Daily Challenges Archive

Stray is a very interesting word for what happens when we quit listening to Godly instruction. To stray is the image of live stock in Solomon’s day and perhaps, more relatably, a dog for us. Strays tend to end up homeless and in shelters awaiting,...

As the Israelites passed into the promised land, God had one tribe, standing on one mountain and another tribe standing on the other that surrounded the pass they walked through. One side shouted down the blessings of obeying him and from the othe...

I shared a joke with my granddaughter yesterday. Why is sesquipedalianism such a long word? I had to look it up first (so did she). It means the practice of using long, sometimes obscure, words in speech or writing. Not exactly what this verse is...

Plotting evil means to dig it up. It means this person is digging up things to create a pit for another to fall into. Sometimes what they dig up is true but often it’s fake and always it’s inappropriate and designed to damage the other person. I s...

I do not like seeing anyone suffer. I’m sure you don’t either. But, as much as i hate to see it happen even when it is a person who brings it on themselves, I really hate to see those in their family pay a price for their greed and crooked actions...

I find it a bit entertaining that in St Augustine Florida the “Fountain of Youth” is located on Hospital Creek. If a dip in the fountain restores your vigor and youth who needs a hospital. Obviously we are all aware there is no real Fountain of Yo...

Almost every day it seems I hear about a friend or acquaintance who is facing an unforeseen battle. It can be a health crisis or a social or even a financial crisis that came out of nowhere. A wife walks in and, with no prior indication, tells a h...

This proverb is about not getting to enjoy the fruit of one’s own labor. It is about the slothful, one who depends on others diligence to provide things that he wants and likes. It is also the reason why they often do without. In my life I have do...

This verse is about looking for good in others lives. What a great way to live. I know I certainly love being around those kind of people. In this verse Solomon lets us know that we benefit by being that kind of person. It is returned to us as oth...

I saw this in an article the other day, “An international team of public health specialists, addiction researchers, cardiovascular and metabolic health professionals and nutritionists has found that switching from a typical Western diet to a healt...

Solomon’s letting us know the obvious, a slothful or lazy person will experience destruction and collapse in their life and it will happen swiftly. Like the thief who does not advertise their approach but suddenly appears and wreaks havoc. Like th...

Wisdom, Jesus, didn’t just watch His Father create the world, He participated. We are told else where in scripture that everything that was created was created by Jesus. I love pondering not only the power but also the creativity of the act of cre...