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PHall | June 3, 2013
If the gospel is both the historical facts and the message preached, both a life lived and a life to be lived; and if the gospel in history is founded by absolute truth in how we are saved, then the gospel preached must also be founded in absolute truth in how we are saved. If […]
PHall | June 3, 2013
PHall | June 3, 2013
You’ve never done enough if you haven’t prayed; you’ve never done enough until you’ve prayed; you’ve never done too much if you haven’t prayed; you can do too much without praying; you can never do too much praying.
PHall | June 3, 2013
What never ceases to amaze me about preaching the word of God after praying to God on what to preach, is how often unexpected people tell me how personally needed and meaningful the sermon was to them. The longer I preach the more I realize that the preacher is the least important part of the […]
PHall | May 31, 2013
“Saved by faith” (Part 2) – We are saved by faith and cannot be saved by obedience because no one obeys perfectly. True, but does anyone have perfect faith? No. “Lord, I believe, help my unbelief” (Mark 9:24). So yes we are saved by faith, even saved by obedience, meaning saved by the obedience of […]
PHall | May 30, 2013
If we tie together the deliverance prayers of Hezekiah for Jerusalem and himself, against certain Assyrian annihilation and mortal illness; and if we have correctly made the connection that both of these are death and resurrection motifs; then we become enlightened as to what a faithful prayer by a righteous man is – dead to […]
PHall | May 30, 2013
“Saved by faith” means saved by Christ’s sacrificial perfection and not by our doctrinal perfection. “Saved by faith” means saved by trusting God’s promises and not by trusting our actions. “Saved by faith” means the worst of us can be saved while the best of us can be lost. “Saved by faith” is open to […]
PHall | May 30, 2013
Scholarly works do not implore puns, so when you see one, it is even funnier because it is unintended. While reading “The Nubian Pharaohs, Black Kings on the Nile,” the writer of the foreword said, “Following all the attention focused on Nubia in the 1960’s (part of which disappeared beneath the rising waters of Lake […]
PHall | May 30, 2013
If I agree with you, I am open-minded. If I disagree with you, I am close-minded. If you disagree with me, you are open-minded and I am close-minded. If you agree with me, we are both open-minded. Apparently being open-minded does not mean being open to disagree, but only open to agree, and therefore does […]