In this teaching series we will be looking at what it looks like to live wisely in every aspect of our lives: our friendships, our work, eating and drinking, worship, service, speaking and listening, civic engagement, and more. Our guide through this series will be the many hundreds of individual proverbs collected in the Old Testament Book of Proverbs. Most of this book is not arranged chronologically or thematically, it is simply a collection of wisdom sayings (i.e., proverbs or maxims). We will be drawing on these maxims to learn what it means to apply wisdom to our lives. One goal of this series is to actually change how Christians in our community live their actual lives. The Hebrew word  for Wisdom is Hokmah, which is used to describe those who work with their hands and echoes the creative work of God in making the world in Genesis. Wisdom is applied knowledge. We want to be a people marked by wisdom in the midst of a culture that encourages foolishness at every turn. Of course, the paradigm of wise living is Jesus of Nazareth, so we encourage speakers to draw attention to the way these wisdom principles were exemplified in the life of Jesus in the gospels.