What boundaries could you set in your home for the sake of everyone’s purity?  What steps could you take to ensure your kids are protected from the dangers of impurity? In what areas of life have you struggled to see God’s wisdom in purity as a burden? In what ways have you felt that God’s design is meant to steal your joy?  How have you experienced freedom and joy in turning from temptation to God’s wisdom and design for purity?  What lessons have you learned when it comes to pursuing purity ? What successful strategies have developed to remain [...]

Friendship requires wisdom  Proverbs 13:20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.  Friendship requires your greatest loyalty  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? Friendship requires honesty  Proverbs 27:5-6 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.  Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse [...]

The Wisdom of God in a World of Fools; SELF CONTROL   Proverbs 25:28  “A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.”  What is self control and why don’t we have it?  Self-control is godly.  2 Peter 1:6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,  Titus 2:2 Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.  Titus 1:8 but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.  1 Peter 4:7 The end of all things is at hand; therefore be [...]

What areas in your life are hardest for you to receive criticism about or admit when you are wrong (work, parenting, ministry, money, etc.)?  Who do you have the hardest time receiving criticism from or admitting when they are right? How can you grow in humbly receiving godly criticism? Who are some of the wise people you regularly seek godly counsel from? What makes them a wise counselor? How can you surround yourself with an abundance of wise counselors? Who are some of the people you give counsel to? How can you grow in your ability to wisely counsel [...]

Proverbs 3:5-6 Where is Wisdom?  Run to God’s Wisdom (3:5a) Trust in the LORD with all your heart  Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.  Flee Your wisdom (3:5b) and do not lean on your own understanding   Proverbs 28:26 Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.  Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin”?  Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who [...]