King Solomon’s advice for living a blessed and prosperous life includes many warnings to avoid enticements by the sinful – liars and cheaters determined to undermine efforts to keep to a righteous...
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Millennial Job Seekers: A New Lost Generation?
Although the words of wisdom in King Solomon’s proverbs offer good advice for everybody, it’s also clear that the monarch also meant them specifically for the young. ”The parables of Solomon,’ he...
Lenders May Forgive Foreclosures
King Solomon’s world was very different from today’s. But his advice on living a life blessed by God through wisdom, prudence and dealing justly with others is timeless. And even though credit...
Mortgage Brokers Can Get a Good Deal – Sometimes
King Solomon’s enduring words of wisdom about prudence, virtue and the need to avoid the lying and the deceitful apply to all aspects of living a virtuous, Godly lie. And as we’ve pointed out in...
Banks Learn From the Past – and Harm the Recovery?
King Solomon’s proverbs emphasize again and again the vital importance of wisdom and prudence in living a live blessed by God. One key to acquiring wisdom, he says, is accepting correction from...
Owning a Home: Damaging the Economy?
Even in King Solomon’s time, houses represented stability, prosperity –and even wisdom, as we’ve seen in proverbs such as 9:1, “Wisdom hath built herself a house,” the King extols the virtues of a...
No “Choice Silver”: More Apologies to Mortgage Fraud Victims
One of the hallmarks of leading a virtuous life blessed by God is dealing equitably and fairly with others, according to King Solomon. “The tongue of the just is as choice silver,” he says in...
The Wise Heed the Advice of the Wiser
In his many proverbs about the virtues of wisdom and the value of living a wise and prudent life, King Solomon speaks frequently about the importance of “wise counsel” – learning from those with...
Learning from the Past: A New Housing Bubble?
As King Solomon tells us again and again in his Proverbs, wisdom is the foundation for a rich life graced by God. And one way to gain wisdom is to learn from the mistakes of the past. “Fools despise...
New FHA Rules Mean Higher Mortgage Costs
King Solomon advocated prudence in all things – a combination of knowledge and careful thinking that leads to prosperity and a life blessed by God. “To know wisdom, and instruction; to understand...