We live with more information than ever, but more knowledge doesn’t automatically make us wise. This episode explores how Google, AI, social media, influencers, and endless advice can shape what we believe, how we make decisions, and whether we turn to God first. Best-selling author and host, Heather Creekmore discusses how all this knowledge is influencing us and potentially impacting our faith and trust in God. 

This conversation focused on the difference between knowledge and wisdom and how you can filter knowledge and stay grounded in the truth as you consume it.

Also in This Episode:

• Why personalized social media feeds can make opinions feel like facts at 03:37

• The difference between knowledge and wisdom, including the famous tomato and fruit salad analogy at 05:26

• How knowledge can produce pride when it isn’t guided by love at 07:10

• Why wisdom is rooted in reverence for God and expressed through humility, discernment, and good conduct at 09:41

• How to evaluate health, food, exercise, and body-image advice online at 14:15

• Why knowledge without discernment can leave us “carried along by the tide” at 16:00

• How instant answers from Google can compete with dependence on God at 21:19

• The importance of testing confident, spiritual-sounding claims against Scripture at 19:34

• Four practical ways to pursue wisdom:

  1. Pause before absorbing information.

  2. Anchor convictions in advance.

  3. Ask God for discernment.

  4. Pay attention to what you’re taking in.
     (These applications begin at 30:43.)

Key Takeaway

Knowledge tells you what. Wisdom asks how, why, and whether it should be applied at all. The goal isn’t to reject information, but to filter it through God’s truth so that decisions come from humility, love, and discernment rather than pride or fear.

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Scriptures Referenced:

• Proverbs 1:7

• Proverbs 2:6

• Proverbs 3:5–6

• Proverbs 4:7

• Proverbs 9:10

• Proverbs 18:15

• Hosea 4:6

• Matthew 7:24–27

• 1 Corinthians 1:19–21

• 1 Corinthians 8:1

• 1 Corinthians 13:2

• James 1:5

• James 3:13, 17

• Ephesians 4:14–15

• Philippians 1:9–10

• 1 Thessalonians 5:21

• 1 John 4:1

• 1 Kings 3:9

• Psalm 1:1–3