Category: Good advice – Proverbs & wisdom
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Wisdom Cries Out
Proverbs 8: NKJV Does not wisdom cry out, And understanding lift up her voice? 2 She takes her stand on the top of the high hill, Beside the way, where the paths meet. 3 She cries out by the gates, at the entry of the city, At the entrance of the doors: 4 “To you, O men,…
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Is that all there is (for my family)?
One day your ‘teen’ or ‘twenty’ reveals first to their friends and then to a parent: I’m ‘in a relationship,’ or I’m gay or I’m a vegan or I’m a witch or I’m quitting school or I’m pregnant or I’m getting an abortion or… or… any one of a number of things YOU as their…
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Fatherly Advice
Psalm 103:13 As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him. Proverbs 10:1 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother. Exodus 20:12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.…
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The Wife of your Youth
I have some marital confessions to make. First: I Love Lissette Harned, my Blessing. Lissette is not the wife of my youth, but she is the wife of my vows and covenant and continued pouring out of love. Song of Solomon 4 English Standard Version (ESV) Solomon Admires His Bride’s Beauty Behold, you are beautiful, my…
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Got a minute? – 4
A minute for prayer… minutes for God’s word… minutes for fellowship… And now I get personal. Who are your friends? The righteous should choose his friends carefully, for the way of the wicked leads them astray. Proverbs 12:26 Do you number these as ones who would stand in your stead defending you before all in…
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Friends and Brothers: Adversity
1 Thessalonians 5:11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. I was praying for a sister in the Lord this morning. I had already prayed for my wife and our own children. I had already prayed for others – brothers and sisters in the Lord — dear friends……
