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PHall | April 17, 2020
Caution: What the below article is, is an exercise in thinking; not a declaration of what definitely is. I am inviting you to think with me, with some application and conclusion; but also openness to it be wrong. That’s our warning! The Holy Spirit has Moses record, “God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be […]
PHall | April 1, 2020
Hebrews 5:5-10 – ASV-PDH A – HIGH PRIEST 5) So Christ also did not glorify himself (heautou) to be made a high priest (archiereus), but he that spoke to him, “You are my Son (huios), This day have I begotten You: 6) as he said also in another place, You are a priest for ever […]
PHall | April 1, 2020
Hebrews 10:1-4 ASV-PDH A – IS TAKEN: 1) For every high priest (archiereus), taken (lambano) from among (ek) men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God (theos), B – OFFER FOR SINS: that he may offer (prosphero) both gifts and sacrifices for sins (amartia): C – CAN SYMPATHIZE: 2) who can (dunamai) bear […]
PHall | April 1, 2020
Hebrews 5:1-10 ASV-PDH A – HIGH PRIEST: 1) For every high priest (archiereus), taken (lambano) from among (ek) men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God (theos), B – OFFERED SACRIFICES: that he may offer (prosphero) both gifts and sacrifices for sins (amartia): 2) who can (dunamai) bear gently with the ignorant and […]
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 […]