Tag: proverbs 17

• Grace or Bitterness?

  9Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.–Proverbs 17

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  November 17, 2024

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• A Reason You Go Through Hard Times

  3The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold,and the LORD tests hearts.–Proverbs 17 It’s been years since I have taken a chemistry class, and so I brushed up with a little online research regarding crucibles this morning. Crucibles were a way for metals to be purified. Say an ancient culture mined gold or silver.…

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  December 17, 2022

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• A Fool and a Rebuke

  10A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.–Proverbs 17 This proverb is almost comical in its absurdity. But it serves to highlight the foolishness of the fool and the sense of the wise. How foolish must that fool be? My goodness! And that’s the point. A rebuke…

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  October 17, 2022

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