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Posted By PHall on June 18, 2013
Hebrews is filled with family regulations of food and drink (9:10). For the kids we have fruit lips (13:15). For men there is both solid food and milk (5:12). For ladies there are vegetables: lettuce draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith; lettuce hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; lettuce consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds (10:22-24).
Posted By PHall on June 18, 2013
In becoming everything the world is not (i.e., the beatitudes), we become everything the world needs (i.e., salt and light).
Posted By PHall on June 17, 2013
When obedience is considered a work, it is contrary to grace because it seeks to establish its own righteousness. When obedience is considered submission, it is leads to grace, accepting the righteousness that comes from God. Faith is obedience because it is submitting to God to do what we cannot. We cannot live by doing everything; we cannot go up to heaven or come up from death. But we can live because Jesus did what we could not, come down from heaven, come up from the abyss, be resurrected so that we confess and believe in what we cannot do. We cannot put ourselves to shame by submitting to God’s righteousness.
Posted By PHall on June 17, 2013
Posted By PHall on June 16, 2013
Many churches have objections to partaking the Lord’s Supper every Sunday saying it would lose significance, yet have no problem taking up a collection and telling people “God loves a cheerful giver.” God also loves a thankful taker of His Son’s Supper.
Posted By PHall on June 16, 2013
The word of the LORD also came to me saying (Jer.17:1). This phrase, “the word of the Lord” is found in 255 Bible verses; 51 of those verses are in Jeremiah. Pardon my “wondering around….” But…
1) I wonder…Do we say it enough that we are preaching God’s words, and not our own?
2) I wonder…But then again, we must ask ourselves if we are preaching God’s words more than our own?
3) I wonder…When quoting scripture, would the impact be great if we said, “And the Holy Spirit said through Paul…” rather than saying, “And Paul said….”
4) I wonder…When the word of the Lord comes to us, are we ready to accept the bad as well as the good? Are we willing to accept both equally as the word of the Lord? The following “word of the Lord” had to be hard to take at first and maybe at last.
5) I wonder…Have we lost the awe that comes from hearing that we are hearing the word of the Lord?
6) I wonder…when preaching and teaching, do we hurriedly read the word of the Lord, speeding through, giving it little or no inflection, because we want to hurry and get to what we want to say about the word of the Lord?
Posted By PHall on June 13, 2013
This is who we are or should be: Servants do not ask to be placated and pleased, they only ask to serve. Disciples do not pretend to judge and cajole, they are content to learn and imitate their Teacher. Christians are not trying to become good enough, better than others, or besting the arguments of others; but becoming better than they are by becoming more like Christ.
Posted By PHall on June 12, 2013
What does Paul mean in 1 Corinthians 11:19 – “There must, indeed, be factions among you, so that those who are approved may be recognized among you.” Is this approval right and good? Or, is Paul again using sarcasm? Using the chiastic structure to interpret consider the latter.
A – (17) Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse.
B – (18) For to begin with, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it. (19) There must, indeed, be factions among you, so that those who are approved may be recognized among you.
C – (20) Therefore, when you come together, it is not really to eat the Lord’s Supper.
B’ – (21) For at the meal, each one eats his own supper ahead of others. So one person is hungry while another gets drunk! (22) Don’t you have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you look down on the church of God and embarrass those who have nothing?
A’ – What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you for this! (more…)
Posted By PHall on June 11, 2013
Momma says to sons, “Eat the bananas first before the eating the apples, because apples last longer.” Son says, “The reason apples last longer is because they are hard core.”
Posted By PHall on June 11, 2013
The Bible without the Jesus is God and Man; Holy and Unholy; Judge and Judged; Righteous and Condemned. The Bible with Jesus is God makes man like God; makes the unholy holy; saves the judged; and righteously pardons. Jesus does not get in between God’s wrath and man; Jesus is God’s love and is the love of man.