Posts Tagged ‘wisdom’
The Source of Wisdom
When I worked with university students as a Campus Minister, I was engaged with an wide array of souls at a multiplicity of maturity levels, and yes, I mean maturity spiritually and emotionally. Some were tremendously mature adults while quite young in their faith. Others had been (nominally) in the body for many years but…
Read MoreThe Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Much hand-wringing and consternation occurs among Christ-followers who are frustrated with and taken aback by the worldliness of the world with its flaunting and glorification of sin. “Why can’t they see?” is the unspoken question that drives many to work harder, to argue longer, and allow the anxiety to build within them. The fruit will…
Read MoreDo Not Despise Wisdom
T.S. Eliot is reputed to have asked, “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” Just as there is a difference between wisdom and knowledge, there is a difference between ignorance, naiveté, and foolishness, and it moves from bad to worse as we read from…
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