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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
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 | August 17, 2025
The Gospel According to Creation, Abel, and Enoch The Hebrew writer begins his Hall of Faith list with three examples, followed by a summation: 11:3 – By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. 11:4 […]
PHall | December 19, 2024
Most wives work hard, including fixing dinner for their families. If the family members want to be considerate, which scenario is acceptable: 1. The husband is working late and doesn’t call to let his wife know. 2. The son ate out with his friends after ball practice, so when supper is ready and he is […]
PHall | November 21, 2024
Destroy the Patriarchy? Our American culture today is intent on “dismantling the patriarchal system”. Is this system Biblical? If so, is dismantling it a sound idea? Progressives claim Patriarchy is a social construct caused by sin. 1. If so, then why did God choose to be constrained by mankind’s prejudices by calling Himself Father? 2. […]
PHall | June 26, 2022
“While We Stand and Sing” At the end of the sermon, the preacher often asks the congregation to rise when singing the invitation song. When this tradition began, I don’t know. Possibly standing is just physical, giving everyone an opportunity to stretch after the…way to short sermon! Maybe it a psychological boost for those who […]
PHall | March 29, 2022
A “Better” Argument Against Instrumental Music Despite history showing instrumental music was not part of worshiping God for the majority of worship in “The Way”, and despite the hermeneutical arguments concerning silence and exclusion, neither way is probably the the strongest argument against instrumental music in worship. When we view ourselves and bodies as God’s […]
PHall | March 8, 2022
Living Our Singing Are we living what we are singing? Are we singing what we are living? Is there a discord (pun intended) between life and song? I got to thinking about this recently when remembering the first line in A Beautiful Life – “Each day I’ll do, a golden deed….” A golden deed can […]
PHall | February 11, 2022
Beware Bitterness Simple question, but a frightening answer: What prevents us from peace with one another, inward holiness, seeing God and finding divine grace? As you can see, whatever the answer, it is endemic to all relationships: With others, self, and God. The answer is bitterness. This word, found only 4 times, shows each time […]
PHall | November 23, 2020
(Presented in order by the writer of Hebrews): (NOTE: There is repetition but instead of combining the similar reasons I kept them separate as did the writer to emphasize everything Jesus did was touched by suffering) 1. To Make Purification of Sins (1:3) 2. To Sit Down at the Right Hand of God (1:3; 10:12; […]