I know nothing about the Book of Proverbs, except that—Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! Glory Be! Hosanna in the Highest!—it is not the Book of Psalms. Based on the name “Proverbs,” I suspect it’s going ...

You know more of the Bible than you think you do, I often remark to my students. Phrases such as “As a dog returns to its own vomit” or “spare the rod and spoil the child” are well-known in English as ...

Somehow, in the midst of being a husband, father, full-time pastor, doing a heavy schedule of evangelism, teaching a high school Bible class, writing this weekly faith column and also being the ...

Tonight I’m attending a new support group for Christians who want to be better stewards of our money. This fall we’ll be reading from Mark Scandrette’s book Free: Spending Your Time and Money on What ...

This biblical book of sayings and advice is full of wisdom. Jewish tradition teaches that King Solomon authored the Book of Proverbs; in Hebrew, the book is known as Mishlei Shlomo, or “The Proverbs ...

As translated by Asian language professors Larry and Qin Herzberg, the three proverbs quoted above mean the following, respectively: “People often cannot see their own shortcomings” “Anything can be ...

When Birmingham author Askhari Johnson Hodari was feeling low in 2006 over a spate of deaths involving friends and family, it was a Jamaican proverb that changed her mood. Her writing partner in ...

As a personal finance coach, I have spent years teaching the principles of wise money management. But long before financial literacy became a buzzword, the Bible already provided profound wisdom on ...

Korean proverbs are small sentences with big lessons, shaped by generations of observation, culture, and lived experience.

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers.