Day 4 – Proverbs 4

You know what… You can eat healthy, exercise daily, never smoke or drink and still die early. You can search for your whole life and not find the fountain of youth (unless you are Jack Sparrow) and die early in a vain attempt to short change death. You can avoid all the things in life […]

Day 3 – Proverbs 3

I understand a lot of things, (Or at least I think I do) and sometimes my understanding gets in the way of trusting God. In fact… I understand that it is easier for me to lean on what I know than it is for me to trust God. In fact I would rather acknowledge the […]

Thoughts from Dinkin’s Bottom Road #27

Day 2 – Proverbs 2

I want to understand what the fear of the Lord is I am not sure that I do. The traditional way of arriving at understanding is to identify the the phrase that you want to know more about, take a look at the original words that were used, look at how it was used […]

Day 1 – Proverbs 1

This year I want to fear the Lord…. I want to fear Him enough to listen to Him and follow where He leads. I want to fear Him enough to avoid being a fool. There is a little fool in all of us and if we are not careful it becomes easy to give into […]

31 Day Challenge

Starting January 1st 2018, I would like to challenge you to read a chapter of proverbs each day for the month of January. (We have done this before in years past but have taken a few years off recently.) In addition, each day in January, @ phillipbrande.com, we will post a devotional on the chapter […]