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Author’s Note: Interested readers can find all previous volumes of this series here. Thanks for joining us today as we study common sayings that originated from the Bible unbeknownst to most people.

As a lectionary preacher who works mainly on Sundays, I have spent much of my preaching life grazing the well-fertilized pastures that my tradition has laid out for me. Sometimes I press up against ...

Every culture seems to have its own unique, collected wisdom, pithy insights of the wise. Oftentimes, these tidbits of wisdom are preserved in the form of the proverb. We have proverbial sayings in ...