On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold,                   and those who fill their master’s house with violence and fraud.  “Step on a crack, break your mother’s back.” We have all heard this one about stepping on the crack in the sidewalk. Leaping over the threshold may mean the same thing. Many in Judah were observing silly superstitions while…

And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” 13 But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”  I remember the ads in the back of comic books for junk with the promise,”Amaze your friends!” The attraction to the amazement of the crowd is what drives entertainers. It is also what drives the…

Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” 3 But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. As a boy, whenever my mother yelled at me to take…

So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple? Finding half a worm. Either way, the apple…

So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 30 They went out of the town and were coming to him.  “Listen to what happened to me!” There. My seminary professor would be proud….

10       I said, In the middle of my days        I must depart;                    I am consigned to the gates of Sheol        for the rest of my years.              11       I said, I shall not see the LORD,        the LORD in the land of the living;                    I shall look on man no more        among the inhabitants of…