by Allan Brown | Mar 22, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 8
Prov 8:7 [ESV] for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips. I was up in the mountains in the Highlands of Scotland fishing with a good friend one day and he told me a story that shook me to the core as a young Christian. He was in a...
by Allan Brown | Mar 22, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 8
Prov 8:6 [ESV] Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right. So often when trouble comes, we want trouble to go. We focus on the trouble, and desire more than anything to be restored to a trouble free state. Yet, it is in the...
by Allan Brown | Mar 21, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 8
Prov 8:4 To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man. I told him with as much love as I could muster that he was acting like a spoiled child and that my concern was for him and his future. He stormed out of the room, shouting a range of parting...
by Allan Brown | Mar 21, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 8
Prov 8:3 [ESV] beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud: Have you ever disregarded a voice that you should have listened to. I think on my journey of recognising God’s voice to me, I have often recognised it in...
by Allan Brown | Mar 21, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 8
Prov 8:2 [ESV] On the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand. I have had such a wide range of bosses over the years. Ones who threw the phone across the room, ones who screamed in my face in front of the whole staff, ones who spoke quiet...
by Allan Brown | Mar 20, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 8
Prov 8:1 [ESV] Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice? One of the greatest and ongoing lessons of my life is learning to listen to my wife. But not just to listen, but to hear her with an attitude of willingness to change, to accept her...