by Allan Brown | Jul 15, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 9
Proverbs 9:8 [ESV] Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you. We had a very strong relationship built of trust, hard work, and respect for each other and had carried disagreements well in the past. I still remember...
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 | Mar 22, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 8
Prov 8:36 [ESV] but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death. I had many years of looking for God on my own terms. If I got out of this or that scrape, then I would be a better person, I would promise this unknown God. Perhaps if I...
by Allan Brown | Jan 31, 2025 | Keys from Ancient Wisdom - Proverbs 7
Prov 7:17 [ESV] I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. I remember the smell as if it was yesterday, but it was over twenty years ago. I was over in Central America, at Brus Laguna on the edge of the Mosquito Coast. We had been living on rice...
by admin | Dec 31, 2024 | Keys From Ancient Wisdom -- The Life of Hezekiah
2Kings 18:26 ¶ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” ...