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PHall | June 4, 2018
Baby steps. When Peter said, (CSB’17) Acts 2:39: “For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call”, it was evident he didn’t quite understand the ramifications as seen later (Acts 10). It is curious God allowed the first […]
PHall | June 4, 2018
Despised by the English, and suffering from The Great Potato Famine, the Irish received a surprise charitable gift – $170. The year was 1847. And who were the benefactors? The Choctow Indians. They likewise had been displaced from their ancestral home, and relocated to Oklahoma by the Indian hater, Andrew Jackson. This was the infamous […]
PHall | June 2, 2018
A friend asked how seriously we should take “The Church Fathers”. I answered that we usually take them seriously when they agree with us! Sometimes they were right on target; others times far from the original practice. In reading a book on the art and iconography of baptism, the author shows the post-1st century church […]
PHall | June 2, 2018
Consider this: If baptism is considered a “work” and therefore can’t be part of our salvation (according to how some interpret Ephesians 2:8); then after salvation how can Christians be “His creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10)? If we […]
PHall | June 2, 2018
Consider this our warning: 1. Around 52 AD, on Paul’s second evangelistic tour, he, along with Priscilla and Aquila, visited Ephesus after leaving Corinth, and seeded the church there (Acts 18:19). 2. Around 54-56 AD, on the third preaching journey, Paul spent between two and three years teaching in the Ephesus (Acts 19:8-10). 3. Around […]
PHall | June 2, 2018
Baby steps. When Peter said, (CSB’17) Acts 2:39: “For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call”, it was evident he didn’t quite understand the ramifications as seen later (Acts 10). It is curious God allowed the first […]