Proverbs 22:22-23:12 With men, a feast is rarely just a feast. When men sit down together before an abundance of food and wine, there is...

Proverbs 22 One of the interesting things we learn about wisdom from the Proverbs is that you don’t have to be very wise to be wise. That...

Proverbs 16:1-24 Proverbs 16:3 admonishes us to “Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.” When we look at the...

Proverbs 15:1-29; John 15: 12-27 All this week, we’ve been exploring how Christ—the very Wisdom from God incarnate—is the key to...

Proverbs 14:1-27; John 15:1-11 As we observed yesterday, it’s very edifying to read Proverbs and the gospel of John side-by-side. In...

Proverbs 13; John 14:18-31 In Proverbs 13:13 we read, “Whoever despises the word brings destruction on himself, but he who reveres the...

Proverbs 10:1-23: John 14: 1-17 One of the blessings to be gained by reading through the Proverbs is that we are taught by God the Holy...

Proverbs 8:1-21 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” This is what Solomon tells us in his first Proverb. So what does he...

Proverbs 5 God gave a woman her beauty and God ordered man to desire that beauty. This is all good and holy. God gave women the gift that...

Numbers 27:12-23 In one of Moses’ final recorded prayers, he asks the Lord to “appoint a man over the congregation [of Israel] who shall...

Numbers 24:1-25; Luke 23:1-25 Once, the devil stirred up Balak, the king of Moab, to gather together all his princes so they could...

Numbers 23:4-28 Balaam was a mercenary prophet. As evidenced in this narrative and even by some modern archaeological discoveries,...

Luke 22:24-46 In our reading from Luke this morning, Jesus and his disciples have just finished the meal we call the Last Supper and they...

Numbers 20:1-21 Two questions for today: Number one, why does Moses strike the water-yielding rock twice? And two, why does God respond...

Numbers 16:41-17:13 When the Israelites grumble against Moses and Aaron, when they complain about death swallowing up and incinerating...

Numbers 16:23-40 When Korah and his men rebel against God and seek to make themselves equal to or perhaps greater than Moses and Aaron,...

Numbers 16:1-22 When Korah and his men insist that Moses and Aaron have far too great a role in the worship life of the Israelites, what...

Number 14:26-45, Luke 18:35-19:10 Throughout the broader Exodus event, the Israelites saw many miraculous signs demonstrating God’s power...

Luke 17:20-37 The kids and I have been listening to C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia in the car on the way to school in the mornings....

Luke 17:1-19 We don’t really know what exactly prompts the disciples to turn to Jesus and say, “Increase our faith.” Perhaps it’s...