GracePointe Church of Christ in Elizabethtown, PA

Wisdom wants us to not only accept the created order of the world, but to rejoice and delight in it.  In this cosmic poem, Wisdom recounts her work as a creation of God to help in the creation of the world.  Because She has partnered with God for such a long time, she offers to us the lessons learned and experiences had…when we choose to embrace wisdom, we choose to embrace God’s way of...

A celebration of our time at Camp Manatawny. 

Psalm 103

Proverbs 6 -  Appropriate boundaries are crucial to Proverbs. Self-limitation (or some might say discipline) and deliberate acceptance of interpersonal and cosmic limits are foundational to biblical wisdom. When we practice boundaries in our relationship to goods and other persons (sex, food, sleep, exercise, work, play, speech) it promotes self-knowledge, self-mastery, and freedom.  (Se...

Proverbs 5: In the Lord’s prayer we say “lead us not into temptation.”  While prayer is a necessary conversation with God about the things that tempt us and prey on us, perhaps stalk us; it is also important for us to work at righteous living and avoid such “desirable delights” that lead to harm and brokenness. In this passage, temptation is a desirable and willing woman…but we are asked to a...

Proverbs 4 Overview: Biblical wisdom works with “tradition,” the very ones that have us seeking recipes our grandmother’s used to make and saying things to our kids that our parents said to us.  Wisdom is about preserving tradition… biblical wisdom appeals to the creation order and the experience of past generations to provide insights for new lives situations. To face that which is new, we h...

Proverbs 3 provides two poems.  The first presents a paradox: the more dependent a person is on God, the more independent that person becomes. This is because the person who depends on God is free from external controls and coercion.  Their path is straight, meaning that they have a clear direction and goals…not that they have an easy road or do not have difficulty.  The second...

In the second chapter of Proverbs, there is a structure of Wisdom that is to be understood by those seeking it.  First, for human to be wise they must begin with a right relationship with God.  Any attempt to be moral without a proper respect and relationship with God will not end in righteousness, justice, and equity.  Second, once the proper love of God is in place, then it is man...

Matthew 25:1-13