PHall | January 7, 2013
Galatians 6:2 (HCSB) Carry one another’s burdens; in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. 1 Corinthians 9:21 (HCSB) To those who are without that law, like one without the law — not being without God’s law but within Christ’s law — to win those without the law.
PHall | December 2, 2010
There are only two covenants in contrast to the many covenants when contextually the topic is one replacing the other. The Noahaic covenant (Gen.6) was not replaced by the “New Covenant” (Heb.8), and therefore would not be considered ‘the first covenant” although it came first temporally. The language would be comparable to the second coming (Heb.9) not contextually related to the [...]
PHall | November 30, 2010
The Judaizers tried to isolate or shut out their targets from people like Paul. The Greek word here is ekkleiō. Since the church is the ekklesia, when people, teachers, preachers, and their ilk start to form “parties” making people fearful of being rejected by them, they cease to be the church and become “the anti-church” (phrase [...]
PHall | April 27, 2010
I would like to suggest to you that superstition is another form of idolatry and sorcery. An old definition of superstition is “the excessive fear of the gods.” Theodore Parker observed, “Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. If he worships not the true [...]
PHall | February 26, 2010
The “Christian” religious world is divided. The “Christian” religious world is united. No, that is not a contradiction, but rather a contradistinction. There is no denying that churches across the spiritual spectrum disagree on a host of important, indispensable and defining issues; yet if we truly want to fulfill Jesus’ prayer of unity (John 17), [...]
PHall | February 25, 2010
What is the most dangerous aspect of being an American Christian? Warning! This might be a trick question! But I’ll be nice and give you a hint. The trick is discovered by asking what is unique to being an American, not what is unique to being a Christian.
PHall | February 6, 2010
A. It is Subtle 1. There is a sin which a Catholic priest once declared that no one had ever confessed to him – a sin so deadly that the wrath of God comes upon men because of it; a sin so common that probably everybody has at some time been guilty of it; a [...]
PHall | November 3, 2009
Certain choices made in life never are really made, at least not consciously. The direction selected was never really selected. It just…was. Free-will existed to choose other avenues, but the road taken appeared the only way. Reality consisted not of choices but of certainties. Some of these decisions have been major; some might [...]
PHall | October 30, 2009
In Acts 20:7-12, Paul, Luke, and their friends meet with the church in Troas to “break bread.” This innocuous term, to “break bread,” has a deeper meaning than simply tearing bread into pieces or eating. To “break bread” with someone, whether in a common meal at a home, or as the Lord’s Supper in church, [...]
PHall | October 7, 2009
Paul’s Writing Style (James MacKnight, MacKnight on the Epistles, pp.26-27) 1. “In the first place, a concise unadorned style in preaching and writing, though accompanied with some obscurity, was, in the apostle’s situation, preferable to the clear and elegant manner of writing practiced by the Grecian orators… (1 Corinthians 1:17; 2:4).” 2. “In the [...]
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