Wisdom for Living: Emotional Wisdom (Chris)

Psychologists have identified 8 core human emotions.  This week explores these feelings and connects them to God’s core expressions of Justice and Love.  The goal is to better understand how Divine truth and worldly practicality intersect with the emotions we experience every day in living.

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Wisdom for Living: Wise and Foolish Talk (Randy)

The words we say have the power to glorify God and curse others.  They can edify or destroy relationships and even lives.  In this lesson, we explore the power of our words, our intentions when we speak, what motivates our words, and how God helps us address it.

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Wisdom for Living: Social Wisdom Part 2 (Chris)

In this time of social and political anxiety and discord, how are we supposed to behave a disciples of Christ?  This lesson explores ways in which the Bible teaches Social Wisdom and includes episodes past and present in which the church played a role in improving the world.

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Wisdom for Living: The Wisdom of Reconciliation Part 3 (Chris)

Wisdom teaches us the virtue of Reconciliation.  It turns out that there are three parties to any relationship: us, the other person, and God.  Understanding this helps us to appreciate how to behave when we are wronged and when we wrong others.  The ultimate example in Scripture is the “Parable of the Prodigal Son.”  God provides us with radical grace.  We are called to do the same for others.

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Wisdom for Living: The Wisdom of Reconciliation Part 2 (Randy)

We have spent the past two weeks discussing the need to reconcile with our brothers and sisters, but how do we actually do it? This lesson turns to scripture to lay out an approach to forgiveness and how to be reconciled with one another.

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Wisdom for Living: The Wisdom of Forgiveness - In Songs (Chris)

We are exploring Wisdom as a combination of God’s truth and practical experience.  This week, a music-themed lesson as we look at how pop songs treat the subject of forgiveness in terms of causes, negative results when it fails, and paths to success based on worldly understanding and Biblical perspective.

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Wisdom for Living: The Wisdom of Reconciliation Part 1 (Randy)

Throughout our lives, people will hurt us and we may be tempted to hurt them back, or at least we might harbor ill will toward them.  Jesus demands that we forgive them and reconcile the relationship.  In this lesson, we explore why that is the case.  In part 2, we will look at how one goes about doing it.

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