Everyday Wisdom For Everlasting Life (SFL; Proverbs)
Overview
The book of Proverbs offers insight into ordering your values and making wise choices, which leads to strength of character and wholeness. With this guide, tap into God's wisdom and discover practical and godly living for a chaotic fast paced world.
Top Highlights
“The way of wisdom is to learn and live, not live and learn. God has provided all the help we need to live a righteous, abundant life—His Spirit, His Word, and His people (see 2 Pet. 1:3, 4). As part of His written Word, Proverbs aims at wisdom for daily living. The ultimate result of following God’s ways is the experience, even now, of everlasting life.” (source)
“Through Bible study, you will grow in your understanding of the Lord, His kingdom and your place in it, and those things are essential. But you need more. You need to rely on the Holy Spirit to guide your study and your application of the Bible’s truths. He, Jesus promised, was sent to teach us ‘all things’ (John 14:26; cf. 1 Cor. 2:13). So as you use this series to guide you through Scripture, bathe your study time in prayer, asking the Spirit of God to illuminate the text, enlighten your mind, humble your will, and comfort your heart. He will never let you down.” (source)
“To ‘fear’ the Lord means to acknowledge His great power, His complete authority over us and all creation, and His terrible hatred of sin. But it also means for us to acknowledge His tremendous love and mercy toward us, and His goodness (Ps. 145:3–20). Life has no meaning without God. He is the point, the reason, for all existence.” (source)
“The Bible study method used in this series revolves around four basic steps: observation, interpretation, correlation, and application. Observation answers the question, What does the text say? Interpretation deals with, What does the text mean?—not with what it means to you or me, but what it meant to its original readers. Correlation asks, What light do other Scripture passages shed on this text? And application, the goal of Bible study, poses the question, How should my life change in response to the Holy Spirit’s teaching of this text?” (source)