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Given on Mar 23, 2025 by Zach Duey at Citylight Center City as part of the sermon series "Proverbs: Life in the Real World"

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Happiness

We all want to be happy, but it’s not as simple as flipping a switch. So what can we do? We can cultivate it, and these proverbs show us why to do so, and how to do so.

Given on Mar 16, 2025 by Mike Anderson at Citylight Center City as part of the sermon series "Proverbs: Life in the Real World"

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Generosity

We all tend to admire generosity, but can struggle to be generous ourselves. These proverbs chart out the path of generosity that has its foundation in the generosity of the God who made the world in wisdom.

Given on Mar 9, 2025 by Mike Anderson at Citylight Center City as part of the sermon series "Proverbs: Life in the Real World"

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Gluttony

Many of us feel the pressure to control our eating and drinking, but find it hard to do! These proverbs reveal to us God’s wisdom on how we handle food and drink.

Given on Mar 2, 2025 by Mike Anderson at Citylight Center City as part of the sermon series "Proverbs: Life in the Real World"

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Money

We’ve all gotten plenty of advice from our parents about money, but in this sermon on what proverbs says about money, we’ll see what our heavenly father wants us to know about money. He shows us why wealth is useful, but why righteousness is better.

Given on Feb 23, 2025 by Gareth Weakly at Citylight Center City as part of the sermon series "Proverbs: Life in the Real World"

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Work

Americans typically value hard work while admitting that part of us resists it. In this set of proverbs on work, we see that a slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Given on Feb 16, 2025 by Mike Anderson at Citylight Center City as part of the sermon series "Proverbs: Life in the Real World"

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Justice

In these proverbs we see that the wise life is a just life.

Given on Feb 9, 2025 by Mike Anderson at Citylight Center City as part of the sermon series "Proverbs: Life in the Real World"

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Parenting

Proverbs is all about wisdom, but how does God intend to pass that wisdom down to future generations? In these proverbs we look at how God uses diligent parents to pass down his wisdom to respectful children.

Given on Feb 2, 2025 by Mike Anderson at Citylight Center City as part of the sermon series "Proverbs: Life in the Real World"

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Authority

Many Proverbs address the subject of how a king should rule and how subjects should respond to a king. How do we apply such Proverbs today? In this sermon we consider the use of authority God has given humans over other humans, and how we can wisely respond to it.

Given on Jan 26, 2025 by Mike Anderson at Citylight Center City as part of the sermon series "Proverbs: Life in the Real World"

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Decision Making

In 2025 Philadelphia, many of us place a plethora of decisions on a regular basis. In this sermon, we look at how Proverbs teaches us to make them wisely.

Given on Jan 19, 2025 by Mike Anderson at Citylight Center City as part of the sermon series "Proverbs: Life in the Real World"

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Pride and Humility

In this sermon, we begin out study of Proverbs 10-31 by looking at what they teach us about pride and humility.

Given on Jan 12, 2025 by Mike Anderson at Citylight Center City as part of the sermon series "Proverbs: Life in the Real World"

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You’re Invited

As the first major section of Proverbs draws to a close, we all face a decision: Will we accept the invitation of wisdom, or the invitation of folly?

Given on Dec 1, 2024 by Mike Anderson at Citylight Center City as part of the sermon series "Proverbs: Life in the Real World"