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PHall | April 19, 2022
There are many wonderful quotes about kindness and “human kindness” that invite imitation. Is human kindness sufficient? I would invite you to understand how inferior “human kindness” is. I invite you to stop limiting yourself to practicing human kindness. Go higher. Instead, listen to David’s way: 2 Samuel 9:3 – Then the king […]
PHall | April 15, 2022
The first time this Hebrew word is used in the bible surprised me. It wasn’t ever in Genesis although the idea was there. Seeing how this Hebrew word is translated other places also surprised me yet became constructive, such as “spare” and “have compassion”. Often it is used negatively, “do not spare” or “do not […]
PHall | April 11, 2022
Anathema, Anathema! Paul is as mad at these false teachers as he is in any epistle, maybe and probably more. Why does Paul use such strong language as “anathema” (Galatians 1:8-9) which mean accursed or cursed? It is not an oft used word (Acts 23:14; Romans 9:3; 1 Corinthians 12:3; 16:22; Galatians 1:8-9). Not only […]
PHall | April 6, 2022
A Gospel About Us Is Another Gospel Is there a problem with churches who still teach the same old gospel, but worship in ways that are just more exciting to the physical senses? Please consider this – it is not the same gospel. Americanism has minimized the gospel in many ways, but using the term […]
PHall | February 28, 2022
There’s a biblical story, narrative event if your prefer, that is shocking to the point it is almost unfathomable to believe it is true. I have no doubt it is because it is in the Bible; but skeptics wonder if it is hyperbole, exaggerated to make an etiological point. That point would be that Cain’s […]
PHall | February 22, 2022
The Trees of Life Warning! This is a tedious read, but if you endure, it will deepen your appreciation that the Bible is one story from many stories ultimately about Jesus. Did you know there is more than one Tree of Life? First, let’s look at the implications of the first Tree of Life mentioned […]
PHall | February 11, 2022
Too Good of a Citizen Godly courage and cultural contamination can exist within the same person. And both qualities can appear back to back as if in some seemingly simultaneous, “right” behavior. Lot’s putting himself in harm’s way, standing up to the crowd, both literally and verbally, is commendable and courageous. “Don’t do this evil” […]
PHall | February 11, 2022
Why We Need Eden “God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”” (CSB’17 Genesis 1:28) • Subdue – to subject, subdue, force, keep under, bring into bondage […]
PHall | February 6, 2022
Is the Lord’s Prayer Praying the 10 Commandments? Why did Jesus say, ““Therefore, you should pray like this” and then recite what commonly is called, “The Lord’s Prayer” (Matthew 6:9-13)? I want to suggest the possibility Jesus is giving us, in prayer form, a variation of the 10 Commandments. If Jesus is rephrasing and reapplying […]
PHall | January 7, 2022
Small Things Both success and failure begin the same way – small. Two bookends of Genesis include both a prophecy of Jesus and of a son of Jacob, the latter ends with a cry for salvation (3:15; 49:17). Two components of each are: 1. Serpent 2. Heel Now before your eyes glaze over, there will […]