Wisdom Whispers by Sarah Koontz

Wisdom Whispers by Sarah Koontz

Life is full of noise, distraction, and stress.  One of Satan's most effective strategies is to pack our days with such emotional chaos that we have no room for quiet reflection or Bible study.  If you long to hear the whispers of wisdom in your daily life, join us for this 31-day study of the life and writings of King Solomon.











King Solomon was a wise man who didn't always make wise choices.  As we contrast Solomon's teachings with his life, we will discover great wisdom without humble obedience is for naught.  This study was crafted with busy women in mind and can easily be completed on your mobile device or computer.

Here are 6 quick facts about the Wisdom Whispers Study:

• It's a FREE email-based online Bible study. 
• It takes just 10 - 15 minutes per day to complete. 
• It follows a five days on, two days off format. 
• It includes several free dgital gifts from Sarah's Creative Partners. 
• It launched April 2, 2018.  You can still get involved. 
• Register today at Living By Design

• Sarah has also added an audio version to the daily email, so that you can listen in your car, or on your walk, or in your quiet time.  

Make room for silence in your life; turn off the noise of the world and tune into the wisdom of your Creator.  Register for the Wisdom Whispers study today!

I have immersed myself into this study, and am enjoying learning about Solomon.  How he had so much, and how he was still led astray.  Come join us, and learn how you, too, can apply Solomon's lesson to your own life. 

Follow this link:  Wisdom Whispers to join us for all the fun!

Week 2 Freebie

Week 1 Freebie

The WHOLE Bible

This passage was originally titled as it shows Does God Condone Bigamy? but there is so much more to the answer to this question than just that.  I feel it's important information to share, so I left it intact for your perusal.  The important thing to take from this passage is that you can NOT snippet the bible and use it for your own purposes and agenda, you have to take the Bible as a WHOLE, all of it, in context of it's entirety.  

This is from Journey Through the Torah Class Series: Genesis by Tom Bradford.  

"Does God Condone Bigamy?

God most certainly did NOT validate Jacob’s choice to take TWO wives……any more than he did Isaacs, nor Abrahams. Too often we like to say, ‘Well, its in the Bible, so God must be OK with it”. Not so. VERY often, the Holy Scriptures simply tell the historical truth, tell us what was said or what happened, and then do NOT specifically comment on it. Rather these statements simply stand on their own. God had made quite clear early in Genesis that marriage was the forming of one flesh from two; not 3,4,5,6, or as Solomon so much later, a thousand.

This is why it is so important to read and study the WHOLE bible; so that we can separate God’s commands, principles, and characteristics from simple statements of historical fact. The Bible is full of statements by men and women; and many of those statements are outright lies, or self-aggrandizing, or greatly exaggerated, or wishful thinking, or rationalizations of personal behavior, or simply expressions of widely held superstitions. In the case of Jacob, he deceived his brother Esau, and his father; it wasn’t right, but he did it, and the Bible simply reports it. Jacob didn’t pick the wife (Leah), on his own, that apparently God selected for him……he picked the one (Rachel) that most pleased his fleshly and impulsive male desires. It wasn’t right, but he did it, and the Bible simply reports it. Then, he wound up marrying two wives; it wasn’t right, but he did it, the Scriptures tells us about it, and so on.  We must never assume that since the Bible does not comment on every statement or action as to whether it was right or wrong, good or evil, that those not commented on must be, to at least some degree, acceptable to God. For, if we have the Torah in our hearts, and have read it and studied it, we will KNOW what was right and wrong in God’s eyes; and THAT is what we are expected to do. The fact that we are given the full, unflinching view of who these Biblical characters were, flaws and all, doesn’t change God’s absolute, unchanging, uncompromising truth. Like us, every Bible character, except Yeshua, was imperfect and did things they ought not have done."