Here is a link to David Skeel's discussion of Bribes and Gifts in the Proverbs.  http://www.law.upenn.edu/blogs/dskeel/archives/2008/06/gifts_and_bribesskeel.html

If there is any time in life when we most want wisdom, it is during those times when we have to make plans for our future or we are facing a future for which it seems difficult to plan. To which school should you go?  Do you go to school or back to school?  What type of job should you...

Why does God allow us at times to feel deeply the effects of our sin and at other times to feel deeply His abundant blessing? To discipline & disciple? To rebuke & encourage? Yes. And yet, God's reasons are inscrutable, beyond searching out. Where does that leave us? We must trust...

There’s a Woody Allen film, “Crimes & Misdemeanors,” where the main character, Judah, struggles with whether there is a moral order to the world or not.   He starts out the movie saying that the eyes of God are on us always.   But by the end of the movie, the...

If you like Seinfeld at all you might remember an episode where Elaine dates a bad “breaker-uper” and eventually when she ends up breaking up with him he tells her that she has a big head.  Elaine of course completely blows off this sophomoric insult, but we all know what is...

Proverbs 1-9 can be summarized (albeit over simplistically) as follows:  You need wisdom.  It will give you life.  Go get it. So, what is this wisdom that will give us life?  Well, let me take a shot at it.  Wisdom:  the mastery of living in the world that comes...

At the end of Proverbs 4 the father instructs his son not to swerve to the right or to the left, but to turn his foot away from evil.  In chapters 5-7 the father tells his son about some possible ways one can swerve to the right or left and so leave the path of wisdom for the path of...

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