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PHall | September 18, 2009
A housecoat; a Louis Vuitton purse; a fast food restaurant. What do these three things have in common? Absolutely nothing. And yet, while visiting a fast food restaurant, my eye caught a lady with her trendy LV (Louis Vuitton) purse (unless it was a knockoff) standing in line wearing a housecoat. I wanted to ask […]
PHall | September 17, 2009
Have you ever heard of a “tacit admission?” That occurs someone admits to something, but barely. Or it can be a hint of a truth. For example, the Pharisees never denied that Jesus performed miracles. Their attack foci were on His timing, authority and source (i.e., Beelzebub). That tacit admission proves they could not […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
If disturbing but true, biblically based, analogies distress you, do not read this article. Now that I’ve said that…my guess is that EVERYONE will read it! All of us have seen it done. None of us will actually directly do it to ourselves, although most of us will have it planned to be done to […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
In the early to middle 1980’s, I was in a health food shop – why, I do not know – buying some papaya juice – again, why I do not know. This very tall, older man, tapped me on the shoulder. As I turned around he asked, “Excuse me, are you intelligent?” All I could […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Phil.3:14) The very day we put on Christ (Gal.3:27), a new journey began – a walk onward and upward. Did we notice the positive nature of our journey together – it is not only onward, which implies […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
Restoring the Kingdom Acts 1:6 – So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?” What was in the mind of the apostles when they asked this question? Did they have political and personal ambitions? Were they […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
Mark 14:3-9 NASB (6) While He [i.e., Jesus] was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head. (4) But some were indignantly remarking […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
Have you ever let your mind…now what was I thinking? Oh yea, have you ever let your mind…is that a mosquito on the wall? Oh never mind…now what were we talking about? Oh yea, our minds drifting off. Concentration is easier for some than for others. If we have ADD or ADHD, our minds tend […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
Unlike salvation, we can generate electric light by our own works. If you ever rode a bike with a wheel generated light, you recall how that worked: stand still, no light – pedal hard, got light. That light was powered by your own works. But I doubt that any of us choose to light our […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
This is not a happy article. There will be no laughing on your part, or puns on mine. If there are any smiles, they most likely will be paradoxical smiles of sad recognition. This is an article about a real life situation that is both sad and ironic. Sad and ironic are two words that […]