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Make It Better: Fools Hate Knowledge

We gain wisdom through evaluated experiences.

September 15, 2024 • Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Proverbs 1:20–33

Through the lens of the value, “Make it Better,” we discover that wisdom is found through conversations within the context of evaluated experiences. What makes it difficult to have these conversations, and therefore to grow in wisdom, is when we get stuck in our difficult emotions.

Self-Awareness: Oblivious to Your Impulses

September 29, 2024 • Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Proverbs 14

Self-awareness is not simply the process of sitting with yourself. Instead, it’s the process of discovering Jesus’ light within you. For it’s his light and love, because of his resurrection, that moves us from darkness to light; from unhealth to health, from brokenness to wholeness.

Gentleness: Moving Ahead Patiently

September 22, 2024 • Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Proverbs 25:6–10, Proverbs 25:15, Proverbs 25:28

Gentleness can be seen as an unimportant value, as it doesn’t sound like a productive value. Yet, it is one of the key values and virtues you need in order to change, and to move forward in life in a positive and healthy way. This sermon will help you consider how gentleness might be expressed in your life for the sake of yourself and those around you.

Curiosity: Walking The Way of Insight

September 8, 2024 • Rev. Aaron Bjerke • Proverbs 9:1–10

Culturally, wisdom is attached to Buddhism. Not wrongly, but it is too narrow of an understanding to think that spiritual wisdom is mainly a function of Buddhism. Instead, Jesus’ spiritual path is a path of wisdom, because it’s a path of spiritual light. How might we seek wisdom on his path?