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PHall | December 13, 2012
Sometimes it is the simple that makes the most impact. Last night’s class we spoke on why repenting, confessing, and baptism is our believing response to the gospel. We repent because we believe the the gospel is Jesus dying for our sins. We confess because we believe the gospel is Jesus is the Son of […]
PHall | December 11, 2012
PHall | December 10, 2012
PHall | December 9, 2012
Malachi 4:5-6 (HCSB) (5) Look, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome Day of the LORD comes. (6) And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”
PHall | December 5, 2012
Reading the gospel of Matthew and thought of a question about questions: Are we asking questions to test or to teach? Asking questions gives answers to more than just to the question asked.
PHall | December 3, 2012
Perryism – “Hear God’s voice when you read, reflect on what you hear God’s voice say, love what God teaches you to believe, preach God’s voice with love, let people hear God’s voice through you.” Peter’s Phrasing – 1 Peter 4:11 (HCSB) (11) If anyone speaks, it should be as one who speaks God’s words; […]
PHall | December 2, 2012
Matthew 27:6 (HCSB) (6) The chief priests took the silver and said, “It’s not lawful to put it into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.” 1 Peter 1:18-19 (HCSB) (18) For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or […]
PHall | December 2, 2012
“Man does not live by bread alone” does not deny that man lives by bread. When Jesus says, “but by every word that comes from the mouth of God” (NASB), He is not asserting that man even lives by the words that come from the mouth of God alone. Man is flesh and spirit, just […]
PHall | November 29, 2012
Constant complaining, that doesn’t apply to me, doubts about God’s love, giving God the leftovers and second best, failing to support the work monetarily, rampant divorce, wondering why good things happen to bad people, saying there’s no benefit in worshiping God…nope, nothing in Malachi applies today.
PHall | November 29, 2012
1 John 2:1-3 (HCSB) (1) My little children, I am writing you these things so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father — Jesus Christ the Righteous One. (2) He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for those […]