Week 1: In a world full of competing voices, wisdom begins by listening to the right one.
Wisdom = Understanding how God designed life to work and happily choosing to live accordingly, following that path.
Week 1: In a world full of competing voices, wisdom begins by listening to the right one.
Week 2: “What Does Wisdom Sound Like?”
Week 1: In a world full of competing voices, wisdom begins by listening to the right one.
Week 2: “What Does Wisdom Sound Like?”
Week 3: What Do I Do with My Anger?
Proverbs 10:9
9 Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.
How Do I Live Honestly in a Dishonest World?
Big Idea: Living a life of integrity means pursuing truthfulness and honesty in all interactions, living as the same person in public and private because you fear God more than you fear people.
What is Integrity?
Integrity = Being truthful, honest in all interactions. Determined to promote things as they actually are.
What is Integrity?
Integrity = Being truthful, honest in all interactions. Determined to promote things as they actually are.
Lying = When we deliberately present an inaccurate view in order to motivate someone else to think or act in a way they would not if they had an accurate picture.
Proverbs 2:1-22
1 My son, if you receive my words� and treasure up my commandments with you,�2 making your ear attentive to wisdom� and inclining your heart to understanding;�3 yes, if you call out for insight� and raise your voice for understanding,�4 if you seek it like silver� and search for it as for hidden treasures,�
Proverbs 2:1-22
1 My son, if you receive my words� and treasure up my commandments with you,�2 making your ear attentive to wisdom� and inclining your heart to understanding;�3 yes, if you call out for insight� and raise your voice for understanding,�4 if you seek it like silver� and search for it as for hidden treasures,�
Proverbs 2:1-22
1 My son, if you receive my words� and treasure up my commandments with you,�2 making your ear attentive to wisdom� and inclining your heart to understanding;�3 yes, if you call out for insight� and raise your voice for understanding,�4 if you seek it like silver� and search for it as for hidden treasures,�
Proverbs 2:1-22
1 My son, if you receive my words� and treasure up my commandments with you,�2 making your ear attentive to wisdom� and inclining your heart to understanding;�3 yes, if you call out for insight� and raise your voice for understanding,�4 if you seek it like silver� and search for it as for hidden treasures,�
Proverbs 2:1-22
1 My son, if you receive my words� and treasure up my commandments with you,�2 making your ear attentive to wisdom� and inclining your heart to understanding;�3 yes, if you call out for insight� and raise your voice for understanding,�4 if you seek it like silver� and search for it as for hidden treasures,�
Proverbs 2:1-22
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord� and find the knowledge of God.�6 For the Lord gives wisdom;� from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;�7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;� he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,�8 guarding the paths of justice� and watching over the way of his saints.��
Proverbs 2:1-22
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord� and find the knowledge of God.�6 For the Lord gives wisdom;� from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;�7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;� he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,�8 guarding the paths of justice� and watching over the way of his saints.��
Proverbs 2:1-22
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord� and find the knowledge of God.�6 For the Lord gives wisdom;� from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;�7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;� he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,�8 guarding the paths of justice� and watching over the way of his saints.��
Proverbs 2:1-22
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord� and find the knowledge of God.�6 For the Lord gives wisdom;� from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;�7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;� he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,�8 guarding the paths of justice� and watching over the way of his saints.��
A great challenge we are now facing is the denial that there is truth.
Proverbs 2:1-22
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord� and find the knowledge of God.�6 For the Lord gives wisdom;� from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;�7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;� he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,�8 guarding the paths of justice� and watching over the way of his saints.��
What is Integrity?
Integrity = Being truthful, honest in all interactions. Determined to promote things as they actually are.
He increasingly gives the picture of the way things actually are.
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
“Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there is any universal truth.” It sounds humble. But look carefully at what is happening. It’s like a servant saying: I am not smart enough to know which person here is my master—or if I even have a master. The result is that I don’t have a master and I can be my own master. That is in reality what happens to relativists: In claiming to be too lowly to know the truth, they exalt themselves as supreme arbiter of what they can think and do. This is not humility. This is the essence of pride.” - John Piper
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
Creating your truth
Discovering what God really said about truth
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
Our view:
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
Our view:
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
Our view:
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
Our view:
Relativist’s view:
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
Appeal of relativism:
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
Appeal of relativism:
Aversion to objective truth
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
“It is easy to be relativists when it suits us, especially if we hate conflict. But the second that someone cuts us off on the freeway, cuts the queue in front of us, hacks our online identity, breaks into our car, slanders us behind our back, or take too long delivering our order, all our sanctimonious slogans about not passing judgement and others living their truths evaporate internally in the heat of our moral indignation.”
- Thaddeus Willams
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
The greatest danger is not the extreme, but the subtle movement of the heart away from God.
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
Integrity Is Tested Under Pressure
You don’t build your integrity in a crisis, you reveal it there to
a watching world.
Integrity Reflects the Wisdom of God to a Watching World
Proverbs 2:1-22
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
10 for wisdom will come into your heart,� and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;�11 discretion will watch over you,� understanding will guard you,�12 delivering you from the way of evil,� from men of perverted speech,�13 who forsake the paths of uprightness� to walk in the ways of darkness,�14 who rejoice in doing evil� and delight in the perverseness of evil,�
Proverbs 2:1-22
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
10 for wisdom will come into your heart,� and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;�11 discretion will watch over you,� understanding will guard you,�12 delivering you from the way of evil,� from men of perverted speech,�13 who forsake the paths of uprightness� to walk in the ways of darkness,�14 who rejoice in doing evil� and delight in the perverseness of evil,�
Proverbs 2:1-22
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
10 for wisdom will come into your heart,� and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;�11 discretion will watch over you,� understanding will guard you,�12 delivering you from the way of evil,� from men of perverted speech,�13 who forsake the paths of uprightness� to walk in the ways of darkness,�14 who rejoice in doing evil� and delight in the perverseness of evil,�
Proverbs 2:1-22
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
10 for wisdom will come into your heart,� and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;�11 discretion will watch over you,� understanding will guard you,�12 delivering you from the way of evil,� from men of perverted speech,�13 who forsake the paths of uprightness� to walk in the ways of darkness,�14 who rejoice in doing evil� and delight in the perverseness of evil,�
Proverbs 2:1-22
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
10 for wisdom will come into your heart,� and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;�11 discretion will watch over you,� understanding will guard you,�12 delivering you from the way of evil,� from men of perverted speech,�13 who forsake the paths of uprightness� to walk in the ways of darkness,�14 who rejoice in doing evil� and delight in the perverseness of evil,�
Integrity Reflects the Wisdom of God to a Watching World
Proverbs 2:1-22
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
10 for wisdom will come into your heart,� and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;�11 discretion will watch over you,� understanding will guard you,�12 delivering you from the way of evil,� from men of perverted speech,�13 who forsake the paths of uprightness� to walk in the ways of darkness,�14 who rejoice in doing evil� and delight in the perverseness of evil,�
Proverbs 2:1-22
15 men whose paths are crooked,� and who are devious in their ways.
16 So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman,� from the adulteress with her smooth words,�17 who forsakes the companion of her youth� and forgets the covenant of her God;�18 for her house sinks down to death,� and her paths to the departed;
19 none who go to her come back,� nor do they regain the paths of life.
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Proverbs 2:1-22
15 men whose paths are crooked,� and who are devious in their ways.
16 So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman,� from the adulteress with her smooth words,�17 who forsakes the companion of her youth� and forgets the covenant of her God;�18 for her house sinks down to death,� and her paths to the departed;
19 none who go to her come back,� nor do they regain the paths of life.
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Proverbs 2:1-22
15 men whose paths are crooked,� and who are devious in their ways.
16 So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman,� from the adulteress with her smooth words,�17 who forsakes the companion of her youth� and forgets the covenant of her God;�18 for her house sinks down to death,� and her paths to the departed;
19 none who go to her come back,� nor do they regain the paths of life.
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Integrity Reflects the Wisdom of God to a Watching World
Proverbs 2:1-22
�20 So you will walk in the way of the good� and keep to the paths of the righteous.�21 For the upright will inhabit the land,� and those with integrity will remain in it,�22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land,� and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
Proverbs 2:1-22
�20 So you will walk in the way of the good� and keep to the paths of the righteous.�21 For the upright will inhabit the land,� and those with integrity will remain in it,�22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land,� and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
Proverbs 2:1-22
�20 So you will walk in the way of the good� and keep to the paths of the righteous.�21 For the upright will inhabit the land,� and those with integrity will remain in it,�22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land,� and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
Proverbs 2:1-22
�20 So you will walk in the way of the good� and keep to the paths of the righteous.�21 For the upright will inhabit the land,� and those with integrity will remain in it,�22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land,� and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
Proverbs 2:1-22
�20 So you will walk in the way of the good� and keep to the paths of the righteous.�21 For the upright will inhabit the land,� and those with integrity will remain in it,�22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land,� and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
Integrity Requires a Daily Alignment:
Integrity Requires a Daily Alignment:
Gather �data
Reflect
Gather �data
Design a course of action
Reflect
Gather �data
Act
Design a course of action
Reflect
Gather �data
Act
Design a course of action
Reflect
Gather �data
Act
Design a course of action
Reflect
LENGTH OF TIME???
Integrity Requires a Daily Alignment:
Integrity Requires a Daily Alignment:
MONDAY MATTERS:
MONDAY MATTERS:
MONDAY MATTERS:
MONDAY MATTERS:
MONDAY MATTERS:
Prayer from St. Aquinas:
Prayer from St. Aquinas:
Father, be our wisdom. That we would know you, and seek you diligently. A mind to follow you and a life to please you. Perseverance to wait faithfully for you and the trust that will finally embrace you.