July 30, 2022 | Proverbs 26 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue If you look at Proverbs 26, verses 4 and 5, you will notice that they seem to say exactly the opposite thing! These two verses are favorites of those who are eager to disbelieve the Bible. The problem with the argument, of course, is that […]
July 26, 2022 | Proverbs 16 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue If you were given a choice, would you live in a mansion or a shack? Imagine a sprawling mansion with dozens of rooms, marble columns, a grand spiral staircase at its entrance, and iron gates to guard its doors. The interior rivals anything you see […]
July 25, 2022 | Proverbs 15 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue College professors are often asked to write recommendation letters for their students. In addition, many companies ask the professor to fill out a form that ranks the candidate in various areas; one being “teachability.” They want to know if your former student was humble and […]
July 24, 2022 | Proverbs 14 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue You’ve probably heard the phrase, “Keeping up with the Joneses.” It captures the problem that Solomon identified in the book of Ecclesiastes, thousands of years before the American dream was a thing to aspire to: “And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring […]
July 23, 2022 | Proverbs 12 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Michael, my supervisor, tells me every time I see him that he loves me, that I’m a joy to work with, and that he’s thrilled to have me on his team. When I first started working with him, I was suspicious that his comments weren’t […]
July 21, 2022 | Proverbs 10 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue As we’ve seen from our study so far, the first nine chapters of Proverbs are Solomon’s advice as a father to his son. These chapters are a cohesive unit that impress upon us the urgency of wisdom’s call. The rest of Proverbs (at least for […]
July 20, 2022 | Proverbs 6:20–35 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Motivational speaker Zig Ziglar once said that “repetition is the mother of learning,” but of course he was borrowing from the wisdom of countless schoolteachers who came before him. The book of Proverbs models the principle of repetition by returning to the same topic repeatedly, […]
July 19, 2022 | Proverbs 6:16–19 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue We throw around the word “hate” without much regard for what it really means. I realized this when my middle son started saying “I hate this” and “I hate that.” “What in the world could a four-year-old possibly hate?” But I do it, too. I […]
July 18, 2022 | Proverbs 6:12–15 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Do you remember being a kid and answering a question with your fingers crossed behind your back? The idea was that you could tell a lie so long as your fingers are crossed. The crossed fingers let you off the hook. As adults we excuse […]