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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 […]
PHall | May 3, 2023
Promiscuous sex is not a new sin. Tamar, Rahab, and the Corinthians all show this lustful weakness. Prostitution is not the oldest profession despite what some say. While the sin is not new, language describing it will always be expanding. For example, Rabab today would not be called a harlot. She’d be a hooker. […]
PHall | October 3, 2022
When we think of worldliness, we probably don’t think of how we choose a church. In fact, we might think of people who don’t go to church, want nothing to do with “those hypocrites”, and maybe don’t even in believe in God. But then I got to thinking…. 1. Should we biblically expand our understanding […]
PHall | February 22, 2022
How to Unite a Divided Congregation There is more trouble discussed in 1 Corinthians than in any other letter. There is more taught about the Lord’s supper in 1 Corinthians than any other book (chapters 5,10,11). Not surprisingly, they messed that up too. But unexpectedly, is that a clue to unity? Chapter 5 alludes to […]
PHall | December 29, 2021
Why do we share the Lord’s supper on the first day of the week? Many answer, “That’s when we have an example” and cite Acts 20:7. May I suggest that the wrong question is “Why shouldn’t we follow the example of the church in the first century as to when to take the Lord’s supper?” […]
PHall | October 1, 2021
“For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel… (CSB 1 Corinthians 1:17) When people today use this passage to discredit the place and importance of baptism, ironically they make the same mistake as the Corinthians but for a different reason. Paul’s actual defense of baptism shows that the Corinthians had […]
PHall | September 2, 2021
Failure to Build (a little longer than usual) “You can destroy as much by failing to build as by actively wrecking” (Rod Dreher, Live Not By Lies). While this quote is describing the rise of totalitarianism within nations, I found it intriguingly applicable to churches. As for wrecking within, historically churches die from: 1. Being […]