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PHall | January 28, 2022
A Verbal Hug (A Prayer Commentary) TEXT: “Therefore encourage one another with these words.” (CSB’17 1 Thessalonians 4:18) DEVOTIONAL: When tragedy strikes, it can leave us speechless. Ironically we use words to say, “I have no words”. Advice give to me in such troubled times has been, “Sometimes the best thing you can do is […]
PHall | January 27, 2022
A THOUGHT EXERCISE – The Weaker Sex When you look in the Bible, women are the “weaker vessel” (1 Peter 3:7), but I think contextually that is referring to position not personally. Submission is the more delicate position. While women are the “weaker vessel”, I am inclined to think men are the “weaker sex”; a […]
PHall | January 27, 2022
Regret No Regrets “I have no regrets. All my mistakes made me who I am today”. That platitude mimics self-healing; healing is important. That platitude is also how Satan hides the darker truth. John Donne wrote, “No Man Is An Island”. Paul Simon penned a famous song called, “I am a Rock”. The first admonishes […]
PHall | January 21, 2022
9 False Gospels False gospels abound today. The Holy Spirit recognized they began almost immediately after the gospel became a reality. If there are false messiahs (Matthew 24:4), false prophets (Matthew 24:11), and false teachers (2 Peter 2:1), there will be false gospels. Here are two warnings (2 Corinthians 11:3-4; Galatians 1:6-10): Are […]
PHall | January 21, 2022
R Day – A Prayer Commentary (Praying God’s Way to Healthy, Growing, Spiritual Communities) DEVOTIONAL: This will be bigger than D Day. Millions, possibly billions (could it be even more?) of victorious souls participating in one last battle, the last battle, against the last enemy. Death will die! At the sound of the battle […]
PHall | January 19, 2022
We want to love people out of their hurt, but some hurt so deeply, it is stronger than any human love. Any human love often hurts because the one who loves hurts within themselves. Consider, “For as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so through the Christ our comfort also overflows” (2 Cor.1:5). To […]
PHall | January 13, 2022
Inspired and Confident Attacking whether the Bible is God’s authority revealed is too blunt. So when you hear someone questioning inerrancy or infallibility, and then redefining inspiration, the agenda is to deny the Bible is God’s authority revealed to us in written form. After building a false foundation (with a trap door!), then it becomes […]
PHall | January 12, 2022
Sin Is Like Those Russian Dolls I got reminded recently and reconfessed my laziness of 40 years ago. An acquaintance of mine was passing around a booklet at college, denying the deity of Jesus. Over Christmas break, I planned on writing a rebuttal. I never did. I got lazy. I let the festivities of life […]
PHall | January 7, 2022
Praying 1 Thessalonians 4:13 – Do Go Gentle Into That Good Night (Praying God’s Way to Grow Healthy, Spiritual Communities) TEXT: 1 Thessalonians 4:13 (CSB) We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, concerning those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope. DEVOTIONAL: […]
PHall | January 7, 2022
A Modern Parable: Started my January 1st exercise program this morning. I spent about 30 minutes stretching back and forth, otherwise known on December 31st as trying to get out of bed. Seriously though, when I pulled my left knee up to my chest, something popped in my back/hip area when I was stretching. I […]