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What If Proverbs 31 Isn’t About You?
Proverbs 31 has often been taught as a checklist: women should become her, and men should find her. That’s not Solomon’s primary purpose in writing this chapter. When we read Proverbs 31 in light of the whole book and ultimately the whole story of Scripture, we discover that this passage isn’t meant to burden, but…
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The Lies We Believe: Temptation in Proverbs 7
While the details of temptation may look different in each of our lives, the strategy remains the same: folly believes the lies temptation tells us. Before sin captures our hands, it captures our hearts. Before we make a foolish choice, we believe a foolish promise. In Proverbs 7, Solomon exposes four lies that folly wants…
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3 Questions to Better Understand Wisdom: Proverbs 15 and 16
As we seek to grow in wisdom, it can be helpful to approach Proverbs with a few guiding questions. What it produces, how it is cultivated, and why it can be trusted. Proverbs 15 and 16 provide a wonderful place to begin practicing that kind of reading.
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Formed by Voices: Wisdom and Folly in Proverbs 1
What if wisdom was never meant to give us certainty? What if its primary purpose is to form us? The truth is, we can have more information and still make the wrong move. Knowledge is helpful, but sometimes we make it our savior. What we need is a character that has been formed to walk…
Hope-Lit Letters 