Somehow, in the midst of being a husband, father, full-time pastor, doing a heavy schedule of evangelism, teaching a high school Bible class, writing this weekly faith column and also being the electrician and all-around maintenance guy for our church, I have also now managed to write and publish my 32nd book, “Proverbs, Volume 2, Bright Light From Dark Sayings.”
I don’t get much sleep.
But the loss of sleep has been worth it, especially since Proverbs has proven to be a wealth of wonder as I worked my way through each verse.
Proverbs is a 31-chapter gem located almost in the very middle of the Bible. Since most months have 30 or 31 days, one of the most common things that people do with the book of Proverbs is read whichever chapter corresponds with that day of the month, which is an excellent practice.
Solomon was the author of most of the book of Proverbs, though there were two lesser-known authors of the last two chapters, Lemuel and Agur. Solomon wrote it to his son, and the only son that Scripture ever tells us he had was Rehoboam.