Friday, August 29, 2014

But that's just too blunt

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When we put it plainly like this—as a direct choice between God and our stuff—most of us hope we would choose God. But we need to realize th...

Just do it!

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[T]hough I do not wish to deny the mental aspect of being wise, the latter part of Proverbs depicts wisdom at least as much as wise living a...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

I've got it together

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Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so they never have to. They don’t have to trust God if something unexpected...

No doubt

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The opposite of trust in God in Proverbs is not so much ‘doubt’ in God (which is seldom mentioned if at all, at least not explicitly) but tr...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Play it safe

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Lukewarm people are continually concerned with playing it safe; they are slaves to the god of control. This focus on safe living keeps them ...

The source

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Proverbs 2 does not teach that the ‘world order’ is independent from Yahweh. On the contrary, the order of reality is that wisdom, and there...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Gotcha!

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Lukewarm people don’t really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin. They don’t genuinely...

Brains on a stick?

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As for the ‘knowledge of God,’ we have seen that most commentators understand it in Hosea in a covenantal framework in which it refers both ...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Unbalanced?

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I was told that I was good enough, “godly enough.” But this went against everything I was reading in the Bible, so I eventually rejected wh...

Backwards, as usual

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Wisdom repeatedly claims about herself that she provides riches, so, though it is not stated explicitly, one can logically deduce that wisdo...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

What does this mean?

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I  picked this in my garden this AM. maybe I should call a priest and see what kind of an omen it is...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

About those thorns...

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[Talking about the parable of the sower, Chan says:] My caution to you is this: Do not assume you are good soil . I think most American ch...

So?

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The transition from industrial society to post-industrial societies . . . brings a polarization between Survival and Self-expression values....
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

It's that parent thing

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My own love and desire for my kids’ love is so strong that it opened my eyes to how much God desires and loves us. My daughter’s expression ...

Missing the point

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Therefore, the special emphasis of wisdom is on long life and the ability to avoid dangerous situations. This emphasis is too little recogni...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Face-to-face

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When we face the holy God, “nice” isn’t what we will be concerned with, and it definitely isn’t what He will be thinking about. Any complime...

Look out!

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[T]he most significant feature of wisdom in the book of Proverbs, [is] namely, that it is a tool to survive. Proverbs sees the world as a fu...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Not too much, just everything

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We forget that God never had an identity crisis. He knows that He’s great and deserves to be the center of our lives. Jesus came humbly as a...

Context? What context?

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In fact, I would rather say that in a sense proverbs are too alive without a context. They can have many meanings, connotations, nuances. Ma...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

We forget

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However valid and helpful the historical and sociological analyses are, we should not forget that historical understanding, which focuses mo...