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PHall | February 6, 2019
Ever notice the similarities between these two stories? Both stories have…1. Two main characters plus God.2. Animals and things grown from the ground.3. God asks questions.4. Someone gets tricked.5. The older doesn’t protect the younger.6. Death is a theme.7. The ground is a theme.8. Curse is a theme.9. God shows the guilty grace.10. The guilty […]
PHall | February 4, 2019
It is too easy, common, and disheartening to focus on the restrictions of women in 1 Timothy 2:11-12. What is not done enough is focusing on the positive. Restricting religion to what happens in public worship must never be done. If it is, women do little, even do little good (in the eyes of some), […]
PHall | February 4, 2019
Could Adam have stopped Eve from sinning? 1 Timothy 2 is an admonition against women usurping authority; but is it more than that? Paul’s conclusion is reasoned from primogeniture, Adam was created first. Notice carefully what Paul says next, 1 Timothy 2:14 (HCSB) And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and transgressed. […]
PHall | January 30, 2019
Bookends of Genesis: The structure of Genesis can be simplified into two halves: 1-11; 12-50. The writer himself shows us this two-part division: • Genesis 1-11 “let us make man in our own image” (1:26); “let us go down there and confuse their language” (11:7) o “be fruitful and fill the earth” (1:28); “so the […]
PHall | January 29, 2019
TODAY’S PRAYER – Genesis 46 – Jacob leaves the Promise Land to go to Egypt. This is the same thing Abraham did (Genesis 12). What is similar is a famine. What is different is permission to go. God tells Jacob, “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt” (Genesis 46:3). If Egypt represents that […]
PHall | January 28, 2019
As Genesis 3 wrongfully reverses Genesis 2; 1 Corinthians 14 corrects Genesis 3:1-7 I. What is happening in Genesis 3? 1. A question is wrongfully asked by the serpent to the woman about the word of God. 2. Then Eve takes the lead over her husband and judges both what the serpent and God said. […]
PHall | January 23, 2019
TODAY’S PRAYER – The narrative of Joseph is also the personal story of one of his brothers. It was this brother’s callous idea to sell Joseph into slavery (Genesis 37:26-27). This brother’s story includes him visiting a “prostitute” not knowing she was his daughter-in-law, and then wanting to put her to death for getting pregnant […]
PHall | January 23, 2019
At least two things are essential when understanding one’s own argument: 1) What the foundational fact(s) is that everything else is built on. 2) How one’s position may be defeated. The conclusion I have reached on whether headship is established by God in men, both in the home and in the church, is reasoned from […]
PHall | January 23, 2019
In another section we saw how Genesis 1-2 are not contradictory, but rather are complementary. How does Genesis 2 relate to Genesis 3? To begin let’s ask, “What happens in Genesis 3?” If we answer, “Sin and death enter the world,” we are correct. If we say, “The serpent tempts Eve”, again that is accurate. […]
PHall | January 22, 2019
TODAY’S PRAYER – Jacob waited out of fear. Simeon waited in prison while Jacob waited out of fear. Eventually the brothers had to return to Egypt, due to the famine, with Benjamin. If they hadn’t, they would not be granted another audience with the disguised Joseph, and their other brother would remain imprisoned. Jacob thinks […]