Proverbs

#1159: How does the resurrection answer life's big questions? | Matthew 28 | Isaiah 30-32 | Proverbs 14:1-3

#1159: How does the resurrection answer life's big questions? | Matthew 28 | Isaiah 30-32 | Proverbs 14:1-3

Today we’re just going to finish off Matthew, read our customary OT and Wisdom segments, and then close out with answering today’s focus question…How does the resurrection answer life’s big questions?

#1154: How will you really know? | Matthew 24 | Isaiah 19-20 | Proverbs 13:11-24

#1154: How will you really know? | Matthew 24 | Isaiah 19-20 | Proverbs 13:11-24

Today the discourse turns to the end times — eschatology being the four dollar theology word for it. And our focus question today is “How will you really know?”, and here’s what to listen for. As the world starts going to the proverbial heck in a handbasket, there is a whole lotta deception going on…except for Christians. So the question is, “How will you really know truth? What’s real versus fake news?”

#1144: Hidden lessons in the water-walking story? | Matthew 14 | Hosea 7-10 | Proverbs 12:15

#1144: Hidden lessons in the water-walking story?  | Matthew 14 | Hosea 7-10 | Proverbs 12:15

The story of Jesus walking on water is one of better known miracle stories in the Bible, but this also makes it one of the better stories in which to look for deeper meaning by way of today’s focus question…What are the hidden lessons in the “walking on water” story?

#1143: Who bears the greatest blame for Israel’s mess? | Matthew 13 | Hosea 4-6 | Proverbs 12:12-14

#1143: Who bears the greatest blame for Israel’s mess?  | Matthew 13 | Hosea 4-6 | Proverbs 12:12-14

NOTE: Today is a day I TOTALLY went off-script. Not that this is a script. But if you read this as a blog post and don’t listen to the podcast, you’re missing out. Or maybe not. And a warning…today gets you a big ol’ belly laugh in the middle.

#1141: When is doubt okay? | Matthew 11 | Amos 7-9 | Proverbs 12:4-6

#1141: When is doubt okay? | Matthew 11 | Amos 7-9 | Proverbs 12:4-6

Today, as we’ll see in Matthew 11, doubt is experienced by the most surprising of characters. And even though doubt has not been part of my journey, I actually think that many, if not most, people have doubt from time to time. And that’s today’s focus question — is that doubt ever okay?

#1136: Whose real estate? | Matthew 6 | 2 King 23:31-25 | Proverbs 12:2-3

#1136: Whose real estate? | Matthew 6 | 2 King 23:31-25  | Proverbs 12:2-3

I heard a financial teacher once say this. “Think about the words ‘real estate.’ Did you know that the word ‘real’ comes from the same place as the word ‘royal’ — and if you don’t think you belong to the king, just try not paying your taxes!”

Now I wouldn’t bet my life on that word study, but it’s a good reminder…and the source of today’s focus question…Whose real estate do you manage?

#1132: Is typology lost on the spiritually blind? | Matthew 2 | 2 King 17 | Psalm 129 | Proverbs 11:23-28

#1132: Is typology lost on the spiritually blind? | Matthew 2 | 2 King 17 | Psalm 129 | Proverbs 11:23-28

“Typology is the perception of recurring patterns of action in salvation-history that are too “coincidental” to be attributed to any cause but God,” and they can involve people, events, or even institutions. But is it lost on the spiritually blind?