Pastor's column: The Tree of LIfe Pastor Cliff Sander of Glad Tidings Assembly of God Church Spring has arrived! The lilacs are blooming. The cherry and apple blossoms will soon be in full color wafting their fragrances through the air. Someone asked me, “What was the first fruit in God’s creation?” The Word of God is silent on the specific fruit. But Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. Some speculate that it was an apple. We even call the round like ball in front of a man’s throat an “Adam’s apple”.