I am not going to make the blanket claim that spending a little more time reading and sharing poetry can change your life. Well, with at least one exception. I will claim, as scores of…
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We have said that wisdom is the principal thing, the main thing any man can pursue in this life if he wishes to have a full, satisfying, and productive life, one that benefits himself and…
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Thus far in this brief series we have seen that, according to Scripture, wisdom is the principal thing, the main and most important possession any man can obtain. And acquiring wisdom involves fearing God and…
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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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