by Allan Brown | Jul 14, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 9
Proverbs 9:6 [ESV] Leave your simple ways and live, and walk in the way of insight. Busyness can be a trap. I find that I can hide in busyness – note not business. I defend my choices to not do certain things, or to do certain things, justifying these choices...
by Allan Brown | Jul 14, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 9
Proverbs 9:5 [ESV] Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. It’s impossible for me to read this scripture in the Old Testament and not be transported to the last supper scene in the New Testament. I question myself, how do I take the...
by Allan Brown | Jul 14, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 9
Proverbs 9:4 [ESV] “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” To him who lacks sense she says, Sometimes there is a need for a difficult conversation, something that is going to either be hard to say, or hard to hear – or both. In those moments my...
by Allan Brown | Jul 14, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 9
Proverbs 9:3 [ESV] She has sent out her young women to call from the highest places in the town, I was sitting in a basement café having tea and a square sausage roll with a friend. He was talking to me about Jesus, and I was interested in an academic sense. I...
by Allan Brown | Jul 14, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 9
Proverbs 9:2 [ESV] She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table. When we are getting ready for our guests coming we take care don’t we. We clean the house, the guest bathroom gets a special overhaul, fresh towels, a candle,...
by Allan Brown | Jul 14, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 9
Proverbs 9:1 [ESV] Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars. We live in a house just now that’s not ours. It is a beautiful house, and at this exact time we could not afford to purchase it. I wonder about our future, what we will do,...
