The Fruit of the Spirit (ix) - Self-Control (2nd November, 2025 - All Saints' Sunday)

Bron reflects on Jesus's actions in John 18.1-12, in contrast to those of the hot-headed apostle, Peter; and also looks at the latter's teaching once he had acquired greater spiritual maturity, in 2 Peter 1:1-8. She considers how self-control helps us, as Christians,  to resist the temptation to act on simple, sinful impulses or conform to the ways of the world. True self-control is not a talent we can sustain on our own; rather, it is a gift, exercised in the fruit of the Holy Spirit, which frees us to live according to God's will.