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PHall | March 18, 2024
Men Protecting Is Not Toxic Masculinity Men need to protect to feel like Men. It is a positive masculine trait to protect women and children. Protecting is not “toxic masculinity”. What was Adam’s first failing? What if the first sin was not Eve eating the fruit (Gen.3:6)? What if the first violation didn’t begin with […]
PHall | March 1, 2024
In reading the Genesis of man and woman being created out of dust and a rib, it is easy for the scholarly and skeptics to take the details metaphorically. While metaphors are not literal, literal details can have metaphor-like meanings. Genesis 2 shows Adam was given the charge to cultivate and protect the garden. […]
PHall | March 1, 2024
Why the Cross? It Is Fitting The Bible is interpreted as teaching connections between characters and events such as Jesus and Jeremiah, Joseph, and most famously Isaac (Genesis 22). Not every detail is directly stated, but rather narratively derived through type and antitype (i.e., Hebrews 11:19; 1 Peter 3:21). So such is a biblical method. […]
PHall | March 1, 2024
What Is Peter’s Favorite OT Story and Why? Peter’s favorite O.T. story is….? If we read his epistles, one OT story is recounted 3 times: 1 Peter 3:20, 2 Peter 2:5 and 3:5-6. This OT narrative is only mentioned 6 times in the NT (Matthew 24:37–39, Luke 17:26–27, 1 Peter 3:20, 2 Peter 2:5, 2 […]
PHall | January 13, 2024
The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil What was the mysterious Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil? Why did God put it in the middle of the garden? How does a tree represent free will? To understand what “good” and “evil” are contextually, we need to go back to the beginning. […]
PHall | November 1, 2023
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. This earth had a special “territory” called Eden; and within Eden was a dedicated spot for a garden. God was building His temple-palace as the King of all kings to come. The story is well-known about how mankind lost paradise. The stories could be multiplied […]
PHall | September 5, 2023
A spiritual being, who had left heaven, came to earth. Once here, he dwelt in corporeal form. He came to talk to humanity about life and death; encouraging the people to become more like God. This is a familiar story of… the first temptation and fall in Eden (Genesis 3:1-5). Satan is a spiritual being […]
PHall | September 5, 2023
Both Joseph and David have been compared to Jesus Christ. If that can be done, then can we compare David and Joseph to each other? Before analyzing these two bio-narratives, what is the purpose of such an exercise here? It helps show: 1. God continuously retelling similar stories with different characters. 2. God records these […]
PHall | September 5, 2023
HIDDEN AGENDA (Genesis 39:1-20) Our emotions might be easily seen on the surface, but what put our eMOTIONs into “motion” might be harder to see. Could our emotions have layers? Is everything as it appears? Are our agendas hidden? When it comes to men working hard, many do so to help their families, including helping […]
PHall | September 5, 2023
SEXUALLY HARASSED? WHAT YOU CAN’T CONTROL! No one should be sexually harassed. Potiphar’s wife sexually harassing Joseph serves as a useful template even today. The lesson emphasized is that the innocent are not held responsible for other’s sins against them. WHAT CAN’T WE CONTROL? HOW GOOD LOOKING WE ARE Genesis 39:6 (CSB) Now Joseph was […]