The Proverbs Seminar is composed of 9 teachings segments each approximately one hour in
length. The topics are:

Introduction and Wise Counsel
The Fear of God
The Wise Person and the Fool
Favor with God and Man
Wisdom and Understanding
Wisdom and the Strange Woman
The Cry of Wisdom
The Power of Our Words
Taming the Tongue

The book of Proverbs addresses the learning process. Proverbs gives practical instruction to the
young and anyone else who wants to listen, in order to help them follow in the ways of the Lord
and have a godly and fruitful life.

Each individual must relearn what their parents or others have learnt. There are many ways to
learn. Some can just read something in a book and understand it. Some have to get out and do it,
try it, the hands on approach, before they can learn. Still others learn best by trial and error.

Having a positive attitude toward education is useful. Having an “I can learn” approach to
life. Some of the nerds, the scholars are not going to do well in the real world. They will excel
in “school world” but that doesn’t always transfer into “real world.” Unfortunately, because the
adversary has emphasized only one kind of learning in our school system, many have adapted a
loser’s attitude toward learning. We can all learn. We just do it differently. We need to convert
mental knowledge into physical knowledge.

These were the proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, the King of Israel. Since they are part of
the Scriptures, they were authored by God, but collected and spoken and written by Solomon. He
needed instruction if he was going to be king and rule God’s people properly. His father David
made sure he received the best possible training in order to rule God’s people effectively.

Proverbs is largely a collection of couplets, two line aphorisms or wise sayings that praise
wisdom and warn against folly of various sorts. The literary form of Proverbs is unique, meant to
express important truths for practical living in ways that are memorable and thus repeatable. This
often is done by general overstatements, by “all or none” kinds of phrases.

Though each proverb speaks truth, it does not speak the whole truth; other proverbs and other
portions of God’s Word must be included in a broader study to learn each proverb’s truth.