Proverbs

Covers Acts 24 · Proverbs 20

Felix in Acts 24 — two years of conversing with Paul yet never believing — as evidence that some people cannot be persuaded by more information without a change of heart, plus reflections on why it is fine to read Scripture without extracting something each time and on reading Proverbs daily.

Covers Proverbs 25

How much of Jesus' wisdom was drawn straight from Proverbs — challenging the instinct to credit his quick wit to his divinity rather than to a life so steeped in Scripture that believers, with the same Word and Spirit, can grow into the same wisdom.