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PHall | December 19, 2024
10 Dangers of Being A Modern Barnabas 1. Encouragers can tend to hide their discouragement from others. 2. Encouragers can be so busy filling up others that they become empty. 3. Encouragers can become weary in doing good because they are overused and therefore abused. 4. Encouragers themselves have times of doubt and hardship and […]
PHall | December 19, 2024
Most wives work hard, including fixing dinner for their families. If the family members want to be considerate, which scenario is acceptable: 1. The husband is working late and doesn’t call to let his wife know. 2. The son ate out with his friends after ball practice, so when supper is ready and he is […]
PHall | December 19, 2024
A Woman’s Subjection and A Man’s Protection 1 Peter 3:1-6 clearly teaches the woman is to subject herself. Contrary to human cultures, subjection doesn’t mean inferiority. • Positionally to her Husband – She is in subjection. This is functional inequality. • Positionally to her God – She is a coheir of the grace of life […]
PHall | December 19, 2024
Hell Is Not Our Home Hell can never be home for lost people because it was created for Satan and his angels (Matthew 25:41), not for us. When a person is saved, they get to go home to be with God since God created us to be together with Him – we dwell with God […]
PHall | December 19, 2024
Simplifying the Thief on the Cross Forget for now that the thief lived and died under the Mosaical Law and Jesus’s Covenant didn’t become effective until after He died (Hebrews 9:16-28). Forget for now that we don’t know if the thief had been previously baptized by either John or Jesus’s apostles before he was captured […]
PHall | December 19, 2024
The cross is a stumbling block and foolishness to Jews and Gentiles in the first century. It still is today, but not how we think. Back then the gospel audience rejected Jesus because the cross contradicted what they believed. For Jews, how could their Messiah be convicted and crucified? For Gentiles, the cross by metonymy […]
PHall | December 19, 2024
The GOSPEL in John 3:16 The word “gospel” is not found in John 3:16 which says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His Only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.” But now notice how the word “GOSPEL” is found in John 3:16: G – […]
PHall | November 21, 2024
The Great Reversal “The Great Reversal” begins in Acts 8:1. The scattering after the persecution is the exact opposite of Acts 2, wherein there people gathered on Jerusalem. While that is a significant evangelism shift needed today, from people coming to us (i.e., our church buildings), to us going to them, that is not “The […]
PHall | November 21, 2024
Destroy the Patriarchy? Our American culture today is intent on “dismantling the patriarchal system”. Is this system Biblical? If so, is dismantling it a sound idea? Progressives claim Patriarchy is a social construct caused by sin. 1. If so, then why did God choose to be constrained by mankind’s prejudices by calling Himself Father? 2. […]
PHall | November 21, 2024
John 3 is is commonly known for teaching about being born again. One segment has always baffled me, and so we have this Thought Exercise. That segment is verse 8 (CSB) “The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. […]