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PHall | January 11, 2021
3 Stages of Accepting Truth: 1. Intellectually 2. Personally 3. Universally I don’t know who first noticed this pattern but it is interesting to see how it does fit. 1. Truth is truth whether or not I accept it. Truth is objective. 2. Truth is truth, not because I accept it, and therefore I have […]
PHall | January 11, 2021
A Perryphrase of Matthew 5:43-48 – 43) “You have heard that it was said, “Love those who politically and religiously agree with you and hate those who disagree.” 44) But I tell you, serve those who disagree with you religiously and politically and pray for those who argue with you, 45) so that you may […]
PHall | January 11, 2021
PHall | January 11, 2021
Are People Seeing? Jesus said, “If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father (John 14:9). As a corollary, if people have seen us have they seen Jesus? 1. Christian is not the only “name” we bear, but by wearing it we are claiming to be following Christ. If people have seen us as […]
PHall | December 25, 2020
Love Does No Harm Love Does No Harm (Rom.13:8-10) Notice what this pericope follows – Government punishing and rewarding based upon law (13:1-7). Government does not act upon a principle of love, but necessity (i.e., taxes) and laws. Government “justifies” on the basis of works – what have you done. God justifies on the basis […]
PHall | December 25, 2020
This verse might be the greatest statement of grace in all the Old Testament, said MacArthur. It is also possibly the most humbling and neglected in modern NT theology. While the gospel from Jesus’s birth to rebirth, from ascending out of the water, from the tomb, to heaven, does everything for me; all this was […]
PHall | December 25, 2020
Isaiah 7:14 – Therefore, the Lord himself will give you a sign: See, the virgin will conceive, have a son, and name him Immanuel. (CSB) Oh Giver of the Gift, Have we missed the point of Isaiah’s virgin birth prophecy? The promise is given to an unfaithful Israelite who does not deserve to be rescued. […]
PHall | December 23, 2020
Follow the Star to the Cross Saved by What Condemns Us. I cannot count the ironies, paradoxes, and strange truths continually displayed when reading God’s word. This is the time of the year when people think of the Star of Bethlehem and men from the East bearing gifts. That star led these searchers to their […]
PHall | December 17, 2020
Jesus does not make a covenant with sinners written on paper. No agreement is agreed upon and then signed with ink. The covenant is not written in leather bound paper. JESUS IS THE COVENANT! This is more than semantics when I say Jesus does not make a covenant with people, but rather Jesus is the […]
PHall | December 16, 2020
Do you worship a god made of paper? Idols and human-made gods are false and inferior because they cannot foretell the future (Isaiah 41:23-29). Yahweh’s challenges, “Declare the things that are going to come afterward, so that we may know that you are gods” (Isaiah 41:23). Their falseness means they are “less than nothing” (41:24). […]