He Shall Be Called | Wonderful Counselor | Week 1

Teacher: Dave BrownIsaiah 9:6-7Wonderful CounselorMighty GodEverlasting FatherPrince of PeaceJesus has cognitive and practical mastery of every phase of reality: physical, moral, and spiritual. He is master only because he is Maestro. “Jesus is Lord” can mean little in practice for anyone who has to hesitate before saying, “Jesus is smart.” He is not just nice, he is brilliant. He is the smartest man who ever lived. He is now supervising the entire course of world history (Rev. 1:5) while simultaneously preparing the rest of the universe for our future role in it (John 14:2). He always has the best information on everything and certainly also on the things that matter most in human life.—Dallas WillardColossians 2:2-3The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth… We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.—Ralph Waldo Emerson The only way we can ever know what is right for us is that it feels better subjectively than any alternative…what tastes good is also, in the growth sense, better for us.— Abraham MaslowThe counsel is that we can arrive at our full humanness by gratifying our desires. It has been a recipe for misery for millions.—Eugene PetersonMatthew 7:24We don’t become whole persons by merely wanting to become whole, by consulting the right prophets, by reading the right book. Intentions must mature into commitment if we are to become persons with definition, with character, with substance.— Eugene PetersonMatthew 23:36-40Relationship with God is not something added on after we complete our basic growth, it is the essential core of that growth. Take that core out, and there is no humanity at all but only a husk, the appearance, but not the substance of the human.—Eugene Peterson