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Category: Proverbs

  • It’s Time To Saddle Up

    Proverbs 24:10 If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. When I was about seven years old, I remember going to a day camp. It was out in the country and seemed like it took us all day to get there. When we drove up to the camp, the counselors told us…

  • Hey, This Isn’t Catfish!

    Proverbs 23:6-8 Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies,for he is like one who is inwardly calculating. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you. You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words. My father grew up in…

  • Noise Cancellation

    Proverbs 4:10-11, 14-15 Listen, my son. Accept my words, and you will live many years. I am teaching you the way of wisdom; I am guiding you on straight paths. Keep off the path of the wicked; don’t proceed on the way of evil ones. Avoid it; don’t travel on it. Turn away from it,…

  • When Doing The Obvious Is Obviously Wrong

    Proverbs 3:5 – 6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding;in all your ways know him, and he will make your paths straight. One of the clearest examples of “leaning to your own understanding” is found in the book of Joshua. In Joshua 3, the nation of Israel…

  • Avoid Emotional Trenches

    Proverbs 17:14 To start a conflict is to release a flood; stop the dispute before it breaks out. Back in World War 1 (WW 1), armies used to dig trenches to take cover and defend their position.  Although effective in that respect, soldiers suffered many other adverse effects of being in the trenches: disease from…

  • Dude, Didn’t You See That Coming?

    Proverbs 22:3 ”The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.“ One afternoon I was watching an NFL football game. The game was tied with less than two minutes to go. The home team was driving down the field getting in position to win the game with a…

  • Solomon: A Tragic Irony

    Proverbs 13:20 Walk with the wise and be wise, but as for the companion of fools, he will suffer harm In literature a tragic irony is a story where a character’s own words or actions bring about a tragic ending that the reader sees, but the character does not. One of the greatest tragic ironies…

  • We Can’t Fool God

    by Jamere King Genesis 27:36 Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” With today’s technology, I love that professional sports has the capability for instant replays. If not, the calls in play…

  • Clothes Under The Bed

    Proverbs 20:27 The spirit (conscience) of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching and examining all the innermost parts of his being. One summer our two granddaughters were visiting us. They were pre-teen cousins who had not seen each other in a long time. So for about two hours straight after they arrived, all I heard was giggling, laughing,…

  • Are You Wearing A Mask?

    Proverb 21:3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. In the movie American Gangster, Frank Lucas, a driver for a Harlem drug lord, rises to the top the heroine world after his mentor, Bumpy Johnson, dies of a heart attack. To build the “business”, Frank starts to import his…