Advent Sermon #1
Judges 13
The Miraculous Birth of Samson

Psalm 25

Proverbs 31:10-31

Prv. 10:12, 10:18-19, 17:9, 19:11, 16:28, 24:17-18, 24:28-29, 25:21-22, 27:5-6

The Proverbs tell us why our relationships fall apart and how they can be restored.

Proverbs 15:25, 23:10-11
God cares for the poor, the vulnerable, and the neglected, and if we are his followers so should we.

Prv. 30:7-9
A Biblical Theology of Money From The Proverbs

Proverbs 18:14, 12:25, 15:13, 16:24, 28:1, 14:10

I. The importance of the inner life

II. The complications of the inner life.

III. The impossibility of ultimate self-knowledge

IV. The hope that we have in Christ for inner healing

Proverbs 13:20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Proverbs 17:17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 18:24 A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 20:6 Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?
 
Pr. 22:24 - Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

Proverbs 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

Proverbs 27:9 Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

Proverbs 27:10 Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away

Pr. 27:17 Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Anger and the wisdom of God.

Prv. 11:3, 12:5, 12:15, 15:22, 16:1-4, 16:9, 16:25, 16:33, 21:5, 27:1
A. The Biblical Value of Planning
B. How God Guides Us