Grace Mills River

Every era has some people living under the authority of others. (Our nation this week remembers casting off a tyrannical authority.) But what do we who live in a constitutional democracy have to learn from words about leadership issuing from a context...

“You can be like God.” That’s the lie Satan told Adam and Eve in the garden, and he

still tempts with it today through technology. What are the temptations inherent in technology,

and how can we use it wisely in light of our relationship with...

Of all the relationships we encounter in life, friendships can at times be the most important. From friends we make as children, to friendships that develop over the decades, having a good friend in your life is what we commonly desire. However, how...

Of all the losses we face in this life, the greatest is arguably our relationships. That they are so astonishing in how they form, and so deep in how they nourish, is why it is so tragic when they are broken apart. Where does wisdom figure into either...

There’s no true value in wealth apart from its wise enjoyment and deployment. Wisdom points us to the goodness of wealth by prompting us to generosity with it. So why’s it so hard to keep from thinking of wealth as an end in itself?

Much of what we celebrate and recognize as part of our human experience has been passed down to us by previous generations. We have national holidays, cultural landmarks, popular sayings, and a shared history. Our families, too, often have...

Few things are as capable of working both immeasurable good and immeasurable harm than our words. What wisdom must govern ours?

When you see bumper stickers around Western Carolina snarkily saying “Don’t move here,” you realize what a coveted spot of real-estate this is. Land has always been of great meaning for humanity. In this week’s passage from Proverbs we’ll find that...

We often can’t see how critical and consequential a series of choices is. We think any one choice too minor to matter. But over time similar choices in that direction prove disastrous. Along the way we’re confronted with words that might’ve altered...

As we’ll see throughout the Proverbs, wisdom is oftentimes out to pre-empt in us error. But it’s also to pre-empt what is worse, namely, sin. Not all error is sin, but all sin is tragic error. Our passage tells us a story, a story of a particular kind...