Seeking Wisdom Together – Proverbs 6, 1-19

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, ² if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, ³ then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten,^[a] and plead urgently with your neighbor.  ⁴ Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber; ⁵ save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter like a bird from the hand of the fowler.  ⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.  ⁷ Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, ⁸ she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.  ⁹ How long will you lie there, O sluggard?   When will you arise from your sleep?  ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, ¹¹ and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.  ¹² A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, ¹³ winks with his eyes, signals^[c] with his feet, points with his finger,  ¹⁴ with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; ¹⁵ therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.  ¹⁶ There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him:
¹⁷ haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,¹⁸ a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,¹⁹ a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

All WBC members are invited to come tonight at 5:30pm and participate in the recital and food fellowship afterwards for Classical Conversations, a nationwide homeschooling community that specializes in helping to equip families how to teach their children in classical education at home.

http://www.classicalconversations.com/

You will have the opportunity to meet all the homeschool families’ children and parents and learn about the teaching methods this organizations offers families that have chosen to homeschool.  The presentation will last about an hour, then we will have the fellowship.

Seeking Wisdom Together – Proverbs 5, 1-23

My son, be attentive to my wisdom;incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion,and your lips may guard knowledge.
³ For the lips of a forbidden^[a] woman drip honey,and her speech^[b] is smoother than oil, ⁴ but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,sharp as a two-edged sword.  ⁵ Her feet go down to death;her steps follow the path to^[c] Sheol; ⁶ she does not ponder the path of life;her ways wander, and she does not know it.

⁷ And now, O sons, listen to me,and do not depart from the words of my mouth.  ⁸ Keep your way far from her,and do not go near the door of her house,
⁹ lest you give your honor to othersand your years to the merciless, ¹⁰ lest strangers take their fill of your strength,and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, ¹¹ and at the end of your life you groan,when your flesh and body are consumed, ¹² and you say, “How I hated discipline,and my heart despised reproof!  ¹³ I did not listen to the voice of my teachersor incline my ear to my instructors.  ¹⁴ I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.”

December 8, 2013 – John 6, 52-59

⁵² The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” ⁵³ So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. ⁵⁴ Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread^[a] the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” ⁵⁹ Jesus^[b] said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.

Seeking Wisdom Together – Proverbs 4, 1-27            Text- Proverbs 4-1-9 Title- Fatherly Instructions (Youth)

Proverbs 4

English Standard Version (ESV)

A Father’s Wise Instruction

4 Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction,
and be attentive, that you may gain^[a] insight,
² for I give you good precepts;
do not forsake my teaching.
³ When I was a son with my father,
tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,
⁴ he taught me and said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
keep my commandments, and live.
⁵ Get wisdom; get insight;
do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
⁶ Do not forsake her, and she will keep you;
love her, and she will guard you.
⁷ The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom,
and whatever you get, get insight.
⁸ Prize her highly, and she will exalt you;
she will honor you if you embrace her.
⁹ She will place on your head a graceful garland;
she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.”

¹⁰ Hear, my son, and accept my words,
that the years of your life may be many.
¹¹ I have taught you the way of wisdom;
I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
¹² When you walk, your step will not be hampered,
and if you run, you will not stumble.
¹³ Keep hold of instruction; do not let go;
guard her, for she is your life.
¹⁴ Do not enter the path of the wicked,
and do not walk in the way of the evil.
¹⁵ Avoid it; do not go on it;
turn away from it and pass on.
¹⁶ For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;
they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness
and drink the wine of violence.
¹⁸ But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
¹⁹ The way of the wicked is like deep darkness;
they do not know over what they stumble.