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PHall | October 12, 2009
Are you willing to help? Are you willing to serve? If you do not consider yourself willing to help or serve, then never mind the qualifications for a deacon. You cannot be qualified unless you are already helping and serving. If you are willing to help, but do not qualify, please continue—our deacons […]
PHall | October 12, 2009
“That the leaders led in Israel, That the people volunteered, Bless the Lord! (Judges 5:2). Spiritual-life is that simple, and yet that complicated. And in reality, all of life is that simple, and yet that complicated. I would like to say that generally, we are the only ones who make our lives simple or complicated. […]
PHall | October 12, 2009
Let’s go back to an uncomfortable time to an uncomfortable setting. For some, this might have happened this past week; for others, years or decades ago. The scene is a familiar one. Everyone one of us has probably experienced it from one side or the other. The game might have been kickball or dodge ball, […]
PHall | October 12, 2009
After discussing this topic with another preacher, he wrote to me—“You have stated some things that I have never heard before from a preacher for the Lord’s church.” Wow! That’s sad! Why? Hopefully my conclusions are Biblically derived, and are not erroneously inferred from modern-day settings. What I considered scriptural, he had never […]
PHall | October 12, 2009
Let’s approach the topic positively. Did God provide the work? Did God provide the way? How did God provide the way? Who did God provide for the work? Did God Provide the Work? There are only four works God provided for His local congregations to do: Reaching UP – Worshipping God (1 Corinthians 11); […]
PHall | October 9, 2009
We need to stop growing as a congregation. Growing is too dangerous. Too many problems brought on by too many people, too many different people. Growth destroys the status quo, forces us to confront our comfort zones, brings in new and different people with new and different problems, enlarges the gaps between the mature and […]
PHall | October 5, 2009
Lots and lots of rain has deluged us of late. Truth be told, the rain has been needed, even if it has been hard. So I thought I would go down memory lane and take you along for the ride. Prayerfully the memory will turn into remembering. In times past, my children and I would […]
PHall | October 5, 2009
Is it right or wrong to (you fill in the blank)? That’s a good question, always. In fact it needs to be asked more, as individual Christians, families of God, and churches of Christ. In Numbers 1:2, God commands Moses to number the people. There are several occasions in the Bible where God’s people are […]
PHall | October 5, 2009
Obey your leaders, and submit to them; for they keep watch over your souls, as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief for this would be unprofitable for you. (Hebrews 13:17) To whom is this command directed? It is directed to the church concerning their relationship […]
PHall | October 3, 2009
Wisdom has spoken about the need to live in the present, preaching that we cannot change the past and that the future is not yet here, therefore advising we must live in the present. Jesus Himself spoke wisely about living in the present when He said, Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry […]