Day 12

Booty… love that word in 12:12! It brings with it a sense of piracy… Yo Ho and a Bottle of Rum. Captain Jack Sparrow… savvy? Booty comes from a word that means net. Here the implication is “that which is caught in ones net”. When we cast a net we are taking in things that […]

Day 11

For a book that covers this chapter in 31 days devotionally – go to this link to purchase. As a leader 11:14 jumped out at me today. “Where there is no guidance the people fall, but in abundance of counselors there is victory” This verse made me reflect on my leadership at Farmington Baptist, am […]

Day 10

This post is written by Chris Surratt After a rough day at school, did your mom ever tell you “Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you.”? I don’t think that there has ever been a bigger, though well-meaning, lie told by parents. Those of us who ever went to […]

Day 9

How many times… How many times? How many times have I been in a situation where… I just could not keep my mouth shut and I corrected a scoffer and should not have? Many… to many. I knew I should hold back but the words just exploded from my lips, my thoughts excaped in sound […]

Day 8

Wisdom is available… and you do not have to go to a monastery or a hill (to be quite on) to find it. Wisdom is actually making noise, it is calling and it is loud. Will you answer? (8:1) It calls you in the work place, in your car as you drive home, when you […]

Day 7 (PG)

It was a problem then…. it is a problem now. Chapter 5 covered it, Chapter 6 touches on it (at the end) and now Chapter 7 is back to the instruction… Listen to wisdom and stay away from the adulteress. But can we just pause a moment here and go at it from the angle […]