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PHall | June 20, 2014
Have you noticed husbands are told to love (agape) their wives; wives are told to love (phileo) their husbands; but children are not told to love their parents? Unless I am unaware, they are simply told to honor and obey. Why? That is how children learn to love, through their actions of submission. We are […]
PHall | June 14, 2014
I’m sitting here thinking about Father’s Day, and reading so many tributes about the best fathers ever, and how they are the best men these grown children have ever known. I am struck by how this is probably a conclusion only from an adult point of view, as children still growing have so many current […]
PHall | May 27, 2014
Israel is leaving bondage, but is not yet free. The enemy is pursuing. Israel leaves Egypt following a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire for night. Then this pillar divides Israel from Egypt as the Egyptians pursue. The cloud is moved from leading the Israelites to behind them, between the Egyptians […]
PHall | May 20, 2014
Corrie Ten Boom in the book, Reflections of god’s Glory (page 69), wrote, “In Africa a man came to a meeting with bandaged hands. I asked him how he had been injured. He said, “My neighbor’s straw roof was on fire; I helped him to put it out and that’s how my hands were burned. […]
PHall | May 19, 2014
My mind is small, and I am thankful to know it is. While others see conflict between the writers of the Bible, where one NT writer might have grown past another NT writer’s knowledge, I see my ignorance. I wait to discover the yet unknown. Because I cannot yet understand is no excuse to accuse […]
PHall | May 19, 2014
Prayer is a lot like baptism, and every other work God has commanded. Think about how amazing prayer is. Our thoughts transcend the ceiling, sky, moon, the end of our galaxy and even past the end of the universe, where no man can go. God is on the other end of everything and the beginning […]
PHall | May 16, 2014
In 2 Timothy 1 we find Paul telling Timothy not to be afraid of his friend’s chains, nor to be ashamed of the testimony about the Lord. The gospel teaches this in Jesus, but also the gospel as found in the Old Testament taught to Timothy by his mother and grandmother (3:14-15). Timothy is to […]
PHall | May 13, 2014
When someone chooses to cut us off from their life, or portions thereof, we get to choose whether we become a victim or whether they victimized themselves. We can choose to believe those who push us away are those who unknowingly need us. They chose to remove the restraint that protected them and their freedom […]
PHall | May 9, 2014
The qualifications of elders is often controversial because we approach it as a cold list instead of as a life lived and learned. Let me demonstrate the difference. Must all of the elder’s children be faithful? That seems to be one of the eternal questions. First, ask yourself what is the purpose of the qualification. […]
PHall | May 9, 2014
Saddleback’s Ten Commandments: 1. Thou shalt not go to lunch alone with the opposite sex. 2. Thou shalt not have the opposite sex pick you up or drive you places when it is just the two of you. 3. Thou shalt not kiss any attendee of the opposite sex or show affection that could be […]