The book of Proverbs is preeminently a book of the family. There are fifty-four references to it, in the thirty-one chapters which comprise this portion of scripture. Twenty-three times, the writer begins his remarks with the words, “My son.” Because of the many forces which are at work to destroy the family in this age, and because some of the efforts of Christians to strengthen the family seem to be based primarily on the psychology of the world, it is imperative that we come again to God’s eternal wisdom to learn His plan for the family.
May He give us the desire to do so, along with the Holy Spirit to enlighten the eyes of our understanding, enabling us to apply these principles to our situations.
88 pages.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bruce Lackey (1930-1988) taught at Tennessee Temple in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for nineteen years and was the dean of the Bible School for a number of years until the early 1980’s. He pastored the Lakewood Baptist Church of Chattanooga for eight years and pastored two other churches before that. During the last few years of his life, he traveled as a Bible conference speaker and authoured several books. He was an accomplished musician, a highly gifted Bible teacher, and a diligent scholar who was proficient in the Greek language. Dr. Lackey, who was deeply respected and beloved by the “preacher boys” at Temple, defended the Received Text and the King James Bible as the preserved Word of God.
