by Allan Brown | Jan 30, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 7
Prov 7:5 [ESV] to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words. As a very young boy I went into a small shop one day. The lady who ran the shop was through the back, and there was no-one else in the shop. I reached out my hand,...
by Allan Brown | Jan 30, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 7
Prov 7:4 [ESV] Say to wisdom, “ You are my sister, ” and call insight your intimate friend, On a mission trip in the 1990’s to India I was given the privilege to visited a few orphanages. The children were all born from parents who had HIV – so there was...
by Allan Brown | Jan 30, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 7
Prov 7:3 [ESV] Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. For the last thirty or forty years of my life I have been so intentional about gathering wisdom. Looking to read the right books at the right time, and to précis the wisdom from...
by Allan Brown | Jan 30, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 7
Prov 7:2 [ESV] Keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye. In a world where circumstantial happiness is prized, and success is measured, what price will we pay for peace with God? We know don’t we, that there is a world of...
by Allan Brown | Jan 30, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 7
Prov 7:1 [ESV] My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; Since the 16th Century the English word “keep” has also been used as a term for the tower, the strongest part, at the centre of a castle. It was the place of last resort,...
