Cascade Church Portland

Fruit of the Spirit:: Self-Control

Cara Bartlett shares about being the world's foremost expert on self control (jk), scriptural examples of self-control and 5th grade haiku's. 

Fruit of the Spirit:: Faithfulness

Scott Erickson shares about turd sandwiches, Caravaggio paintings and how the words of Father Greg Boyle that we are all unshakably good and we belong to each other can propel us into faithfulness. 

Fruit of the Spirit:: Generosity

Kurt Kroon talks about goodness vs. generosity and a study at UCLA about the connection of empathy and generosity. 

Fruits of the Spirit:: Kindness

Scott Erickson does his best (and it's very good!) Ira Glass impression to talk about kindness from the fruits of the spirit in several acts. Take a listen and see which act you connect most with as you consider the practice of kindness in our world. 

Fruit of the Spirit:: Patience

Sarah Swartzendruber talks about road trips, smoking noses and the challenge of patience without a preferred outcome in sight. 

Fruit of the Spirit:: Peace

Kurt Kroon shares about peace as a bringing together of all things, not cutting off the noisy parts of us, others and our world. Shalom.

Fruit of the Spirit:: Joy

Kurt Kroon explores the difference between joy & happiness and what can take you through the hardest moments in life. 

Fruit of the Spirit:: Love

Kurt Kroon shares about how love in the ways that Paul builds up his definition of love throughout his writings and how it starts with understanding God as the definition of love. 

Fruit of the Spirit:: Intro

Kurt Kroon shares about sassy Paul, reading other people's mail and the ways the Fruits of the Spirit invites a better way of practicing Christianity than "right" belief. 

Easter Sunday

Kurt Kroon talks about candy conventions, unrecognizable walks with Jesus and how we can be people beyond ideological labels and instead be people producing good fruit.