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PHall | September 10, 2014
Our speech patterns say so much about us, whether it is what we say, or how we don’t say things. In Wal-Mart yesterday, a grown woman in her late 20’s or early 30’s, said to her male companion, “Where the bread at?” Not only is that bad English, she didn’t even accomplish an economy of […]
PHall | September 9, 2014
Paul wrote, “we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us” (2 Cor.1:9-10). […]
PHall | September 8, 2014
We are comfortably ready for the familiar non-contextual application of John 7:24 – judge according to righteous judgment – because we like to counterbalance it with Matthew 7:1 – do not judge or you will be judged. But are we ready for the immediate application due to the contextual interpretation? Frankly, it is frightening because […]
PHall | September 8, 2014
A group of co-equal persons, even partners, working together as one, in a common love, to serve one another and others, is not only a description of the church, but of the Trinity! What an unexpected reality, that we are granted the privilege to reenact the inner and outer workings of the Triune God. Now […]
PHall | September 6, 2014
“You’re lacking in faith.” How would we respond to such a statement? Be honest. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians, a great church, a group he loved, one he praised as highly as any, a church who’s work of faith, labor or love, and endurance of hoped was renowned, “as we pray very earnestly night and […]
PHall | September 5, 2014
“It means what it means.” Said that in class and some found it humorous, and I can understand why. Doesn’t everything mean what it means? Ever hear, “I didn’t mean it like that!” Or sometimes words have a figurative and not literal meaning. Then again there is hyperbole to make a point. So, why did […]
PHall | September 5, 2014
“I gave her time to repent, but she does not want to” said Jesus, about Jezebel, to Thyatira (Rev.2:21). Sometimes its better to cut the theology, psychology, sociology, dysfunctionality, the “isms.” all excuses and just keep it just that simple. Doesn’t mean it is easy, but it is just that simple. Just Do It!
PHall | September 4, 2014
Ephesians 2:3 (HCSB) We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.
PHall | September 3, 2014
Remember Jesus saying to render to Caesar the things that are Cesar’s and to God the things that are God’s? The same word, eicon, is used there as here. People have often wondered what all Jesus encompassed by the second phrase, “the things that are God’s.” Could the Jews have missed what Jesus was really […]
PHall | September 3, 2014
4:4 – I think it is important to see the active force Satan here. While we cannot understand all the machinations of Satan, nor all the details, we can know he is actively deceiving people. As a theological extension to this, if mankind, if each individual was born innately unable to understand due to a […]