The Great Lies of our Age

“The simple believes everything but the prudent gives thought to his steps. One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless.” Proverbs 14:15-16 Socrates once famously said that the unexamined life wasn’t one worth living. In...

Fight For Your Child

“Cease listening, my son, to discipline, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.” Proverbs 19:27 Many men will speak of their readiness to defend their family – especially their children – from harm. “If anyone ever hurt my child…” many of us say,...

Protests & Riots

Protest & Riots “Do not rejoice and gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles, or the Lord will see your gloating and be displeased, and turn His anger away from your enemy. Do not get upset because of evildoers, or be envious...

The Only Prayer in Proverbs

Proverbs 30:7-9 Two things I ask of you; deny them not to me before I die: Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or...

Answering a Fool

Proverbs 26: 4-5 “Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will also be like him.  Answer a fool as his folly deserves, that he not be wise in his own eyes.” On the surface of things, this looks like a contradiction.  It’s...

The Word or the World

“There’s a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” Proverbs 14:12 and 16:25 In the Bible’s wisdom literature life doesn’t refer to mere physical existence but the way of life conformed to the will of God. Life is the path blessed by God....