There are definitely times when you need to explain and proclaim truth, but in all cases, listen before you speak, carefully consider perspectives before you pass judgement, and let’s love one another and give glory to God in the words we speak and the grace we offer to others.

No matter how many times a righteous person gets knocked down, they will get up. But how is this possible?

What food can do for us? I don’t mean that it simply gives us energy. The more powerful thing that food can do for us is what it might do for us spiritually.

God needs to be at the center of God-honoring parenting. As parents obey God and raise up their children to trust, follow, and fear the Lord, there will be much rejoicing.

We are instructed to not let our hearts envy sinners and their life circumstances, their position or status, or their possessions, “for they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender green plants.” So then, who should our heart seek?

If we truly believe that the Gospel is good news, we should be eager to share it, even with the angry and hot-tempered people that Solomon warned us about.

On the outside, we may be vastly different, but on the inside, we are all the same. Because of sin, every single person is in the default position of an eternal separation from God. We are not only the same in sin, but also exactly the same in our salvation as children of God because of what Jesus Christ did on the cross.

Would you call yourself a Type-A planner? Or if not, are you the competitive type? Do you like to line all your ducks in a row, to organize and plan for success and accomplishment?

Developing spiritual disciplines like reading Scripture daily and worshiping on Sundays with God’s people are worthy and soul benefitting pursuits, but we must remember that the entire purpose of these spiritual activities is to be changed by God, to apply and practice the things that God has told us in his word.

Imagine a young person’s strength combined with the wisdom and knowledge of an old person. Solomon had that in mind.