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Jul 2025
42m 42s

Wisdom: How To Live It

TIM KELLER
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We live in a culture of choice. In our individualistic culture, our place and our parents and our social location don’t determine everything that we can do. We have some choices. Choices! What does that mean?  That means we’ve never needed wisdom more than we do now, because wisdom is the ability to make wise choices. Proverbs 4 shows us that if we want to l ... Show More
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