Summer Series – Fruit of the Spirit

Join Host Melinda Estabrooks, The See Hear Love Team and Special Guest Dagmar Morgan-Sinclair, Pastor, Author and Spoken Word Poet as they discuss all about the Fruit of the Spirit. What are these ‘Fruit of the Spirit?’ How do you develop these fruit and live them out today? What are practical tools that will help us? And ..…

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Rebuilding Broken-down Walls

Proverbs 25;28 says “A person without self-control is like a city with broken down walls.”   There’s something about the simplicity and power of this verse that deeply resonates with me. I’ve always loved the idea that we as believers are referred to, several times, as a city in the Bible. That symbol of fortified…

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The Self in Self-Control

But the Fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and … If you’re like me, you are inspired by the of the Fruit of the Spirit because they float on the tongue and leave a sweet fragrance.  Who does not want to be more loving, more joyful, more kind, and more faithful? However,…

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Control Yourself

There’s something defeating about not being able to control yourself. This goes for anger, lust, words spoken in haste (for whatever reason), self-pity, any of those carnal desires harbouring in our hearts. Truly, we’re either mastered by our emotions, appetites, the circumstances around us or we are centred in who we are in Christ, knowing our…

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Gentleness Like Nourishing Rain

We left the safari camp a little later than planned. With some speed we hoped to make it far enough, missing the impending downpour of the seasonal rainstorm. But by the time we reached the main road it had become a thick veil slowing us to a crawl…and then a full stop, as a sea…

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The Gift of Gentleness

Let’s get one thing straight right of the get go: gentleness is not weakness. Rather, gentleness is great strength under control. Think of it like a lioness caring for her cubs. Like a ballet dancer in pointe shoes. Like a horse wearing a bridle. Like all the claims of toilet paper brands, “Gentle on skin,…

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The Depths of Faithfulness

My husband and I have been married for over 25 years. After a long stressful day, there is a beautiful feeling that comes over me the minute I walk up the steps to our home. No matter what other people think of me, inside I know his arms will hold me close and I will…

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The Faithfulness of God

Join Host Melinda Estabrooks, the See Hear Love Team, Sheila Walsh and Special Guest Bev Hadland (Crossroads Ambassador to the First Peoples) as they discuss how to live a faithful life to God, what does ‘faithfulness’ mean and look like in an everyday life and is God faithful to us even when we’re not faithful…

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God’s Faithfulness

Recently, my husband and I were on a serious house hunt. If you’ve bought a house before, especially in the last few years, you know how stressful this process is, and if you haven’t been in this situation before – I’ll start praying for you now. (lol) We had no idea what we were in…

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