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PHall | September 26, 2009
Should I apologize for Biblical subject matter? Not if I believe God’s hand revealed it! And the following topic is very real. So here goes…. Recently I saw a billboard which read, “Talk to your children about sex – everyone else does.” Shocking? Sobering? God wants us parents to prepare our children both positively and […]
PHall | September 17, 2009
32:3 – Make the first move 32:4 – Humility 32:5 – Honesty 32:8 – Being ready to be accepted or rejected 32:8 – Being ready to accept what is impossible or improbable in our eyes 32:9-12 – Prayer 32:9-12 – Dependence Upon God 32:13 – Restitution 32:20 – Being personally accepted 33:3 – Submission 33:10 […]
PHall | September 17, 2009
53:1ff – Twelve Points Showing Jesus is the Servant (Explore the Book, J. Sidlow Baxter) He comes in utter lowliness – a root out of a dry ground He is despised and rejected of men He suffered for the sins and in the place of others – He was wounded for our transgressions It was […]
PHall | September 17, 2009
PHall | September 17, 2009
How long it would take someone to graduate from High School if the only Bible study they did was in “Bible School?” It would take 153.6 years. That is based on 7 hours of study time per day for 5 days per week X 38 weeks per annum. The number of total annual hours of school […]
PHall | September 17, 2009
A Collection of Books •The Book of Psalms (or Psalter) is a collection of different kinds of poetry spanning many centuries of history (from c. 1100 BC, Pss. 29, 68, to c. 400 BC, Ps. 119) and reaching essentially its present form around 300 BC. Evidences of this collective nature are seen in its division […]
PHall | September 17, 2009
Prophets And Kings: The Divided Kingdom And Beyond[1],[2] Southern Kingdom Northern Kingdom KINGS 1. Rehoboam (930-913) 1 Kgs.12:1-24; 14:21-31; 2 Chron.10:1-12:16
PHall | September 17, 2009
HABAKKUK – “Embrace” Habakkuk, the Man Although Habakkuk, by inspiration, is known as “The Prophet” (1:1 -among the 12, only Haggai, Zechariah also begin by naming themselves as prophets), he equally could be called, “The Philosopher,” “The Poet,” and “The Psalmist.” This unique prophet also has been called “the freethinker among the prophets,” […]
PHall | September 17, 2009
The book of Habakkuk is as much about the destruction of Judah as it is about the transformation of Habakkuk himself. 1:1-4 – Habakkuk impatiently waits on God to punish the nation, questioning God’s justice. 1:12-17 – Habakkuk accepts God’s answer, although he does not understand it. 2:1 – Habakkuk waits patiently for God’s answer. […]
PHall | September 16, 2009
Two questions: 1) Is this a metaphor or is this literal? 2) What is the application? In taking it literally, some have suggested the application is economic. The New English Bible translates it: Send your grain across the seas, and in time you will get a return. Peterson wrote that the passage, “Advises the undertaking […]