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Proverbs: God’s Wisdom For Everyday Living
Contributed by Matthew Stoll on May 29, 2007 (message contributor)
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1. Seeking God's Wisdom
Contributed on May 29, 2007
We make choices everyday and in order to make the best decisions we need to seek God’s wisdom. This was delivered on graduation Sunday.
Illustration The faculty of a college were in their annual meeting when, suddenly, an angel appeared. Turning to the Dean, the angel said, "I will grant you one of three choices -- infinite wisdom, infinite wealth or infinite health." The Dean thought for a minute, then replied "Wisdom." "So ...read more
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2. Being Humble And Teachable
Contributed on May 29, 2007
Proverbial wisdom of humility and teachability by developing habits of seeking advise, and accepting criticism (correction).
NIV Proverbs 11:2 When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. Last week we began looking at how we make the good decisions. Every day we make decisions about what we do, where we will go, what we will prioritize, how we will respond to others. In order to make the ...read more
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3. Playing With Fire - Adultery
Contributed on Jun 11, 2007
In Proverbs God teaches us to avoid sexual sin such as adultery at all costs, lest we get burned.
A few weeks ago we began a sermon series from the book of Proverbs so that we could learn God’s wisdom and make the right choices, God’s choice, in our everyday life. The primary author of Proverbs was Solomon and the Bible says God gave King Solomon more wisdom than any other person. His wisdom ...read more
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4. Work Ethic
Contributed on Jul 11, 2007
God’s wisdom for our work ethic
Do you realize you’re going to spend (or have spent) about 150,000 hours of your life working, which is about 40% of your waking hours. Unless you’re retired, you are probably groaning inside. A Harris survey found out in 1973 the average American spent 40 hours a week at work, but by 1987 the ...read more
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5. Managing Money
Contributed on Jul 11, 2007
God’s practical wisdom for managing money from Proverbs. Used some of Rick Warren’s material on similary titled sermon.
We continue our series looking at God’s wisdom for making the right choices in our everyday living from the book of Proverbs written by the wisest man who ever lived, Solomon. Not only was he the wisest man, he was also the wealthiest. The Bible says God gave Solomon more riches than any before ...read more
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6. Mastering My Mouth: Part I
Contributed on Jul 24, 2007
First part of this message focus’ on words that wound (from Proverbs) and the need for a changed heart.
We are continuing in our series through the book of Proverbs to seek God’s wisdom for everyday living. When I began going through Proverbs and categorizing different proverbs into various topics. The one topic which kept coming up again and again was the tongue or the mouth. There are more ...read more
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7. Mastering My Mouth: Part Ii
Contributed on Jul 24, 2007
This second part focus’ on Proverbs practical wisdom in using our tongue positively.
For those who might be joining us for the first time our current series of sermons has been focusing on God’s wisdom in the book of Proverbs, which was written by one of the wisest persons who ever lived, Solomon. God wants us to grow in wisdom which basically means we are able to consistently ...read more
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8. The Blessings Of Living Right
Contributed on Jul 24, 2007
Conclusion of the series focusing on how living a wise, rigtheous life brings God’s blessings.
We are finely in the last week in our series on Proverbs as we have explored God’s wisdom in making the right choices for our lives. In Proverbs, Solomon points again and again to the fact that the best choice wise people can make is the choice to be righteous, and we discover that those who ...read more