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PHall | September 4, 2015
I am reading Proverbs. It is commonly thought Solomon wrote his Song in his youth, Ecclesiastes in his old age, and Proverbs as a middle aged man. If so, knowing Solomon had around 700 wives and 300 concubines when writing Proverbs, it makes the reading at time very sorrowful. For example, “Better a dry crust […]
PHall | July 6, 2014
Today most beers has less alcohol than most wines. In Bible times, most wines had less alcohol than “strong drink.” Do you know what today corresponds to strong drink as per alcohol? Beer. That is why the HCSB uses the word beer for strong drink. They are the same. Bible wines were watered down and […]
PHall | June 14, 2014
I am incredible! I must be incredible! After all, an incredible woman married me! Now before you think I’ve gone insane … “too late”… there is truth to the principle even if I don’t always live up to it. And I am not just speaking about me or for me. We often focus on the […]
PHall | May 11, 2014
A good woman is hard to find, and worth far more than a good hunting dog or a high end sports-car. Her husband trusts her like his mother, and never has reason to regret it. Never spiteful, she treats him according to the Golden Rule every day (even when he’s told one too many joke […]
PHall | January 7, 2014
Job – When someone says, “It could be worse,” this is “Worse” Psalms – Psongs from a PSoldier Proverbs – What Rehoboam Did Not Learn From Solomon Ecclesiastes – What Solomon Did not Learn from Proverbs Song of Solomon – How Not to Write a Modern Love Poem
PHall | January 5, 2013
Proverbs 13:15 (NET) Keen insight wins favor, but the conduct of the unfaithful is harsh.
PHall | December 18, 2012
Proverbs 21:24 (HCSB) (24) The proud and arrogant person, named “Mocker,” acts with excessive pride.
PHall | April 15, 2012
How are proverbs and parables similar? Both are short and memorable (which is part of their teaching power). Both use human situations to teach divine wisdom – earthly stories and situations with heavenly meanings. Both used existing and accepted ways of teaching but raised them to a new level – neither Solomon nor Jesus invented […]
PHall | April 4, 2012
There is: no agape without Abba; no baptism without belief; no confession without Christ; no disciples without devotion no eternity without El Shaddai no forgiveness without faith; no good news without grace; no Heaven without humility; no Incarnation without Immanuel; no justification without Jesus; no kingdom without a King; no Lord without law; no Messiah […]
PHall | July 26, 2011
“Please tell me you meant that” I will say after hearing a pun. I hear the pun, but that does not mean they mean it. Often they are not wise to their own wisecrack. Puns, witticisms, and such are not the inventions of Americans with a warped sense of humor. These puns and plays on […]