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PHall | September 15, 2009
You can be wise without being smart. And you can be smart without being wise. Of course the preferred combination is, being both wise and smart. No, I am not being a wise-guy nor am I being a smart-aleck, but we have too many foolish intellectuals, and not enough wise ignoramuses. O.K., now for a […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
I wonder…do we really want to pray like we so often do, for strength? Do we understand what that implies? Are we ready to accept the consequences of praying for strength? The way we often act, we don’t want strength. Why? We don’t want the situation that requires strength. Strength is only needed when strength […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
Then the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was lead away into exile from its land (Jeremiah 52:27) Exile and death; family and friends separated by the decisions of others. The parting might have been through exile into another nation. Those […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
Don’t try to pronounce these places – Aiath, Migron, Michmash, Gallim, Laishah, Anathoth, Madmenah, and others. Not only are the pronunciations forgotten, so are these places. In fact, they are so forgotten that not a single name is recognized by my spellchecker! History has forgotten…though inspiration has not – Isaiah 10. People and places are […]
PHall | September 15, 2009
Not once, not even a little bit, have my tools burst out bragging. Yes, there are different levels of tools, but even the best tool in the wrong hand is inferior to the worst tool in a skilled hand. The heart of the king of Assyria was arrogant and haughty. He said, “By the power […]
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
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
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
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 […]