Daily Challenges Archive

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...

In yesterday’s verse we learned that there is no escaping being burned by sexual sin. Today he goes even farther by telling us it will kill you. Maybe physically but definitely it kills healthy relationships and spiritual growth, at least until it...

Only a magician can do this and then it’s only a trick. Solomon is making the point that adultery comes with the same guarantee of being severely hurt as having an open flame in your lap and next to your chest. Like a magician if it seems to not a...

Kind of appropriate that this verse fell on today’s schedule as we go verse by verse through Proverbs. It’s primary elections day in Alabama. I am not foolish enough to suggest who anyone should vote for. However, as you try to decide, this passag...

Who would argue with this? Actually we all tend to. Sometimes we can blatantly ignore what we know is true. Even those without the Holy Spirit have the truth built deep inside. Those of us who claim the name of Jesus have the presence of God’s voi...

My theme for the year, quite possible the rest of my life, is #LoveJesusBeKind. It seems so simple. It’s not. It seems revolutionary. It is. This verse seems easy also. I mean seriously, who would not treat a deserving person well when they are ab...

I recently had lunch with a very successful owner of a “The Edge” partner company. At one point in our visit I asked about His time spent with God. He informed me, almost embarrassed, that he was not a reader. I totally got it. I never read a book...

Solomon turns to very familiar pictures from nature to show the utter devastation caused by a life ignoring God’s Wisdom. We see a rapidly moving and sudden storm that sweeps violently through the land causing devastation that is impossible to avo...

In John chapter 5 Jesus heals a lame man. This man sat on his mat all day waiting for the water to be disrupted in the pool down below. He longed for someone to get him into it before any of the multitude of others waiting to be the first one in. ...

This verse could summarize the driving theme of this book. We either trust in ourselves or we trust in God. A lot of what Solomon tells us throughout Proverbs makes it clear that it is not what we say we believe or even think we believe, it’s what...

This is about diligence in your work. If you take care of your responsibilities they will take care of you. At least that’s the biblical principle here. Lambs that are cared for will provide clothing as well as other needs and goats cared properly...