One may not be “wise” and yet not necessarily be a “fool.” Young men especially are urged repeatedly in the Proverbs to acquire wisdom; to seek for it like buried treasure (Proverbs 2:1-7). Clearly, wisdom is not yet something they have, for they are admonished to go out and …

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Or it’s NOT the Gun Stupid, It’s the Bullet!
Owning a firearm for self-defense is politically and culturally risky; even though the number of armed Americans increases almost daily, STILL the popular conception of a firearm-owner is some kind of paranoid “red-neck” gun-nut who is more danger to …

How To Know whether Your Therapy Works
It is amazing that so many well-read, highly educated, obviously intelligent and articulate Christians can be so easily scammed by charlatans, quacks and con-men when it comes to health issues. One might think that the critical thinking …

Well, we certainly do not want to be like the fool; hopefully by now, not only are the benefits of wisdom, and the disaster of folly, evident, but also we are now committed to gaining wisdom in every area of your life. We have already talked about how to …

Over the last thirty years since being brought to faith in Christ, I have always been taught (and made a fundamental presupposition of my own teaching) that true, Biblical Christianity is at its heart, relational in orientation. The summary of the Moral Law that Jesus Himself affirmed is to …

Sometimes, for some people, the problem is not such restoring a ruined relationship as it is developing one in the first place! When they look at their life, and the people who are (or are not) in it, they feel isolated, unimportant, unloved and lonely. All of us have …