Sunday, November 27, 2022

Advent: Looking forward to peace

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Focus. Advent is about looking forward, calling us to focus on God's promises. So many things compete for our attention that it takes an...
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Sunday, November 20, 2022

Wisdom and Righteousness

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One focus of the book of Proverbs is on righteousness. Righteousness is a word that is not currently in common use outside the church. It in...
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Sunday, November 13, 2022

Ten Proverbs on Heart's Wisdom

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So much Western discussion of knowledge and wisdom is guided (misguided?) by an assumption of hostility between heart and mind. As with the ...
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Sunday, November 06, 2022

Ten Proverbs on Wisdom as a beautiful treasure

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The book of Proverbs seeks to frame our view of wisdom not as a joyless duty, instead showing wisdom as something desirable. Time and again ...
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Sunday, October 30, 2022

Ten Verses on the the Tree of Life

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The tree of life is mentioned ten times in Scripture*: 7 times in the Old Testament (3 in Genesis, 4 in Proverbs), and 3 in the New Testamen...
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Sunday, October 23, 2022

Book of Proverbs: Word Cloud as an objective check of its emphasis

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I often use a word cloud to get an objective overview of a document. I may have my preconceptions about it, but the word cloud software does...
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Sunday, October 16, 2022

The Point of the Sabbath (Since God never gets tired, why did he rest?)

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It is easy for me to think that the Sabbath is about the kind of rest that I am so aware that I need: physical rest after a long week, a bre...
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