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PHall | August 18, 2019
Does God want us restoring? Stated negatively, it is impossible to restore without preaching the gospel – because the gospel restores people. Stated positively, to restore is to preach the gospel as seen in the good news records. 1 Corinthians 11 is an example of restoration through the gospel, by restoring “the Lord’s supper.” If we […]
PHall | August 16, 2019
Does Your Church Teach All the Gospel? 1. If it doesn’t tell you that the gospel requires Jesus’s death, and therefore your death to your old life…(Mark 9:31).2. If it doesn’t tell you that the gospel includes Jesus’s burial, and therefore your burial in baptism…(Matthew 12:40).3. If it doesn’t tell you that the gospel declares Jesus’s […]
PHall | August 16, 2019
4 Directions of the Gospel to Stay on CourseThe gospel has a history – MatthewThe gospel has a challenge – MarkThe gospel has a compassion – LukeThe gospel has a theology – John None of the above exhausts how each writer explores the gospel of Jesus. What my synopsis does is focus on the beginning of […]
PHall | August 16, 2019
Can you be a Christian if you don’t believe that Christ was bodily resurrected out of the grave? Can you be a Christian if you don’t believe Christians will be bodily resurrected out of the grave? Read this entire pericope:“Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say, […]
PHall | August 16, 2019
Ever notice how Genesis ends as a reversal for how it begins? Adam and Eve are “home” and then forced to leave when death starts to come. Jacob/Israel is away from “home” (in Egypt), death comes, and is carried away back to home in Canaan. This is more than just a cool literary bookend. Herein […]
PHall | August 13, 2019
There was no food in Egypt due to a 7 year famine. Joseph through divine providence had stored up food for 7 years. Food meant life. The Egyptians, and other nations, came to Joseph to buy food. He was the only source. Then their money ran out. Next they sold their livestock. Then their livestock […]
PHall | August 13, 2019
In school, they used to require signed notes explaining absences. What would happen if we had our signed notes of absence read before the congregation?• “Please excuse Johnny from Bible class last Sunday morning. He watched a real good movie the night before and was too tired to make it.”• “Please excuse Sally from church […]
PHall | August 13, 2019
Do You Know These People? Do you know these people outside of their familiar setting?1. Active “Abuse” – “I want what you have”. They did something to another they shouldn’t have. The first used greed as motive to hurt.2. Passive “Neglect” – “I don’t want to lose what I have”. They didn’t do the thing they […]
PHall | August 13, 2019
A new realization came upon me as I study Revelation (that I hope will help you): The are two underlying and overlapping, repetitive OT motifs that fill Revelation: Creation and Exodus. This is because God’s power in Old Creation is the same power in New Creation. This is because God’s power in defeating the Old World […]
PHall | August 13, 2019
3 Effects of the Gospel Crucified (Matthew 27:51-53)Jesus is the gospel. When Jesus died, the following happened:1. RELIGIOUS EFFECT – At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. 2. EARTHLY EFFECT – The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open. 3. PHYSICAL EFFECT – The bodies […]