“For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey; he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home.” – Proverbs 7:19-20 In Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, the protagonist, Raskolnikov, rationalizes his way into the perfect crime:...
“Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned?” – Proverbs 6:27 Don’t play with fire. Why would anyone need to be told that? Perhaps more intriguing is why many grown men, myself included, who are well acquainted with the properties of fire,...
“At the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed.” – Proverbs 5:11 It’s not a coincidence that substance abuse and sexual license like to hang out together. These two vices deceive us in similar ways. There is a promise of escape. There is an...
“passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness…” - Proverbs 7: 8-9 You can usually tell in the first few minutes of a movie, what kind of movie it is. You have a sense. You get...
“For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.” - Proverbs 5:3-4 Adultery is sometimes used as a springboard to talk about spiritual fidelity to God. God often...