Emphasis Preaching Journal

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Alexander Pope penned that verse in the early 1700s, centuries after Solomon’s request for wisdom. Both Solomon and Pope understand something that is not always self-evident: A wise man never stops learning. Take the girl who helps her mother make a pie. “I can cook,” she says. So when her mother is gone, she decides to make dinner for the rest of her family.