“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). Children grow up. It sounds simple enough, but every parent eventually discovers how quickly those words become reality. One day they are reaching up for your hand, asking you to carry them across a stream. The next day they are following your footsteps across mountains, eager to prove they can do what mom and dad do.

This coming Sunday, millions of Christians around the world will celebrate their risen Savior. But did Jesus really rise from the dead? If you are a believer, the answer is obvious. However, it is important to ask, because there is no more important historical event than the resurrection of Christ. As Paul wrote in his letter to the Corinthian church in A.D. 55, “if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is vain and our faith is vain, and ye are yet in your sins” (1 Cor. 15:

Proverbs uses another word like this: conceit. The idea behind “conceit” is “eyes.” It describes how you see yourself. Today, we usually use “conceit” to refer to a sinful, self-aggrandizing way of seeing ourselves