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PHall | September 23, 2015
If we could understand just one thing perfectly which would explain everything else, that one thing would be God. So when studying any part of the Bible, look for who and what God is. The devil is not the details; the details are about the Divine. That is why Jesus could say, “I desire mercy […]
PHall | September 6, 2015
John 11:1-12:3 – When seeing the chiastic structure of the resurrection of Lazarus we learn something surprising: the center is not the dramatic action scene of the resurrection of Lazarus; nor is it the emotionally dramatic scene of Jesus weeping. The center is not on what Jesus does; but on who Jesus is. The center is […]
PHall | September 4, 2015
In declaring the omnipotence of God, and the impotence of humans, Christian apologists often point out that God created everything out of nothing – ex nihilo. This is something humans cannot do. We always need a starting substance. God did, man cannot. Not to take away from the glory of ex nihilo, but God did […]
PHall | September 4, 2015
When speaking of sins of the flesh, Jude speaks quite picturesque of the false teachers who turned grace into licentiousness: “What they know by instinct like unreasonable animals – they destroy themselves with these things” (Jude 1:10). They destroyed themselves by their flesh. How many lives today are ruined or hampered by sex out of […]
PHall | September 4, 2015
There is an irony in studying that is so uncomfortable it often controls our conclusions: We have to want to be wrong. Most often we couch it positively: we have to want to be right. But before we can be right we must first be willing to be proven wrong. It is the same with […]
PHall | September 4, 2015
It is tempting to emphasize one trait of God above another such as mercy over justice, or justice over mercy. What we fail to see is by emphasizing one characteristic we neglect another or all others. When we neglect emphasizing one of God’s traits we have “denominationalized” God. Have you noticed how some denominations emphasize […]
PHall | August 13, 2015
Did Peter and John lie? A good argument that the church treasury is for saints only might come from a passage that isn’t normally used. In Acts 2 and 4, even 5, we have several scriptures detailing the treasury being used for saints. In Acts 3 when a poor person, an unbeliever, asks for alms, […]
PHall | August 13, 2015
A – Jude serves our Savior, Jesus Christ (1a) B – Beloved in God and kept for Jesus Christ (1b) C – Mercy, love, and salvation (2-3a) D – Contend for the faith (3b) E – Prophecies from the OT (4-7) F – False Teachers Described (8) G – Michael the Archangel (9) (Apocryphal Source) […]
PHall | August 8, 2015
If baptism is just a public demonstration of faith, just an outward sign of an inward grace, then why was the Ethiopian eunuch baptized in a deserted area with no other believers than Philip? Why not go back to Jerusalem to be public before 5000 plus disciples? Why was the Philippian jailer baptized in the […]
PHall | August 4, 2015
The reason the Winston-Salem church of Christ does not use instrumental music in our worship to God is the same reason why we don’t build arks. Noah was told to build an ark, Christians were not. Physical Israelites were commanded to use instrumental music. Christians were not. Unlike physical Israel, Christians don’t have a physical […]