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PHall | March 6, 2025
Topical or Expository Preaching? Topical preaching is often contrasted to expository preaching. While I prefer the latter, I find myself often doing the former. Let’s talk about this. Expository preaching has its advantages because it should focus on context as the primary method. However, preachers can chase rabbits down many proverbial hobby-horse holes! (How’s that […]
PHall | March 6, 2025
Jesus is Israel Among the many roles of Jesus, one includes Jesus as New Israel succeeding where the Old Israel failed. The prophet Isaiah refers the special title “servant” as addressing both the nation of Israel and God’s special servant Jesus. Both were to be lights to the world, one failed and one succeeded. Notice […]
PHall | March 6, 2025
Women, the Bible, and Necessary Inference When it comes to religion, people throw out common sense. That is one of my observations when it comes to hermeneutics, the way we interpret Scripture. For example, women use necessary inference as one of their main methods of communication. And yet when it comes to interpreting the Bible […]
PHall | March 6, 2025
Did the Israelites Plunder the Egyptians? Did the Israelites Plunder the Egyptians? I am going to argue that, no, they didn’t. The evidence for the Israelites plundering the Egyptians is Exodus 3:22 and 12:36. Very plainly, every translation I checked states that the Israelites plundered the Egyptians. What if these translations are wrong? The main […]
PHall | March 5, 2025
I got asked this question: “Why is Catholicism wrong?” Here is my short reply: “One reason is it equates church tradition and inspiration. They are not equal in authority”. In theory, most of us in “churches of Christ” would agree. In theory. In practice, are we unofficially guilty? When someone objects, “We’ve never done it […]