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Eric Ortlund – The Pastoral Implications of Wise and Foolish Speech in the...
This article is written in love and admiration for pastors in North America. It is also written in brotherly concern, because pastors in our culture are frequently subjected to gossip, slander, and...
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Ray Ortlund – Going Soft Against Wrath
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. What is the wise response to an angry person who says something cruel, false or demanding? Proverbs 15:1 helps us in those awkward...
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Mark Jones – Proverbs: Written to Christ, for Christ
Connecting Christ and the Proverbs isn’t so easy. How do we read the book of Proverbs as Christians in a way that would distinguish us from how a Jew might read the same book? Also, why then was the...
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Dan Doriani – How Do I Preach Expository Sermons from Proverbs?
The expository preacher aims to preach both single books of Scripture and the canon as a whole. He may turn to Proverbs for the summer because it’s practical, fills a unique slot in the canon, and...
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Douglas Wilson – Wisdom and the Wise: Themes in Proverbs 1
INTRODUCTION: As we begin a short series of messages on “themes in Proverbs,” we begin with the topic of wisdom—wisdom and the wise. This book is part of what is called the Wisdom Literature of...
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Douglas Wilson – Themes in Proverbs: Self-Control
Introduction: When we think of the phrase self-control, the first thing that comes to mind is control of the bodily appetites. We think of resisting temptations to lust or to gluttony. But that is not...
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Douglas Wilson – Themes in Proverbs: Work and Laziness
INTRODUCTION: One of the things we must recognize is that work does not exist in the world because of the Fall. Work got a lot more difficult because of our sin, and it labors under a curse, but God...
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Matthew Holst – Wisdom for Reading the Proverbs
The Wisdom literature is among the most neglected of all genres in Scripture. This is, no doubt, partly on account of the fact that there are an abundance of difficulties when we approach the reading...
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Charles Bridges – Proverbs: Selected Comments on Twenty-Two Proverbs
Chapter 1:7 – Wisdom The fear of the Lord is the beginning [margin: principal part] of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. The preface has stated the object of this Book of Wisdom....
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