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PHall | October 28, 2022
Mark’s record of Jesus calling his first disciples is very instructive for the work they would be called to do. Often people hear and say, “God doesn’t call the qualified, God qualifies the called”. There is a valuable point in that saying since it focuses on God finishing us by equipping us. My point here […]
PHall | October 27, 2022
Why is there suffering when God is good? That has been a question as long as there have been questions about life. Theories espouse many possible answers, and many of those answers are both satisfactory while yet espousing more questions. I would like to suggest another explanation for the Problem of Pain based upon a […]
PHall | October 26, 2022
At church we are studying “The Problem of Evil” and “Theodicy”. Many involved in “American Christianity” go through a modern “deconstruction of faith”, coming out on the other side by destroying their inadequate concept of…religion, God, Christianity, and even themselves. Theories on justifying God, while recognizing evil exists, abound. Perry Hall’s 3 point answer […]
PHall | October 26, 2022
In the last 6 months I have been to 7 funerals. Death is the enemy (1 Cor.15). And yet…. Consider Autumn, commonly called “Fall”. The changing leaves are beautiful. And yet…. Leaves changing color are “dying”. They fall, which is a euphemism for death. In their death there is beauty; except when the […]
PHall | October 14, 2022
Chiasm – Colossians 3:1-2 Interlinear If then you have been raised with Christ, the things above seek, where Christ is at the right hand of God sitting. The things above set your minds on, not the things on the earth. CSB So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ […]
PHall | October 5, 2022
Unlike before when Sarah and Rebekah were endangered by a male foreigner, this time it is a man endangered by a female foreigner. Satan flips the script. Or is it somehow God showing all are vulnerable yet still empowered for higher purposes? This time the male protagonist is Joseph. The female antagonist is unnamed, […]
PHall | October 3, 2022
When we think of worldliness, we probably don’t think of how we choose a church. In fact, we might think of people who don’t go to church, want nothing to do with “those hypocrites”, and maybe don’t even in believe in God. But then I got to thinking…. 1. Should we biblically expand our understanding […]