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Love Your Neighbor – Proverbs 3:28-35

We have the best neighbors.  They are uniformly friendly, have integrity, and are trustworthy.  One of my neighbors helped me take down and dispose of a dead tree in my yard.  That’s a neighbor! 

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Divine Discipline – Proverbs 3:11,12

Could you mistake as love someone giving you whatever you wanted?  Could you mistake for hatred someone disciplining you?  Like little children I think we often expect that if God loves us He will give

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Firstfruits – Proverbs 3:9,10

The dictionary defines ‘first fruits’ as “the first agricultural produce of a season, especially when given as an offering to God.”  My giving is not agricultural produce but is

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Straight Paths – Proverbs 3:5-8

Not that you need any help memorizing this verse, but I came across a fun little song/video that will blaze it in your mind, and, please, you surely won’t take it as advocating standing up on a roller

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Steadfast Love – Proverbs 3:3,4

What is among the most important things you want your children or grandchildren to learn in life?  How do you want them to be regarded by others?  Would it surprise you that Solomon wanted his son to

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Smooth Words – Proverbs 2:16-22

I have seen it too many times.  That person they threw over their spouse for has now become someone they can barely stand to be around.  The grass was greener on the other side until they started living

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Wisdom Guards – Proverbs 2:6-15

Wouldn’t it be great to always know just the right thing to do?  It would just come into your head and you would make right decisions.  That’s what Solomon is telling his son can happen if

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Searching for Wisdom – Proverbs 2:1-5

For forty bucks Dick’s Sporting Goods will sell you a gold panning kit.  Then you can go to Geology.com and read their instructions on how to pan and watch their videos of people panning.  They’ll

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Enticed – Proverbs 1:10-19

Maybe like me you have done this.  You have wondered if you could get away with doing something wrong.  You’ve told yourself that it could happen.  But hopefully, like me, you have weighed the

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Garlands and Pendants – Proverbs 1:8,9

I have a vision for my family.  I  don’t know if God gave me this vision or if it is just something I deeply desire.  I want to see my entire family, my four children and their spouses and children,

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Fear of Yahweh – Proverbs 1:7

In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis weaves a tale of four children transported into another realm where Christ reigns as a lion, Aslan.  When the children are preparing to meet him,

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Wisdom – Proverbs 1:1-6

How do you define wisdom?  The Wikipedia article on wisdom says this, “Wisdom, sapience, or sagacity is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and

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