I'm Pastor Mike Winger and this is Bible Thinker the program dedicated to thinking

publicly about everything.

Change my life like literally changed my life in a bunch of different ways.

I grew up not really having a lot of wisdom like the rest of you. But it was the first book of the Bible I started to read was the book of proverbs and it really transformed my life. It changed the way I viewed myself, the way I looked at the world the way I

evaluated situations the ability to have clarity

clarity sometimes is so valuable when you're going through hard times just getting an

understanding of what's going on.

I think though that the Book of Proverbs might be the least applied Book of the Bible that has

maybe the most application in it. And so I'm happy to do a tour through Proverbs 27 today

as we take a pause on the Mark series just for one week

because we make decisions every day

and these decisions impact our lives and the lives of people around us.

And a lot of the decisions and the habits we have right now, they're like little snowballs that we're rolling down the hill every day.

And they gather snow and then they get bigger and bigger and

they have a much larger impact down the road than we perceive as we're

starting these habits and these behaviors and the way we do things. So maybe it's time to

restore your focus on the book of Proverbs a little bit and this will be like a

teaser for you to do that. Proverbs I think should be kind of the soundtrack

of our lives that should be kind of the sound track of our lives.

It should be sort of in the background, helping us be informed to make thoughtful choices

and decisions.

Whenever we make decisions, whenever we need clarity in tough situations,

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