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Jul 2025
42m 40s

Wisdom: How To Get It

TIM KELLER
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We live in a culture in which there are more choices than there ever have been. But you can be incredibly good, moral, and knowledgeable and still make pretty stupid choices.  Wisdom is knowing the right thing to do in the 80 percent of choices that the moral rules don’t directly apply to. What you need in order to make good choices is wisdom.  In Proverbs 3 ... Show More
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