Posts from July 2016

Posts from July 2016

Daily Devotions – Understanding Discipline

    Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart: Proverbs 27:14-27 (ESV) 14 Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing. 15 A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike; 16 to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one’s right hand. 17 Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. 18 Whoever tends a fig tree…

Daily Devotions – Good Friends

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart: Proverbs 27:1-13 (ESV) 27 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. 2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. 3 A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both. 4 Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy? 5 Better is…

Daily Devotions – Seriousness and Cool Words

    Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart: Proverbs 26:15-28 (ESV) 15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth. 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly. 17 Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears. 18 Like a madman who throws firebrands,…

Daily Devotions – Interacting with Fools

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart: Proverbs 26:1-14 (ESV) 26 Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. 2 Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight. 3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools. 4 Answer not a fool according…

Daily Devotions – Wisdom Concerning Our Neighbor

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart: Proverbs 25:15-28 (ESV) 15 With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone. 16 If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it. 17 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he have his fill of you and hate you. 18 A man who bears false witness…

Daily Devotions – Coming Before the King

    Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart: Proverbs 25:1-14 (ESV) More Proverbs of Solomon 25 These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied. 2 It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out. 3 As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the heart of kings is unsearchable. 4 Take away…

Daily Devotions – More wise words

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:   Proverbs 24:23-34 (ESV) More Sayings of the Wise 23 These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good. 24 Whoever says to the wicked, “You are in the right,” will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations, 25 but those who rebuke the wicked will have delight, and a good blessing will come upon them. 26 Whoever gives an honest…

Daily Devotions – Perseverance

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:   Proverbs 24:1-22 (ESV) 24 Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them, 2 for their hearts devise violence, and their lips talk of trouble. 3 By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; 4 by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. 5 A wise man is full of strength, and a man…

Daily Devotions – Fathers and wine

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:   Proverbs 23:19-35 (ESV) 19 Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way. 20 Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, 21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags. 22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is…

Daily Devotions – Who is before you

    Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:   Proverbs 23:1-18 (ESV) 23 When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you, 2 and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite. 3 Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food. 4 Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. 5 When your eyes light on it, it…