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PHall | August 20, 2016
Recently a preacher got fired for being scripturally divorced. The congregation was sympathetic to his plight due to his wife leaving him and their children, to join her “lover” in Florida. The elders, however, severed their fellowship with him as a preacher because they were afraid his situation would be a “distraction” to the congregation. […]
PHall | July 23, 2016
The most amazing aspect of Jesus’ ministry is not that He loved the sinner while hating the sin; or loved those who hated Him. After all, we shouldn’t really be amazed at anything Divinity can do because God is God. When I am amazed at God I am looking at him through my sinfulness. What […]
PHall | June 30, 2016
Levels of Acceptance – Years ago I read a study on the three levels of accepting truth: Intellectual, Personal, Universal. When a sinner studies baptism and accepts the truth, the first stage is intellectual. Unfortunately we all have seen sinners stop there. They know baptism is when we accept God’s grace, but they will not […]
PHall | June 14, 2016
NASB A – MALE DEACONS 8) Deacons [diakonos] likewise must be men [added] of dignity [semnos], not double-tongued, or addicted to much wine or fond of sordid gain, 9) but holding to the mystery of the faith [pistis] with a clear conscience. B – BEFORE APPOINTMENT 10) These [houtos] men [added] must also first be […]
PHall | June 8, 2016
I love it when my mind gets turned upside down! Jesus’ statements about marriage being for life, with one exception, sounds very rigid – and it is. Jesus’ statement was in contrast to how Hillel and his followers interpreted Deut.24. The common interpretation made any female mistake a cause for dissolution. Basically marriage for the […]
PHall | April 6, 2016
Some Corinthians (claiming to be Christians) could not believe in the resurrection of the dead other than Jesus. If they could believe Jesus had been resurrected, why not others? It is possible they did not know about all the OT stories, or even those in the NT. It is also possible they deemed them different […]
PHall | March 25, 2016
Can what we believe doctrinally change what we believe is the gospel? Recently I read the gospel is defined as the “deity, death, and resurrection of Jesus.” Notice anything missing? Unlike Paul’s description of the gospel (1 Cor.15:4), this gentleman (and rightfully respected scholar) left out Jesus’ burial. Many treat it as superfluous, and I […]
PHall | January 28, 2016
Acts 1:1-11 (NASB) A – RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION (1) The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach (2) until the day when He was taken up (analambanō) to heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom He had chosen. (3) To these […]
PHall | January 28, 2016
A – (39) Now this He said B – about the Spirit, C – whom those who believed in him C’ – were to receive, B’ – for as yet the Spirit had not been given, A’ – because Jesus was not yet glorified.
PHall | January 28, 2016
A – (37) On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, B – “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me. B’ – And drink (38) Whoever believes in Me. A’ – As the Scripture has said, ‘Out of His (i.e., Jesus) heart will flow rivers of […]