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Remember when Mr. Miyagi told his karate student Daniel to wax his car. The master gave minimal instructions but insisted on a certain...

We have established, whether you realize it or not, that there are two deaths involved in God’s plan of salvation and the restoration of...

Today begins a new series of devotionals about who we are as people of God. We who have accepted Jesus Christ as our Savior and have...

The Book of Proverbs offers many lessons, though some are not easy to discern. The proverbs are a compilation of folk sayings and wisdom...

This passage draws to a close the Book of Proverbs which is about human wisdom, such as it is, and God’s wisdom. The book began with a...

We are in the midst of the last chapter of Proverbs. While Proverbs has seemed ‘male-oriented’, this chapter is not. First, it is the...

We have established that this chapter contains the wisdom of a woman, a mother of a king. We have also established that this whole...

The rest of this chapter, from verse 10 through 31, is frequently read and cited, and for that reason it seems important to both Jews and...

Throughout these devotionals from Proverbs, right up to this last chapter in the book, a recurrent theme has been the difficulty we have...

Agur, whoever he is, has properly and humbly introduced himself as wise only because God has given him a gift. God has given him some...

I have been trying to get at least two devotionals out of every chapter, three out of some. That means, though, that I have left many...

Last week’s devotional was based on one verse, 29:18.  “ Where there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint.”   We saw that this...

One verse will not do, one chapter will not do, one book of the Bible will not do. It takes the whole Bible to disciple true believers....

The righteous, the wise, and the upright here are contrasted with the wicked, the scoffers, and the fools. We can guess where this is...

Long have I argued that one verse will never do. Nevertheless, let’s consider one verse in Proverbs, and then see how its point resonates...

Proverbs is full of contrasts between the rich and the poor; but it is not as simple as that. In this chapter, the category of the ‘rich’...

27: 1. Do not boast about tomorrow For you know not what a day may bring. I like to keep a calendar. At my age, I can’t keep all my...

There are reports in the news about recent studies of relationships in America. One headline is: “Why are people no longer hanging out?”...

This series of proverbs revolves around a central theme: misinformation would not go far if those who gobble it up didn’t pass it along....

I had lunch recently with an old friend, an academic like me and a Christian like me. We talked about the struggles of life with smug...