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Proverbs 10:4-5 4 A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. 5 He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.

Proverbs 20:9 9 Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin”?

As grad student experts have long taught us, Western culture is quick to marginalize and devalue knowledge from the "Other." For example, look at the recent ridicule aimed at the "Egg of Power" sculpture President Obama keeps in the Oval Office. There is a disturbing hint of racism to the ridicule, because that sculpture happens to refer to a traditional proverb that comes from, depending on how you Google it, either Kenya or a 1993 Hallmark Kwanzaa card. Would these critics be so cavalier in their snickering if the president had brought some traditional white art, like a Successories poster...

Saddam Hussein has apparently been executed by hanging after a proper trial. However, it is not appropriate to rejoice at his death nor to say that his death is "shocking" or "horrible" or "unwarranted". Justice is justice. No gloating, grandstanding or celebration needed: Proverbs 24:16-18 (New American Standard Bible) 16 For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again, but the wicked stumble in time of calamity. 17 Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles; or the LORD will see it and be displeased, and turn His anger...

This is the first in a series that will ultimately publish and provide commentary for each chapter of the book of Proverbs. The inspiration for this is the new book entitled “The Richest Man who Ever Lived” by Steven K. Scott. It's the best book I have read in a long time and is already changing my life.Author Steven Scott has been through it all. He lost 9 jobs in his first 6 years out of college and was tagged as a hopeless corporate failure. On the advice of his friend Gary Smalley, who was also a nobody at the...

Monday, 5, June, 2006 (09, Jumada al-Ula, 1427) Mail Article | Print Article | Comment on Article Western Media at It Again Western media’s repeated criticism of Saudi Arabia betrays an inability to comprehend matters beyond the Western framework of thinking. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah is the latest victim of the Western media’s malicious criticism. What has earned their wrath is a news item that inaccurately implied that King Abdullah had asked the chief editors of newspapers in the Gulf not to publish women’s photographs. This suggestion was made, according to the Western media, at the...

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Chapter One The proverbs of solomon son of David, king of Israel: for learning what wisdom and discipline are, for understanding words of deep meaning, for acquiring an enlighted attitude of mind --virtue, justice and fair-dealing; for teaching sound judgement to the ignorant, and knowledge and sense to the young; for perceiving the meanings of proverbs and obscure sayings, the sayings of the sages and their riddles. Let the wise listen and he will learn yet more, and the man of discernment will acquire the art of guidance. The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; fools spurn wisdom...