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PHall | September 29, 2012
The Lord is my Shepherd. That’s Relationship! I shall not want. That’s Supply! He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. That’s Rest! He leadeth me beside the still waters. That’s Refreshment! He restoreth my soul. That’s Healing! He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness. That’s Guidance! For His name sake. That’s Purpose! […]
PHall | September 29, 2012
Psalm 23 is a song, a poem, of David. Jewish tradition states he writes it when he is being hunted. One time frame is when Saul hunts David, making David hunted by his own king, by someone who formerly had his trust, and the father of his best friend. Another is that David composed it […]
PHall | September 29, 2012
The core of any belief, if right, can withstand the interpretation of any verse, if right. The conflict comes when they contradict. The question then becomes, “Is my core belief wrong?” or “Is my interpretation of this verse wrong?” To casually throw off our interpretation without reinvestigating our core is as fruitless as to casually […]
PHall | September 28, 2012
The Lord was His Shepherd, the world did not want. He made the Lamb to lie down nailed to a cross; He led Him through the stormy waters. By resurrection He restored His soul, because He walked in the paths of righteousness for my name’s sake. Though the Lamb of God walked through the valley […]
PHall | September 28, 2012
FEW are so open to SHARE; BARE our truth, for them to VIEW. LOST to self, purpose, to GOD; FRAUD, identity is COST. FAR easier to mask, to BE; FREE no more, cloaked in hurt’s SCAR. DARE to be a sincere YOU; INTO, bruised, ridicule’s LAIR. FEAR, rejection is our NAME; BLAME, hiding me to […]
PHall | September 28, 2012
PHall | September 27, 2012
Jesus is beginning more than a religious movement; He is laying the foundation for a righteous movement. Reaching backwards to Judaism and forwards to Christianity His words still move more than any others, transforming the way people think and act. Religious movements trying to transform Christianity often focus as much on forms as do those […]
PHall | September 26, 2012
Religious people love impugning the Pharisees for three reasons. One, it is universally agreed that the Pharisees were wrong, which makes their denouncement both unanimous and safe. Two, the sins of the Pharisees are overtly obvious to us today, making them easy targets for denunciation. Three, never are we guilty of the same misguided attitudes, […]
PHall | September 25, 2012
Right in the middle of instructing concerning spiritual gifts (1 Cor.12,14), Paul speaks most eloquently of love (1 Cor.13). Right in the middle of speaking of love (13:1-8; 13:13), Paul speaks of spiritual gifts (13:8-12). Did Paul just get disorganized or go on a tangent? This might be an example of chiastic structure. A – […]
PHall | September 25, 2012
In the Sermon, Jesus specifically mentions the Pharisees once (Mt 5.20). Yet they are the unnamed religious “elephant in the room” lurking behind the most damning descriptions. “You have heard” (5.21,27,31,33,38,43) is about the Pharisees as teachers. Their opinionated applications became God’s law. “Hypocrites” (6.2,5,16; 7.5), people wearing “false faces,” is how Jesus describes their […]