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PHall | November 16, 2022
Many people, including preachers, golf. What if the apostle Paul were alive today, watching YouTube videos that promised how a new technique, or training equipment, or new golf clubs would cure all his swing errors? Might he write something like this: “Not that I have already reached the perfect swing, but I make every effort […]
PHall | October 28, 2022
Mark’s record of Jesus calling his first disciples is very instructive for the work they would be called to do. Often people hear and say, “God doesn’t call the qualified, God qualifies the called”. There is a valuable point in that saying since it focuses on God finishing us by equipping us. My point here […]
PHall | October 14, 2022
Chiasm – Colossians 3:1-2 Interlinear If then you have been raised with Christ, the things above seek, where Christ is at the right hand of God sitting. The things above set your minds on, not the things on the earth. CSB So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ […]
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 | August 29, 2022
Gaslighting. A modern word but not a modern phenomenon. When someone accuses another of their own wrong, this psychological manipulation is gaslighting. For example, “Person A” used to insult “Person B” by cutting them down emotionally saying, “You’re too sensitive”. That was said any time these two disagreed. That accusation revealed that person’s own weakness. […]
PHall | August 27, 2022
Do You Want Eden? Eden is gone, but the true meaning of that garden is available to all. Notice this pattern: First, God in the garden of Eden. • “And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid […]
PHall | August 26, 2022
Jesus was “fishing” for men from Peter’s boat, then when Jesus sent Peter fishing for fish in Peter’s boat, Jesus was fishing for Peter to become a fisher for men and leave Peter’s boat (Luke 5:1-11).
PHall | August 26, 2022
What is our “boat”? For Simon Peter, it was a real boat. Not just any boat, but his place of business, how he provided for his family. How does Jesus use Peter’s boat? AS A PLATFORM FOR TEACHING – Jesus needed Peter’s boat because the crowd was pressing around him so Jesus just “got […]
PHall | August 25, 2022
If an entity is powerful enough to create life, and is eternal having always existed; by definition what is that entity? GOD! Now atheists hypothesize (i.e., believe) that it is probable (if not definite) that matter is eternal having never been created; and that the spark of life began in a heated moment called […]
PHall | August 25, 2022
Never have I made this connection this way. I suggest such “seeing” only comes from familiarity through time which makes God’s word always revealing His lessons. Inspiration keeps telling the same narratives repeatedly, which is a teaching mechanism to show unity. While Galatians teaches we are children of Abraham by faith (Gal.3), we also by […]