An overview of the historical background and theology of Proverbs to help you develop your sermon series and apply it to your hearers. Proverbs serves as a formal collection of wisdom in the Hebrew ...

You know more of the Bible than you think you do, I often remark to my students. Phrases such as “As a dog returns to its own vomit” or “spare the rod and spoil the child” are well-known in English as ...

Good artists copy; great artists steal. Perhaps Benjamin Franklin knew as much, because when he wrote his famous Poor Richard’s Almanack, he did not cite sources for the proverbs that peppered its ...