We are considering the teaching of Scripture which insists that, of all the things we might earnestly seek in life—success, happiness, power, things—the main thing to seek is wisdom. Wisdom can be succinctly defined as…
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I find a rather troubling condition to exist among many Christians these days. It has two symptoms. First, we tend to use certain “spiritual” terms without really knowing what they are or what they mean.…
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Put yourself in Solomon’s shoes, shortly after learning that his father, David, had died. David had extended the borders of Israel as far and wide as they would ever be. Neighboring nations feared David and…
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But Jesus said, “Let her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for Me.” Mark 14.6 Creators like God In Mark 14.6, Jesus said that the woman who anointed His…
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Not just for the few In our society, we tend to regard beauty as something exceptional. Not everybody has it and not everybody can make it. Beauty is for the rich and famous. The artists…
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The eye of the heart As we have seen, an aspect of the essence of God is beauty. David wrote about wanting to “behold the beauty of the LORD” in His temple (Ps. 27.4), and…
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One as good as another? A clever song from my parents’ generation sang of the relativity of pronunciation, and why it doesn’t matter whether we say “po-tay-to” or “po-tah-to.” One pronunciation is as good as…
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It can be very easy to miss or overlook important teachings of Scripture, especially when they are mentioned en passant. One such important teaching is found in Genesis 2.9: “And out of the ground the…
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If there is a motto that might be applied to those groups of twos and threes who are spending and being spent for one another’s souls, it might well be, “Against the world, for the…
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Paul was a true soul friend. See the way young men like Silas, Timothy, Titus, Clement, and others gravitated to him, to learn from him and serve alongside him in his ministry. These men were…
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