Proverbs: Life in the Real World
Do you believe your life can really get better? Proverbs 3:1-12 holds out to us the hope of better life as we live by God’s wisdom.
Resources:
The Book of Proverbs (Chapters 1-15, NICOT), Bruce Waltke
Proverbs: Wisdom that Works, Ray Ortlund
St. John Chrysostom: Commentary on the Sages: Commentary on Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, translated by Robert C. Hill
Proverbs, Charles Bridges
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Read sermon transcriptWe seek what we value, and in this passage, we see the promise held out to those who value wisdom enough to fervently seek it.
Resources:
The Book of Proverbs (Chapters 1-15, NICOT), Bruce Waltke
Proverbs: Wisdom that Works, Ray Ortlund
St. John Chrysostom: Commentary on the Sages: Commentary on Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, translated by Robert C. Hill
Proverbs, Charles Bridges
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Read sermon transcriptWhen you get access to valuable wisdom, you work hard to hear it and hold on to it. God’s wisdom is available to us, and so this passage exhorts us to hear it and hold on to it.
Resources:
The Book of Proverbs (Chapters 1-15, NICOT), Bruce Waltke
Proverbs: Wisdom that Works, Ray Ortlund
St. John Chrysostom: Commentary on the Sages: Commentary on Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, translated by Robert C. Hill
Proverbs, Charles Bridges
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Read sermon transcriptWisdom is the art of perceiving reality and living in accordance with it, and in Proverbs 1:1-7 we see where it begins.
Resources:
The Book of Proverbs (Chapters 1-15, NICOT), Bruce Waltke
Proverbs: Wisdom that Works, Ray Ortlund
St. John Chrysostom: Commentary on the Sages: Commentary on Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, translated by Robert C. Hill
Proverbs, Charles Bridges
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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