Daily Thoughts From God's Word

“It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the...

Isaiah! I mean, when you come to the book of Isaiah, you just get the sense that you're beginning to read something monumental. That’s...

“Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools” (5:1). The...

The Song of Solomon is a celebration of the love between a man and a woman. It is full of descriptive statements such as “Behold, you...

It has been often noted that one needs to read the book of Ecclesiastes in its entirety in one setting. Otherwise, Solomon’s early...

Solomon understands that much in which we trust and seek happiness is unfruitful. He tries to find meaning in wisdom, in pleasure, in...

There seem to be two extremes to which we lean, both of which are idolatrous in their natures. Some will worship science and progress...

Solomon asks, “An excellent wife who can find?” (31:10) May I interject this very personal observation? Well, I did! And may I just...

I was struck, this morning, by the very first proverb I read. Solomon counsels, “Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them,...

Some thoughts from Proverbs this morning. Solomon tells us, “The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it...

So many proverbs that are so applicable to our everyday lives, proverbs about the heart, proverbs about contentment, proverbs about...

These chapters are full of antithetical parallelisms, that is, statements of contrast: “This . . . but that . . .” I would not be...

Two texts caught my eye, this morning. Wisdom speaks in the first: “I have counsel and sound wisdom; I have insight; I have strength. ...

The Bible is a fascinating book. It directs us to God. It tells us the truth about ourselves and invites us to the Savior. It tells us...

The proverbs . . . always a tough book to read, it seems to me, in a schedule of reading the Bible through. Many of the individual...