As I listened to a couple of lessons at Polishing the Pulpit recently, I was further convicted about something that I have been trying to work on for some time. It is so easy to find little phrases in the Bible that are worded in an interesting way and just start making applications from them. While the applications we make may be Biblical and needed, they may not necessarily be what is in that text. Here is one that I am reflecting on this week as I study and prepare a sermon for Sunday night. How often have we read and taught the book of Jonah? It is one of…