The Epic Life - Bob Hallman

Enjoy this sermon message delivered by Pastor Bob Hallman at Crossroads Christian Fellowship Kauai on 9/11/2016  Paul in this book is actually fighting for the freedom of the Colossians in their spiritual life and so he tells them in verse 8, he says see to it that you are not taken captive. Actually, in the in the New King James it says that he's actually encouraging us to not be cheated.  Enjoy...

Colossians 1:9-14. Enjoy this audio from a full sermon message pastor Bob Hallman delivered July 30, 2019 at Crossroads Christian Fellowship Kauai    In this sermon, Paul is going to encourage the church even further and we're going to find out more about this church, but we're going to find out a little bit about Paul too, because the Apostle Paul was one of the great leaders in Israel. He was on...

Enjoy this audio from a message Pastor Bob Hallman delivered 08/21/2016. "Paul elevates the church because Christ elevates the church Christ elevates the church and says you are no longer sinners by identity but you are Saints those that are set apart for the work of God this is the first characteristic of a truly born again person is they have embraced this new identity not as ongoing sinners as...

Enjoy this audio replay of a message Bob delivered 08/27/2016  on Colossians 1:15-23. It really comes down to the person of Jesus Christ. Who was he? That's why I've entitled the message liar Lord or lunatic because you've got to make a choice between one of those three options when we're looking at the person of Christ, and when you make that decision, it changes the course of your life, it chang...

Enjoy this audio podcast of a sermon message Pastor Bob Hallman delivered 07/31/2016 In his Colossians Series One of the very first things Paul does before he does anything else, before he corrects the doctrine or talks about the supremacy of Christ he's going to simply pray for the church in Colossae.  I find it very interesting because when I was thinking about the fact that his first response i...

As we celebrate #resurrectionSunday, we hope you'll enjoy audio from a replay of a message Pastor Bob delivered April 17, 2016, titled "The Apocalypses (Revelation)"   In this Sunday Sermon, Pastor Bob talks about the resurrection. It's the center piece of the entire Gospel message. It's been called the hinge of history because everything swings on that historical event. Everything before that is...

This is the audio from a Good Friday message Pastor Bob Hallman Delivered April 2, 2021, in Kauai Hawaii. The work that Christ did on the cross was on Extrusion.   When you are in the hopeless pit of despair, in the middle of a fiery trial, Jesus understands how you feel. And we can take from His example, and His life, and His response, that even in fieriest of trials, even in the worst of extrusi...

In this audio clip from a full sermons Pastor Bob Hallman delivered.   In chapter 21 all the way through chapter 26 we have the compression of five days all taking place within these within these chapters.   On Saturday before the Passover Feast, Jesus came to Jerusalem along with many other pilgrims probably to two and a half to three million people that would crowd into this little town of Jerus...

Enjoy this audio version of a message Pastor Bob Hallman delivered 4/13/2008 to the church body titled Vindicated by God (Acts 28:1-31)   The Apostle Paul was arrested on false charges by the Jews of starting riots in Ephesus and defiling the temple courts.  He was brought before several Roman officials who found him to be innocent of the charges, but because of the fear of the Jews, failed to rel...

I find it interesting the number of times we find ships caught in storms in the Bible: Noah on his way to a new beginning for mankind - Gen 6-9 Jonah on his way to Tarshish - Jonah 1:4-5 The disciples on their way to the other side of the Sea of Galilee - Mark 6:45-52 Why? Because violent storms in our lives often advance the purposes of God: 1. They humble us remind us of our need to rely on God...

A review of the purpose of the Luke’s letters – Luke and Acts: To give an orderly account of Christianity - Luke 1:1-4 To verify the arrival of the promised Holy Spirit To explain the disciple’s remarkable transformation To document the birth and growth of the church To justify the inclusion of the Gentiles To bridge the gap between the gospels and the epistles       To present a defense for Paul’...

The Buck Stops Here President Harry Truman made this saying famous in 1945 when he commissioned a plaque for his White House desk that said in bold letters, “The Buck Stops Here!” The origin of the phrase comes from a slang term from the game of Poker during the frontier days.  The dealer would switch every hand and would be designated by a knife with a buckhorn handle.  If a person preferred to n...

           Paul had been arrested in Jerusalem as a riot was about to break out in the temple courts. He had made two unsuccessful attempts to placate the Jews and to testify to them of Jesus Christ. They refused to listen; and now, after a plot against his life, he has been brought down to the province capital, Caesarea, where his case will be formally heard by the Roman procurator, Governor Feli...

Paul had arrived in Jerusalem with the intent to preach the gospel to the Jews. Before he had the chance, the Asian Jews from Ephesus incited a riot against him. Paul was rescued by a Roman Commander named Claudius Lysius and his forces. Paul requested to speak to the violent crowd and proceeded to share his testimony. Once more, the crowd erupted into a violent riot and attempted to take Paul’s l...

Introduction In our study last week we left Paul as he was being brutally beaten by a mob in Jerusalem who had been falsely informed by the Hellenistic Jews from Ephesus that Paul had rejected the Mosaic Law and had defiled the Temple by bringing in Gentile visitors. The OT law and the Temple were symbols, a foreshadowing of God’s ultimate work through Christ.  They were “signposts” designed to gu...

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Paul was a man of his word!  In Acts 18:21 he promised the Ephesians that he would return after visiting the churches of Galatia and Phrygia, and in Acts 19 we find Paul fulfilling his promise. Fast facts about Ephesus: It was once one of the jewels of the Roman Empire It was the most important city in Asia Minor (modern day Turkey) in Paul’s day It was one of the foremost urban centers in the emp...

Acts 18:18-28 marks the final leg of Paul’s second missionary journey and covers over 1,500 miles and four major city centers.          8/12/2007

As we continue our study in the book of Acts, we find Paul leaving Athens, the intellectual capital of the Roman world, and heading into Corinth, the Greco-Roman capital of sexual immorality. These two cities are symbols of the twin evils, which, in every day and every generation, trap and enslave the hearts of people: intellectual pride and sensual lust. More than any other chapter in the book of...

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Today, we pick up our study of Paul’s second missionary journey where we find him alone in the great city of Athens. Acts 17:15 tells us that he had been escorted on the 300 mile trip to Athens by some fellow believers due to Jewish opposition in Berea. Once they arrived with Paul, they immediately returned home with instructions from Paul to send Silas and Timothy as soon as possible.   Although...

We pick up the story line of Paul’s second missionary journey as Paul, Silas and Timothy preach the gospel of Jesus Christ in three strategic cities: Thessalonica (17:1-10a), Berea (17:10b-15), and Athens (17:16-34).  Each of these cities were on the famous Roman road called the Egnatian Way, which crossed Macedonia and connected the Adriatic Sea with the Black Sea. From Luke’s brevity, one might...