What we bear

After Romans 12:2 and Luke 6:43-45 

We are known

by the fruit we bear,

and we all bear

fruit. A good, healthy

trees bears good, healthy

fruit; a bad tree, and 

an evil tree, do not.

Good comes from good,

evil comes from evil.

Our hearts are storehouses

of treasure, an abundance

of treasure. Good treasure

produces good; bad treasure

produces bad. Good treasure

comes from renewal, 

renewal of your heart,

renewal of your mind,

renewal of your soul,

not from the word but

from the Spirit. Renewal

becomes transformation

becomes production

of good.

 

Photograph by Mary Jane Duford via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Friday Readings

 

On Netflix and Narnia: Three Questions and a Convicting Scene – Ryanne Molinari.

 

Hymn for Advent: Or Christ’s Coming to Jerusalem in Triumph – poem by Jeremy Taylor at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin). 

 

Five Years After Gentle and Lowly, Evangelicals Still Need to Remember the Love of Jesus – Samuel D. James at Digital Liturgies.

 

“Children of the Heavenly King,” hymn by John Cennick – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.

 

Learning to Listen: Engaging with Longer Prayers in Worship – Erik Raymond at The Gospel Coalition.