What We Learn About Productivity from the Ant in Proverbs The book of Proverbs is about wisdom. Throughout the book, the author of Proverbs contrasts wisdom and folly through character types. One such character type is the ant, who is viewed positively and is a model for productivity. What can we learn from the ant? READ … More Weekly digest for Gospel Relevance, on October 31, 2022
Confessions of a Sophisticated Sloth If you were told you had five years to live, would you live more in those five years than in the decades you might have had left? By “live” I cannot mean “lifespan,” or the question isn’t worth asking. I mean to live wide awake, live purposefully, live undistracted by … More The Subtle Way to Waste Your Life
AMP and RVR 1960 CONTEXT: Mi suegra (mother-in-law) calls me her “conejito energizante” (energizer bunny) because I am always working. While I love her biblically she would be better off comparing me to the ants we can find in the sand pile in her back yard. The bible makes a clear comparison to those that … More Daily Devotional – ANTS
AMP and RVR 1960 CONTEXT: Like all “Proverbs” this is a collection of “wise sayings” or as some Bible heading read “Precepts (rules) and Warnings” Proverbs 24:1-9 v.1-2 Do not accommodate or join up with evil people. That is anyone opposed to moral, ethical or civil law, especially if it violates God’s Law. v.3-4 Wise … More Daily Devotional – Strength in Adversity
Proverbs 6:9-11(AMP) How long will you lie down, O lazy one? When will you arise from your sleep [and learn self-discipline]? 10 “Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to lie down and rest” 11 So your poverty will come like an approaching prowler who walks [slowly, but surely]And your need … More Saturday’s Military Devotional – Killers of Time
We seem to be raising a generation that does not feel it needs to work, that everything should be handed to them, that they are entitled to every thing. The problem is that is contrary to what the bible teaches. GOD’S PLAN MAN’S IDEAL WHY GOD IS CORRECT What does the Bible say about work? … More Your Work
Time to Stop Think then Do Part II 17 Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.” 18 And I told them of the hand of … More Rebuilding a Future Nehemiah Part XIV
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