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PHall | January 12, 2026
A Parachute Drop and Faith A Parachute Drop at an amusement park is a ride that lifts you up vertically, and yet angled, hundreds of feet in the air. The mechanism holding you suspended in mid-air is released. Then you drop and swing from side to side until the momentum ceases. When my daughters were […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Assembling with the Saints Question – “It has been a while since I attended church. Any advice for how to get back?” Response – “Everything goes back to the gospel. So the first thing you need to focus on is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. Because there are others who are also focused […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Malachi and the Thief on the Cross Malachi has a unique teaching technique: 1. God makes an Accusation. 2.Then God Cross-examines Himself by speaking for the audience. 3.This is followed by God giving the evidence to convict. This got me thinking how this method could work today: 1. Accusation – “You are not saved because […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
I Met A Man On Death Row I met a young man on death row, obviously with a criminal past. He had accepted his own guilt and didn’t blame anyone except himself, including “the system”. And yet it is equally obvious he knew a lot concerning spiritual matters. For example, he knew: 1. There was […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Who Are “The Rest” in 1 Timothy 5:19? Who are the “rest” who should be “fearful” in 1 Timothy 5:20? What group does “the rest” refer to? While it is understandable that “the rest” be interpreted as the rest of the congregation; there is another group – “the rest” of the elders. As is common […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
1 Corinthians 5 A – REMOVE (5:1-2): It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father’s wife. And you have become puffed up and have not mourned instead, so that the one who […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Difference Between Judaism and Christianity? An Orthodox Jew was interviewing a well-known “Christian Pastor”. The Jewish man stated, “other than a certain story”…. This sounded personally and painfully vague on his part, but some Jews refuse to say Jesus’s name because of Exodus 23:13: “Make no mention of the name of other Gods”. Back to […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
An Old Story Made New Again Do you remember this true event? Deity descended resulting in fire, speaking, loud sounds, crowd reacting to the sounds, water, and a promise received? This is the story of Israel at Mt. Sinai (Exodus 19), before crossing through the Jordan, to reach the Promised Land. There is a belief […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
A Wheelchair Conversation While I was pushing her wheelchair, I was speaking to an elderly widow in an assisted living facility. She told me that her husband had been an evangelist in Tanzania, plus he was a preacher and an elder a various times at local congregations. I responded, “God needs people like that”. Then […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
We Are Not the King Read again the parable of the unrighteous servant in Matthew 18. If we think it is about how we should forgive because God forgives us, we missed Jesus’s point. Read it again and focus on the rights of the king that we do not have, such as insisting on being […]