Dan Britton - The Wisdom Challenge: Experience the Life-Changing Power of Proverbs

We all need wisdombut where can we find insights that lead us deeper into our relationship with God? Dan and Ron come to the rescue with The Wisdom Challenge, a terrific resource that sets forth a sustainable path for pursuing and growing in Gods wisdom for a lifetime. If you want a heart of wisdom, The Wisdom Challenge is for you!

LEE STROBEL

New York Times best-selling author Founding director, The Lee Strobel Center for Evangelism and Applied Apologetics at Colorado Christian University

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The Wisdom Challenge

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We would like to dedicate this book

to our Proverbs Partners who have

joined us in the pursuit of wisdom.

We would like to humbly acknowledge the stellar support weve received from the BroadStreet team in getting this book to press. Special thanks to Carlton Garborg for your leadership and for literally joining us in The Wisdom Challenge; to Tim Payne, Michelle Winger, Rachel Libke, Nina Derek, Chris Garborg, and so many others working behind the scenes. We are grateful for your grace, patience, and encouragement. Without you, The Wisdom Challenge would still just be an idea.

Deep appreciation to our editor, Danielle Ripley-Burgess, for bringing so much energy to the process and for taking our writing to the next level. Thanks for jumping in and making this book become a reality. You made it come alive, and we will be forever grateful! A big thank you to Kallie Muck and Claire Matera who made this book better with one last rigorous edit.

I, Dan, would like to thank my family who have all joined me in The Wisdom Challenge: Dawn, Kallie, Austin, Abigail, Garrett, Elijah, and Claire. Mom and Dad, you modeled godly wisdom every day for me and always pointed me to the Word of God. Additionally, I am grateful for my FCA teammates who journeyed with me through Proverbs to get wisdom, discernment, and understanding. Thanks Andriy, Jin, Mark, Kellen, Silas, Steve, Andrew, Craig, Holt, Scott, Janet, and many others!

I, Ron, would like to thank my wife, Carol, my daughter, Rachel, and my son, Randy, for supporting me in my pursuit of wisdom, and especially for joining me so often as Proverbs Partners. My father, Fred Forseth, has exhibited profound wisdom for a lifetime as did my mother, Jean Forseth, who listened to the Bible daily from her sickbed for twenty-three years and eagerly shared with me and my six siblings her love for biblical wisdom. Thanks, too, to Eric Ely for first quoting Proverbs to me over forty years ago and challenging me to pursue wisdom.

Dan and Ron are not the creators of wisdom, and they both make that clear. Wisdom comes from God; He is the true source. However, Dan and Ron have been charged with a message from God to uncover and declare Gods heart for wisdomand to encourage everyone who wants it to seek and discover it.

Today our world loves riches; silver, gold, and rubies hold much value. But Proverbs says wisdom is even more valuable than all of these. Thats why I love this book. Our generation needs wisdom and The Wisdom Challenge will remind you of its value and help you discover it.

Whether youre brand new to the Bible or youve studied it for years, doing The Wisdom Challenge is something we all need and can benefit from. Deep down, we all want wisdom. Were made in the image of God, and God is the source of wisdom. We all want to make a positive impact. The Wisdom Challenge is a great resource to give us the wisdom we need to make a greater impact in the world.

Through The Wisdom Challenge, youll gain advice on relationships, money, leadership, and spirituality. Youll read about a just God, a merciful God, a loving God, and a holy God. In Proverbs, were encouraged to hold our tongues, to rule our spirits, to guard our hearts, and to give great gifts. Its powerful, practical, and applicable.

I hope you will join me on this incredible journey and take The Wisdom Challenge for yourself and for your relationship with God, the One who wants to give wisdom to us all. The pursuit of wisdom is worth it, and receiving it is an incredible blessing.

Blessed are those who listen to me,

watching daily at my doors,

waiting at my doorway.

For those who find me find life

and receive favor from the Lord.

PROVERBS 8:3435 NIV

God bless,

JON GORDON

Bestselling author of The Carpenter and The Garden

Read Proverbs every day to pursue wisdom.

Invite a Proverbs Partner to read the same
chapter of Proverbs, and through a text, email,
or quick phone call, share a brief reflection about
what verse or insight impacted you.

Challenge your Proverbs Partner to invite
someone else to take The Wisdom Challenge with
him or her at the start of the next month.

Walk with the wise and become wise.

PROVERBS 13:20 NIV

Have you ever felt that your heart was as dry as a dirt clod, like a brittle tree with parched roots long deprived of water? Have you ever longed to hear from God, wondering where He might be? I have. Its rare for me to hear so clearly from God, but on March 1, 2012, I had an exception. That day I discovered that not only did He care for me in a rather personal way, but in that desert, He had also prepared a surprise that would alter the course of my life.