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PHall | August 13, 2019
In school, they used to require signed notes explaining absences. What would happen if we had our signed notes of absence read before the congregation?• “Please excuse Johnny from Bible class last Sunday morning. He watched a real good movie the night before and was too tired to make it.”• “Please excuse Sally from church […]
PHall | August 13, 2019
Do You Know These People? Do you know these people outside of their familiar setting?1. Active “Abuse” – “I want what you have”. They did something to another they shouldn’t have. The first used greed as motive to hurt.2. Passive “Neglect” – “I don’t want to lose what I have”. They didn’t do the thing they […]
PHall | August 13, 2019
A new realization came upon me as I study Revelation (that I hope will help you): The are two underlying and overlapping, repetitive OT motifs that fill Revelation: Creation and Exodus. This is because God’s power in Old Creation is the same power in New Creation. This is because God’s power in defeating the Old World […]
PHall | August 13, 2019
3 Effects of the Gospel Crucified (Matthew 27:51-53)Jesus is the gospel. When Jesus died, the following happened:1. RELIGIOUS EFFECT – At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. 2. EARTHLY EFFECT – The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open. 3. PHYSICAL EFFECT – The bodies […]
PHall | August 5, 2019
R’s of the Gospel D. L. Moody had a famous and easy way to recall what he considered the gospel:• Ruined by the fall• Redeemed by the blood• Regenerated by the SpiritI like alliteration so I like his idea. However I would like to present an augmented version which I think is more biblical and a […]
PHall | August 5, 2019
A selfish Christian is a contradiction in terms if a Christian patterns himself or herself after Jesus (Philippians 2). And yet, living in a consumer style society, coupled with an evangelical watered-down gospel, it is almost expected and normal to be a selfish Christian.We are a selfish Christian if we:1. Only or mainly focus on […]
PHall | August 5, 2019
Seen with my own eyes: 1) Corinth Church (I don’t care if your city is Corinth, call yourself any thing else including “Not-That-Corinth Corinth Church”); 2) Ai Church (The sign said, “Named for a royal city in Canaan. It didn’t say, “Named for a pagan city in Canaan that arrogantly fell for a military trap and got […]
PHall | August 2, 2019
Often, I have been “bothered” or maybe a better word is “confused”, at how often the Bible is so unnecessarily repetitive within the same scene. I think I am discovering why. Check this out: Genesis 31:1-9 A – 1) Now Jacob heard what Laban’s sons were saying: “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s […]
PHall | August 2, 2019
When an apple tree bears apples that are not yet ripe for picking, are they still apples? There is a biblical term for children called “fruit of the womb” sometimes translated as “children” (Genesis 30:2). If unripe apples are still apples, why wouldn’t “unripe” fruit of the womb still be children?
PHall | August 2, 2019
Can you keep one hand from knowing what the other is doing (Matthew 6)? Common sense says “no”. And common sense tells you the other time Jesus uses “hand” in the Sermon on the Mount, He isn’t being literal then either. Remember that the next time someone says Jesus literally commands us to cut off […]