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Walking in Wisdom: How to Access the Mind of Christ and Make Good Decisions
Discover How to Unlock the Hidden Wisdom of God and Make Good Decisions in Your Life
This generation has no shortage of knowledge and information. We can access facts about any disease, problem, topic, person, or interest by typing a few words on our phone. Yet in many instances, we are still searching for the answers and solutions God's wisdom has promised us.
In his book, Walking in Wisdom, author and pastor Greg Mohr shares clear Biblical principles from over 40 years of ministry experience that have proven to access the mind of Christ and draw out the wisdom of God in his life. As you apply these same principles, you can experience similar results.
In this book you will
• What is wisdom
• Where it is found
• How to access it
• How to apply it
• How to hear God's voice accurately and make good decisions in your life
The benefits and blessings promised to those who pursue God's wisdom await you as you receive the revelation from the Word contained in this book!
This generation has no shortage of knowledge and information. We can access facts about any disease, problem, topic, person, or interest by typing a few words on our phone. Yet in many instances, we are still searching for the answers and solutions God's wisdom has promised us.
In his book, Walking in Wisdom, author and pastor Greg Mohr shares clear Biblical principles from over 40 years of ministry experience that have proven to access the mind of Christ and draw out the wisdom of God in his life. As you apply these same principles, you can experience similar results.
In this book you will
• What is wisdom
• Where it is found
• How to access it
• How to apply it
• How to hear God's voice accurately and make good decisions in your life
The benefits and blessings promised to those who pursue God's wisdom await you as you receive the revelation from the Word contained in this book!
177 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 30, 2022
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February 3, 2024
2026 Re-read Review:
The word the Lord gave me for the whole month of January was wisdom. I felt strongly from the Lord that I need more understanding on how to both acquire it and apply it. For that reason, I have been reading Proverbs and exploring more philosophical books which have really challenged me. But I knew that when it came to sound biblical wisdom on…well…wisdom, Greg Mohr’s Walking in Wisdom was the best place to go back to and revisit.
Something in particular that stood out to me this go-around was when Pastor Mohr presented 1 Corinthians 1:18-25. Therein is presented the intersection of Western Civilization: the great convergence of Hebrew monotheism and Hellenistic rationalism that shaped the West.
This passage stands at the crossroads where revelation meets reason, where the God of Abraham confronts the philosophers of Athens.
Paul tells us that Christ crucified is “a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Greeks.” To the Jews, whose worldview was shaped by covenantal monotheism and the expectation of divine power revealed through signs and victory, a crucified Messiah was inconceivable. To the Greeks—particularly the Stoics and Platonists—who prized rational coherence, metaphysical elegance, and the ascent of the intellect, the cross appeared absurd: weakness elevated as power and victory.
Yet Paul reframes the entire dilemma: Christ is the Personification both of the power of God and the wisdom of God. These are not poetic abstractions; this is a philosophical and theological claim. The “power of God” speaks directly to Hebrew monotheism—God as the singular, sovereign source of all being. The “wisdom of God” addresses the Greek hunger for truth—sophia—the ordering principle behind reality itself. In Christ, these two streams do not merely coexist; they are unified.
This is the birth of Western Civilization’s intellectual soul.
Scripture does not reject reason or philosophy. Rather, it rejects reason untethered from revelation. “God was not pleased to save the world through wisdom,” Paul says—not because wisdom is evil, but because the wisdom of the world, when isolated from God, becomes self-referential and ultimately self-defeating. God cannot be known by mere philosophy; no system of thought can ascend fully to Him on its own. Yet He can be perceived through the wisdom of this world, because all true wisdom bears His fingerprint. As Augustine would later articulate, all truth is God’s truth. Wisdom, by its nature, aims at some good—and the highest good is God’s glory.
This is where Scripture’s warning sharpens: self-righteousness and self-sufficiency, especially when mediated through education, intellect, or cultural sophistication, become substitutes for the wisdom of God. Knowledge inflates when it forgets its source. Philosophy becomes idolatrous when it crowns itself as final authority.
The West was built not on the triumph of reason alone, nor on revelation divorced from thought, but on their synthesis. Medieval universities, natural law theory, constitutional government, human rights, and scientific inquiry all emerged from a worldview that assumed reason operates best insofar as it aligns with Truth. When wisdom acknowledged its Author, culture flourished.
But when Western societies began to sever wisdom from God—treating reason as autonomous, morality as subjective, and truth as negotiable—the unraveling began. When a people or a government accepts the wisdom of this world as a substitute for the wisdom of God, moral decline is inevitable. Power loses its moral compass. Freedom detaches from responsibility. Progress forgets its purpose.
The intellect can soar, but the soul remains hungry. Yet when philosophy is rooted in the Word—when thought bends toward Revelation—it is transfigured. What was once grayscale becomes luminous. The world turns technicolor, because truth is no longer abstract; it is personal. Wisdom is no longer a system—it is a Person.
Christ crucified remains foolishness to the world. But to those who see, He is still the wisdom by which the world was made—and the only wisdom by which it can be healed.
—
2024 Review:
Walking in Wisdom 💭💖 ~
Top 3 Favorite Quotes 🫶🏼.
“Wisdom is the grace to prioritize and correctly apply knowledge for the greatest common good. It is the ability to know what to do, to know what principle to apply in a situation that will produce life, good fruit, and leave people better off.”
“Knowledge is the accumulation of truth and facts. Understanding is the proper arrangement of truth and facts. Wisdom is the proper application of truth and facts.”
“We cannot bless those we are trying to impress. Because impressing others is about us, not others. And when our focus is on ourselves rather than others, we can be certain that our thoughts, words, and actions are void of God’s wisdom.”
The word the Lord gave me for the whole month of January was wisdom. I felt strongly from the Lord that I need more understanding on how to both acquire it and apply it. For that reason, I have been reading Proverbs and exploring more philosophical books which have really challenged me. But I knew that when it came to sound biblical wisdom on…well…wisdom, Greg Mohr’s Walking in Wisdom was the best place to go back to and revisit.
Something in particular that stood out to me this go-around was when Pastor Mohr presented 1 Corinthians 1:18-25. Therein is presented the intersection of Western Civilization: the great convergence of Hebrew monotheism and Hellenistic rationalism that shaped the West.
This passage stands at the crossroads where revelation meets reason, where the God of Abraham confronts the philosophers of Athens.
Paul tells us that Christ crucified is “a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Greeks.” To the Jews, whose worldview was shaped by covenantal monotheism and the expectation of divine power revealed through signs and victory, a crucified Messiah was inconceivable. To the Greeks—particularly the Stoics and Platonists—who prized rational coherence, metaphysical elegance, and the ascent of the intellect, the cross appeared absurd: weakness elevated as power and victory.
Yet Paul reframes the entire dilemma: Christ is the Personification both of the power of God and the wisdom of God. These are not poetic abstractions; this is a philosophical and theological claim. The “power of God” speaks directly to Hebrew monotheism—God as the singular, sovereign source of all being. The “wisdom of God” addresses the Greek hunger for truth—sophia—the ordering principle behind reality itself. In Christ, these two streams do not merely coexist; they are unified.
This is the birth of Western Civilization’s intellectual soul.
Scripture does not reject reason or philosophy. Rather, it rejects reason untethered from revelation. “God was not pleased to save the world through wisdom,” Paul says—not because wisdom is evil, but because the wisdom of the world, when isolated from God, becomes self-referential and ultimately self-defeating. God cannot be known by mere philosophy; no system of thought can ascend fully to Him on its own. Yet He can be perceived through the wisdom of this world, because all true wisdom bears His fingerprint. As Augustine would later articulate, all truth is God’s truth. Wisdom, by its nature, aims at some good—and the highest good is God’s glory.
This is where Scripture’s warning sharpens: self-righteousness and self-sufficiency, especially when mediated through education, intellect, or cultural sophistication, become substitutes for the wisdom of God. Knowledge inflates when it forgets its source. Philosophy becomes idolatrous when it crowns itself as final authority.
The West was built not on the triumph of reason alone, nor on revelation divorced from thought, but on their synthesis. Medieval universities, natural law theory, constitutional government, human rights, and scientific inquiry all emerged from a worldview that assumed reason operates best insofar as it aligns with Truth. When wisdom acknowledged its Author, culture flourished.
But when Western societies began to sever wisdom from God—treating reason as autonomous, morality as subjective, and truth as negotiable—the unraveling began. When a people or a government accepts the wisdom of this world as a substitute for the wisdom of God, moral decline is inevitable. Power loses its moral compass. Freedom detaches from responsibility. Progress forgets its purpose.
The intellect can soar, but the soul remains hungry. Yet when philosophy is rooted in the Word—when thought bends toward Revelation—it is transfigured. What was once grayscale becomes luminous. The world turns technicolor, because truth is no longer abstract; it is personal. Wisdom is no longer a system—it is a Person.
Christ crucified remains foolishness to the world. But to those who see, He is still the wisdom by which the world was made—and the only wisdom by which it can be healed.
—
2024 Review:
Walking in Wisdom 💭💖 ~
Top 3 Favorite Quotes 🫶🏼.
“Wisdom is the grace to prioritize and correctly apply knowledge for the greatest common good. It is the ability to know what to do, to know what principle to apply in a situation that will produce life, good fruit, and leave people better off.”
“Knowledge is the accumulation of truth and facts. Understanding is the proper arrangement of truth and facts. Wisdom is the proper application of truth and facts.”
“We cannot bless those we are trying to impress. Because impressing others is about us, not others. And when our focus is on ourselves rather than others, we can be certain that our thoughts, words, and actions are void of God’s wisdom.”
December 12, 2023
Must read
This book blessed me more than most books I've read. Practical steps, examples of both successes and failures, and several new revemations I've never heard teacher nor have had revealed to me during my own study and prayer. It so happens much written here is timely for where I am at and what lays ahead of me beginning in the new year and going forward from there. Coincidence? I think not! A discussion of this principle and the promise it comes from is included in this book, as well as how to make more likely wisdom relevant to any given time or season you are in will come to you. Be blessed, and in all of your seeking, seek understanding. This book will help.
This book blessed me more than most books I've read. Practical steps, examples of both successes and failures, and several new revemations I've never heard teacher nor have had revealed to me during my own study and prayer. It so happens much written here is timely for where I am at and what lays ahead of me beginning in the new year and going forward from there. Coincidence? I think not! A discussion of this principle and the promise it comes from is included in this book, as well as how to make more likely wisdom relevant to any given time or season you are in will come to you. Be blessed, and in all of your seeking, seek understanding. This book will help.
August 4, 2023
This was such a good read. It's one I wouldn't recommend rushing through. Lots of good stuff worth meditating on and taking notes on.
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