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PHall | July 31, 2020
Around us are things and people we have become so accustomed to, that we stop noticing – and others have stopped paying attention to us. I’ve learned I also do that with the opening lines of biblical letters: “Let’s ignore that and get to the good stuff”. What’s so important about the introductions? People! People […]
PHall | July 31, 2020
“Yo. Sup. What up. Hey. Hello. How are you. Grace. Peace.”Our society is so divided that “cultural appropriation” is considered a cardinal sin, theft even, and racist. A different approach to cultural appropriation is seen in the many introductions of Paul in his epistles. This includes 1 Thessalonians 1:1. Greeting someone by saying “Grace” was […]
PHall | July 29, 2020
PHall | July 29, 2020
Bookends of Genesis: Emptiness then blessings in 7 days; 7 years of blessings then 7 years famine (emptiness) Adam and Eve placed inside Eden and then expelled; Israel outside of Egypt and then placed in Egypt. Creation of sun, moon, and stars to rule (1); Joseph dreams of sun, moon, and stars as ruling (37). […]
PHall | July 28, 2020
Without each other we are incomplete. I don’t know anyone who prefers to be without all their body parts. Did that sentence strike you as strange?Read carefully, we see Paul often connects the role of women and men, the differing gifts of all believers, to the one body of Christ which is thematically connected to […]
PHall | July 28, 2020
PHall | July 25, 2020
A Jew, a Gentile, and a mixed-race man walk into a…. This is not the start of a joke, but it is the start of a messianic movement. Because of Jesus (who was Jewish), Paul (Jew), Luke (Gentile), and Timothy (Greek and Jewish therefore mixed), walked and worked together, going into places to teach the […]
PHall | July 20, 2020
“You can’t go to one scripture to find everything a church does as worship, therefore how do we know what to do?”“You can’t go to one scripture to find everything a person does to become a Christian, therefore how do we know what to do?”Those questions have been asked, some sincerely and others to mock […]
PHall | July 20, 2020
A friend died today. I won’t put the name so that I don’t infringe on another’s place. This pandemic makes it lonelier for his wife as we couldn’t be at the hospital waiting to see if he would recover from his heart attack. We hurt and rejoice as love and hope teaches. The sky is […]