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PHall | September 15, 2009
In The Parable of the Two Debtors (Matthew 18:23-35), when the first debtor realized the price of his debt – he, his wife and children, and all that he owned had to be sold to repay his debt (v.25) – his debt became personal. His debt became real…at least real enough for him to be […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
What does a guilty conscience do? While a plethora of answers would be possible – and both positive and negative – how about we focus on just one. But I must warn you…us, we might not like the answer. What does a guilty conscience do? It causes us to misunderstand others by assigning false motives […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
“Turn the other cheek” (Matthew 5:39). As a child I didn’t quite understand this. As I physically drew a picture of Jesus’ words in my mind, the assailant’s slap would literally turn the other cheek away, not towards him. So that didn’t make sense. As an adult, do I understand it any better? This verse […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
A Most Powerful Weapon Going away for college, while backing out of the driveway, my mother gave me the following advice – “Don’t forget what your name is!” Either my mother thought that I scored even worse on my SAT scores than I actually had done, or else she was giving some very sound advice. […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
It’s Not About Me Boring, boring, boring. Reading the Bible and getting bored is not a good sign. But if I mentioned my boredom came while reading genealogies, you probably would think, “Oh that explains it. Me too!” Why are Biblical genealogies boring? Name after name after name after name after…well you get the picture. […]