Timothy R. Butler is Editor-in-Chief of Open for Business. He also serves as a pastor at Little Hills Church and FaithTree Christian Fellowship.
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All that anticipation, all that preparation—and then it amounts to nothing. Do you ever feel like your life is like that? That’s exactly where Ecclesiastes begins, with a preacher who achieved everything a person could want and still found his toil was vanity, a striving after wind.
Pastor Tim continues our exploration of the Fruit of the Spirit by looking at the opposite of “joy” in this week’s devotional.
Are we looking at wisdom or the results of wisdom?
Pastor Tim continues our exploration of the Fruit of the Spirit by looking at the opposite of “love” in this week’s devotional.
We want God’s wisdom, yet often what we really want is an advantage—something that makes us look right, strong, and worthy of respect. In James 3:13–17, wisdom from above takes a startlingly different shape: meek conduct, mercy, gentleness, and a willingness to be taught. What does that wisdom ask of us as we wait for Jesus to return?
Pastor Tim continues our exploration of the Fruit of the Spirit by considering “self-control” in this week’s devotional.
God’s Wisdom seems counterintuitive… so how do we know if we’re on the path to wisdom?
We all load our suitcases for life with what the world promises will make us wise—predictions, solutions, human answers—yet when Revelation calls for wisdom to understand the beast, it’s asking something far more unsettling: whose wisdom are we actually following?
Is true wisdom available to all of us or just to select sages?
What does it look like to actually restore relationships and live out the restoration God does in our lives?
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