Proverbs 17:1 — better a dry crust with peace than a house full of feasting with strife. Wisdom literature as a compass rather than a theory.
Proverbs 3:1-4 on binding love and faithfulness around your neck, in a service given over to letting go — marriage, children, work, debt, health.
Proverbs 1 opening the new year, on Scripture as God's wise reprover — reproof being an uncomfortable theme for the first Sunday of January, and chosen anyway.
The Proverbs run closes with thanks to the volunteers who put on most of the service, and an invitation to be part of the family rather than an audience for…
The third message takes up friendship, and Proverbs is strikingly unsentimental about it — the friend who sticks closer than a brother, wounds from a friend against the kisses of…
Proverbs does not generally promise or command — it observes, and the observations hold most of the time rather than always. Reading it as guarantee produces disappointment; reading it as…