Chasing Wisdom: The Lifelong Pursuit of Living Well

by Daniel Grothe

Overview

Teaching pastor at the influential New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Daniel Grothe explains the Bible's blueprint for becoming the kind of person who can deal with all of life's challenges.

Some people have learned how to live. They can handle all that life brings. They are composed. They radiate strength. They are whole, with lives worth emulating, and when they speak people listen. They are, in a word, wise. How did these people get wisdom? And perhaps more importantly, how can we?

In his long-awaited first book, Daniel Grothe of New Life church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, shows us how to get wisdom for ourselves by examining what the Bible has to say about it and by providing practical steps for acquiring it, among them:

• learning to ask for help,
• loving Scripture,
• going to Church,
• living quietly,
• and, above all, seeking those who are themselves wise.

Drawing upon Scripture and upon his own experience learning from his friend and mentor Eugene Peterson, Grothe shows how our lives can be secured by the resource that will keep us from collapsing under the onslaught of the difficulties of life. Wisdom is available to us. It takes work to pursue it. Chasing Wisdom reveals how.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781400212484
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	04/21/2020
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	781,255
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Daniel Grothe is the associate senior pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he's been for sixteen years. Daniel and his wife, Lisa, live on a hobby farm outside of Colorado Springs with their three children, Lillian, Wilson, and Wakley, and a thriving throng of happy animals.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Bullet Holes and Broken Hearts xiii

Chapter 1 Learning to Ask for Help 1

Chapter 2 Introducing the Sages 17

Chapter 3 Learning to Work for Wisdom 31

Chapter 4 The Wisdom of Loving Scripture 45

Chapter 5 The Wisdom of Going to Church 61

Chapter 6 The Wisdom of a Quiet Life 75

Chapter 7 The Wisdom of an Old Library 91

Chapter 8 The Wisdom of Rest 111

Chapter 9 The Wisdom of Holy Lament 129

Chapter 10 The Wisdom of an Active Life 147

Chapter 11 Developing a Theology of the Laying on of Hands 165

Conclusion: Where We Go from Here 181

Afterword: To the Old (or Almost Old) 187

Afterword: To the Young (or Not-Yet-Middle-Aged) 191

Acknowledgments 195

Notes 199

About the Author 209