Dr. StieglitzOct 30, 20184 minBreakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 30:22The writer of this proverb is saying that unleashing a selfish person from the burden of having to worry about where the next meal is coming
Dr. StieglitzOct 29, 20182 minBreakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 29:22The angry person is one who is used to getting what they want even if what they want they should not have. So it is this driven selfishness
Dr. StieglitzOct 28, 20182 minBreakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 28:22This person who is so fixated on what he/she wants that nothing else matters is a person with an evil eye. I think about the rock stars and
Dr. StieglitzOct 27, 20181 minBreakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 27:22It is important for parents to train this selfishness out of their children when they are young. All children are born with this bent toward
Dr. StieglitzOct 20, 20183 minBreakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 20:22Solomon reminds us that we live in a world that is ruled by the Almighty, and you personally do not have to be the avenger of everything tha
Dr. StieglitzApr 10, 20181 minBreakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 10:16A person earns or receives – as compensation or consequences – a particular type of life. The type of life that the person who is righteous
Dr. StieglitzMar 3, 20182 minBreakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 3:15This striking description of the value of wisdom is meant to cause you to stop and focus on what you gain when you know the wise thing to do
Dr. StieglitzFeb 6, 20183 minBreakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 6:14This is the type of person that Solomon is trying to give us insight into – the person who lives outside of God's moral boundary structu
Dr. StieglitzFeb 5, 20182 minBreakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 5:14This is the Hebrew word ra which means evil, distress, misery. The idea here is the calamity and misery that comes from violating God's
Dr. StieglitzJan 23, 20181 minBreakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 23:13A child must know where the boundaries are – both the absolute boundaries and the guardrails protecting those absolute boundaries. If the pa
Dr. StieglitzJan 21, 20182 minBreakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 21:13The wise person, the righteous person, the person of faith is a person of love and caring. They cannot shut out the needs of those who have
Dr. StieglitzJan 4, 20182 minBreakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 4:13This is an interesting proverb because it emphasizes something in the original that is lost in the translation. Solomon gives us crucial ins
Dr. StieglitzDec 29, 20173 minBreakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 29:12This is a bold statement about cause and effect and how it impacts leadership.
Dr. StieglitzDec 24, 20173 minBreakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 24:12This one verse of Proverbs points to a fact that our western culture has been in denial about a hundred years now. There will be a Judgment
Dr. StieglitzDec 23, 20171 minBreakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 23:12The context of these verses is the negative of trying to gain through cheating orphans and the oppressed. The idea here is do not try and bu
Dr. Gil StieglitzDec 11, 20174 minSecrets of the Lord's Prayer: How Can We Affect Our Tests, Trials, and Temptations?Have you ever thought about the role we play in our own difficulties? We have a lot to do with the test, trials, and temptations we go throu
Dr. Gil StieglitzNov 29, 20174 minSecrets of the Lord's Prayer: How Does God Use Temptation?This suggests that Jesus wants us to have a dialogue with God about the kinds of testings, trials, and even temptations that could come our
Dr. StieglitzNov 23, 20172 minBreakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 23:10-11These verses are a couplet which describes wisdom toward those who are in desperate circumstances that would be easy to take advantage of. B
Dr. Gil StieglitzNov 22, 20174 minSecrets of the Lord's Prayer: Lead Me Not into TemptationJesus shocks us with His instruction. He tells us that we will need to have many conversations with God about the spiritual warfare going on
Dr. StieglitzNov 21, 20172 minBreakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 21:11This is an interesting proverb because it details a cause-and-effect sequence that one would not expect. It also suggests ways to educate ce