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21 Why Wisdom is Worth Your Commitment (Proverbs 8:1-11)

What makes wisdom worth more than any treasure on Earth? Proverbs 8 presents “Woman Wisdom,” whose call is unwavering, public, and deeply personal. Here, you’ll find why wisdom is not only trustworthy and righteous but eternally transformative—pointing to fulfillment that surpasses anything earthly. Read to learn more.

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20 Practical Warnings Against Surety, Laziness, and Wickedness (Proverbs 6:1-19)

What wisdom does Proverbs offer about the dangers of debt, laziness, and wickedness? Discover how warnings against poor choices—taking on another’s burdens, living without purpose, and following deceitful paths—reveal life’s deeper truths. How might these ancient lessons impact your daily walk and transform your spiritual perspective?

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19 Overcoming Sexual Sin: God’s High View of Sex and Marriage (Proverbs 5:15-20)

Building on last week’s discussion of the dangers of sexual sin, this episode explores God's high view of sex within marriage, based on Proverbs 5:15-20. Discover the beauty of marital intimacy as God's true design for sex and learn how sexual fidelity offers joy and fulfillment, and serves as an answer to overcoming sexual sin.

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Don’t Give the Devil a Foothold (Ephesians 4:27)

In this episode of the X+1 Podcast, host Luke Metzler builds on previous discussion on sexual sin, urging listeners to give no room to the devil. Drawing from Ephesians 4:27, Proverbs 5:8, and 2 Timothy 2:22, Luke shares how we can guard our hearts by avoiding temptation and proactively pursuing righteousness in Christ.

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17 Two Hearts (Proverbs 4:20-27)

In western Christianity it is very easy to be led by behavior modification rather than the Lord's changing of your heart. We commonly think behavior change leads to life change. This misconception causes us to place band-aid's on internal bleeding, which does us no good. Proverbs 4:20-27 shows us the importance of the heart, as it directly impacts our thoughts, words, and actions; it shows us heart change that leads to life change.

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16 Two Paths (Proverbs 4:10-19)

Remember the greek mythical character Medusa? How when someone looked at her they were turned to stone? Solomon makes a similar case today in Proverbs 4:10-19 for the path of the wicked, encouraging his audience to stay away from that path at all costs (lest their hearts become hardened like stone), and to embrace/walk a different path - that of wisdom.

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10 Submit to the LORD (Proverbs 3:11-12)

Submission. Discipline. Correction. You read those words and how do you react? Do they have a more negative or positive connotation to them? Most people despise those words and what they mean to us. But are we to despise them? Or should we love them? In today's verses, Solomon shows us that asking God for less discipline & less correction, by refusing to submit to His authority, we are actually asking God to love us LESS, not more.

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07 Wisdom Delivers (Proverbs 2:11-22)

In Proverbs 2:11-22, Solomon gives us two illustrations of two groups of people that serve as warnings to our walk with wisdom. And who are those groups of people? Evil men and evil women. Shocker! But Solomon provides these illustrations to give us more than a warning...he provides them to show us that wisdom delivers; Wisdom delivers from the way of evil men and evil women.

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06 The ‘Why’ For Wisdom (Proverbs 2:6-10)

Have you ever been offered or told of something great and your initial reaction was 'Why'? Like 'Why should I care about that' 'Why should that be of any importance to me?'. In truth, we've all asked those questions because we are skeptical people and always want to know the why behind anything. Solomon, the writer of Proverbs, understood this, and that is why today he provides reasons 'why' we should care about wisdom and its value.

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05 Six Disciplines to Understanding the Fear of the LORD (Proverbs 2:1-5)

Have you ever wondered what it looks like to grow in understanding of the fear of the LORD? Or have you wondered what it looks like to grow in wisdom & the knowledge of God? Solomon in Proverbs 2:1-5 answers those questions by giving us six disciplines needed to 'understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God' (v5).

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