The Lord tells Abram to go to a land that will be shown to him — the destination deliberately withheld. What is promised instead is mostly about other people: all…
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…
The Sunday after Christmas opens with Sinatra, and a stated purpose: wisdom to set 2022 on a different trajectory than the two years before it. Proverbs suits that — wisdom…
Acts ends with Paul under house arrest, receiving visitors morning to evening. Some were convinced, others would not believe — recorded without embarrassment. He treats the rejection not as failure…