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PHall | November 18, 2025
Atheist claims Bible contradicts science Student – “I see conflict between the Bible and the age of the earth because the Bible teaches the earth is young while science proves it is ancient.” Answer – “The Bible does not contradict science because the creation story shows that God created everything with age as part of […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
If churches were in the business of sports and treated preachers as athletes: 1. “Training camp invite” is when a preacher is invited for a gospel meeting that doubles as a “tryout”. 2. “Restricted free agent” is when a preacher informs the leadership he has been asked by another congregation to move there but the […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Sacrificiing our Children – One of the most terrifying chapters in the Bible is Genesis 22, where God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son, but intervenes and stops it. As a “living parable”, we see a prophecy of The Father and Son at the cross. This helps dissipates the horror. The question is, in a […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
I Met A Man On Death Row I met a young man on death row, obviously with a criminal past. He had accepted his own guilt and didn’t blame anyone except himself, including “the system”. And yet it is equally obvious he knew a lot concerning spiritual matters. For example, he knew: 1. There was […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Irrational Unbelief When speaking with Atheists and Agnostics, a common complaint is, “When I read the Bible, I see a God that does things that I don’t agree with such as….” So their reason for unbelief is they don’t like the evidence! How would that thinking work in the real world? “I don’t like the […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
A Ship of Fellows; Not A Ship of Fools The word “fellowship” can be divided into two parts. 1. FELLOW – The base word means “of the same kind”. A synonym is “partners”. 2. SHIP – As a suffix, “ship” means “state of being”. Put together, fellowship is “the state of being of the same […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Who Are “The Rest” in 1 Timothy 5:19? Who are the “rest” who should be “fearful” in 1 Timothy 5:20? What group does “the rest” refer to? While it is understandable that “the rest” be interpreted as the rest of the congregation; there is another group – “the rest” of the elders. As is common […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
1 Corinthians 5 A – REMOVE (5:1-2): It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father’s wife. And you have become puffed up and have not mourned instead, so that the one who […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Four Stages of “Seeing” Providence : 1. Performed by God’s Foresight. 2. Experienced by Eyesight. 3. Interpreted by Hindsight 4. Understood by Heaven-sight. In Bible class we are studying God’s Providence (with Special Application to Acts). I wrote the material over two decades ago. It is fitting since this topic is beyond our human ability […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
No Trunk or Treat? Here is an old-fashioned religious thought that is still needed today – With so many churches having trunk or treat, why is the Millersville church of Christ not following along too? First, I appreciate any and all who want to keep children safe. Second (and this is where it becomes old-fashioned), […]