PHall | November 11, 2009
Overwhelmed! Shocked! Dazed! Inundated! Staggered! Can you think of any other adjectives to describe what you felt when you got assigned a responsibility that you didn’t want, and that you didn’t think you could do? Did you feel like quitting? Did you even try? Now suppose the one who assigns this overwhelming task to you [...]
PHall | November 4, 2009
All of us, even if we bear just a slight resemblance to God, have ached and pled for a loved one to change and repent. God loves His children, even when they sin. God loves His children, despite their sin. Consequences and chastisements are burdens of love not only to those under their infliction, but [...]
PHall | October 12, 2009
Parents often ask their children questions. Some are productive – “What did you learn in school today?” Some are inane – “How many times do I have to tell you….” Some questions are not even real questions – “Son, do you want to take out the garbage?” My mother actually asked me that! When I [...]
PHall | October 1, 2009
Life can be painful; loneliness can be suffocating, obedience can be a struggle. Often our burdens come from our own sin. Some originate from God. Which is worse – to suffer because of disobedience, or to suffer because of obedience? Let’s first look at Jeremiah. God commanded Jeremiah not to marry.
PHall | September 15, 2009
In the early to middle 1980′s, I was in a health food shop – why, I do not know – buying some papaya juice – again, why I do not know. This very tall, older man, tapped me on the shoulder. As I turned around he asked, “Excuse me, are you intelligent?” All I could [...]
PHall | September 15, 2009
Then the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was lead away into exile from its land (Jeremiah 52:27) Exile and death; family and friends separated by the decisions of others. The parting might have been through exile into another nation. Those [...]
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