A Businesswoman who Believed God
Paul’s second missionary journey was well under way when the apostle and his companions were stopped by the Spirit of God from taking the gospel into Bithynia, the result being that the Spirit thrust them into Europe. Having crossed the...
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Sententious!
I have never used the word before in public. An opportunity like this rarely comes. I dare say you could live a full life without ever using it. But it seems well nigh impossible to write about the Book of...
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Train Up a Child
"Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Prov. 22:6). Our children are some of the few earthly assets--transformed by the spiritual investment of time and effort--that...
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The Root of Knowledge
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction" (Prov. 1:7) The royal preacher begins his sermon at the beginning. He intends to discourse largely on knowledge and wisdom in all their aspects, and...
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Practical Friendliness
A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Proverbs 18:24 Even though all modern versions translate this verse differently, the King James Version enshrines the valuable truth that friendships...
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What You Think
As he (a man) thinks in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7 A. P. Gibbs used to say, "You are not what you think you are, but what you think--you are." This means that the mind is the spring from...
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Destined for the Throne
Solomon, the wisest human king, wrote most of the book of Proverbs. To whom was this book given? First to his son, and then to any who would read it and apply its truths. God's purpose for man is first...
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Proverbs: A Moral X-ray
The book of Proverbs has a deep historical interest, as well as a moral, social, industrial, and pious one. Solomon doubtless did not compose all the proverbs contained in it. Many of them he selected, digested, and arranged. But the...
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Wisdom in our Thoughts
Broadly speaking, the wisdom of the Hebrews covers the whole domain of what we should call science and philosophy. It is the consistent effort of the human mind to know, to understand, and to explain all that exists. It is,...
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