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PHall | September 24, 2024
Helping Those Who Misuse Our Help Ever wonder if we should give money to those who might wrongly use it for alcohol or drugs? Besides God causing it to rain on the righteous and unrighteous (Matthew5:45), let’s consider another example. Sometimes helping others, doing them favors, and such, backfires. Despite us doing them a favor […]
PHall | September 24, 2024
Read Ephesians and there are many statements of oneness and unity. However there is one theme we should notice. 1. The church is Christ’s body (1:22-23). 2. Both groups are one new man (i.e., a man has or is a body) (2:15). 3. Both groups are reconciled in one body (2:16). 4. Members of the […]
PHall | September 24, 2024
You can’t control how talented you are, or how you are compared to more talented preachers. You can’t control how intelligent you are, or how you are compared to more intelligent preachers. You can control how hard you work. And even then remember this, “But by the grace of God I am what I am, […]
PHall | September 19, 2024
Is there only one way to God? Contrary to popular thought, and recent comments made by the head of the Catholic Church, Jesus is the only way. But do we understand deeply what that means? Jesus is called the Way (John 14:6) and Jesus’s followers were so identified with their Lord that, what we call […]
PHall | September 17, 2024
ACTION #1 – Follow up on problems quickly by not ignoring or hiding from them (Acts 15:1-6). REASON – This keeps smaller problems from becoming bigger, and bigger problems from becoming insurmountable. ACTION #2 – Allow the leaders to lead (Acts 15:6). REASON – Leaders need followers or else they are figureheads who become the […]
PHall | September 17, 2024
How do we keep our children from leaving faithful churches to go to those not following the faith? How do we help our children follow after faithful saints regardless of age, instead of leaving to follow after their friends? This is an anecdotal tale. From 6th grade to 12th grade, I worshiped with a small […]
PHall | September 17, 2024
Meditate on this thought: “What I believe about God’s word is more important than how people treat me”. Many people will leave churches where they are mistreated, and start worshiping with a church that is friendly and yet practices and teaches things contrary to what they believe. Whether they want to admit it, how they […]
PHall | September 17, 2024
Open your Bibles to Acts 20:7 and you will see that the church gathered to break bread on “the first day of the sabbaths”. Go on to 1 Corinthians 16:2, and we again read how Paul gave instructions about the collection for the poor saints on, “every first day of the sabbaths”. They church gathered […]
PHall | September 17, 2024
1. Thou shalt put God first on your calendar unless something fun comes up. 2. Thou shalt not allow images to replace God unless it is a husband, wife, child, boyfriend or girlfriend. 3. Thou shalt not take my name in vain unless you use text talk like OMG because that is LOL. 4. Thou […]
PHall | September 17, 2024
Four phrases that often reveal the subtle ways Satan tempts us: 1. “Show me in the Bible where it says I have to!” • Is this Satan tempting us to live to the bare minimum of what is right? • Is this Satan tempting us to be justified by law and not faith? 2. “Show […]