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PHall | March 9, 2020
What if I told you “not from works so that no one can boast” in Ephesians 2:8, does not include baptism – but not because of why you might think? It wasn’t what I thought either.1. Baptism is not a “work” of man, but is a “work” of God (Colossians 2:12). But that is not […]
PHall | February 27, 2020
What was the problem in 1 Corinthians? The Corinthian Christians were acting too much like the Corinthians in Corinth. Consider this: every problem in the church is the world in the church instead of the church in the world. The gospel does not fail, but when the gospel is manipulated to match what the world […]
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 […]
PHall | February 17, 2020
There are many ways to, as the old gospel song says, “tell the old, old story”. Matthew begins with Jesus’s human DNA, while John begins with Jesus’s divine “DNA”. An yet both end up with complement narratives. Paul has a succinct description in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 – the death, burial, and resurrection, and later in […]
PHall | February 17, 2020
Romans 16:7 contains the only mention of Junia (NIV, CSB) or Junias (NASB, ESV). For someone mentioned only once, there is no shortage of controversy over this person.Male or Female? If the latter spelling is correct then this person is male. Most translations use the former female spelling which is better supported by the Greek […]
PHall | January 28, 2020
Three new beginnings. Three husbands and and wives collude and sin. Three times there is death. Three times something is hidden. In the first, people are hidden. In the second, dedicated goods are hidden. In the third, a price is hidden. In the deaths, the first is spiritual and slow lasting a lifetime by taking […]
PHall | January 28, 2020
Most are familiar with David’s boast in God against Goliath saying, “Then all the world will know that Israel has a God, and this whole assembly will know that it is not by sword or by spear that the Lord saves” (1 Samuel 17:46-47). Focus on that last part – “this whole assembly” is Israel. […]
PHall | January 27, 2020
Husbands and wives shouldn’t always be “one”. Let me tell you a story, a true story, of a husband and wife. The tragedy happens in the beginning Satan tempts There is a lie Those who were one in God become one in disobedience The story is about evil knowledge The story is about death If […]
PHall | January 23, 2020
Congregations need elders. We need elders which is evident from discussions with people, and scriptural. Let’s ask two questions: I. How does one begin to desire this noble work (1 Timothy 3:1)? Here are three distinct, but noble reasons: 1. Looking forward as a young man, he can decide that this is a way he […]
PHall | January 21, 2020
“You foolish Galatians! Who has hypnotized you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was visibly portrayed as crucified?” (Galatians 3:1). J.B. Phillips paraphrases it, “O you dear idiots of Galatia…surely you can’t be so idiotic…” Some translators have “bewitched” instead of hypnotized. The meaning is “to cast an evil spell, wishing injury upon someone; to bewitch”. […]