Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23
A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold. The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.
A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold. The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.
Wisdom has set her table. She cries from the highest places of the city: "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here! Come, eat some of my bread, Drink of my wine. Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."
Wisdom cries aloud: "To you, I call! I send my voice to the sons of mankind. You fools, be of an understanding heart. Hear, for I will speak excellent things. My mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Wisdom calls aloud in the street. "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will fools hate knowledge? Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.
Biblical Commentary Psalm 19 Check out these helpful resources Sermons Children's Sermons Hymn Lists Psalm 19 COMMENTARY: THE CONTEXT: This is one of three psalms that celebrate the to·ra—God's law. The other two are Psalm 1 and Psalm 119. This psalm begins by celebrating the universe which God has created (vv. 1-6). Then it celebrates [...]
Children's Sermon 1 Samuel 17:32-49 A Gigantic Problem By Lois Parker Edstrom 1 Samuel 17:32-49 The story of David and Goliath is one of the most familiar stories in the Bible. Goliath was a very large man. Some say he was a giant, almost ten feet tall. (Indicate with a point of reference the measurement [...]
<h1Children's Sermon 1 Samuel 3:1-20 Listen and Reply By Lois Parker Edstrom 1 Samuel 3:1-20 Today's Old Testament story is about a young boy named Samuel. God called to Samuel while Samuel was resting, but Samuel did not recognize that it was God. He thought it was an older man, Eli who called to him. [...]
Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before. After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations. So Job died, being old and full of days.
Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind, "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me! Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?"
Job said, "Oh that I knew where I might find God! Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me. There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge."