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PHall | May 21, 2018
What does it mean to be human? While this sounds esoteric, it is very practical. This plays out in how people should determine decisions dealing with the value of life and death: in abortion, the mentally and physically handicapped, and euthanasia for the terminally ill. Does the Bible answer this question? As is the case […]
PHall | February 9, 2018
When a loved one is at death’s door we pray. If we are honest, we pray “selfishly”. By that I don’t mean anything sinful, just that we don’t want to be without the person we love. We aren’t ready to lose them. We aren’t ready for the pain. We want them with us. Is there […]
PHall | January 27, 2018
A constant danger I have noticed in myself – and which I constantly fight – is reacting to the false interpretations of scriptures instead of focusing on the point of the Holy Spirit’s text. For example, in my daily reading I came across Psalm 14. Verse 3 reads, “There is no one who does good, […]
PHall | January 27, 2018
An addict told he tried to stay away from God, but God chased him down. Now exactly what he meant, I don’t know. But is he far off? Does the Bible teach we are chased by God? One of the advantages of using different translations is they use different words. Different words spark different thoughts. […]
PHall | January 27, 2018
PHall | January 5, 2018
An addict told he tried to stay away from God, but God chased him down. Now exactly he meant, I don’t know. But is he far off? Does the Bible teach we are chased by God? One of the advantages of using different translations is they use different words. Different words spark different thoughts. One […]
PHall | January 26, 2017
Psalms 25:3 (CSB) No one who waits for You will be disgraced; those who act treacherously without cause will be disgraced – If we see two groups of people, we see correctly. However, if we only see that the first group will not be disgraced…then we are missing an important reality that many ignore. Some […]
PHall | December 7, 2016
A Broken Hallelujah (The Psalms) – My faith has moods. Leonard Cohen recently died and so his song Hallelujah has been on the minds of many. A Catholic Priest asked a woman to sing it at his church, but she didn’t think the lyrics were a proper fit. I can sympathize. So she wrote other […]
PHall | April 6, 2016
That human beings can wonder if there is a God or gods is an argument all by itself that the answer is yes. Atheism teaches all of existence is and only is materialism. Therefore all thought is a function of the material brain’s chemical reactions. Free will itself cannot exist because it is not a […]
PHall | December 23, 2015
Before a psalm is taken apart and analyzed, each needs to be experienced, even felt, as our emotions overflow and overtake our minds. We need to allow the Psalms to take apart our lives as it takes part in our lives. To experience Psalm 6 we have to experience the pain and the praise. To […]