Wisdom for the Heart
Stephen Davey will help you learn to know what the Bible says, understand what it means, and apply it to your life as he teaches verse-by-verse through books of the Bible. Stephen is the president of Wisdom International, which provides radio broadcasts, digital content, and print resources designed to make disciples of all nations and edify followers of Jesus Christ.
Wisdom for the Heart
Ladies and Gentlemen
When did strength start sounding like a shout? We open Philippians 4 and discover a better way: a life marked by steady joy and a reputation for gentleness that disarms cynicism and heals conversations. Joy here isn’t tied to lucky breaks or perfect outcomes; it’s a Spirit-formed conviction that God is worthy of worship in every season. Gentleness isn’t weakness either. It’s a practiced willingness to yield, to meet people halfway, and to use influence without crushing the bruised reed.
We walk through Paul’s rapid-fire commands and unpack how joy is birthed in the gospel, grown by the Holy Spirit, nourished by Scripture, and paradoxically deepened in trials. Then we turn to gentleness, a layered word that carries reasonableness, forbearance, and courtesy—exactly what our combative moment lacks. From traffic merges to tense meetings to unwanted sales calls, we trace everyday places where believers can trade point-scoring for peacemaking and show what grace sounds like under pressure.
Everything centers on a short phrase with massive weight: the Lord is near. Hope looks forward to Christ’s return, and presence steadies us right now. With that anchor, we can rejoice without props and answer discourtesy with calm. Expect practical handles, real stories, and a vision big enough for hard weeks: resolve to be joyful and pursue a reputation for gentleness. If you want to advance the gospel at home, online, and at work, you don’t need a stage—you need a posture. Subscribe, share this with a friend who could use some quiet strength today, and leave a review to help others find the show.
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Be willing to respond to abuse with patience, why the Lord is near. Be willing to yield your rights rather than demand them why the Lord is near. Be willing to be courteous when others are discourteous, why the Lord is near. Paul is writing this letter, he is chained to Roman soldiers, and he effectively reminds you in that phrase: this is not the end of the story. Hang on. Keep an eye out, as it were, for the coming of the Redeemer.
SPEAKER_01:When was the last time someone described you as gentle? It's not a word you hear much anymore, is it? In a culture that celebrates power, dominance, and winning, gentleness often looks like weakness. But for followers of Christ, it's one of the strongest marks of genuine faith. In Philippians 4, Paul gives a surprising command. Let your gentleness be evident to all. What does that mean? And how can you do it? Today, Stephen Davies shows that gentleness is not a personality trait, it's about spiritual maturity. You're about to learn to live with the quiet strength of gentleness.
SPEAKER_00:Probably true. He goes on to write from their views on the state of the American dream, which is dead, and America's role in the world, which is not what it used to be, to how their life is working out for them, which is not what they expected. More people than ever are viewing life, listen to this verbiage, through a veil of disappointment. Through a veil of disappointment. Historian Daniel Borston suggests that the American culture is suffering this disappointment because of self-centered, and that's my additional word to his comment. He says, unrealistic expectations. In his book entitled The Image, he writes, we expect anything and everything. We even expect the contradictory and the impossible. For instance, we expect compact cars to be spacious. We expect luxurious cars to be economical. We expect to eat and stay thin. Let's move on quickly. We expect to be constantly on the move and yet good neighbors. We expect to go to the church of our choice and yet accept its guidance. We expect to revere God and at the same time to play God. No wonder, he writes, so many people feel deceived and disappointed. Never have people expected so much more than the world will ever be able to fulfill. Into this culture of disappointment. Into this culture of unrealistic expectation. Frankly, into every generation, God has placed his church, his redeemed bride, and we become demonstrations of an entirely different set of expectations. Or we should. We pursue an entirely different objective. In fact, we we define everything in life with a different dictionary than our world. We literally become, and we've rallied again together on the Lord's Day to be rehearsing this truth as we'll go to Scripture in a moment, but we we should become to our dissatisfied world a picture of satisfaction. To our deceived world, we ought to be a picture of truth and reality, to our self-absorbed world, demonstrations of grace. For the believer, probably never more than in this convictingly clear, rapid fire staccato delivery, is Philippians chapter 4 needed like today. If you have your copy of the New Testament turned there, and Paul is going to click off one imperative after another as we get back into this text. And by the way, each of these commands, he's going to rattle off several of them quickly. He's going to fly through them. They're all a volume of study. By the way, they're all a rich volume. And I'm kind of saying that because I'm going to admit to you up front that Paul is going to write them faster than I'm going to preach them. Okay? If you were with us in our opening study of this chapter, you remember perhaps two women at odds with one another, and Paul settles the dispute by asking not only these women, but the entire church to demonstrate grace in this disagreeable setting. Now, Paul is going to move on and talk about how we as Christians demonstrate grace in a disagreeable world. And for today, Paul is going to touch on two things: our resolution and our reputation. Let's pick it up at verse 4 of Philippians chapter 4. Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say, rejoice, exclamation point. This is a command. So number one, make it your resolution to be joyful. And you can't help, by the way, but notice that there aren't any loopholes in this command. He repeats it twice, and then he even adds the word, if you dare to underline it, always. He isn't writing, rejoice in the Lord on Sundays. Rejoice in the Lord on happy days. Rejoice in the Lord always. And if you didn't get it the first time, let me say it again, Paul writes, rejoice. Now watch this. If Paul is commanding us here, if this is a command, then joy cannot be a feeling like happiness. You can't command somebody to be happy. In fact, life is filled with unhappy things, unhappy moments, unhappy experiences, unhappy disappointments, unhappy tears. Happiness relates to what is happening. And what's happening isn't always happy. Maybe you've seen the Charlie Brown cartoon that defines happiness as a warm puppy. I can remember growing up with my three brothers, our family dog, they kind of grew up with us, Wags was her name, very creatively named, by us kids. She's wagging her tail. Let's call her Wags. So Wags it was. She had a litter every year, no matter what my parents tried to do, to somehow keep that from happening. She had a litter. And I remember many times my mother waking us up in the morning by putting into bed with each of us a warm, squirming little puppy. That great. You'd never do that with a kitten, by the way, but a puppy. And we'd wake up, and that was a wonderful way to wake up. Well, what happens when there is no warm puppy? You fill in the blank. When there's no money, when there's no success, when there's no popularity, when there aren't straight A's, when there's no girlfriend, no boyfriend, no rising career, no new car, no full shopping cart. What happens when there's none of that? We tend to be happy as long as we have that. See, happiness is circumstantial and it can't be commanded. Joy is internal, it is responding to the nature of God's spirit within us. Joy is a settled conviction that God is in control of every circumstance and every event. Even as James would write, when trials come, we we calculate it all to be a joyful response. Keep in mind, by the way, you might think Paul's writing that because he's an apostle and apostles are supposed to say something like that because we're going to read, you know, for 2,000 years what they write. No, keep in mind that he's writing this command. He is not, when he writes it, sipping coffee on the coast of Italy, overlooking the sea. He's writing this chain between two guards under house arrest who watch him 24-7. Rejoice, he commands. Can you imagine his demonstration through this resolution to rejoice in his bonds? Can you imagine the effect on these soldiers that would take shifts every day as they guarded him? You happen to be living in a very unhappy culture, right? Surrounded by dissatisfied, disappointed human beings, and you become a demonstration of the grace of God and the gospel when you face all things at all times, always, this resolution to rejoice. The joy that is internal comes to the surface. Don't be like so many Christians, one author wrote, whose joy is evidently so deep it never surfaces. Now, I've waited until this text to sort of flesh out this idea of joy. Let me give you four or five features of joy rather quickly. First, joy is given by God to those who are saved. Don't ever tell an unbeliever to be joyful. The best they can be is happy. Joy is bound up in the gospel. It is that resolution to respond in such a way that reflects trust and submission to the will of God. I find it interesting that when the angel first described to those shepherds the message, which is effectively the gospel in Luke chapter 2, verses 1 to 11, that angel says to these shepherds, Behold, I bring you good news of great joy. For today in the city of David is born to you a savior is Christ the Lord. And by the way, after the shepherds left that outdoor delivery room, we're told that they returned praising God, rejoicing. And nothing, keep in mind, about their dirty jobs had changed. Nothing about their income had been altered. Nothing about their status as ceremonially unclean, unable to enter the temple precinct, had changed. It was the gospel that would give to them this lasting joy. You do your own word study and you'll find joy appearing time and time again. In fact, throughout the book of Acts, says the gospel is exploding. Gentiles and Jews who are being converted are beginning to rejoice. Even the apostles who leave the presence of the religious leaders who tell them if you speak in Jesus' name, we're going to kill you, and they leave rejoicing. It's impossible to separate the gospel we know and believe from joy. Think on that more. Secondly, joy is an ongoing production of the Holy Spirit. It's an ongoing production of the Holy Spirit. You're not going to get up tomorrow and say, I'm going to drink coffee tomorrow morning out of my coffee cup that has a smiley face on it, because I'm going to be joyful. Go ahead and try. This is the work of the Spirit of God. In fact, Paul writes to the Galatians, the fruit of the Spirit, that is the outward manifestation of the internal work of the Spirit of God is, and he begins to rattle them off, love, what's the second word? Joy. Joy. Happiness is very human. And we love those moments. Joy is supernatural. And in those moments, it may not be happy, but we can have joy, the settled conviction that God is worthy of being worshipped. Thirdly, joy is the result of receiving and obeying the word of God. It is the result of receiving and obeying the word of God. Jeremiah the prophet said this to God your words were found and I ate them. And your words became for me a joy. Of course you have. John the Apostle writes his inspired letters so that among other things his readers, joy may be made complete. Fourthly, joy is deepened as believers experience trials. You became imitators of us and of the Lord, Paul writes, having received the word, listen to this, in much tribulation and with the joy of the Holy Spirit. What a contradiction, 1 Thessalonians 1, verse 6. What a combination. Much tribulation and joy. Paul wrote to the believers in Corinth and 2 Corinthians chapter 6 and verse 10. We were sorrowful, yet rejoicing. There's balance there and transparency in his writings. He's not a pietist. He's not a mystical author of here's three ways to just keep a smile forever plastered on your face. We were sorrowful. There were things in life that didn't make me happy. My tears of sorrow, though, are mingled with rejoicing. God is worthy of worship even then. To put it another way, our inner attitudes are not bound to outward circumstances. In fact, they don't depend on outward circumstances. Which is why Paul writes here in Philippians chapter 4. Notice again, verse 4, we are to rejoice in our circumstances. No, we are to rejoice in the Lord. Our unchanging, unwavering, ever faithful, rock, and refuge and source of joy. One more, fifthly, joy is motivated by thoughts of heaven. What keeps an athlete running is often imagining crossing the tape. It's going to be over. It's going to be over. Paul is going to arrive at the same point here in his letter to the Philippians as we anticipate seeing Jesus. I'll get there in a moment, but let me allow the apostle Peter to kind of chime in. Here's what he says. And though you do not see him now, you believe in him. You greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible. 1 Peter 1.8 later he writes, even though you're suffering at the revelation of his glory, you will rejoice. 1 Peter 4.13. Listen, the resolution to rejoice is not natural. It's supernatural. And to the depressed and despairing and disappointed human race around us, and even perhaps our own hearts this morning, we demonstrate something so unique because they see in you as a Christian that your Christianity did not vaccinate you against sorrow. It didn't inoculate you against stress and relational difficulties and frustrating illnesses and financial losses and heartbreaking deaths of parents and grandparents and maybe even children and grandchildren. But they see you effectively roll up your sleeves of faith and trust. Even when you don't understand it, you didn't expect it, you can't explain it, and you cannot escape it. There's something different about you. We're resolved to rejoice in the trustworthiness of the Lord. That's like Paul saying here, you rejoice in the Lord. Sometimes that is all you have, and it is enough. A number of years ago I was handed a poem, which I kept. I would later use it a number of years ago when I was asked to preach at the funeral for a precious little four-year-old girl. Before I chose to read that poem and my message, the lyrics struck me as deeper than normal, and I wondered about the author, and so I did a little digging and found that this had been written in 1932, written by a young pastor. He and his wife had three small children. A fourth was on the way. There were complications, however, during her delivery, and the baby died, and so did she. This young pastor called on a friend of his, another pastor, to preach that funeral service, and he sat on the front row with his little children. And this pastor noticed as he was preaching that the young pastor was just writing some things on a piece of paper. And he asked, he asked him about it later, and he sort of rather dismissively said, Well, I was just jotting down some poetry that had come to my mind, and it has been kept since. The lyrics go like this. My father's way may twist and turn, my heart may throb and ache, but in my soul, I'm glad I know he maketh no mistake. My cherished plans may go astray, my hopes may fade away, but still I'll trust my Lord to lead, for he doth know the way. Though night be dark, and it may seem that day will never break, I'll pin my faith, my all in him. He maketh no mistake. So much now I cannot see, my eyesight's far too dim. But come what may, I'll simply trust and leave it all to him, for by and by the mist will lift, and plain it all he'll make. Through all the way, though dark to me, he made not one mistake. It's as if Paul tells the church in Philippi listen, all eyes are gonna be on you. And what you have causes you and enables you to supernaturally respond with a settled conviction in this truth. Make this your resolution. That's why he commands it. Make this your resolution. It's not gonna be natural, it's gonna be supernatural. A resolution to be joyful. Secondly, make it your reputation to be gentle. Now, if you thought the command to be joyful was difficult and convicting, as I did, get ready for this one. Verse 5. Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. I mean, seriously, have you ever studied the Bible and you just sort of stopped and said, Really? I'm not supposed to do that. I'm a pastor, but I'm sure you do it. Actually, I did. Really? Let your gentle spirit be made known or be obvious to all men. Listen, you can't get a taxi if you're gentle. You can't make the football team if you're gentle. What does Paul mean here? Let your gentleness be known to all men. Well, part of the challenge is over the last 500 years of the English Bible, it's been difficult to translate that rather rare word. And I got involved in more study than I'm ever going to bring to you. I'm just sort of going to bring you the top of the barrel here, but I'm going to give you just enough to let you know how difficult it's been. If you go back in time, in 1380, John Wycliffe handwrote the first copy of the English New Testament from the Greek language, and he translated the word patience. I thought, okay, I can stay there. We can understand that. But William Tyndale, who printed the first English copy of the New Testament in 1525, translated it softness. And what's with that? Softness. I have no idea what he had in mind there. The Geneva Bible in 1560, which by the way added verses and chapter numbers so you could study it. It's called the first study Bible. Shakespeare would quote from it hundreds of times, by the way. It translated the word the patient mind. Let your patient mind be seen to all men. I'm thinking, okay. 1582, Rehims translates it, modesty. And that's difficult because those terms change. In 1611, the King James Bible used the word moderation and later added in the margin the word gentleness, which my translation uses. More recent translations have used forbearance, reasonableness. Those are all excellent, by the way. They're trying to get at the nuances that are bound up in this very rich word. Aristotle used the word in the context of not insisting on the letter of the law, has a legal nuance. And so Williams would paraphrase it, and I love his paraphrase, where he says, this means you are meeting someone halfway. It's the idea of the word. During the days of Paul, the Greeks used the word in contexts where people yielded their rights, where they bore abuse, where they put up with other people's faults. Let the fact that you put up with other people's faults be done unto all men. That's a part of it. In fact, an article that I had filed a long time ago by Stanley Carvel came to my mind and I pulled it back out. It was an article about the New England Pipe Cleaning Company in Watertown, Connecticut. This three-man crew was digging 25 feet beneath the historic streets in Revere, Massachusetts. And they're trying to clean a 10-inch sewer line. Now, in addition to the normal uh mess they expected to find, this three-man team ended up unearthing, this article read, 61 rings, valuable rings, several old vintage coins, even several pieces of valuable silverware, which they were allowed to keep. And Carville, and this is why I'm delivering this to you, draws the moral of the story by writing it this way: whether it's pipes or people, if you put up with some mess, sometimes you find real treasure. A good? Not a bad analogy. And if I could take that analogy and bring it back to verse five, when you're in the middle of a mess, you be treasure. You be valuable vintage coins. You be like valuable silverware that's discovered in the middle of the mess. That's who were to be. One recent author complained about our current spirit. He says it's anything but gentle. He writes it here in the 21st century, reason discourse is giving way to in-your-face sound bites. Playing hardball is the dominant metaphor for American public life. Our interchanges are confrontational, divisive, and dismissive. Balance and fairness are casualties. On evening news shows, and you've watched them perhaps, as two, three, sometimes four people contend simultaneously for the microphone. Volume and disagreement are the new civic virtues. This command has never been perhaps more difficult. Be gentle. To help us understand the word Paul uses it in Titus in chapter 3, where he contrasts the gentle person to the brawler, that is, the fighter, the argumentative person. James uses the word in his letter to describe someone who is willing to yield. And it gets back to you have your rights, but you're willing to back up. There's a softness about you, there's a gentleness, there's a courtesy about you that brings a willingness to yield. And so as I describe this and all the different nuances, you know immediately this is not an easy command to fulfill. Who in the world wants to yield their right-of-way? We have an illustration, by the way. Right out here off the parking lot on Holly Springs Road. You know, now if you know this territory fairly well, you know if you're taking, if you're coming down Walnut Street, you know, you're leaving Chick-fil-A or somewhere important like that, and you're gonna cross over the light, and you're gonna get on Holly Springs. This two lanes really isn't two lanes. The one on the right is a turn lane into the church party line, but people don't know that. And so these people in that left lane have to yield when people finally discover this is gonna run out. Now I've done my own little experiment. It's kind of fun. I don't get out much. This is one opportunity I have. I'm coming down this road and I'm in that lane, in the right lane, and I'm just gonna act like I've got to merge and I'm gonna see what happens. And I kind of speed up, you know what the person does next to me nine out of ten times, speeds up. And then I speed up, and they speed up. I've had men and women floored it, and I floor it, and then I slam on the brakes and turn it in the church parking lot. So much fun. But I'm just like them, by the way. I don't want to yield. I got the lame. You shouldn't have known. You know, as I've studied all the different uses of this loaded word, it occurred to me that we actually happen to have in our English language the perfect description of this Greek word. And it uses the word gentle. It's a word that's fading. It's the word gentleman. Gentleman. What comes to your mind when you think of a man who is a gentleman? You know, I just asked that question and scribble down some thoughts. Well, this would be a man who is courteous. And by the way, the counterpart, if you go back several hundred years to gentlemen, is lady. It's a gentleman is courteous, kind, modest, yielding, opening a door for a lady or for someone. A gentleman doesn't come to blows. He backs away or meets someone halfway. He doesn't lose his cool. He watches his words. He isn't off-color. He isn't rude. He doesn't demean women, he doesn't disrespect peers. He watches his actions. He's willing to yield. A gentleman doesn't honk his horn because someone's driving too slow down Penny Road while he's trying to get to church because he has to preach. Just comes to my mind. But never mind that one. See, Paul is effectively commanding us all pursue a reputation that is soft in that regard, that is yielding. Pursue a reputation of being gracious, even when you have the right of way. Even when you're right. I love the way Peter Marshall is, he's forgotten today, but nearly a hundred years ago he was the chaplain of the Senate. He pastored a large church in D.C., but his prayers were renowned. And if you've read his biography, he opened the Senate on one occasion by praying this great prayer, Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change, and when we are right, make us easy to live with. That's the idea. Be a gentleman. Be a lady. There's a sense of decency and civility bound up in this command. And do we ever have a need for a fresh demonstration than today? In fact, I give you this fairly quickly. A recent poll underscored the real issue of the lack of civility. According to this poll, the percentage of Americans who think a lack of civility is a problem today. 89%. The percentage of Americans who think mean spirited political campaigns are to blame, 73%. The percentage of Americans who think graphic violent rock music is to blame, 67%. The percentage of Americans who think brash talk Radio is to blame 52%. The percentage of Americans who think their own behavior is uncivil. 1%. We happen to be living at a perfect time and in the perfect generation to resurrect what it means to pursue a reputation of civility, of graciousness, of care, of discretion, of gentleness. Our resolution is to be joyful. Our reputation is to be gentle. Why? Because our expectation is going to be realized. Notice how Paul drops in this ending phrase, verse 5: the Lord is near. Be willing to respond to abuse with patience. Why? The Lord is near. Be willing to yield your rights rather than demand them why the Lord is near. Be willing to be courteous when others are discourteous. Why? The Lord is near. Be willing to be gracious when the world is unkind and merciless. Why? And for the Philippians, this would apply immediately. The Lord is near. James speaks in a similar way in his letter in James chapter 5, verse 8. Be patient and stand firm because the Lord's coming is near. The apostles all believe they would be alive when the church was raptured away. Paul is writing this letter. He is chained to Roman soldiers, and he effectively reminds you in that phrase: this is not the end of the story. Hang on. Stay at it. Be joyful. Be gentle. Don't keep your eyes focused on the circumstances. Keep an eye out, as it were, for the coming of the Redeemer. The Lord is near. You can certainly be interpreted in that light prophetically, which is what I've just done for you. But you can also interpret this phrase. The Lord is near in terms of his immediate personal presence. Both could be in the mind of Paul. In other words, this isn't just a phrase of prophecy. This could be a phrase of proximity. The Lord is near to you right now. Right now. In the best of times, in the worst of times, the Lord is with us. In every changing circumstance of life, one author writes, he is a friend for life. He is not only near when the sun shines, he is near when the storms rage and the hurricanes blow. I love this phrase, this author writes, the weather makes no difference to him. One of the driving principles that led one of my heroes, Hudson Taylor, to stay out of 50 years of pioneering work in China, more than 100 years ago, was this principle where he wrote, He counted Jesus as never absent. He counted Jesus as never absent. He's near. Following these two commands, then come when we live in the light of eternity, when we live as demonstrations to our lost and discouraged and disparaging or despairing world of these two qualities of life. And we might think, you know what, if I'm going to do something for God, if indeed, as we launch this month, if I'm really going to advance the gospel, if I'm going to advance the church, if I'm going to advance the truth, if I'm going to advance biblical shalom, I mean I've got to do something really amazing. I've got to do something very public. I've got to do something really wise. No? Resolve to be joyful right where you are today. And pursue a reputation of being gentle. A gentleman today. Deliver to your world a demonstration of grace. I close with this. One author writes, in fact, it was Philip Yancey, who was once speaking in Toronto, it was a couple of years ago, and he's put it in his recent book. He was speaking on demonstrating grace as believers, and he writes that at one point he just stopped and he asked the audience, it wasn't a large audience, he said, Why don't we just share together? Give illustrations of where God has allowed you to demonstrate the grace of the gospel. And he writes, one woman sort of shocked us, surprised us all when she stood and said, Well, I believe that God is using me to minister grace to telephone marketers. How many of you have done that lately? She said, You know, the kind who call at inconvenient hours and deliver their spiel, and they won't even let you say I'm not interested. How many times have we all, the author sort of interrupted, responded rudely or simply hung up? She continued, you know, all day long, uh these sales callers here, people curse at them and slam the phones down. I decided I would listen attentively to their pitch. And then I would respond kindly, even though I wasn't interested more often than not in buying what they were selling. And I would at some point try to interject a question or two about them, their time on the job, what city they're calling from, what what country they're calling from. I would ask them about their lives, and then I would ask them as I tried to turn this corner if they had any concerns that I might pray about on their behalf. She said that they're often totally shocked and they don't know what to say, sometimes a long silence. Often they ask me to pray with them right then and there before we hang up. It isn't unusual for them to end in the conversation in tears. She said, you know, they're people. They're probably underpaid, and they're surprised when I treat them with courtesy and grace. Yancy concludes, you know, I've wondered how often I've missed those moments in my own interactions with people. I marvel at this woman's gracious courtesy. And I think of the times when I've been irritated on the phone or irritated with employees on computer helplines that are calling me from a country where they can't even speak good English. I catch myself, Yancy writes, treating store cashiers and Starbucks baristas as if they are machines. Subtly or not so subtly, I'm communicating that I matter more, that I'm being interrupted, that I need to get back to my life, and in the process I am missing wonderful opportunities of dispensing grace. Isn't that what Paul is commanding us here? To be joyful just spills out, to be gentle just spills over. Imagine the church could be known as an assembly of ladies and gentlemen. Wouldn't that be remarkable? Who are resolved to follow joyfully their Lord who is near and whose coming is nearer than ever before. Perhaps in this way, these simple interactions, we might truly advance the gospel, advance the church, advance truth, advance shalom for the glory of Christ. Make this your resolution, make this your reputation for Him.
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