Developing Skill in the Art of Living
Wisdom is skill in the art of living. The wisdom exercises in “A Guide to Practicing God’s Presence” can teach you how to think God’s thoughts after Him.
Wisdom is skill in the art of living. The wisdom exercises in “A Guide to Practicing God’s Presence” can teach you how to think God’s thoughts after Him.
Are you happy in this life? Join Ken Boa in this new series and learn about how the wisdom of recognizing the lordship of Christ brings us joy.
We are moving to an end without end in the Kingdom of Christ, and we are wise if we live in light of that destiny. Thomas Cole’s paintings call us to this life of wisdom in all seasons, ages, and stages.
We are pilgrims being prepared for home. We are not home yet. Life was never meant to be about ourselves, but about God. For this reason, it is the eternal that gives meaning and hope in the temporal arena.
The proper response to this danger of false teaching is to grow up into maturity in Christ. Like Jesus, Peter warns that false teachers will be known by their fruit. The sensual lives they lead show they do not really take the teachings of Jesus to heart. The best way, then, to avoid the dangers of false teaching, is to grow in an experiential knowledge of Jesus. When we increase in godliness, blamelessness, and steadfastness, we demonstrate by the fruit of our lives that we belong to Christ.
Thomas Cole’s depiction of The Cross and the World compels us to put our hopes in the things that will last forever rather than in the brevity of human creations.
Dr. Boa contextualizes the first epistle of Peter, written on the edge of tremendous persecution and affliction. He walks us through fifteen verses that provide perspective and timeless principles relating to adversity.
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