About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of wisdom in navigating life, drawing insights from the book of Proverbs amidst modern challenges.

We begin a new series through the Old Testament book of Proverbs called How to Build a Life, the art of living according to the book of Proverbs. In this opening message from Proverbs 1:1-7, Grant Clark makes the case that in an age drowning in information yet starved for wisdom, the good life is not something we invent from scratch by looking inward, but a skill we receive from God by starting with him. The series began with a diagnosis of why the modern world leaves us disoriented: "For most of us, somewhere along the path to adulthood comes the unsettling realization that most people are winging it. They don't know what they are doing. They don't know where they are going. And they aren't sure what the point is. To some extent this is just the challenge of growing up and figuring out life, but there is something special about the modern world which has disoriented us and our moral imaginations... We lack guiding principles and authority figures to orient us toward the Good Life." - Alan Noble (To Live Well) The first challenge is the information age. We have more content than we could ever consume, but access to information is not the same as wisdom. Data is very different to…

People in this episode

Host: Grant Clark

Topics covered

• wisdom
• Proverbs
• information age
• authenticity
• moral imagination
• good life

Keywords

• Proverbs
• wisdom
• information age
• good life
• moral imagination
• authenticity
• Grant Clark

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: To Live Well

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