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Pastor Dan Rude concludes our fall series on the Book of Proverbs. Dan explores what the sovereignty of God is and why we should make sense of it if we are going to make wise choices and experience comfort in a world filled with turmoil.

Key scripture: Proverbs 16:9
Related passages: Proverbs 19
Topics: Sovereignty, Freedom, Choices, Grace

Pastor Dan Rude continues our fall series on the Book of Proverbs. Dan explores the tension we face between knowing work is good and the ground is cursed and explains how we can navigate that tension with wisdom.

Key scripture: Proverbs 12:11
Related passages: Genesis 2, Genesis 8
Topics: Work, Curse, Grace, Thorns

Pastor Luke Hukee continues our fall series on the Book of Proverbs. Luke explains how the words that come out of our mouths have the power to either produce life or death and that there are consequences from our words in our own lives and in the lives of others.

Key scripture: Proverbs 18:20-21
Related passages: Proverbs 15, Proverbs 6, Ephesians 4, James 3
Topics: Speech

Pastor Dan Rude continues our fall series on the Book of Proverbs. Dan explores how we must be wise not only in how we think about wealth but also in how we handle our own poverty and treat the poor. Dan shares that how we make, spend, and think about money is at the heart of the worship of God.

Key scripture: Proverbs 14:20-21
Related passages: Proverbs 10
Topics: Poverty, Kindness, Wealth

Pastor Dan Rude continues our fall series on the Book of Proverbs. Dan explores how money has a powerful effect on our lives that often moves us away from Christ. Dan shares how we can break the power of wealth so that we might live for Christ.

Key scripture: Proverbs 3:5-10
Topics: Wealth, Greed, Giving, Trusting

Pastor Luke Hukee continues our fall series on the Book of Proverbs. Luke explores what patience is, what patience does, and how we can grow in it. Luke shares how patience, as demonstrated by Christ, is a characteristic for believers to live out.

Key scripture: Proverbs 16:32
Related passages: Proverbs 15, Proverbs 16, Proverbs 25, Proverbs 29
Topics: Anger, Patience

Pastor Dan Rude continues our fall series on the Book of Proverbs. Dan explores how Solomon as a loving father urges his son to avoid the pitfalls of sexual sin. Dan shares the power of sex and explains how and why we can fight for sexual purity.

Key scripture: Proverbs 6:20-35
Topics: Sex, Marriage, Romance

Pastor Jacob Van Sickle continues our fall series on the Book of Proverbs. Jacob explores why God made sex and how He made it for a good purpose.

Key scripture: Proverbs 5:15-23
Related passages: Song of Songs 4
Topics: Sex, Marriage, Love

Pastor Dan Rude continues our fall series on the Book of Proverbs. Dan explains that in order to obey the central command to “train up a child in the way he should go," we must know the stakes of parenting, the opportunity of parenting, and the goal of parenting.

Key scripture: Proverbs 22:6
Topics: Parenting

Pastor Dan Rude continues our new series on the Book of Proverbs. Dan explains the two paths presented in Proverbs 4, the way of wisdom and the way foolishness, and explores how we can walk in the way of wisdom.

Key scripture: Proverbs 4:10-27
Topics: Paths, Wisdom, Life