Proverbs tells us its own purpose in a single line: all this wisdom, made known to you, that your trust may be in the Lord. But trust is never neutral — what you lean your whole weight on is what you worship, and we are all worshippers whether we admit it or not. We turn to Jeremiah's haunting image of two evils: forsaking the fountain of living waters and hewing out our own broken cisterns that can't hold a drop. We'll see why every self-made cistern runs dry, why the Lord alone can bear the weight of our trust and worship, and how the living water came to us in Christ when we could never make our own way back. To fear Him rightly is to trust Him fully. Come and drink.

You can't provide for yourself. You can't protect yourself. But there's a strong Redeemer who can — and does.

We are far better at spotting crookedness in others than confessing the crookedness in ourselves. Proverbs shows us that the Lord weighs our dealings, our hearts, and our worship, and His holy scale exposes more than we want to admit. But Christ, the truly Upright One, was weighed for crooked sinners so that in Him, we become the delight of God.

Sin makes us want to hide — but what if we can't? It's a terrifying thought: that our deepest, darkest parts lie exposed to a holy God who not only sees but weighs and tries all things. But the work of Jesus changes what His gaze means. In Christ, His eyes look on us with love not wrath, and His fire is not judgment but a refining that ends in glory.

You are not the master of your fate or the captain of your soul. The Lord reigns - and the cross of Christ is the proof that his rule is good news. A sermon on providence in Proverbs.

You are constantly being evangelized. Voices loud and quiet, outside and within, are calling you to one of two tables. In the climax of Proverbs' prologue, Solomon shows us that all these voices are actually only two. They are invitations — to two tables. One ends in life. The other ends in a grave. A sermon on Proverbs 9 — and a plea to come to the table where Christ himself is the feast.

Many have asked why bad things happen to good people. But Psalm 73 presses into something perhaps more difficult: why do good things happen to bad people? Why do the arrogant prosper? Why do the proud seem at ease? And why does faithfulness sometimes feel completely pointless?This sermon follows Asaph through a real crisis of faith: when what he sees nearly overpowers what he knows, when doubt must be brought where God meets His people, and when God shows him the end of the wicked and the truth about himself. In the end, Asaph does not receive an explanation for every circumstance. He receives something better: God Himself as his portion, his refuge, and the One who holds his right hand.

A voice is crying out in the streets. She calls to the simple, the foolish, the ones who have already disqualified themselves. She gives what no one else can give. And before the foundation of the world, her delight was set on you.