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PHall | September 15, 2009
I have a wild imagination. It serves me well…usually. My mind can’t help but wonder about the story behind the story. I keep asking “why” which keeps the story real, especially when reading the Bible. But before going there, do you ever find reading the classifieds interesting? For example, one classified read, “Wedding Dress – […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
Rationalizations The alarm shrilly and rudely awakes you from blissful slumber. What time it is doesn’t matter. More sleep, not a cold bowl of cereal, is what you crave. Your mind, creatively sharp, invents excuse…er, I mean…reason after multiplying reason for staying under those cozy covers. Self-consoled, you hit the snooze alarm. Minutes later, several […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
A Good Example from a Bad Example Hitler and Haman, haters of others, destroyers of themselves. That is the lesson of history of these two men. To say a good word about either is incomprehensible. Genocide is mind-boggling, beyond boundaries of simple hate, it is a hate that is all consuming…literally. To say a good […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
Strolling through the Biltmore Estate, my wife and I passed through the Azalea Gardens. Stunning! The colors were vibrant and varied. Again…stunning! My favorite azalea was a color unfamiliar to me. I asked my personal color expert – my wife – what that awesome color was. She said…“fuchsia.” Ahh, uhh, I am too masculine to think […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
I resolve this year to resolve this year not to resolve this year to resolve this year. If I got all of my negatives negating properly, I think I said that I promise not to promise. The New Year is the time for resolutions. To me, resolutions are usually as useless as the calendar year […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
Pain Oppressors Ecclesiastes 4:1 NASB Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
Me Oh My Oh I 33 times in 23 verses the word “I” is used. That’s not even counting the numerous uses of “my”; “myself;” and “me.” Generally counting words is not a worthwhile endeavor unless the repetition is illuminating. In this case, the word “I” becomes a power or key word. The passage to […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
It’s Not About Me Boring, boring, boring. Reading the Bible and getting bored is not a good sign. But if I mentioned my boredom came while reading genealogies, you probably would think, “Oh that explains it. Me too!” Why are Biblical genealogies boring? Name after name after name after name after…well you get the picture. […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
Should I call this concept “Free Slavery” or “Enslaved Freedom?” The oxymoronic aspect is immediately obvious. Sadly, what it describes is not so obvious, nor so immediate. The text which describes this uneasy alignment is found in 2 Peter 2:18-20 HCSB For uttering bombastic, empty words, they seduce, by fleshly desires and debauchery, people who […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
You are what you eat, so they say. That must be true because I love doughnuts and I am soooo sweeeet! Of course, some may argue that like a doughnut I have a hole in the middle of head too! But seriously, we are what we worship. The following axiom has the power to challenge […]