PHall | July 15, 2023
When creating, notice that God is speaking to the environment from which He is bringing life: • God speaks to the earth – Genesis 1:11) Then God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation”. • God speaks to the water and sky – Genesis 1:20) Then God said, “Let the water swarm with living creatures, and […]
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PHall | July 15, 2023
“That’s not fair”. It is hard to not feel that the punishment from God dealt to the young prophet was a raw deal (1 Kings 13). 1. God told the young prophet not to eat, so he didn’t. 2. The old prophet lied to the young prophet saying God told him he could eat. 3. […]
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PHall | June 27, 2023
Monogamy in the past was being true to one person for life. Now it is one person at a time. Divorce in the past was due mostly to someone being unhappy with the person they married. Now it is often due to someone thinking they could be happier with someone else. Society has lost the […]
Category: Ezra, Nehemiah, Malachi |
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PHall | June 27, 2023
We live in a chaotic world, but this is nothing new under the sun. Even the writer of Ecclesiastes was troubled by the meaningless he witnessed (1:2-3). Here are three responses to witnessing so much meaningless: 1. Atheism – Aldus Huxley “The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively […]
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PHall | June 8, 2023
A country song laments, “Looking for love in all the wrong places”. Another mistake is looking for love in all the wrong order. Even among God’s people, we have made a Western Cultural method of dating into something dangerous. “Dating is for fun!” No, dating is a job interview for life. Genesis 2 […]
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PHall | June 6, 2023
Disease as Enemy If the last enemy is death (1 Corinthians 15:26), can we understand disease, birth detects, trauma, and other such attacks on our bodies likewise as enemies? No death existed in Eden. Doesn’t that imply there were no diseases either? Wouldn’t access to the tree of life inhibit such defilement since disease leads […]
Category: Psalms |
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PHall | May 3, 2023
Eve’s Original Sin? 1 Timothy 2:9-10 (CSB) 9) Also, the women are to dress themselves in modest clothing, with decency and good sense, not with elaborate hairstyles, gold, pearls, or expensive apparel, 10) but with good works, as is proper for women who profess to WORSHIP GOD. This is a most fascinating allusion, as we […]
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PHall | May 3, 2023
Have you ever wondered why God had Adam name the animals? Couldn’t God have done it for Adam? Yes. Here are five reasons why: 1. Adam is exercising his intellect. Notice how inspiration describes the first man. He is logical, able to distinguish different kinds of animals, along with the linguistic skills to differentiate […]
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PHall | May 3, 2023
I heard an argument that because of the “curse” in Genesis 3, it is possible that post-creation there are more than two genders or sexes. Here’s the number one argument against that – Jesus, when answering a question thousands of years after sin entered the world, applied a pre-curse statement from scripture to cover […]
Category: Matthew, Genesis |
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PHall | April 28, 2023
Forty years ago today, I said my vows to the wrong person. The vows were good – “I take Janet to be my lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health” – I just shouldn’t have […]
Category: Genesis, Ecclesiastes |
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