||Pastoral Passage|| Jesus presents wise living in a new light – instead of measuring wisdom by success in everyday life, it is measured by the practise of his word.
Proverbs
||Pastoral Passage|| Have you put your career in its proper perspective?
||Pastoral Passage|| Some people, like myself, are quite directly called into faith in God (or some aspect of Christian living or understanding) without personal difficulty, perhaps akin to the prior passage; Proverbs 1:20-23. Others, however, must struggle greatly and persevere in this struggle until they reach their object. This post discusses Proverbs 2:1-5, which encourages us to that struggle.
||Pastoral Passage|| I have been considering the theme of ‘wisdom’ in Proverbs lately, and what its connection to Jesus’ words in Matthew 23:34 could be: “I am sending you scribes, prophets and wise men.”
||Pastoral Passage|| The book of Proverbs introduces us to three people types: the wise, the simple, and the fool.
Chris Northcott 