1 Peter 2:9 – A Chosen Race
PHall | March 28, 2014
In the second century, Christians referred to themselves as the 3rd race of man: Gentiles, Jews, Christians (both Gentiles and Jews).
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1 Peter 3; 2 Peter 3 – Water Is Essential to God’s Theology
PHall | December 12, 2013
According to Peter, water plays an important role in God’s theology. God’s word says the earth was made from water and was destroyed by water (2 Peter 3:3-6). So water is literally part of both physical creation and destruction. Not coincidentally, both of those times the world was immersed in water. Corresponding to that reality, […]
1 Peter 1:18-19 – Memorial Day Thought
PHall | May 30, 2013
American soldiers died so we can live as we freely please. The Son of God freely died so we can live as God pleases. The word solider means to serve with pay, going back to the Latin solidus, a Roman gold coin. Jesus died by the Romans and Jews to be our payment, more precious […]
1 Peter 5:1-5 – Why Local Church Autonomy?
PHall | December 23, 2012
Why local church autonomy? Implied within the command to elders to shepherd the flock among them is church autonomy (1 Pt 5.1-3). Add that to the silence of the scriptures and we learn God’s design that each church is autonomous, separated from other local congregations in government. This is a Biblical concept that is lost […]
Quote – “Listen to what you know, reflect on what you have heard, love what you believe, and preach what you love.” (Augustine)
PHall | December 3, 2012
Perryism – “Hear God’s voice when you read, reflect on what you hear God’s voice say, love what God teaches you to believe, preach God’s voice with love, let people hear God’s voice through you.” Peter’s Phrasing – 1 Peter 4:11 (HCSB) (11) If anyone speaks, it should be as one who speaks God’s words; […]
Perryism – The Jews bought Judas with perishable blood money; and Jesus bought the Jews with imperishable blood.
PHall | December 2, 2012
Matthew 27:6 (HCSB) (6) The chief priests took the silver and said, “It’s not lawful to put it into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.” 1 Peter 1:18-19 (HCSB) (18) For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or […]
1 Peter 4:11 – Speaking As God Speaks
PHall | August 12, 2012
To judge what God has judged is not supplanting self for God, but submitting self to God. When we fail to teach the specific truths God has revealed, we are supplanting self for God by declaring God’s revelation is too obscure to be understood. When we take the general statements God has revealed and make […]
1 Peter 4:11 – Speaking As God Speaks
PHall | July 7, 2012
To judge what God has judged is not supplanting self for God, but submitting self to God. When we fail to teach the specific truths God has revealed, we are supplanting self for God as if God’s revelation is too obscure to be understood. When we take the general statements God has revealed and make […]
1 Peter 3:7 – “Weaker Vessel” – Different Translations
PHall | August 25, 2010
1 Peter 3:7 uses a phrase quite familiar due to the prevalence of the KJV – wives are the “weaker vessel.” That is a very literal and accurate translation and the ESV and the older NASB follow suit. The challenge comes not from the word vessel, but from the word weaker. How are wives “weaker?” […]
Judges – The Seduction of Idolatry – Safety
PHall | March 8, 2010
When reading the period of the Judges and Kings, one sad fact overwhelmingly – and even numbingly – is present: the draw of idolatry. How could God’s people, a nation dedicated to monotheism, not only falter and fall into idolatry, but repeatedly falter and fall?