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PHall | April 1, 2025
HE, ME, and THEE “I’m not a good speaker”. Moses gave this “excuse before, during, and after his initial failed confrontations with Pharaoh. Moses had a “ME PROBLEM” – success and failure were dependent upon “ME”. 1. He expected success would be easy and quick. 2. He expected he could argue his way into Pharaoh […]
PHall | April 1, 2025
What Did Moses Mean When He Gave His Excuses? What I am about to present as an explanation for two idiomatic statements by Moses concerning his speech is based upon an presumption that I believe is reasonable. That is, when Moses spoke to the Hebrews and to Pharaoh, Moses spoke Hebrew and not Egyptian. Therefore, […]
PHall | April 1, 2025
If you are familair with “Church Speak”, you are familar with the phrase, “the 5 acts of worship” – preaching, praying, singing, contribution, and the Lord’s supper. Some go so far as to say worship is defined by these 5 acts collectively done. Some even say these are the only acts of worship. Such a […]
PHall | April 1, 2025
Why did Moses and Elijah appear with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration? No doubt many layers of meaning and purpose. Let’s consider three. 1. Comfort. Later in the garden angels would appesr to comfort – which means strengthen – Jesus. 2. Symbols. Moses represents the Law and Elijah the Prophets. Both are considered the […]
PHall | March 24, 2025
Stop Thinking Stop thinking. That is not advice generally given since even God said, “Come let us reason together” (Isaiah 1:18). Jesus even asks an “expert”, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” (Luke 10:26). God’s way has never been emotionalism led. Thinking leads to emotions, not the other way. And […]
PHall | March 24, 2025
7 Reasons to Love Others 1. First, it is commanded by God. “Because God said so”, must be good enough to obey. But we want more, don’t we! Maybe we should need more reasons! 2. Second, it imitates God. That is the highest motivation. God loved us while we were His enemies (Rom.5:8-10). 3. Third, […]
PHall | March 14, 2025
Gender Roles within the Sacrificial System Within the Mosaical sacrificial system, gender requirements were specified. How this is important to our topic of gender roles within the church, will be revealed. Before that, let’s notice the gender specifications. The priesthood and the Levitical ministers were all males. This is undisputed, and must be meaningful since […]
PHall | March 14, 2025
Studying Job, we find two conclusions his friends repeatedly came to concerning Job which are theologically flawed. This is because they believed in an unyielding law of retribution from God: Sinners are cursed and therefore suffer; the Righteous are blessed and therefore live a life of ease. This led to Job’s friends to: 1. Condemn […]
PHall | March 14, 2025
Who Am I? One study method I enjoy is “Who Am I?”. The first part is where I give facts which leads others to figure out the answer based upon those facts. The more facts given, the more specific the answer. For example, “Who Am I?” 1. Given a land. 2. The given land was […]
PHall | March 6, 2025
Justified then Sanctified? For those who don’t consider baptism as the point God grants us His grace; but rather baptism is an outward sign of an inward grace; some propose baptism should be moved from the justification column to the sanctification column. Here are two problems with that. First, the scriptural problem considering Scripture is […]