Right words, right time, right occasion. 

Proverbs gives wisdom for the timing and execution of speaking into occasions of self-sabotage and relational conflict.

How to make your first word a gracious word - and do it in a way that's relational (not mechanical).

Every person needs an inner bouncer. Expel corrupting talk with a greater love.

We shouldn't be surprised that we feel fragmented and distracted in our work - but something can be done about it.

God gives practical wisdom for both over-workers and those who struggle to work -- turns out they share the same mistake and the same solution.

Despite what you may have heard, the Bible isn't "black and white" about every issue in life. God knows life is complicated, nuanced, and often operates in the "grey." So He gave us the wisdom of Proverbs - to make great decisions in the Grey of Life.

Proverbs 4:1-19

Belinda Carlisle said it best, "Heaven is a place on earth." The truth that God will one day bring heaven to earth as His final place of rest and rule can do something remarkable in our lives now - make us much more tender than we would be otherwise toward the earth, toward cities, toward difference and toward suffering. 

Why can't we go straight from grace to glory, from new to perfect, from trusting to Jesus to being with him forever? Instead, you and I live in this uncomfortable tension where we get new life *alongside* healthy doses of pain and suffering. 

Hear God's purpose behind this often uncomfortable part of His story.

Find yourself, Find the Father, and Find others through Jesus' parable of the prodigal son.

After man messed up, why did it take so long for God to send Jesus? We (mankind) had to realize how deep the mess-up goes. Pastor Ryan makes sense of the Bible from Genesis 3 to Jesus and what our role is in this part of God's story.