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PHall | August 18, 2012
Author Unknown Blessed are those who are too tired, too busy, too distracted to spend a few hours a week with their fellow Christians. They are my best workers. Blessed are those Christians who wait to be asked and expect to be thanked. I can use them. Blessed are the “touchy” who stop going to […]
PHall | August 17, 2012
The Beatitudes are not just a separate clause of beautiful statements, but a preamble setting the foundation for what follows. Fulfilling true righteousness and imitate God (5:48) is not possible within this Declaration of Dependence without God first and foremost creating within us a poverty of spirit, a mournful self-evaluation, a gentle heart, a hungering […]
PHall | August 16, 2012
The Sermon on the Mount presents a morality that is upside down to the world, but not because the teaching is upside down, but because the world is wrong-side up. “What is the good life?” “Who is a good person?” These questions every culture and individual ask. Jesus’ answers are not the norm. Through promotion […]
PHall | August 15, 2012
Because the Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew’s gospel account, let’s just focus on some of those prophecies prior to the Sermon. Mathew 1:23; Isaiah 7:14 – The original promise given to Ahaz is about victory over enemies. Matthew 2:6; Micah 5:2 – Jesus is called a Shepherd and ruler, who leads to […]
PHall | August 15, 2012
“The gospel of the kingdom” means “the good news of the reign of God.” That the gospel is “good news” does not mean that everything in the gospel is what we want to hear. Jesus also preached “repent” which means we are sinners. But here is the point. The reason why the gospel is good […]
PHall | August 15, 2012
is the idea or purpose behind “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand?” Is it a plea? “Please repent, so you can enter the kingdom of heaven.” Is it a warning, “You better repent because the kingdom of heaven is coming!” The answer is, both. After studying the coming kingdom from an O.T. […]
PHall | August 15, 2012
Do we feel guilty when you read the Sermon on the Mount? Do we look at ourselves and think, “I just don’t measure up?” If we do, you are not alone. But maybe, and this is an important life-changing point, we are reading it totally wrong. May I suggest an alternative approach? There’s an old […]
PHall | August 9, 2012
The meaning of the gospel marks one of the greatest divides within modern Christian Theology, marked by both a Right and a Left. The truth, like in much of life, is found in the middle. The Religious Left looks at the righteousness of the Sermon on the Mount as a call to Social Justice. Earth, […]
PHall | August 9, 2012
The gospel, what does that mean? Does it mean the same as the “gospel of the Kingdom” (Matthew 4:23)? Both John the Baptist and Jesus Christ preached the good news of the kingdom of God, but we don’t see either teaching – in the beginning – about His death burial and resurrection (1 Cor.15:1-3). Those […]
PHall | August 8, 2012
Compared to the world in which Jesus walked, today’s displays all the same foibles and failures of yesteryear minus the benefit of “the assumptions.” With theoretical and scientific advancements increasing our opinions of ourselves, each advancing society continues to become less advanced in “the assumptions.” Our triumphs over the scientific and medical maladies of the […]