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PHall | August 10, 2010
Here is a little word play on the Golden Rule – To respond in kind means to be mean to the mean and be not kind. To use kindness as our mean is to respond in kindness which means to be kind to the mean. I mean to be kind that is the kind of […]
PHall | August 9, 2010
Some modern day “Christians” remind me of the hippies back in the 60’s and of the Gnostics of Jude 1:4. The hippies were right to emphasize love, but their application tended towards acceptance of sin and the rejection of authority. In defiance against violence, they reacted with violence. And amazingly, when the hippies of the 60’s get […]
PHall | August 7, 2010
It’s the Message Man…. Not counting Jesus, when you think of prominent preachers in the New Testament, who comes to mind? Paul? Peter? Again, not considering Jesus, when you think of recorded sermons within the New Testament who has the longest? It is not Paul, nor Peter. It is Stephen (Acts 7). But wait…Stephen is […]
PHall | August 6, 2010
Kids keep us sane by driving us insane. In them we learn the sanity of world is the insanity of Satan. Maybe that is why the forerunner to Christ was “to turn the hearts of fathers to their children” (Lk.1:17). It is insane to trust like a little child. But my insane love for them […]
PHall | August 3, 2010
Psalm 73:4 reads in most translations something like the NASB – “they have no pains in their death.” Other’s include “they do not suffer pain” (GNB) and “they have no pain” (BBE). The point is that the unrighteous appear to have an easier life than the righteous. However, in reading the Holman Christian Standard Bible, […]
PHall | August 1, 2010
The judge reads the verdict – “Guilty.” The defendant has moved from defending himself to being judged un-defendable. Heads hang, tears are cried, anger soars, despair sets in. On the Day of Pentecost, the judge through Peter declares – “Guilty.” After condemning the blameworthy, the condemned do not react in despair or anger. Unlike the […]
PHall | August 1, 2010
Tradition says it is the Acts of the Apostles. Yet, most are ignored. It is mainly Peter then Paul, with Paul not one of the original twelve. Why the silence? Why doesn’t inspiration inform of us what Matthew and Matthias did? And then there are non-apostles such as Stephen and Philip who are given much […]
PHall | July 25, 2010
Detained by the authorities from the Bureau of Religious Affairs. Interrogated by the same. Warned that if what occurred in 2008 happens again, the warning will turn into something not so kind. Six officials from the Communist regime of China sitting in front, behind and to the side, all are speaking Chinese. None of us […]
PHall | July 23, 2010
Fascination soars and interest deepens when people hear about “the lost books” of the Bible. Add to that secret codes for unlocking hidden messages and all of a sudden, the Bible is once again interesting to the dull of hearing. “For over two thousand years the church has tried to hide from humanity the spiritually […]
PHall | July 20, 2010
“I need to believe that….” How would we finish that sentence? In the depths of the core of our being, what makes our “being” worth being? Is it that God loves us? Or that someone has truly forgiven us? Is it that we make a difference? Do we need to believe that God is not […]