An angel appears to a professor and offers a choice: great wisdom or great wealth. He picks wisdom, and the first thing he says afterwards is: “I should have taken the money.” This anecdote opens a new series on Hebrew wisdom literature and a first bird’s-eye look at the book of Proverbs (Proverbs 1), which teaches that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, and that wisdom is not academic titles but the art of living well day by day. Listen and consider what foundation your everyday choices rest on.
Try Being Wise
Try Being Wise
How can we be wise and not lose our way in our complex world? Where can we find the meaning of life? How should we make life decisions? In search of answers to these questions, we decided to turn to the biblical wisdom literature-namely, the Books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job. These books offer us three different perspectives on wisdom that are highly relevant today. Thanks to them, anyone can become wiser.
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