I am going to read the text and see if you can identify which verse as one of the most controversial verses in the history of the Christian church.
Tonight we come to the end of our series of sermons in the Book of Proverbs. We began with an a…
This, the 19th, is our penultimate sermon on Proverbs, the last but one. And it is unusual in that it does not have a single subject. I used to say about my pastor in Aberdeen, Scotland, William Still, that he could have been a preacher of much gr…
We are nearing the end of our series of sermons in Proverbs. We still have a few more Sunday nights before the series is complete, but those many subjects are behind us now that we think of immediately when we review the contents of Proverbs in ou…
There are only so many colors of pencil that one can buy, especially if the colors are to be distinct enough to be easily identified. Various shades of green and blue I have found can be virtually indistinguishable on the page. So I’m now out of t…
I have known some people in my life of whom I would have said they were genuinely humble. They showed all the signs of authentic humility and continued to demonstrate that humility over time and through thick and thin. But I guarantee you that the…
Last time we began our consideration of the teaching of Proverbs concerning guidance or decision-making by pointing out that Bible-believing Christians, for want of better teaching and far too many poor examples, widely imagine that God will direc…
Our lives are made up of and in one respect are the sum of a vast number of decisions. Every day we make decisions. Some of them are of minor importance but now and then we make decisions that alter our lives in fundamental ways and indeed the …
Last Lord’s Day evening we began to consider Proverbs’ teaching regarding the raising of children in a believing home and the cultivation of faith and godliness in the rising generation. We said that fundamental to that sacred work was…
After some weeks away we return to Proverbs and take up another of the principal themes of the book. If you remember, we have recently considered what Proverbs has to teach about the management of controversy, about the importance of hard work, an…
Why is the church as weak as she is? Why can you and I not be more proud of her? Why is the church so often a poor recommendation of the Christian faith? Our Lord said that his disciples would be known for their love for one another and so we ar…
In our sermons on the themes of Proverbs, we have so far considered the sexual life, marriage, money, and speech, certainly key dimensions of any human life as you will immediately recognize. Manage these wisely and well and much happiness and go…
If we are to live wisely, if we are to be skillful in the way in which we make our way through this world, if we are to embody in flesh and blood the image of a godly and happy life as that life is described to us in the Word of God, making someth…
As I thought about what subject to cover next in our series of sermons on Proverbs, it occurred to me that having considered its teaching on sex, it would make a natural next step to move on to its teaching about money. Sex and money go together i…
We are taking the teaching of the book of Proverbs not by chapter but by subject. As we said, while there may be in certain cases some principle of organization that explains why one proverb dealing with one subject should sit next to another dea…
We have considered the last two Lord’s Day evenings the teaching of Proverbs concerning the romantic and sexual life. We have mentioned throughout our consideration of that teaching that the sexual life in Proverbs, as in the rest of the Bib…
Last Lord’s Day evening we began our study of the romantic and sexual life, dimensions of life that must be mastered by true wisdom (that is, must be made part of that skillful living that Proverbs is teaching) by pointing out 1) the importa…
We have so far introduced the book of Proverbs over two Lord’s Day evenings and then next considered a fundamental perspective of the book last Lord’s Day, viz. the heart as the source of our life and behavior, and, therefore, the nece…
Our first two sermons on Proverbs were devoted to the book as a whole, to the nature of that biblical wisdom that Proverbs teaches, to the various kinds of proverbs, and so on.
As I said last time, we are going to take the teaching of Prover…
Last time, three Lord’s Day evenings ago, we began our introduction to the Book of Proverbs by pointing out several things.
Proverbs belongs to the Wisdom Literature of the Bible, a part of biblical revelation dealing with …
This evening we are reading the first seven verses as an introduction to the book. The Proverbs of Solomon, Son of David, King of Israel. The interesting thing about that introduction is that the proverbs of Solomon make up only part of the book. …