"Solomon Says" by Mark Horne. A Review
Probably one of the best pieces of advice my wife and I received as young parents is that we weren't raising children, we were raising adults! That changed our outlook and gave us a renewed direction amidst all of the normal and abnormal frustrations in our 34 years of parenting. Mark Horne, a minister in the Presbyterian Church in America, executive director of Logo Sapiens Communications, and author, has mapped out a similar trail in his new 166-page softback "Solomon Says: Directions for Young Men". But the subtitle is a bit of a misnomer. The directions apply to young women as well. But are useful to adults just as much as to youth, because Horne is giving "a reader's guide to Proverbs that lays out some important themes in Proverbs" with the goal of inspiring readers at whatever age to read and memorize "Proverbs as you seek and find wisdom for your life" (xv). This is an easy-to-read manuscript that can be grasped by teenagers and septuagenar...