Getting Wisdom

A Preacher on Bourbon Street


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Myron and Martin reflect on New Orleans hotels, history, and street preaching. They have a conversation about Calvin’s view of divine providence—God’s care revealed through timely blessings—and Aquinas’s account of God’s perfect knowledge as the cause and comprehension of all things.


"God, in a wondrous manner, often brings sudden and unexpected succour to the miserable when almost on the brink of despair, whether in protecting them when they stray in deserts, and at length leading them back into the right path, or supplying them with food when famishing for want."

Institutes, 1.5.8


00:33 New Orleans
26:35 Calvin's Institutes (1.5.8)
32:41 Aquinas's Summa Theologica (Prima Pars, Q14)

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Getting WisdomBy Myron Steeves and Martin Isreb