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Book: God's Wisdom for Navigating Life: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Book of Proverbs
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  1. Timothy J. Keller _ God's Wisdom for Navigating

    How do common phrases like "You have to always be true to yourself" create false worldviews that seem completely self-evident to people?
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  2. Timothy J. Keller _ God's Wisdom for Navigating

    Pride is an all-around evil. "Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
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  3. Timothy J. Keller _ God's Wisdom for Navigating

    Are you withholding your full trust in God until you get an explanation for some bad thing that happened to you? In light of Jesus' undeserved suffering for you, are you willing to let go of that demand and commit your way to him?
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  4. Timothy J. Keller _ God's Wisdom for Navigating

    We have too much faith in our technology and our democratic institutions, and we are conditioned by our secular, materialistic culture to seek most of our happiness in fragile things like good looks, wealth, and pleasure.
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  5. Timothy J. Keller _ God's Wisdom for Navigating

    When we believe the gospel, the barriers of pride that divide us are taken away {Ephesians 2:14–16}, and the lonely are put into families {Psalm 68:6; John 1:12–13}. Salvation leads toward more and deeper relationships but sin toward being alone.
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  6. Timothy J. Keller _ God's Wisdom for Navigating

    While anger is not a sin in and of itself, it should be a passing thing, directed without excess to solve a problem, resulting in calm at the end {29:11}. In the same way, God's anger is for a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime {Psalm 30:5}.
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  7. Timothy J. Keller _ God's Wisdom for Navigating

    This kind of foolishness is gullibility. "The simple believe anything" {14:15}. They are too easily led and influenced. Like children, they may be overimpressed by the spectacular and dramatic, or they may need approval too much and so be taken in by forceful personalities who give it to them. They will support dictatorial leaders who promise them peace and prosperity. They can be intellectually lazy, not wanting to ponder and think out a matter. They are also likely to fall for get-rich-quick schemes {12:11}.
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  8. Timothy J. Keller _ God's Wisdom for Navigating

    Lord Jesus, you answered your opponents wisely and brilliantly but patiently and constantly. How I want to give back to my critics-with verve-the same disdain they show me. But I want to be like you, not them. Change my heart to make it so. Amen.
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  9. Timothy J. Keller _ God's Wisdom for Navigating

    Change my heart so I can walk in your footsteps. Amen.
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  10. Timothy J. Keller _ God's Wisdom for Navigating

    Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow travelers."
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  11. Timothy J. Keller _ God's Wisdom for Navigating

    Work and achievement, without the peace of God in our lives through the Spirit, will never be enough.
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  12. Timothy J. Keller _ God's Wisdom for Navigating

    Lord, I don't like some of the things I find taught in the Bible. I don't like some of the ways you arrange the circumstances of my life. I confess I don't even like the doctrine of grace-I'd rather earn my salvation so you owe me. In all these ways I refuse to let you be God. Forgive me. Amen.
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