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PHall | July 2, 2015
Consider this: Homosexuality will increase within the United States. Although some statistics show that currently the majority of those who suffer homosexual desires were sexually molested as a child, I predict the number of people who practice homosexuality will rise. The reasons are two-fold. First, according to Romans 1, same-sex attraction is actually the result […]
PHall | June 18, 2015
If I was one of the Twelve, I wonder if I would have been included as part of the inner three. If not, I wonder how I would have handled the exclusion. Too many I fear would have quit, thinking “What makes Peter, James, and John so special?” This is asking, “Why not me?” or […]
PHall | June 10, 2015
You Are What You Do 2 Peter 3:3 “Scoffers will come in the last days to scoff (2 Pet.3:3).” Scoffers will scoff and mockers will mock. People are named after what they do. A carpenter does carpentry. Teachers teach. Lawyers practice law. Years ago last names were based upon occupations. My last name, “Hall,” comes […]
PHall | May 27, 2015
Blindness is a familiar theme in the gospel accounts. The word tuphlos, which is found in 2 Peter 1:9, is found only four times outside of the gospels (Acts 13:11; Rom.2:19; 2 Pet.1:9; Rev.3:17), but 46 times in all the NT. That leaves 42 times the word is used either literally, prophetically, spiritually, ethically, or […]
PHall | May 6, 2015
Clothed yourself with humility (1 Peter 5:5). The specific word, egkomboomai (clothed) means to tie around oneself like an apron. It is only used once in the NT. That means it was never used by Jesus. And yet the idea of clothing ourselves with humility is an echo back to an event in which Peter […]
PHall | May 6, 2015
1 Peter and Jesus #7 One of Jesus’ favorite analogies for Himself is that He was a shepherd (poimēn). Each gospel, except Luke’s account, has at least two uses of that description of Jesus, with John having the most with six (10:2,11-16). Jesus even calls Himself the Good Shepherd using the well known “I am” […]
PHall | April 30, 2015
You know the story of the Ten Lepers (Lk.17:11-19). You know what happened after they met Jesus. They went on their way to see the priests, and on the way they became cleansed. You even know that one returned. But I want to think about what happened before they met Jesus. The ten lepers were […]
PHall | March 23, 2015
The washing of feet mirrors the crucifixion in so many ways most notably Jesus is the last person who should be washing feet. He is the master, and yet He serves. Also, Jesus even washes the feet of Judas (13:18), for whom He also died. And, if Jesus did not wash their feet, they could […]
PHall | March 5, 2015
1 Peter 3:1-16 (HCSB) A – (1) In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the Christian message, they may be won over without a message by the way their wives live (2) when they observe your pure, reverent lives. B – (3) Your beauty should […]
PHall | March 5, 2015
“He saved others; He cannot save Himself” (Mk.15:31). Said mockingly by Jesus’ enemies, yet speaking a truth they did not perceive. To save others, Jesus could not save Himself.