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PHall | November 18, 2025
Genocide Student – “How can you worship a God who had entire nations killed?” Answer – “There are things I don’t understand fully. But here is a mantra I often use: 1) “I don’t know. 2) “I’m not God” 3) “Deal with it” Student – “Deal with it? How?” Answer: While there are many things […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Homosexuality Question – “How can you claim to love gays but condemn them?” Answer – “I would suggest to you that loving those you disagree with and want to help is essential. If you don’t love them, you won’t help them. If you don’t love them first, they won’t accept your help.” Question – “Are […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Assembling with the Saints Question – “It has been a while since I attended church. Any advice for how to get back?” Response – “Everything goes back to the gospel. So the first thing you need to focus on is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. Because there are others who are also focused […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Was Israel Having A King Sinful? A common position is that Israel wanting a King was sinful. Israel even confesses “Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God, so that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil by asking for ourselves a king” (quoted 1 Samuel 12:19). I […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Malachi and the Thief on the Cross Malachi has a unique teaching technique: 1. God makes an Accusation. 2.Then God Cross-examines Himself by speaking for the audience. 3.This is followed by God giving the evidence to convict. This got me thinking how this method could work today: 1. Accusation – “You are not saved because […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
The Only Begotton and First Born Jesus taught how the real events of the OT show his coming (John 5; Luke 24). Here are how two separate narratives become one in Jesus. Sacrifices, the Only and the First Born: Stories Foretelling Jesus 1. God provided the sacrifice to save the only begotten son (Genesis 22; […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Why Are We Told the Story of Jael? There is only one woman in the Bible who directly killed a man. Her name was Jael. She hammered a tentpeg into the skull of Sisera (Judges 4). Why are we told this story? Considering she is the only woman in the Bible to have killed a […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Atheist claims Bible contradicts science Student – “I see conflict between the Bible and the age of the earth because the Bible teaches the earth is young while science proves it is ancient.” Answer – “The Bible does not contradict science because the creation story shows that God created everything with age as part of […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
If churches were in the business of sports and treated preachers as athletes: 1. “Training camp invite” is when a preacher is invited for a gospel meeting that doubles as a “tryout”. 2. “Restricted free agent” is when a preacher informs the leadership he has been asked by another congregation to move there but the […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Sacrificiing our Children – One of the most terrifying chapters in the Bible is Genesis 22, where God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son, but intervenes and stops it. As a “living parable”, we see a prophecy of The Father and Son at the cross. This helps dissipates the horror. The question is, in a […]