PHall | June 27, 2019
God’s preferred, created, family order – shown in Genesis 1-3 – is a process that gives a better opportunity to be spiritually enriched. And because God’s ways are for our good , it helps people out of emotional and economical poverty.That last reason – economic stability – is not a “higher order” or prime moral […]
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PHall | October 22, 2016
There is “The World’s Culture” and then there is “Your Family Culture.” Two examples of this are found in our children. When our daughters were young, many of their friend’s parents were divorcing. It was getting so bad Janet and I sat them down and comforted them saying, “We will never divorce.” Our youngest daughter, […]
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PHall | October 11, 2016
Be the type of husband you would want as a wife. Be the type of wife you would want as a husband. Be the type of parent you would want as a child. Be the type of child you would want as a parent.
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PHall | August 30, 2013
There is an emptiness that consumes. When this emptiness is God absent, we can hunger and thirst after righteousness and be filled. When an unhealthy emptiness is like a black hole, it swallows everything around it into non-existence. Sometimes the pressure is self-inflicted, at times forced on us by family; even society can be guilty […]
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PHall | August 29, 2013
Did you hear the joke about the mother-in-law? Apparently, neither did Ruth. In the little book bearing her name, there are no recorded prayers; but there is a prayer-like promise invoking God’s name. The story of Ruth is not about Ruth. The focus is not a love story between the progenitors of David, Ruth and […]
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