Psalm 112 is a wisdom psalm. We know this because of its themes (righteousness and wickedness, the importance of moral conduct, the certainty of blessings for the righteous and pain for the wicked) and because of its form (it’s an acrostic–the first letter of each line forms a pattern; in this case, it’s the letters of the Hebrew alphabet). So, even without looking at the details of this psalm, we know roughly what it will tell us: We must be like the person of Psalm 1, who delights in God’s...

When it comes to expounding prophetic speeches, preachers face a major hurdle, which is that these speeches seem repetitive. Reading...

This lectionary selection is not a literary unit, i.e., it is not the exposition of a single theme. It is instead a collection,...