit of Holiness.”

Our world needs you to become the person God created you to be.Our world needs more young women and young men who discover the genuine faith, love, and hope God brings through an authentic relationship with Jesus. Unfortunately, American religiosity and churchianity has created hypocrisy, judgmentalism, nationalism, and division.Our world needs more young women and young men to not only pray the Lord's prayer but to truly bring about God's kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. Unfortunately, too often the church has attempted to be a refuge from the world rather than a refuge for the world.Our world needs you.Jesus told a parable that has been a guide for me over the years which I think summarizes well my hope for you. Inspired by this parable, you can learn to hear God's voice, overcome trials, overcome temptations and have a fruitful, creative, and productive life. This book will help you become receptive, tenacious, intentional, and proactive.

In this study, Andrew J. Schmutzer puts his hand to an in-depth study of the Creation Mandate, known within Reformed theology as the Cultural Mandate. His analysis focuses on key texts of God's blessing in Genesis 1-11. In particular, Schmutzer explores the theological significance of Genesis 1:28 using a biblical-theological approach sensitive to the biblical literature. Delving into such issues as the nature of divine blessing, humankind's royal stewardship, and the role of the image of God, this study draws the reader back to the biblical text as the "lead carriage" for foundational questions in contemporary faith. The result is theological "grist," primed to address the related issues of ecological crisis, social oppression, gender studies, and eco-theology. How one understands the Creation Mandate has serious implications. Be Fruitful and Multiply provides a sharp tool to help address these serious issues.

Life abundant?Jesus promised it and we long for it, yet few Christians seem to have it. Blending lively anecdotes, commentary, and teachings from the Bible, Dr. Charles Stanley introduces you to the Holy Spirit. "A big part of the Spirit-filled life is learning to recognize the fingerprint of the Holy Spirit. Once you know what to look for and once you begin looking for it, you will be amazed at how real the Holy Spirit will become to you. Learning to recognize the Holy Spirit is the first step in learning to live the Spirit-filled life."

Are you loving, joyful, peaceful, patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, AND self-controlled? Most of the time? Sometimes? How about when life gets hard or marriage gets tough? Whatever your answer may be, the good news is that you are not alone. Best-selling author, mother, and wife Hayley DiMarco understands the challenges we all face and answers the question at hand: How can you be the woman God is calling you to be, a woman who bears the fruit of the Spirit in your marriage and in the daily grind of life? To help you grow, Hayley explores the biblical significance of all 9 fruits of the Spirit, explaining how each fruit first begins to grow and then how each impacts your day-to-day life and marriage. She writes like a wise friend and is readily transparent about her own failures to be spiritually fruitful as well as her relational struggles for control, authority, and respect. Ultimately, Hayley teaches us how even the rockiest of marriages can blossom and generate the fruit God intends to produce.

In today's plurality of belief systems and schools of thought, it is common to confuse and misapply the essence of various scriptural concepts. Marcellin discusses the subject of biblical fruitfulness and its practical applications in our everyday lives as believers. This book addresses and sheds light on questions such as: What is fruitfulness from God's perspective? What does a fruitful believer look like? Does the fruit of the Holy Spirit have anything to do with fruitfulness? How do the world's standards for fruitfulness differ from those of scripture? What factors affect fruitfulness or cause unfruitfulness? What is the impact of fruitfulness and the dangers of unfruitfulness? What is the secret to fruitfulness in life?

This book is about how to read and study the Bible. This book is about getting the non-Christian to learn how to study the Bible, and this book is for the Pastor and theologian who needs to have their "refresh" button pressed. This book is in fact for anybody desiring to know the Book of ages. If you are new to the Word or are a seasoned teacher. If you do not know where to begin, or you have tried countless times and feel overwhelmed and frustrated, this is the book for you!

'The need of the hour is for Spirit-filled, Christ-centred, Father-glorifying, Bible-based, fruitful individuals and churches. This book can only help towards that goal.'In A Fruitful Life we ponder the teaching of Jesus in John chapter 15, the famous 'vine' passage. He is preparing his disciples for his departure and describing how they can be effective witnesses in a hostile world. Just as his instructions revolutionised their lives, so a proper understanding of what he is saying can revolutionise our lives also. It is the heart of the gospel message: the only way to live the Christian life is to allow Jesus to live his life in us and through us.This book includes material for individual reflection and questions for group discussion.

From an internationally recognized integrative physician, a thorough guide to fertility that encompasses all aspects of female well-being to help women prepare their bodies for easy conception, pregnancy, and the delivery of healthy babies. The increase in environmental toxins, processed foods, and stress, as well as the advancing ages at which couples seek to have children, have made it more difficult for women to conceive. In Be Fruitful, Dr. Victoria Maizes, an expert on women’s health and the executive director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, delivers all the information women and their partners need in order to conceive with ease and confidence, and to bear healthy children. Warm, friendly, and hands-on, Be Fruitful offers a comprehensive self-assessment to help identify any potential physical, emotional, and practical roadblocks that may interfere with conception, as well as clear and easy-to-follow dietary, supplemental, and exercise recommendations proven to increase optimal fertility. Dr. Maizes details how nutrition, mind-body practices, elimination of environmental toxins, and traditional Chinese medicine can all contribute to a successful pregnancy. Unique in its integrative approach, Be Fruitful acknowledges that wellness comes from caring for the entire person—not just the physical body—a crucial factor for the countless women trying to conceive and committed to transforming their overall health.

Back cover message The message in this book is extremely timely. Most readers of this book will do one of two things. They will either throw it away in apparent annoyance at the convicting words embedded in it, or they will seek a place of prayer to cry to God in repentance and to request the baptism of the fruit of the Spirit. In no other generation is the need for Christians to bear fruit in the Spirit as critical as in our present generation. The arrival of the Master is extremely imminent, yet the lives and priorities of most Christians don't reflect this. Our impact in this dark world remains at the mercy of our spiritual fruitfulness. The more spiritually fruitful we are, the greater our impact. God is calling this present generation of believers to shun carnality and profanity and to embrace the real definition of Christianity, which is spiritual fruitfulness. Author's Profile Ayo Akerele holds a doctorate degree in human resource management and worked extensively as an engineer and a consultant in many multinational organizations in Africa, Europe and in North America before answering the call to ministry. Ayo Akerele is a sought-after dynamic writer, public speaker and anointed teacher of the Word. His itinerant prayer, teaching and speaking ministry under different Christian organizations has lasted for many years since he met the Lord in the early 1980s. Noted for his particular insight into the works of Jesus in the four Gospels of the New Testament and his depth of revelation in the scriptures, he carries, by the grace of God, a contagious passion for knowledge and truth in the Word of God that has positioned him as a foremost author and teacher in this generation. His deepest desire is to see the Body of Christ take its proper position in God by modelling the works and life of Christ through the teaching of the undiluted Word of God, the demonstration of valid and authentic signs and wonders and above all, the preaching of the gospel across all nations as the curtain is being drawn for the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ayo Akerele is married to Omolara Olawunmi Akerele, and they are blessed with two great sons, Enoch and John.