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Proverbs Daily Podcast
by Daily Wisdom, Community Growth, Under 5 Minutes.
Unlock daily wisdom in under 5 minutes! The Proverbs Daily Podcast delivers bite-sized inspiration and timeless truth from the Book of Proverbs. Join a growing community committed to absorbing, reflecting on, and sharing powerful insights for a richer life. Start your day with purpose! heyfredlynch.substack.com
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Broken but still working.
Proverbs 17:10: “A rebuke cuts into a man of discernment deeper than a hundred lashes cut into a fool.” Today’s Episode: Broken but still working. Somebody says, “Can I tell you something?” And you say, “Sure.” But inside? You’re putting on a helmet. We say we welcome feedback. Then somebody…
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What Are You Hungry For?
Proverbs 16:26: “A worker’s appetite works for him because his hunger drives him onward.” Today’s Episode: What Are You Hungry For? I was today years old when this really sank in: the world already produces enough food to feed everybody on the planet. Check the sources, I ain’t lyin’ Everybody.…
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Live Immediately
Proverbs 15:15: “For the despondent, every day brings trouble; for the happy heart, life is a continual feast.” Today’s Episode: Live Immediately You ever sit down to a good meal and spend the whole time talking about what might go wrong tomorrow? Food right there in front of you, getting cold....
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Don’t Believe Everything You Think
Proverbs 14:15: “The simple man believes every word, but the prudent man watches his steps.” Today’s Episode: Don’t Believe Everything You Think You ever watch those three little dots while somebody’s typing a text? They haven’t said anything yet, but you already know what they’re about to say....
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Deal With Your Junk
Proverbs 13:16: “Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.” Today’s Episode: Deal With Your Junk I was in my mid-thirties, working with Josh McDowell’s ministry, doing ministry at a hundred miles an hour. We had an opportunity to do a series of youth ministry...
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The Lynched Logic
Proverbs 12:10: “A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are only cruelty.” Today’s Episode: The Lynch-ed Logic A flag goes up. Somebody cheers. Somebody else wonders whether they and their children are safe anymore. It’s the same flag. But are you the...
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Allergic to Being Broke
Proverbs 11:15: “He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.” Today’s Episode: Allergic to Being Broke Last month my sister asked if I was gonna work on Labor Day. I told her, “I have to go to work cause I’m allergic to being broke.” We...
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Receiving Help Is Wisdom
Proverbs 10:17: “He who keeps instruction is in the way of life, but he who refuses correction goes astray.” Today’s Episode: Receiving Help Is Wisdom Everybody wants to take the training wheels off. Get rid of the guardrails. Let me freestyle! Sometimes that freedom ends with us sitting in a...
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Check The Sender
Proverbs 9:15: “To call passengers who go right on their ways:” Today’s Episode: Check the Sender Man, I got an email at work and wasn’t paying attention. Opened it. Clicked something inside it. Turns out, IT was testing us for phishing. And your boy failed. Had that sender been malicious, I...
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What Wisdom Sees
Proverbs 8:12: “I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.” Today’s Episode: What Wisdom Sees Google’s first name was…you ready for this? BackRub. That’s right. We almost ended up “back-rubbing” for info on that new restaurant! Yeah, I’m glad they changed that name too....
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Keep On Keeping On
Proverbs 7:1: “My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.” Today’s Episode: Keep On Keeping On When I was a kid, the old folks could send you on your way with four words: “Keep on keeping on.” Man, that sounded good. They wouldn’t need to explain it. There was encouragement tucked...
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The Bind That Unties
Proverbs 6:21: “Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.” Today’s Episode: The Bind That Unties You’ve heard of “the tie that binds.” Today, I want to talk about the bind that unties. And since it’s National Coaches Day, let’s give a nod to the coach whose voice...
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The Teacher Was Trying to Tell Me
Proverbs 5:13: “Oh, why didn’t I listen to my teachers? Why didn’t I pay attention to my instructors?” Today’s Episode: The Teacher Was Trying to Tell Me World Teachers’ Day gives me permission to confess: I have not always been an easy student. My best friend, Andre Jones, and I were buddies…
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Listen To Life
Proverbs 4:10: “My child, listen to me and do as I say, and you will have a long, good life.” Today’s Episode: Listen to Life There is a wisdom in you that was speaking before you knew how to talk. Think about your body. Before you had a face, a name, or a personal opinion, there were…
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Found And Formed
Proverbs 3:13: "Joyful is the person who finds wisdom, the one who gains understanding." Today's Episode: Found and Formed Have you ever bought a book and felt smarter just because it was sitting in your house? Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist (one of my favorite books on my shelf) gives us a picture...
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Wisdom Has A Traceable Trail
Proverbs Daily is a reader-supported publication. All posts are free, but all donations help spread the message. When you see the word “upgrade,” you’re simply invited to help me make the sacred positively contagious…thank you in advance for becoming a free or paid subscriber. October 2 is the...
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Another October Surprise
Proverbs 1:26: "I will laugh when you are in trouble! I will mock you when disaster overtakes you." Today's Episode: Another October Surprise I don’t know what October is carrying, but the world stage may have another surprise. Proverbs 1:26 says: “I will laugh when you are in trouble! I will…
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Small Things, Big Meaning
Proverbs 30:24 “There are four things on earth that are small, but they are unusually wise.” Today's Episode: Small Things, Big Meaning I love a little thing that refuses to stay little. A seed is small, but it knows how to become a tree. A single word can be tiny on the page and still change the...
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Mulling Moments
Proverbs 29:11: "A fool lets it all hang out; a sage quietly mulls it over." Today's Episode: Mulling Moments Have you ever had a thought keep circling your heart like a lawn mower going over the same yard? That may be more than overthinking. Sometimes your soul is asking you to go over the…
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Don’t Sleep On Your Soul
Proverbs 28:14: "Blessed is the one who always trembles before God, but whoever hardens their heart falls into trouble." Today's Episode: Don't Sleep on Your Soul Before “woke” became a word people argued over, hip-hop had a whole show called The Wake Up Show. It wasn’t just a title. It was a...
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Sharpened By The Right People
Proverbs 27:17 “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” Today's Episode: Sharpened By The Right People Hip-hop is layered. One of its most profound experiences is as an emcee stepping into a cipher—or onto a stage—with a fresh rhyme nobody has heard before. You can’t wait to see...
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That Joke Was A Weapon
Proverbs 26:18–19: "Just as damaging as a madman shooting a deadly weapon is someone who lies to a friend and then says, 'I was only joking!'" Today's Episode: That Joke Was a Weapon "I was just joking" may be the most common receipt people hand you after they've spent your trust. No. You weren't...
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Check Your Emergency Contact
Proverbs 25:19: "Putting confidence in an unreliable person in times of trouble is like chewing with a broken tooth or walking on a lame foot." Today's Episode: Check Your Emergency Contact Everybody has an emergency contact. But the worst time to discover yours won't answer is during the...
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When the Counselor Becomes the Weapon
Proverbs 24:6: "So don't go to war without wise guidance; victory depends on having many advisers." Today's Episode: When the Counselor Becomes the Weapon AI (and that's Artificial Intelligence, not Allen Iverson) is the new voice in the war room. It doesn't wear a uniform. It doesn't sit at the...
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Not Now Doesn’t Mean Never
Proverbs 23:18: “There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.” Today’s Episode: Not Now Doesn’t Mean Never There are two seasons we don’t talk about enough: Now…and not now. Now is when the door opens, the call comes and the thing we prayed for steps into the room.…
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Read The Season
Proverbs 22:3 says: “A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.” Today's Episode: Read The Season. So it’s September in Texas, and Texas hot does not play with nobody—not even in September. You can walk outside at seven in…
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I Want You To Want Peace Too
Proverbs 21:3 “The LORD is more pleased when we do what is right and just than when we offer him sacrifices.” Today's Episode: I Want You To Want Peace Too Marvin Gaye’s “I Want You” makes your shoulders and hips move before your heart realizes it’s listening to grief. But listen closely to…
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Walking Without The Whole Map
Proverbs 20:24 “A man’s steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way?” Today's Episode: WALKING WITHOUT THE WHOLE MAP It was close to midnight, and I was driving by myself down one of those scary pine-tree-dark Mississippi roads. It was raining. I was exhausted. I volunteered at a...
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Correct Your Trajectory
Proverbs 19:20: “Listen well to wise counsel and be willing to learn from correction so that by the end of your life you’ll be known for your wisdom.” Today's Episode: Correct Your Trajectory Have you ever watched somebody miss a turn, ignore the GPS, then get mad when it says, “Recalculating”?...
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SAY IT WHILE HE CAN HEAR IT
Proverbs 18:20 in the NLT says: “Wise words satisfy like a good meal; the right words bring satisfaction.” Today’s Episode: Say It While He Can Hear It Fathers are funny. We’ll give a complete stranger a whole scouting report on our son—his work ethic, his character, everything he has overcome....
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Evil Knows Your Address
Proverbs 29:14 “If you repay good with evil, evil will never leave your house.” Today is Constitution Day, commemorating the signing of the United States Constitution in 1787. Now, those delegates didn't gather because human beings always do the right thing. The whole system of divided powers and...
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Plans In Pencil
Proverbs Daily is a reader-supported publication. All posts are free, but all donations help spread the message. When you see the word “upgrade,” you’re simply invited to help me make the sacred positively contagious…thank you in advance for becoming a free or paid subscriber. They had a plan.…
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IN A HOUSE OF MIRRORS
Proverbs 15:32 “If you reject discipline, you only harm yourself; but if you listen to correction, you grow in understanding.” Everybody looks dangerous in a house of mirrors. In Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee enters a room where his enemy seems to be everywhere. He turns one way—enemy. Turns...
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DON’T THROW YOUR HELMET
Proverbs 14:29 "People with understanding control their anger; a hot temper shows great foolishness." Are you watching the game tonight? That question has been opening conversations between men for generations. Monday Night Football used to feel stitched into the American male identity. For young...
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Grandma and Them Be Knowing
Proverbs 13:14 Grandma and them be knowing. I just got back from Wild Goose in North Carolina—shout-out to my Wild Goose family! A highlight was Jaki Shelton Green’s workshop. She’s been North Carolina’s poet laureate since 2018. She invited us to close our eyes, feel our cells and imagine the...
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Check the Replay
Proverbs 12:15 says: “The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice.” Today's Episode: Check The Replay At the U.S. Open, one ball can land so close to the line that half the stadium sees it in and the other half sees it out. The player is certain. The opponent is certain.…
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A City Still Standing
Proverbs 11:11 “Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is destroyed.” Today's Episode: A City Still Standing Twenty-five years ago today, New York City took a wound the whole world could see. The towers fell, lives were stolen, families were…
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Are You Coachable?
Proverbs 10:17 “Whoever heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.” Everybody loves the highlight reel. Nobody posts the film session where the coach rewinds the play and says, “Freeze it. Right there. You missed your assignment.” Because applause…
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Play the Long Game
Proverbs Daily is a reader-supported publication. All posts are free, but all donations help spread the message. When you see the word “upgrade,” you’re simply invited to help me make the sacred positively contagious…thank you in advance for becoming a free or paid subscriber. Football is back,...
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Let Wisdom Breathe
Proverbs 8:6 “Listen, for I have trustworthy things to say; I open my lips to speak what is right.” Today’s Episode: Let Wisdom Breathe Have you ever heard somebody read a whole paragraph like punctuation personally offended them? They blow past every comma, run every stop sign and hit the period...
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Freeze the Frame
Proverbs 7:25 (Berean Standard Bible) "Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths." Freeze the frame! Proverbs seven has been moving like a movie. A young man leaves home, drifts toward the wrong corner, meets the wrong woman and listens to words that sound right...
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It’s Alive!
Proverbs 6:22 “When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will speak to you.” “It's alive!” I remember being a preteen, eating popcorn and watching Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein—excuse me, “Fronkensteen.” If you know, you know....
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Caught Up in the Rapture
Proverbs 5:19 “A loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.” At my niece Jasmine’s wedding reception, Anita Baker came on. D’Ann and I didn’t discuss it. We just jumped onto the dance floor. While we were dancing, my brother...
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Daily Dose of Discipline
Proverbs Daily is a reader-supported publication. All posts are free, but all donations help spread the message. When you see the word “upgrade,” you’re simply invited to help me make the sacred positively contagious…thank you in advance for becoming a free or paid subscriber. Proverbs 4:1…
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Mock Around and Find Out
Proverbs Daily is a reader-supported publication. All posts are free, but all donations help spread the message. When you see the word “upgrade,” you’re simply invited to help me make the sacred positively contagious…thank you in advance for becoming a free or paid subscriber. Proverbs 3:34 “He...
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When?? THEN!!
Proverbs 2:9 “Then you will understand righteousness and justice in every circumstance, and integrity and every good path.” “Are we there yet?” If you’ve ever taken a road trip with children, you’ve felt that question in your nervous system. When our kids were young, we traveled across the…
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Accessorize and Coordinate
Proverbs 1:9 “They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.” “You got to coordinate!” If you’ve seen Boomerang, you can probably hear John Witherspoon preaching that wild dinner-table fashion sermon. Everything was loud. Everything matched. And the outfit…was outrageous!…
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Calling All Mama's Boys
Proverbs 31:1 “The sayings of King Lemuel—an inspired utterance his mother taught him.” Calling all Mama’s boys! I’m a Mama’s boy to the bone—and I say that publicly as a grown man who considers himself a manly man. Fellas, loving your mama doesn’t make you less of a man. It means recognizing the...
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HIDE AND SEEK
Proverbs 30:5 “Every promise from the faithful God is pure and proves to be true. He is a wraparound shield of protection for all his lovers who run to hide in him.” Er’body knows about Hide and Seek! If you from my hood, you might remember playin’ “Hide and Go Get It.” But I digress. Back to the...
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Who Gets Remembered After the Storm?
Proverbs 29:14 “The best insurance for a leader’s longevity is to demonstrate justice for the poor.” Twenty-one years ago today, August 29th, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana. More than 80% of New Orleans flooded. Over 1,800 people died. Families were displaced, neighborhoods…
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