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The Wife of Noble Character

We have made it to the end of the book of Proverbs, and I hope you have thoroughly enjoyed the journey, this walk of wisdom. I have found that the more I fill my mind and heart with wisdom, the more likely I am to walk in wisdom, the more…

November 6, 2017

Proverbs

The riddles of the wise

Proverbs 30 walks us through a series of riddles, some telling us about the things we should seek to avoid, others about relationships, but all tying us back into the common thread and theme of the book of Proverbs: Wisdom. Ultimately, we are being asked to not only consider our…

October 26, 2017

Proverbs

Teachability: One of the greatest values of the wise.

I love how timely the delivery of God’s Word has been lately in my life. It’s as if God knows exactly what I need to hear when I need to hear it. Oh wait, He does. Proverbs 29 fell on a heart aching for these truths and on ears ready…

October 18, 2017

Proverbs

Lead well

Welcome to Proverbs 28, an entire chapter of wisdom for the leader. Some of you might be tempted to immediately disqualify yourself from leadership because you only understand leadership through the lens of comparison. You look at the dynamic leaders around you and think, “I could never lead like them.”…

October 9, 2017

Proverbs

People matter

Before I get too far into this post, I want to make a few things very clear. This is NOT a political post. This is NOT a racial post. Judging by the title of this post and in light of current events, one might conclude that it could be either…

September 26, 2017

Proverbs

The portraits of 5 sketchy people

The Fool, the Sluggard, the Meddler, the Whisperer, and the Hater. These are the people who we will read and learn about in Proverbs 26. The folly of their ways is exposed in these verses of wisdom, and as we read through this chapter in Proverbs, the point is pretty…

September 21, 2017

Proverbs

How to behave when life gets messy

The wisdom from Proverbs just astounds me. Within one book of Scripture, we are given wise words that pertain to every single area of our lives. So naturally, this book of wisdom would address how we are to conduct ourselves with others as it relates to us dealing with our…

September 18, 2017

Proverbs

What wise people say, continued…

Proverbs 24 finishes the list of the 30 Sayings of the Wise with our final 12, and we can see a major theme throughout: “Do not…” Wisdom speaks truth, and we would do well to lean in again today to receive it. Wisdom instructs, and we would do well to…

August 16, 2017

Proverbs

“Do not, let not, be not” and more on what wise people say

As we read through Proverbs 23 today, you’ll find the next 12 sayings of the wise from our list of 30. Interesting though in this chapter is that many of them involve this idea of restraint: do not, let not, be not. So, the wise don’t just know what to…

August 14, 2017

Proverbs

What wise people say

For the next few chapters of Proverbs, you and I are going to be introduced to the language of a wise person. In fact, we will be given “the 30 sayings of the wise” between Proverbs 22 and Proverbs 24. We’ll take a look at the first 6 sayings today…

August 11, 2017

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