Jan 31, 2019 | Wednesday
I don’t understand why, but in reading these proverbs I will pass over a few unimpressed to expound them. But then there will be another, expressing the same point, and it will slap me in the face. For example, we have read the word “slothful” in one...
Jan 24, 2019 | Wednesday
I wonder how many people born after the year 1984 know the meaning of the verb “to fret?” I picked 1984 because that is the year which begins the age group sometimes called the “Millennials.” Those are people who began growing up about the...
Jan 17, 2019 | Wednesday
A month ago when I first noticed this verse looming on the horizon I mentally groaned. How can I teach this verse without in some way hurting those men who don’t have good wives? And what about our unmarried ladies? I certainly don’t want them to think they are not...
Jan 10, 2019 | Wednesday
Jacob and Esau were about as closely related as physical brothers could ever be. They were the twin sons of Isaac and Rebekah. We can probably assume that, for the most part, their first few years were nearly identical. They played together, learned together and...
Jan 3, 2019 | Wednesday
Some people think that the Christian ministry is limited to a select few – like pastors and missionaries. But in truth the Lord dispenses His gifts and responsibilities in packages of fives, tens and even singles to all His children. And the King of kings expects us...
Dec 27, 2018 | Wednesday
Why isn’t the world flocking to the Lord for salvation? Of course there is man’s native depravity and the hatred of the Lord which automatically comes from that. But these two things are expressed in a variety of ways often in an effort to deny the reality. We hear,...
Dec 20, 2018 | Wednesday
How many of you have visited the Tower of London? I haven’t either. That so-called “tower” is a thousand year old castle in the heart of England’s capital. From the pictures it looks to be no more than 4 or 5 storey’s high. The first segment of the...
Dec 13, 2018 | Wednesday
Once again we have a comparison between the wise man and the fool. How often has that been thus far in Proverbs? I have no idea and no desire to try to count. Let’s just say that it has been many, many times. But with that being true, how important is this subject...
Dec 6, 2018 | Wednesday
Our bodies and lives are so complex that it takes a great many things to keep us alive. For example, if we don’t get enough oxygen to the cells which make up our bodies, we will get sick and die. So this means we have to have air to breathe, and lungs to collect and...
Nov 29, 2018 | Wednesday
We have been looking at Solomon’s Proverbs long enough now to run into the repetition of various themes. It’s not so much that verses are repeated, but some of the ideas are. And in some of these cases, to look at a second or third verse much like the first would...
Nov 22, 2018 | Wednesday
Why does one person have good health at age 70 while another dies of cancer at 35? Why does one family bask in the warmth of wealth while another struggles to pay their meager bills? Why is one aspiring young basketball player 5’4″ while a genius-level,...
Nov 15, 2018 | Wednesday
You probably remember the ancient puzzle: “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” When I was a kid, and still entrenched in Darwinism, I mulled that over and over. “Let’s see, did the fish evolve into a bird or did that fish lay a hen’s...
Nov 8, 2018 | Wednesday
How much or how often do you think about Heaven? Young people rarely do, because they have so much earthly life before them – but they should. Older people – those saints who are nearing the end of their earthly lives, may consider it more often. But we should all...
Nov 1, 2018 | Wednesday
Verse 31: “The hoary head is a crown of glory.” The word “hoary” is so old that it’s hard to trace its origins. But I have read that it originally referred to ice. A hoary head is one with grey or whitening hair. Solomon says that a head full...
Oct 18, 2018 | Wednesday
The year is 1842; the place is the Congo. A Christian family is pushing into the jungle to join a pioneer missionary who is working in the interior. We might argue that no Christian family should be doing this work, because Biblical missions were done by single men...
