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PHall | October 19, 2015
NASB (16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. HCSB (16) For everything that belongs to the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the […]
PHall | October 19, 2015
NASB (7) Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard. HCSB (7) Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old command that you have had from the […]
PHall | October 19, 2015
NASB (6) the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked. HCSB (6) The one who says he remains in Him should walk just as He walked. ESV (6) whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he […]
PHall | October 19, 2015
1 John 1:10 NASB (10) If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us. HCSB (10) If we say, “We don’t have any sin,” we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. ESV (10) If we say we have not […]
PHall | October 19, 2015
Both Cain and Abel offered bloody sacrifices. Abel offered a sacrifice from his flock to his God. Cain, when he brutally murdered his brother, offered a sacrifice from God’s flock to his god, Satan: “Cain was of the evil one and slaughtered his brother” (1 John 3:12). The lesson for us is we can be […]
PHall | October 19, 2015
Like music, the Bible has repeating patterns we must hear. Adam and Eve sin and are expelled from the Garden. King Saul sins and is expelled from his throne. Israel sins and is expelled from the land. And then comes the finale where the familiar theme is given a new twist: Jesus comes, doesn’t sin, […]
PHall | August 21, 2014
If loving God is the greater commandment over loving our neighbor (Mt.22:37-39); and if we cannot love God whom we have not seen if we hate our brothers who we have seen (1 John 4:20), then loving one another is one way that we learn and practice loving God.
PHall | June 26, 2014
What do you think of when I say, “three in one?” What would you think if I said that while each is individual, all three are part of the whole? That while you can separate one from the other, they cannot be totally separate? What would you think if I described the first of the […]
PHall | June 26, 2014
Have you considered the possibility the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life are not three different types of temptations? Maybe each is present in every temptstion and culminates in what CS Lewis calls the Great Sin, pride, which John mentions last. Contextually, they are all called in […]
PHall | June 20, 2014
Have you noticed husbands are told to love (agape) their wives; wives are told to love (phileo) their husbands; but children are not told to love their parents? Unless I am unaware, they are simply told to honor and obey. Why? That is how children learn to love, through their actions of submission. We are […]