Daily Closer to Christ » Blog

Masthead header

Category Archives: The Proverbs

A Good Name

Proverbs 18:2 – Provers 24:7 “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches…” (Proverbs 22:1) Each of my children was named after someone they can look up to. My husband, Greg, and I felt just as Helaman did when he explained to his sons Lehi and Nephi, “Behold, I have given unto…

View full post »

A Brother Born for Adversity

Proverbs 11:7 – Provers 18:2 It was the year Josh was in fourth grade and Caleb was in sixth. May.  Just this time of year.  A school day. I was in my bathroom getting ready for the day.  I could hear the boys getting ready upstairs. Then the banging began. Loud banging, and yelling.  What…

View full post »

These Seven Things

Proverbs 4:5 – Proverbs 11:6 Right in the middle of Proverbs chapter 6 are 6 things that the Lord hates.  It’s an easy topic to remember…six things in chapter six. Well, seven actually. “These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him.”  (Proverbs 6:16) I will be honest, I was…

View full post »

Apply Thine Heart

Psalm 144:2 – Proverbs 4:4 This week Greg and I heard a story that we loved. It was about a man who was searching for knowledge.  He saw a great philosopher walking by the sea, so he walked up to the philosopher and asked him how he might acquire more knowledge.  The philosopher took him…

View full post »

B e c o m e   a   F r i e n d