Wisdom Worth Having - Edition 1

Education should train young people to take hold of their future with both hands. To look at the work in front of them and innovate. To solve real problems and learn skills that actually pay. And ultimately, education should lead people to know God and bask in His glory.

That is the work of Wisdom Worth Having — a movement to rebuild education around two pillars: faith and skills. Faith that moves from milk to meat. Skills that move from reading and writing to logic, speech, and payable competence. Together they produce something the world is short of: wise people.

WEEKLY NUGGET

In the voice of Martin Luther

Christ is not a rumor to be nodded at. He is the truth, and the truth is a fire. If you will have Him, you must hunt Him as a starving man hunts bread—through Scripture, through prayer, through the wreck of your own righteousness—until you can say with Peter, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God,” and mean it with your blood.

The Jews are wrong about Jesus. They wait for a Messiah who will sit on David’s throne in the flesh and put the nations under Israel’s heel. That is not the Christ the prophets preached. Isaiah’s Servant is despised and rejected, pierced for our transgressions, and by His stripes we are healed. Daniel’s Son of Man comes with the clouds, not with a tax register. Moses wrote of Him; they will not come to Him that they might have life. To deny that Jesus of Nazareth is the promised Seed, the Lord our Righteousness, is not a small error of calendar. It is to refuse the only Name given under heaven by which we must be saved.

Rome is wrong about Jesus too, and the error is no kinder for wearing a crucifix. The papacy makes Christ a half-Savior: His blood plus your masses, His cross plus your pilgrimages, His merit plus Mary’s treasury, His priesthood plus a man in Rome who claims to stand in His place. That is not the gospel. Christ is the one Mediator. He offered Himself once for all. He does not need to be sacrificed again on an altar by a priest. He does not share His glory with the saints. Justification is not infused by rites; it is imputed by faith. “The just shall live by faith”—not by the keys of Peter, not by indulgences, not by the sacrifice of the Mass. Where the Pope sets his chair above the Word, he sets himself above Christ.

Do not soften this. Truth that will not offend will not save. Search the Scriptures. Let every doctrine of synagogue and of Rome be dragged into the light of the apostles and the prophets. If Jesus is only a teacher, only a martyr, only a helper of those who help themselves, then we are still in our sins. If He is what He claimed—the Son who was with the Father before Abraham was, the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world—then flee to Him with both hands and do not look back.

Pursue Him as if your soul depended on it. It does.

Blessings,Joshua Sutcliffe