Anthony Brooks preaches on the role of Elders in the church

The richness we have in Christ frees us to use our resource well.

Wisdom is good, but fragile – so we need the wisdom of God in Christ.

The resurrection of Jesus is at the center of the Christian faith. Our resurrection, which it ensures, is the center of our hope.

If we use our experiences as the foundation for our understanding, we will misinterpret them and draw faulty conclusions about God. Instead, we need God to help us understand our experiences through his word.

Wisdom helps us live in a complicated, fallen world. But it can't fix our fallenness, which is our real problem, evidenced by the death that befalls each of us. The solution to that lies not our wisdom, but in the foolishness of the cross.

It can be difficult to understand and accept the way things play out in the world. Too often, bad things seem to happen to good people while the wicked prosper. But we see and understand it differently when we realize there has only ever been one righteous man.

God controls all things. We do not. As hard as that reality is for us to accept at times, it brings about our ultimate good.

We are tempted to look to material wealth for security and satisfaction – things it cannot ultimately deliver. When we find true security and satisfaction in Jesus, we are freed to enjoy our material blessings as gifts from God.