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Proverbs: devotionals and study guides

Proverbs trades in short, practical wisdom about how we actually live - including the ones we're quickest to explain away. Pundayschool has landed on two so far: the verse about a gaze fixed straight ahead, and the verse about whose heart is really being examined.

2 passages covered · Proverbs 4:25, Proverbs 21:2 · free devotionals and study guides

In short

Pundayschool has covered two passages from Proverbs so far: Proverbs 4:25, let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you, in The Digital Notification Trap; and Proverbs 21:2, a person may think their own ways are right, but the LORD weighs the heart, in The Sermon Dodgeball. Both come with a free devotional and small group study guide.

The passages

Episode 27 · Proverbs 4:25

The Digital Notification Trap

This morning had one simple plan: open the Bible, read one verse. That was it. Then the phone lit up. One notification. We will just clear it, ten seconds, tops. The notification had a message, the message had a link, the link had a video, and now a man in an apron is explaining why we have been using salt incorrectly. We have never cared about salt. Suddenly, we have opinions. Another video starts. Our shoulder slowly becomes part of the sofa, and forty-five minutes quietly leave the building. Eventually we look up, blinking, still watching bread. How did I get to sourdough? We came looking for the Bread of Life. We left with a baking project. Time to confess: the problem is not always that we have no time for God. Sometimes we gave the time away, ten seconds at a time. Proverbs four, verse twenty-five: Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. So tomorrow: verse first. Dot later. The notification can wait. It already proved it knows how.

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Episode 14 · Proverbs 21:2

The Sermon Dodgeball

Some sermons feel less like a talk and more like target practice. We duck, we slide down the pew, the point sails over our head into the row behind us - and we feel better already. Here's the thing about dodging: you can spend the whole sermon deciding who the point was for, and walk out as the one person it was for.

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Episode 36 · Proverbs 28:13

The Apology Negotiator

The mascot sits down to apologize, then opens a briefcase of context and timeline instead. Three tries later, "I'm sorry" has become "I'm sorry you experienced my explanation." Proverbs 28:13: whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy. So today: close the briefcase. Just say the plain sentence.

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Two passages so far. When another episode lands in Proverbs, it will be filed on this page.

One verse to hold

"A person may think their own ways are right, but the LORD weighs the heart."

Proverbs 21:2, NIV

Questions people ask

What is the book of Proverbs about?

Proverbs is a collection of short, practical wisdom sayings about everyday life: how we handle money, words, work, relationships, and our own hearts. It is less about doctrine and more about how to actually live well.

What does Proverbs 21:2 mean?

A person may think their own ways are right, but the LORD weighs the heart. We are quick to feel justified in our own eyes, especially when a hard truth seems to apply to someone else. The Sermon Dodgeball plays it out literally: a convicting point lands on the row behind us, and we feel relieved instead of examined, but the heart being weighed is ours.

What does Proverbs 4:25 mean?

Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. A father is teaching his son to keep his eyes fixed on the wise path ahead rather than letting his attention wander toward whatever competes for it. The Digital Notification Trap plays it out literally: a mascot opens the Bible to read one verse, one notification arrives, and forty-five minutes disappear into a sourdough video before the verse ever gets read.