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PHall | May 17, 2011
An interesting passage on the image of God is one that states what it is not, not what it is. Because of this, it would be impossible to make an image of the image of God. And although mankind is made in the image of God, male and female are not the image. This passage […]
PHall | May 17, 2011
Do you want to hear something shocking? Every one of us was made by God to have sex. All of us are sexual beings, and that’s not a bad thing. In fact it is not only a good thing, it is a “very good” thing (Gen.1.31). Now you might not consider that shocking, but Christian […]
PHall | May 12, 2011
Why the Churches of Christ Were Right After All 07Mar My great grandfather and great grandmother Campbell were members of the Braxton Church of Christ in Cannon County, Tennessee, and after my great grandfather died and my great grandmother moved her three boys to Texas, she raised them in the South Park Church of Christ […]
PHall | May 11, 2011
If all I do is complain about another, Then my main thing is to see bad in my brother. So either in him there is nothing good to see, Or else what I see is a reflection of me. In reading my poem about how others we view, Is my rhyming mirror reflecting back on […]
PHall | May 3, 2011
To grasp all the possibilities can aggravate or gravitate relationships by having us repel or accept those different and blind to all the possibilities that we see as potential realities. To grasp all the possibilities means that we can see more than one point of view, not necessarily contradicting, but rather complementing one another. To grasp […]
PHall | May 3, 2011
One of the amazing aspects of God, at least to me, is God’s ability to express contradicting emotions without being contradicting. Love, hate, justice, kindness, remorse etc. can all exist simultaneously within God. An example we could probably better understand is when a child is lost and then found. Love, anger, relief, frustration, all exist […]
PHall | May 3, 2011
If our churches do not look like our neighbors, how much do our churches look like our God?
PHall | April 30, 2011
Sin needs a remedy, but so does temptation. How easy is it to give in to Satan’s inducements? While the following anecdote is not serious, there is a serious point. Does the following example seem “too real” to you? A lady on a diet was determined to make it through a full week without cheating. […]
PHall | April 30, 2011
John preached a “baptism of repentance” (Lk.3:3). This repentance is not something simply and solely theological or personal. It is spiritual and practical; it reaches out to all because God reached down to us. Repentance is not just in the heart or mind. Repentance is not just looking to our sinful past. Repentance is a […]
PHall | April 22, 2011
How do we decide right and wrong? There are precepts and principles, but sometimes a picture is worth a thousand laws. I would like to suggest to you an image, a picture, but one set in time and reality, that can be used to help us see the meaning of ethics and morality – the […]