Sermon Notes

Parents who love their children will diligently seek to discipline their children. What is discipline? Why do we discipline our children? “Loving parents seek to correct the faults of their children because … their children’s lives, favor, protection, healing, dignity...

1. Don’t be stupid! “The sages felt that mistakes provided opportunities for learning. They also apparently assumed that everyone would make mistakes along the way. What they could not tolerate, however, was an attitude of defensiveness that refuses to admit mistakes....

Since God desires all people to be saved, we must seek to reach all people with the gospel of Jesus Christ. 1. We must pray for all people. “Let your heart yearn for your ungodly neighbors. Alas, there is but a step between them and death and hell. Many hundred...

I. You can no longer live the way you used to live . . . (4:17-19) II. . . . because you’re no longer who you used to be (4:20-24). When you were born again and converted, you were taught in Jesus • that you have put off your old self; • that you are being renewed in...

Since God gives us wisdom to live fruitful and happy lives, we must embrace his wisdom as we follow Jesus. 1. God gives us financial wisdom. 2. God gives us wisdom to pursue righteousness. 3. God give us wisdom to live life with others. 4. God gives wisdom to men and...

"From the moment we wake, life actually comes at us in the same kind of fluid chaos that Proverbs presents as it teaches us that wisdom is applying God’s truth to all of it, all of life, in all its messiness." — Kathleen Neilson God gives us wisdom to live a righteous...

If you accept and embrace “Wisdom” you will be made wise, but if you accept and embrace “Folly,” you will be destroyed by your foolishness. “Wisdom” invites us to become wise and live. It takes humility to receive “Wisdom’s” invitation. “…if you are the kind of person...

Since there is nothing we can desire that could ever compare to wisdom, we must pursue wisdom every day. 1. Wisdom is always calling out and speaking what is right. 2. Wisdom guides people and rewards those who love wisdom. “The ability to make right decisions, the...

The Danger of Adultery Proverbs 6:20-7:27 “The sheer quantity of teaching devoted to this subject both demonstrates the strength of the temptation to the son as well as the dangerous consequences that result.” —Tremper Longman “Marriage is a divine creation, pointing...

1. It is wise not to take responsibility for someone else’s debt. “God wants every one of us to take responsibility for himself. But if you put your financial future in the hands of someone the banks already think is a bad risk, you are acting irresponsibly yourself...