In follow up to this past Sunday’s message on lust and pornography, which you can listen to here, I wanted to provide some resources that might be helpful. There are a ton of resources on the internet, which shows how big the problem is. This is not an extensive list, but it covers multiple categories that could be beneficial to a person struggling with sexual sin, a family wanting to put up safeguards for kids, a parent needing to having conversation with their teens, or someone seeking professional help. City Awakening does not wholeheartedly endorse any of these resources. There are always pros and cons. You will have to use your own judgement to decide what will be best for you. If you need help or would like to talk to someone further about this issue, our staff is willing to listen and help in any way that we can. As mentioned in the sermon, one of the best things we can do to fight the sin is to expose it to the light. If we continue to pretend that it doesn’t exist, then it will continue to consume us from the inside out. To explore more ways to fight for purity in your life, go to the link in bio and explore the resources your church staff have put together at the link below.

A few weeks ago Pastor Louis preached on Wisdom for our Work. We often lose sight of the meaning and purpose of our work, especially when it right after our summer vacation! The Bible tells us that even the most menial tasks are important and can be used to bring Glory to God. Check out this post by Kristen Wood for some encouragement in your work today.

The choice of July 4th as our Independence Day is an interesting one if you think about it. This isn’t the date of the British surrender at the Battle of Yorktown or the end of the Revolutionary War. No, July 4th, 1776, was the date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The Continental Congress wrote and signed a document to declare independence a little over a year into a war that would last 7 more bloody years. So, as a country we don’t celebrate our birth as a nation from when we won our independence, but when we wrote about it. And our country is defined even more by another document, the US Constitution. We still, mostly, operate the government of our country based on that document. And despite that fact that the rights and intentions of both of these documents were not initially extended to all people in our country, it was these documents that were then later used to extend those freedoms. We didn’t have to do away with those documents to give more people freedom, we just had to finally apply them rightly and fully.

So, it’s interesting that we celebrate a document-based country today, as we in the church are called to be a document-based people. Our founding document obviously being the Bible. We’ve been walking through Proverbs this summer examining what God teaches us about how to live wisely. So I figured it would be the perfect day to look about what Proverbs says about the Wisdom to be found in all of God’s Word, the church’s founding document.

Here’s the Big Idea for today: Not all wisdom is created equal; true wisdom comes from God’s Word.