Christian, where do you find wisdom? Do you look within? Or do you find it in the One who created you?

Wisdom, true wisdom, is found in God and God alone. For “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Ps. 111:10; Pr. 9:10), and the beginning of knowledge (Pr. 1:7).

Man’s wisdom is foolishness (1 Cor. 1:20; 3:19), and through the foolish things of the world, God puts the wise to shame (1 Cor. 1:27).

What does God say? “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts” (Isa. 55:9). Why then depend on the wisdom of flesh, o man? Do you believe yourself greater than the One who made you?

Nay. “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight” (Pr. 3:5-6).

God gave us wisdom when He gave us Christ. For Christ is become for us “wisdom from God,” as well as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption (1 Cor. 1:30), and if we are indeed in Christ, then we have the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16).

Next time you feel you lack or need wisdom, remember that Christ is our wisdom, and instead of looking within, ask God “who gives to all generously and without reproach” (Jas. 1:5).

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Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions

Evening, September 25

"Who of God is made unto us wisdom." 1 Corinthians 1:30

Man's intellect seeks after rest, and by nature seeks it apart from the Lord Jesus Christ. Men of education are apt, even when converted, to look upon the simplicities of the cross of Christ with an eye too little reverent and loving. They are snared in the old net in which the Grecians were taken, and have a hankering to mix philosophy with revelation. The temptation with a man of refined thought and high education is to depart from the simple truth of Christ crucified, and to invent, as the term is, a more intellectual doctrine. This led the early Christian churches into Gnosticism, and bewitched them with all sorts of heresies. This is the root of Neology, and the other fine things which in days gone by were so fashionable in Germany, and are now so ensnaring to certain classes of divines. Whoever you are, good reader, and whatever your education may be, if you be the Lord's, be assured you will find no rest in philosophizing divinity. You may receive this dogma of one great thinker, or that dream of another profound reasoner, but what the chaff is to the wheat, that will these be to the pure word of God. All that reason, when best guided, can find out is but the A B C of truth, and even that lacks certainty, while in Christ Jesus there is treasured up all the fulness of wisdom and knowledge. All attempts on the part of Christians to be content with systems such as Unitarian and Broad-church thinkers would approve of, must fail; true heirs of heaven must come back to the grandly simple reality which makes the ploughboy's eye flash with joy, and glads the pious pauper's heart- "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." Jesus satisfies the most elevated intellect when He is believingly received, but apart from Him the mind of the regenerate discovers no rest. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge." "A good understanding have all they that do His commandments."

"2019 was the last great year for the world economy.
For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.
America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going.
Globe-spanning supply chains are only possible with the protection of the U.S. Navy. The American dollar underpins internationalized energy and financial markets. Complex, innovative industries were created to satisfy American consumers. American security policy forced warring nations to lay down their arms. Billions of people have been fed and educated as the American-led trade system spread across the globe.
All of this was artificial. All this was temporary. All this is ending.
In The End of the World is Just the Beginning, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging.
The list of countries that make it all work is smaller than you think. Which means everything about our interconnected world - from how we manufacture products, to how we grow food, to how we keep the lights on, to how we shuttle stuff about, to how we pay for it all - is about to change."

https://www.amazon.com/End-World-Just-Beginning-Globalization-ebook/dp/B09C65JNPF

There is a lot of information here! Thank you, NHNEC!

Learn The NECESSARY Steps to Self Governing As A Lawful Person Land and Soil JURISDICTION
Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight
https://nhne.substack.com/p/learn-the-necessary-steps-to-self?publication_id=2029851&post_id=174017775&isFreemail=true&r=1maoyr&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Intro to ‘Restoring the Mind of the Republic’
https://slantedright2.blogspot.com/2025/09/intro-to-restoring-mind-of-republic.html

SUMMARY: In my Baby Boomer Generation (I’m approaching 69 in November) a College/University education was promoted as the pathway to a successful life. … [In] the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, college education transformed from critical thinking into Leftist indoctrination. Today’s divided America is experiencing the fruit of that deceptive transformation. I ran into an interesting essay at TomKlingenstein.com that addresses a reform of College/University indoctrination entitled, “Restoring the Mind of the Republic”. …AN INTERESTING READ!
#SchoolsOfCivicThought #CriticalThinkingReform

Oklahoma Introduces Certification Test To Weed Out Far-Left Teachers
Aug 28, 2025 - 07:30 PM
ZeroHedge: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/oklahoma-introduces-certification-test-weed-out-far-left-teachers

This ZeroHedge post begins how Leftist educators brainwash kids to be Woke. THEN goes into how Oklahoma State has an Anti-Woke Teacher Certification process by law. Significant quote:

“The state of Oklahoma has devised a way to prevent future leftist infiltration: A certification test for incoming teachers designed to weed out woke devotees and lay the ground rules for what does and does not cross the line. The test may be applied to all new teachers, or specifically to teachers trained in blue states like California and New York that require progressive indoctrination. The state Department of Education, headed by Oklahoma schools Superintendent Ryan Walters, will implement the new certifications”…Parents should READ ENTIRE POST!
#StopWokeSchools

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Christian, do you feel compelled to "invite your unbelieving friend to 'church'?" Why so? Does darkness have fellowship with the light? (2 Cor. 6:14) Does an unbeliever have spiritual gifts with which to edify the body? (1 Cor. 12:7) Can one who dines at tables of demons also feast upon the Lord's supper? (1 Cor. 10:21)

When we gather as the Church (we are the Church, we don't go to church), we come together to separate from the world for a time, to refresh, to fellowship, to edify one another. Why then intentionally ask those who are not of Christ into our midst? This is not how the Church operated in the time of the apostles. (Acts 5:13)

Yes, they may end up there by happenstance, but it is not for us to ask them nor to accomodate them. (1 Cor. 14:23-25) Focus instead on serving the body as you have been called, using your gifts to edify the body, growing in fellowship with God and one another, and go out and take the gospel to the lost. Then when the lost receive Christ, let them indeed join our fellowship. (Acts 5:14)

This is the way the apostles worked and taught. This is the example we should follow.
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Spurgeon's Morning and Evening Devotions

Morning, August 18

"Strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord's house." Jeremiah 51:51

In this account the faces of the Lord's people were covered with shame, for it was a terrible thing that men should intrude into the Holy Place reserved for the priests alone. Everywhere about us we see like cause for sorrow. How many ungodly men are now educating with the view of entering into the ministry! What a crying sin is that solemn lie by which our whole population is nominally comprehended in a National Church! How fearful it is that ordinances should be pressed upon the unconverted, and that among the more enlightened churches of our land there should be such laxity of discipline. If the thousands who will read this portion shall all take this matter before the Lord Jesus this day, He will interfere and avert the evil which else will come upon His Church. To adulterate the Church is to pollute a well, to pour water upon fire, to sow a fertile field with stones. May we all have grace to maintain in our own proper way the purity of the Church, as being an assembly of believers, and not a nation, an unsaved community of unconverted men.

Our zeal must, however, begin at home. Let us examine ourselves as to our right to eat at the Lord's table. Let us see to it that we have on our wedding garment, lest we ourselves be intruders in the Lord's sanctuaries. Many are called, but few are chosen; the way is narrow, and the gate is strait. O for grace to come to Jesus aright, with the faith of God's elect. He who smote Uzzah for touching the ark is very jealous of His two ordinances; as a true believer I may approach them freely, as an alien I must not touch them lest I die. Heartsearching is the duty of all who are baptized or come to the Lord's table. "Search me, O God, and know my way, try me and know my heart."

Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions

Morning, July 20

"The earnest of our inheritance." Ephesians 1:14

Oh! what enlightenment, what joys, what consolation, what delight of heart is experienced by that man who has learned to feed on Jesus, and on Jesus alone. Yet the realization which we have of Christ's preciousness is, in this life, imperfect at the best. As an old writer says, "'Tis but a taste!" We have tasted "that the Lord is gracious," but we do not yet know how good and gracious He is, although what we know of His sweetness makes us long for more. We have enjoyed the firstfruits of the Spirit, and they have set us hungering and thirsting for the fulness of the heavenly vintage. We groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption. Here we are like Israel in the wilderness, who had but one cluster from Eshcol, there we shall be in the vineyard. Here we see the manna falling small, like coriander seed, but there shall we eat the bread of heaven and the old corn of the kingdom. We are but beginners now in spiritual education; for although we have learned the first letters of the alphabet, we cannot read words yet, much less can we put sentences together; but as one says, "He that has been in heaven but five minutes, knows more than the general assembly of divines on earth." We have many ungratified desires at present, but soon every wish shall be satisfied; and all our powers shall find the sweetest employment in that eternal world of joy. O Christian, antedate heaven for a few years. Within a very little time thou shalt be rid of all thy trials and thy troubles. Thine eyes now suffused with tears shall weep no longer. Thou shalt gaze in ineffable rapture upon the splendour of Him who sits upon the throne. Nay, more, upon His throne shalt thou sit. The triumph of His glory shall be shared by thee; His crown, His joy, His paradise, these shall be thine, and thou shalt be co-heir with Him who is the heir of all things.

Epstein List Debacle is a HUGE Chink in Trump Armor:
YET I Still Support Trump Because Dem-Marxist Tyranny is Far Worse!
https://oneway2day.com/2025/07/08/epstein-list-debacle-is-a-huge-chink-in-trump-armor/

SUMMARY: I want to write upfront, I AM STILL A TRUMP SUPPORTER! But this post definitely will not come across as Trump supportive. There are plenty of issues for MAGA adherents to criticize about President Trump decisions and Trump Administration actions. … BUT THERE IS A BIGGER PICTURE! I am very convinced if Trump’s TOO BIG TO RIG reelection in 2024 had not happened, more MAGA-Patriots would have joined J6ers in prison AND Dem-Marxist Reeducation Camps would…MORE TO READ!
#EpsteinCoverUp #UnaccountableElitists #CoverUpMotive

It's about time.....but LATE


UPenn Bans Transgender Athletes, Removes Swimming Records Set by Lia Thomas
‘Not only that, the university will be sending a personal apology to every female athlete who was forced to compete against a man,’ the education secretary said.
https://www.ntd.com/trump-upenn-reach-deal-to-strip-transgender-swimmer-of-past-titles-and-awards_1076663.html?utm_source=ntddailynoe&src_src=ntddailynoe&utm_campaign=ntd-2025-07-02&src_cmp=ntd-2025-07-02&utm_medium=email

BREAKING: Biden Judge Blocks Trump from Dismantling Department of Education
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/breaking-biden-judge-blocks-trump-dismantling-department-education/

The National Tenor Trombone Solo Competition Finals for Division I featured Jongbin Park, Braden Bass, and Caleb Dusek performing Morceau Symphonique by Philippe Gaubert at The U.S. Army Band 2025 American Trombone Workshop. #LosAngelesBrassAcademy #LosAngeles #UCA #BearClawsUp #IndianaUniversity #MyJacobs #TenorTrombone #Trombone #ATW2025 #ATW #Music

I left school when I was ten. I've been working and supporting myself ever since. I've been an avid reader and self-educator the whole time. Grateful.

There are a lot of links and information here.

PREP Act Brief: "License to Kill" must be repealed.
A collection of articles for ease of educating your friends, family, doctors and legislators. Please sign the petition to repeal the PREP Act linked in the post.
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/prep-act-brief-license-to-kill-must?publication_id=870364&post_id=160870124&isFreemail=true&r=1maoyr&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

After listening to this episode of @podcast_just, if I had school age children or grandchildren, there is NO WAY I would tolerate their going through the public school system. Your children belong to you, parents...not the school system! Get your kids OUT of public school now!!! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-133-public-education/id1328733796?i=1000702739631

"They're complaining that not enough money is being spent on failure."
~Darrell Harrison
(If you haven't heard this episode, I highly recommend listening to it...soon!)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-133-public-education/id1328733796?i=1000702739631

After listening to this episode of the Just Thinking Podcast, I cannot understand how ANY PARENT can allow their children to attend public schools. Education has never been the goal: indoctrination was the end game all along.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-133-public-education/id1328733796?i=1000702739631