PHall | January 22, 2013
If you are the parent, teacher, boss or organization leader, isn’t its aggravating when you tell someone how you want and need something done, but they decide you didn’t really mean what you said so they change or ignore it? Plus, in everyday life, isn’t it frustrating when someone says you said something when you never did? I am responsible for [...]
PHall | January 5, 2013
Matthew 12 makes a good study in how to establish authority. Three essential truths found within the text is that authority is found within Scripture; that scripture must be applied for it to have any meaning; and that truth can be found, understood and applied. You have the inherent command of the Sabbath to keep [...]
PHall | March 24, 2012
Have you ever heard or read something that became a life-guiding principle? When I was little, my mother said about a preacher who became an agnostic – “He studied himself out of the Bible.” Simple faith got replaced by educated “explain-aways.” Maybe that is one reason I accept Occam’s Razor in interpreting the Bible – [...]
PHall | March 18, 2011
Grace is written on every page of the Bible. But blood is not. Grace is written in ways that blood does not need. The very breath we take is grace. God’s word breathed out through the Holy Spirit is grace. The breath Jesus exhaled declaring “it is finished” is grace. And God’s waiting breath, waiting [...]
PHall | February 12, 2011
Walking into this building is shocking for some; not so much by what is here – pews, classrooms, songbooks – but by what is not here. Notice I didn’t say, “by what is missing.” That would imply they belonged. So what is not here? Statues, Pianos, Kitchens & Gymnasiums. Nowadays, many churches of Christ have [...]
PHall | December 12, 2010
Many years I received a call from the bank asking if I had recently been to Venezuela. Unfortunately I hadn’t because someone was having the best vacation I never had “in my name.” Somehow, a thief had stolen the number off of my debit card. This was, in a very real sense, extremely disconcerting, inconvenient, [...]
PHall | November 11, 2010
Let’s begin with a game. “Who Am I?” I was born in Bethlehem. I will become famous for a battle in which I will be victorious. The number 40 will have significance. Before the battle ever began, I was chosen among my brothers, although not because of my appearance. I was sent by my father [...]
PHall | October 15, 2009
It is a wise hermeneutical practice when trying to understand difficult passages to: Focus first on the context. Interpret difficult passages by easier passages. Interpret in light of examples. For example, when looking at this passage about it being impossible to restore, we only need to look at overall context of chapters 5-6 in Hebrews, [...]
PHall | October 3, 2009
Walking into this building is surprising, if not shocking, for some; not so much by what is here – pews, classrooms, songbooks – but by what is not here. Notice I didn’t say, “by what is missing.” That would imply they belonged. So what is not here? To be perfectly honest, we could make up [...]
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