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PHall | December 19, 2024
The cross is a stumbling block and foolishness to Jews and Gentiles in the first century. It still is today, but not how we think. Back then the gospel audience rejected Jesus because the cross contradicted what they believed. For Jews, how could their Messiah be convicted and crucified? For Gentiles, the cross by metonymy […]
PHall | September 24, 2024
You can’t control how talented you are, or how you are compared to more talented preachers. You can’t control how intelligent you are, or how you are compared to more intelligent preachers. You can control how hard you work. And even then remember this, “But by the grace of God I am what I am, […]
PHall | January 3, 2024
Become all things to all men so that by all means we may save some (1 Corinthians 9:22). This passage is easy to interpret and apply for Paul’s time; and I challenge it is conversely hard to interpret and apply in ours. 1. We might do some things some think are unlawful and sinful (Acts […]
PHall | January 3, 2024
How to “Do” Evangelism Good hearted people often ask, “How do I ‘do evangelism’?” 1 Corinthians 9:19-22 is one of the most important instructional texts in teaching “practical” evangelism. Other passages emphasize what to teach; here Paul emphasizes how to act. It is easy to interpret and know how to apply to the circumstances in […]
PHall | October 13, 2023
A Campus Conversation A conversation on tongue speaking and miracles occurred during street evangelism at the campus. Here are the highlights and please, admire this young man’s openness. ME – Acts 2 shows these tongues were actual human languages: Acts 2:8 – “How is it that each of us can hear them in our own […]
PHall | October 13, 2023
First Group, Second Group, One Group 1 Corinthians 6:11 (CSB) And some of you used to be like this. FIRST GROUP Paul writes this after a lengthy list of abominable sins: 9) No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or males who have sex with males, 10) no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or […]
PHall | September 5, 2023
The Lord’s Supper: Two Realities in One The Lord’s supper is not a mystery meal wherein bread and wine turn into the actual body and blood of Christ. While not a divine mystery, our Savior’s supper is a paradox – simultaneously simple, yet complex. Notice these five collaborative realities: 1. Physical – There is tangible […]
PHall | June 27, 2023
Learning how to study is enhanced by seeing structures within written material. This helps me better understand the text. It is a myopic view to suggest there can only be one way to organize a text. For example, “there they crucified him” (Luke 23:33; John 19:18) can have different emphases based upon which word […]
PHall | June 27, 2023
Why is the Lord’s supper called the “Lord’s supper”? To answer we must first see the context. The expression occurs one time in an extraordinary situation oozing both: 1. Selfishness 2. Shamefulness “When you come together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat. For in eating, each one goes ahead with his […]
PHall | June 19, 2023
I Don’t Need You and You Don’t Need Me “The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” Or again, the head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” (CSB’17 1 Corinthians 12:21) There are two ways this verse is misused: 1. “We don’t need you because we are focused on […]