Daily Challenges Archive

In this passage, Solomon gives one of the contrasting views that he is so well known for in Scripture. He compares the humble with the proud, as he often does. We see the proud being brought low and the humble being lifted up. Not that honor shoul...

Honest people will admit that there are often more than one reasonable side or opinion on many issues. These days, we see most people grab a side and plant their opinion squarely in their lives. I recently read this about the formation of firm opi...

Early in my ministry, I remember telling one of my mentors how surprising it was that parents who did not attend church and were not particularly spiritual seemed to really embrace the ministry I was doing with their teenagers. I implied it must b...

This verse takes on a new depth of significance when viewed in its historical context. It is almost silly to picture my grandson using his slingshot with the stone tied into it. All the aiming and effort to shoot at something—knowing the little ro...

Bill was 70. He had been doing youth ministry for over 50 years. He trained me as a young staff member. He was still actively running a large, effective, junior-high–school-wide ministry, with no interest in stopping. At one point, I became the na...

I sat at a table yesterday with more than a dozen business leaders. Each was successful and impactful in their own way. They came from a variety of industries, yet each brought a heart that desired to please God and influence a lost and broken wor...

I like change. I love it. I thrive on it. Sometimes I’m too quick to pursue it and seize it. Most of the time I believe it’s God’s leading, but sometimes it’s simply because I want something different, new, and fresh. At times I may be a victim of...

At the very beginning of The Edge Biblical Worldview training, we show a clip for “What About Bob” where Dr. Marvin asking Bob about his marriage. Bob pops up from the floor, looks over the front of the desk at Dr. Marvin, and says, “There are two...

Solomon often refers to those who are wise or who pursue and acquire wisdom. At times, wisdom is representative of God Himself. In this verse, “the wise” refers to a person of deep insight and practical ability—someone who lives with great discern...

Richie and the High Street Rockers recorded a song called Get a Job. The Silhouettes also recorded a song titled Get a Job in the 1950s, which later gained popularity in the 1970s as part of the soundtrack for the movie American Graffiti. There wa...

We’ve all most likely met people who seem to have everything you could possibly want in life and yet seem so dissatisfied. It can be hard at times to understand what is wrong with them. Despite material abundance, they may face internal emptiness ...

There’s certainly no improving on Solomon’s words—specifically because these words are God’s words, delivered through Solomon. That being said, and recognizing that it is only Jesus’ words I would dare add, I believe we could also state the truth ...