The New Man in the Mirror Bible Study

The same wisdom God used to hang the planets and set the oceans in place is the wisdom meant to teach you how to treat the man who lives next door. In this episode Ryan and Brett work through the back half of Proverbs 3, and they follow the passage on the strange descent it makes on purpose. It starts at the price of wisdom, worth more than silver, gold, and rubies put together. It climbs to the f...

Proverbs 3:5 might be the most quoted sentence in the whole Bible. It is on coffee mugs, graduation cards, and the wall of half the gyms in America. Most of us could recite it from memory and still not say what it actually asks of us. In this episode Ryan and Brett take the third of Solomon's father-to-son talks and slow down on the line everybody knows by heart. Trust in the LORD with all your he...

Tell a man there's a hundred thousand dollars buried in his backyard and he'll be out there with a shovel before sunrise. Tell him wisdom is worth more and he'll get to it someday. Proverbs 2 sits on that gap and won't let it go. In this episode Ryan and Brett walk through the second of Solomon's father-to-son talks, a single long sentence in Hebrew that works like a map of everything coming later...

Almost every man I know who has wrecked his life has a moment he can name when he heard the warning and ignored it. He didn't miss it. He just thought he had more time. Dr. Ryan M. Reeves and Brett Clemmer step into Proverbs 1:20–33, the first time Wisdom herself speaks in the book. She isn't whispering. She's standing in the loudest, busiest, most consequential place in town. The city gate. The m...

Every man wants to belong to something. The question Proverbs is going to ask, before it asks anything else, is: who's offering you a seat at the table...and what does the table cost? Dr. Ryan M. Reeves and Brett Clemmer walk into Proverbs 1:8–19 and the warning isn't what you'd expect. Solomon doesn't lead with sex, or money, or even God. He leads with the crew. Because every man, at every age, g...

"Most men can solve a problem at work in fifteen minutes that they can't solve at home in fifteen years." That's where this show starts. Dr. Ryan M. Reeves and Brett Clemmer crack open Proverbs 1:1–7, the seven verses that hold the rest of the book together, and ask the question every grown man eventually has to answer: where does wisdom actually start? Solomon doesn't bury the lead. He hands it t...