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Proverbs
Enjoy Life 04/01/07
Proverbs 3:1-10
Series: Proverbs
Pastor: Matthew Green
When God gives us good things in life, it is our responsibility and privilege to enjoy them. Living in wisdom results in a life often filled with joy.
Friendship, Dating, Sex 03/25/07
Proverbs 27:5-10
Series: Proverbs
Pastor: Steve Hart
Life is a journey, and wisdom requires that we carefully choose our traveling companions. Proverbs offers wisdom for developing friendships, including those we might date or court, as well as offering wisdom for our best and longest friend, our spouse.
Drinking in Joy 03/18/07
Ecclesiastes 10:16-17
Series: Proverbs
Pastor: Steve Hart
Wine and beer have a long and rich heritage in the Church. While Scripture teaches that wine is a gift from God, it also speaks a great deal to the dangers of the abuse of drink and the ruin that can be caused in our lives by it. We must discern the path of wisdom in our day in such a way that we drink in righteousness, peace, and joy.
Giving, Spending, Saving 02/25/07
Proverbs 8:17-21
Series: Proverbs
Pastor: Vintage Faith Community
Proverbs provides wisdom for the how we use money on a daily basis. Being a diligent and faithful steward of God's money requires that we plan and budget, give generously and joyfully, deal ruthlessly with debt, live simply and justly, and plan well for the future.
Wealth & Poverty 02/18/07
Proverbs 13:23
Series: Proverbs
Pastor: Vintage Faith Community
Scriptures view of wealth and poverty simply cannot be squeezed into our contemporary economic options. We must recognize not only the dangers of wealth, but also the great potential that wealth brings for caring for the poor and needy. And while we realize that poverty can be the result of sloth, Proverbs reminds us that the rich have a responsibility to care for the poor.
Wisdom for Work 02/11/07
Proverbs 6:6-11
Series: Proverbs
Pastor: Vintage Faith Community
At Creation, we see God at work, inviting humanity to join him by cultivating the raw materials of creation. Therefore, work is a good gift from God and an important part of being human. Proverbs offers practical wisdom about what work we should be doing and how we should go about doing it.
The Path & Process of Wisdom 01/28/07
Proverbs 3:1-12
Series: Proverbs
Pastor: Vintage Faith Community
As we re-enter our study on practical wisdom from the book of Proverbs, its imperative that we understand that life is a journey and that our destiny is sealed not so much by the big events as by the daily decisions. Therefore, wisdom encourages us toward a set of daily disciplines that move us along the path of life.
Proverbs: Women as Mothers 11/26/06
Series: Proverbs
Pastor: Vintage Faith Community
Motherhood is a high and noble calling, a mission, and a full-time ministry, and for these reasons a mother needs the wisdom and understanding of the Scriptures. Proverbs offers practical advice for mom as she teaches, models, corrects, and trains her children in righteousness.
Proverbs: Women as Wives 11/19/06
Proverbs 12:4
Series: Proverbs
Pastor: Vintage Faith Community
The role of a wife is one of influence and power based on character. A wife can quite literally make or break her husband as she can either be a crown to him or decay in his bones. Proverbs teaches a wife how to bring her husband good all the days of her life.
Proverbs: Men as Fathers 11/05/06
Proverbs 14:26
Series: Proverbs
Pastor: Vintage Faith Community
Men have been given the great and high calling of fatherhood. Unfortunately, many men, including Christian men, have a low view of children, a disdain for the pregnant wife, and a lack of wisdom in their parenting. Beginning with the biblical picture of a strong and godly man who marries well and comes to see children as a blessing and reward for righteous living, we can then turn to Proverbs for practical advice on righteous fatherhood.
Proverbs: Men as Husbands 10/29/06
Proverbs 30:21-23
Series: Proverbs
Pastor: Vintage Faith Community
The foundation for all relationships is Covenant: the unconditional binding of one party to another. Within the covenant of marriage, the husband is the "head" or covenantal representative. He is the one who carries the greater responsibility for the state of the marriage. His call is to love his wife as Christ loves the Church, and the book of Proverbs offers practical help in how men can love their wives.
Proverbs: Men and Masculinity 10/22/06
Proverbs 24:10-12
Series: Proverbs
Pastor: Vintage Faith Community
In a culture that is deeply confused about gender and sexuality, we desperately need to hear the Scripture's teaching. Genesis 2 gives us the framework for masculinity in the picture of Adam, Genesis 3 shows us the failure of Adam, and the book of Proverbs helps us to identify the ways in which men tend to be like their first father Adam. Thankfully, Christ is the man we can never be, and he will make his men into Prophets, Warriors, and Kings.
Proverbs: The Image of God 10/15/06
Genesis 1:26-28
Series: Proverbs
Pastor: Vintage Faith Community
Proverbs takes Creation seriously. particularly the creation of man and woman. Before we can look at how Proverbs addresses men and women differently, we need a Biblical framework for the similarities and differences in men and women. Male chauvinism and radical feminism both demean the image of God in men and women. Scripture brings together the unity of the sexes as equal image bearers while affirming and celebrating the fact that God made them differently.
Proverbs: The Wisdom of the World 10/08/06
Proverbs 14:12
Series: Proverbs
Pastor: Vintage Faith Community
Proverbs - like the Scriptures in general - is very world affirming; unfortunately, many Christians are not. Though we are quick to dismiss "wordly wisdom" as foolish and sinful, we rely upon the collective wisdom of the our cultures on a daily basis. So how do we live in these two streams of wisdom, the wisdom of the world and the wisdom of God? And what does it mean that "God has made foolish the wisdom of the world?"
Proverbs: The Fear of the Lord 10/01/06
Proverbs 1:1-7
Series: Proverbs
Pastor: Vintage Faith Community
The repeated thesis of Proverbs is that "the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom." The fear of the Lord is the key to understanding the book of Proverbs and the key to understanding the kind of life wisdom teaches us to live. The fear of God is a description of the right way of relating to the God who is absolutely holy and hates our sin but who sends his own Son to suffer our punishment in our place.
Proverbs: The Wellspring of Wisdom 09/24/06
Proverbs 4:10-27
Series: Proverbs
Pastor: Vintage Faith Community
Proverbs is often misunderstood and construed to be all about health, wealth, and success. But rightly understood, Proverbs lays out the gospel. Rather than offering techniques for getting ahead in life, the book of wisdom reveals our deep brokenness and sin, our need for a Savior, and the hope we have in Christ. Once we realize that Proverbs deals with our heart condition and not just our outward actions we can get on the path of wisdom which "shines brighter and brighter untill full day."
Proverbs: Plowing a Kingdom Culture 09/17/06
Proverbs 14:4
Series: Proverbs
Pastor: Vintage Faith Community
Just as there is a chasm between playing a game and playing it with skill, there is a difference between living and living well. Wisdom is the art of living skillfully and beautifully in God's world.