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PHall | January 23, 2012
You’re caught up in the fun, stuffing down snacks, and then out of nowhere, with no warning or preview, you get slapped upside the head with an personalized version of John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, the whole world, everyone, anyone, that’s a lot of people, that He gave his one and […]
PHall | January 23, 2012
PHall | January 21, 2012
The words no mother wants to hear are stammered and whispered by the doctor. The word “mother” is synonymous with selflessness. Most women would immediately and easily choose to give their life to spare their child if the doctor said, “I can only save one.” Many mothers sacrifice not their lives, but a relationship with […]
PHall | January 20, 2012
I pray a prayer that makes me ill; It hurts to pray for those loved most. Not praise, nor thanks, but needed still; For hurt from Heaven’s Holy Host. Strangely, grief leads to Christ’s glories; God’s lifted high when we are low. Breaking stubborn backs, bending knees; Accepting, nowhere else to go. This is the […]
PHall | January 20, 2012
How did they go from the wilderness to the top of the temple, and then later to a very high mountain? My answer is that Satan actually takes Jesus to Jerusalem which is what the text says, minus the word “actually.” Matthew 4.5 (HCSB) Then the Devil took Him to the holy city, had Him […]
PHall | January 18, 2012
Each both Luke and Matthew, the temptation involving bread and stones is listed first. However, the second temptation in Matthew is the third in Luke. In Luke’s record, Satan’s temptation to throw Himself down to prove trust in God is listed third. Matthew is better known for grouping biographical points topically, while Luke’s record is […]
PHall | January 18, 2012
Let’s begin with two questions. First, do you believe that the need and desire to believe and worship is innate? Anthropological studies reveal that the vast majority of cultures have religions. In arguing for the existence of God, this is called the Anthropological Argument , implying that God Himself put it within our created self […]
PHall | January 15, 2012
Sport’s pundits love to ask, “Did they lose the game, or did the other team win?” If the favorite lost to the underdog, then either the latter “rose to the occasion” or else the projected winner “choked.” No one loves a loser (well, there are some franchises); choking means you just can’t cut it, you […]
PHall | January 13, 2012
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand” (Chinese Proverb) – Christianity is not just hearing sermons and seeing the good examples of others. It is practicing it ourselves. Only then does the humanly insane, counter-culture, Sermon on the Mount enlighten us with true, divine understanding.
PHall | January 13, 2012
Fall away; fall away; to forsake and forget Christ’s scar; I have fallen; fallen far; God keeps calling; “Home’s not far.” I look downward; He sees me; how I hurt him; how he bleeds; Tears do fall; selfishly I settle, neglecting real needs. Looking upward, I ask disgraced; “Is home near; with God’s grace?” Heaven’s […]