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Christopher A. Hall

Christopher A. Hall

Christopher A. Hall

Articles & Essays by Christopher A. Hall

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Essay

The Feast that Satisfies and Never Satiates

Published January, 2017 • Featured January 23, 2017
God sets a meal before us — the never ending feast of deepening intimacy with the Trinity through Jesus Christ. Chris Hall describes this extraordinary invitation to know God in both the now and the not yet.
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Essay

Are All Doctrinal Arguments About Doctrine?

Published January, 2017 • Featured January 16, 2017
Chris Hall offers helpful words of caution to Christians, and particularly to pastors and teachers: Guard against a polemical spirit.
Catching Our Breath
Essay

Catching Our Breath

Published November, 2016 • Featured November 28, 2016
Chris Hall invites us to find unhurried spaces where we can ​“discern the quiet, insistent voice of God calling us into his wonderful, breathtaking mystery.” Come and refresh your soul.
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Article

Concrete Means of Grace

Featured November 7, 2016
Chris Hall exhorts us to turn away from spiritual junk food and feast on the ancient spiritual disciplines as we dig deeper into a knowledge of God that engages mind, body, and spirit.
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Article

The Tarnished Image-Bearers

Featured September 26, 2016
Chris Hall celebrates the good news of the Incarnation in this piece adapted from The Mystery of God: Theology for Knowing the Unknowable.
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Essay

The Exponentially Personal Trinity

Published September, 2016 • Featured September 5, 2016
“Three persons who are distinct, but are not, by any stretch of the imagination, independent of one another. On the contrary, they are so dependent, so interdependent, that though each is the one God, they also together constitute the one God.” Chris Hall considers this mystery of the Trinity.
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Essay

Taking God Personally

Featured August 29, 2016
In this post, Chris Hall explores what he calls the ​“personalness” of God, saying not only does God possess this quality, but that he is ​“Personalness itself.” We invite you to consider some of the ramifications of our God who is not an ​“It” but a ​“Thou,” and not just an ​“I” but also a ​“we.”
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Article

A Huge Wave of Glory

Featured August 1, 2016
Chris Hall looks at God as the source of all glory and goodness and offers ​“a summons to celebrate, to adore, to trust, to bow.”