In early 2026, we designed a t-shirt that would spark conversation and (hopefully) look good in the process. We combined graphics for the Fruit of the Spirit along with symbols of our local community that also have Biblical reference. Want to know more? Ask someone wearing one, but also see below for a brief explanation and scripture reference.
Fruit of the Spirit – Galatians 5:22-23 – But the fruit of the Spirit is love (heart), joy (arms up), peace (dove), patience (mind hourglass), kindness (hand up), goodness (thumbs up), faith (hands together), gentleness (butterfly), self-control (mind dial). Against such things there is no law.”
Fire – Hebrews 12:29 – for our God is a consuming fire
Pig – Matthew 8:30 – “Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.”
City on a Hill – Matthew 5:14 – “You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.”
Cow – Psalm 50:10 – “For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.”
Fish with coin – Matthew 17:27a – “But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin.”
Tree & Roots – Jeremiah 17:8a – “For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river”
Wheat and Chaff – Matthew 3:12b – “He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
Fields – Matthew 9:38 – “Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.”
River – John 7:38 – “He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
Planting Seeds – Matthew 13:3 – “He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.”
Rooster – John 18:27 – “Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.”
Lamb – John 1:29 – “The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”
(All verses are in World English Bible (WEB) translation)