The word fear is the Hebrew word yare which means fear, afraid, fearing. It is clear that while this phrase – the fear of the Lord – came to

"Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" When you take a stand for what is right, you are blessed. You may suffer but it means you have taken a stand on the side of right and not just expedient or selfish or practical. At this point we must have a discussion about what is right. Those in Jesus’ culture did not have any question about that. What was right lived inside of the boundaries of the Ten Commandmen

"A lazy man does not roast his prey, but the precious possession of a man is diligence" lazy This is the Hebrew word emiyyah which means laxness, slackness, laziness, negligent. Solomon is acting like a life coach to those who need to recognize certain types of people that will come across their path. You do not want to become the partner of a lazy person or become a lazy person yourself. So you need to know the clues that will tip you off to this character flaw in other pe

If you go looking for evil, then it will come upon you. This is the message but there is a deeper more subtle meaning. If you keep allowing

The phrase fear of the Lord has been explained in this devotional commentary as both reverence and actual fear. We serve a huge, immense, an

The problem with much of evangelical Christianity is that it wants to be hidden. It wants to remain unnoticed by the world at large. We don&

The ancient origins of wisdom are being celebrated in this proverb. Solomon speaks of the eternality of wisdom in this section. God puts on

Solomon is saying that when a man is unfaithful to his wife, he violates God's law and is destined for the place of the unrighteous dead

Everything about you will change if you go outside of marriage and have an affair. Your affections and your focus – as well as your conscien

Jesus' odd logic strikes again with this declaration. He declares that one of the keys to blessings in life is making peace, not winning

Every time your pathway could stray outside of the boundaries of the Ten Commandments, turn away and go a different route. It is always dest