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PHall | January 23, 2024
Their Actions vs. Our Attitude Check yourself (I know I’m guilty), to see if: 1. You read posts to find something wrong. 2. You watch others, waiting on them to fail you. If these sound familiar, then who are we like? Let’s notice Mark 3:2. 1. “They (scribes and Pharisees) were watching Him (Jesus)” ISN’T […]
PHall | January 13, 2024
Check yourself (I know I’m guilty), to see if: 1. You read posts to find something wrong. 2. You watch others, waiting on them to fail you. If these sound familiar, then who are we like? Let’s notice Mark 3:2. 1. “They (scribes and Pharisees) were watching Him (Jesus)” ISN’T WATCHING JESUS SUPPOSED TO BE […]
PHall | July 15, 2023
A – NEGATIVE EFFECT INWARD AND OUTWARD: 42) “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to fall away —• Contrast between tempting and few. B – PRESENT PHYSICAL PUNISHMENT FOR FAILING: it would be better for him if a heavy millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into […]
PHall | July 15, 2023
“Salted with fire” (Mark 9:49) is a notoriously hard saying of Jesus. Context can help. Before this difficult text (Mark 9:42-50), there is a scene whose imagery lends the metaphors of fire and water. A demon possessed son is being tossed into the water and fire (Mark 9:22). The father asks Jesus to have compassion […]
PHall | May 3, 2023
Jesus is the anointed one, or as usually translated, the “Christ” or “Messiah”. Anointing is the act of pouring “something” onto another, and in the OT was for a divinely given appointment. Mark likes to group events by three’s. Jesus’s anointing is no different. Twice Jesus is successfully anointed; but the third time is a […]
PHall | January 24, 2023
Why should pain and suffering not cause us to become unbelievers? One answer is Jesus. What I mean is, Jesus suffered more than most humans, and even more in enduring human shame although the holy Son of God. And yet, did Jesus become an atheist? No. Did Jesus become enraged at God? No. Jesus […]
PHall | January 21, 2023
A Pew Moments with Perry – Does Including the Spirit Exclude the Water? There are those who conclude water baptism can’t be for today based upon Jesus saying, “John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now” (Acts 1:5). Does Jesus including the Holy Spirit exclude […]
PHall | January 4, 2023
In Our Relationships, Are We Acting Like a Hound from Hell? Before the demon left the body, it threw the poor, possessed, man into convulsions and then it screamed as it left (Mark 1:26). Why? Is this the pain the man must suffer upon healing? If so, this is contrary to other non-demonic healings and […]
PHall | January 4, 2023
Do We Help People to Have Unbelief? When people are looking for Jesus, and come to us: • Do His people fail them and get in the way? • Do we show how their “kind” is unwelcomed here? • Are we concerned “sinners like them” might harm our congregation’s reputation? • Are we cold toward […]
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 […]