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Matthew 5 – Don’t Become Like Those Who Use People
PHall | April 23, 2020
“If you think the Law of Moses was tough, wait until you hear what I got to say!” I used to read the Sermon on the Mount with that trepidation. “If you even think something wrong, then you’re going to hell!” I soon learned Jesus is doing what Pharisees didn’t. He is teaching how not […]
A New Take On An Old Rule
PHall | April 22, 2020
The Golden Rule is known more than applied (Mt.7:12). That’s as much a self-judgment as observation. I would like to take a different angle which might help.Instead doing to others as you would have them do to you, try this: Do to others what you already do for yourself. That is taught elsewhere such as […]
Matthew and Romans: Mirror Lessons
PHall | February 27, 2020
Matthew’s biography of Jesus has the end meet the beginning, bookends if you please. These are aimed at the shame of the recipients. Matthew 1 famously has the genealogy of Jesus showing his regal credentials as the King of the Jews. But notice these two divergent aims: 1) Matthew 2 we have the “king of […]
Two Creation Birth Stories
PHall | December 21, 2019
The story, or stories, are true and familiar; one is an echo of the other.1. Each narrative comes at the beginning (Genesis 1-2; Matthew 1-2).2. Each is a story about a genealogy (Genesis 2:4; Matthew1:1).3. At the beginning there is a focus on a light that was not the sun (Genesis 1:3; Matthew 2:2,7-10; Luke […]
Matthew 1:1 – History and Hope
PHall | November 18, 2019
Matthew begins in a most boring way:“An account of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham:” (CSB’17 Matthew 1:1) followed by mind-numbing names.Boring if you are not a Jew. Hidden to Gentiles in plain sight are:• 4 of the most important promises made.• 3 promises made to one man.• […]
Numbers 14:9 – Why Things Happen both Good and Bad
PHall | November 9, 2019
Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do good things happen to bad people? “Free will” is one very good answer; but that is an answer which has God backing away, necessarily, in order for free will to exist. God is not Deistic, because He is both immanent and transcendent. Free will hinges […]
Matthew 4 – The Church of You
PHall | October 7, 2019
If we can – join the church of our choice, choose which worship style fits us, and all that matters is we are sincere – then we have become our own God.This is one of the temptations within all three Jesus faced in the Wilderness:1. Turn the stones to bread instead of relying on God […]
Matthew 12:1-8 – Two Chiasms, Two Emphases, One Narrative
PHall | October 7, 2019
Don’t read this if you think chiasms are Perry’s imaginary friend. What they can do is lead us to see both surface truths and the deeper meanings; along with seeing things as we are meant to see (and maybe miss because of our Western eyes). I will present two chiasms on the same […]
Matthew 12 – Why They Wanted Jesus Dead
PHall | October 7, 2019
Where’s the gospel in the conflict of Matthew 12 between the Pharisees and Jesus? Is it found in Jesus making two claims of divinity? If so, no wonder the Pharisees plotted his death.1. Matthew 12:6 – “I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.” (CSB).2. Matthew 12:8 – “For the Son of […]