Darryl Hall

Pastor of Lifewell Church in Garland, Tx. Live well, love well, Lifewell.

[Darryl Hall @LifewellD]

Cha-ching! Does God want you to be rich? Here's something I wrote several years ago in response to prosperity preachers on TV. https://t.co/bZWc3aUBeO

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

Back when I was Muslim, I never connected these dots. This is the one that kept me up at night.

I always argued, “We honor Jesus MORE than Christians. We protect his honor by saying he never died such a shameful death.”

I thought avoiding the cross was respect. That’s just what I was taught from a young age.

…then I understood what the cross actually was.

I was “honoring” Jesus by stripping Him of the very thing He came to do. Like praising a firefighter while insisting he never ran into the fire.

Jesus said no one took His life. He laid it down on His own authority. John 10:18.

I was deleting His glory, majesty, everything the Messiah was foretold to accomplish in His brutal life.

The most honoring thing you can say about Jesus is the one thing Islam forbade me from saying:

He chose to die for me.

[Shane Pruitt @shane_pruitt78]

Sadly, too many leaders, schools, & denominations have taken the same destructive path when leaving the faith:

1) Question the inerrancy & authority of Scripture.
2) Begin to compromise their stance on sexual sin.
3) Challenge the validity of Jesus & penal substitutionary atonement.
4) Ascribe to some form of Universalism, deny the existence of a literal Hell, & completely leave anything that looks like true Biblical faith.

Don't trust leaders that don't trust the Bible, because they're always heading somewhere destructive!

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

The Quran gets so much completely wrong. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.

A glaring inconsistency is Jesus’ mother’s genealogy and childhood.

Most Christians don’t realize that Mary is in the Quran, but once they hear her origin story, they know it is untrue. 

Surah 3:35-37: Mary’s mother (the wife of Imran) dedicates Mary to the temple, and Mary is placed under the care of ZECHARIAH, growing up in the temple sanctuary where God provides her food.

This weaves Mary into a temple-childhood narrative drawn largely from the apocryphal Protoevangelium of James, not the Gospels. 

Luke simply presents Mary as a young woman in Nazareth, betrothed to Joseph, visited by Gabriel. Luke 1:26-27. No temple upbringing.

And calling her father “Imran” (Amram, father of Moses/Aaron) folds her back into the Exodus family line, the conflation we saw in the “sister of Aaron” case.

So Mary’s backstory in the Quran blends apocryphal legend (temple childhood) with an Exodus-era genealogy (Imran), details from centuries apart and from non-biblical sources.

Contrast this to the Gospels. They keep Mary historically grounded: a specific young woman, in a specific town, at a specific time, from David’s line. Luke 1:27, “of the house of David.”

That Davidic descent is essential, because the Messiah had to be David’s son: “The Lord God will give to Him the throne of His father David.” Luke 1:32.

The Quran gave Mary a legendary temple childhood.

The Gospel gave her a real genealogy that qualified her Son to be the promised King.

The details weren’t decoration. They were the Messiah’s credentials.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

Example of the Quran adding in folklore to Old Testament stories:

Solomon’s army includes jinn “bound in chains” for construction, a later demonology read back into his reign.

Surah 38:37-38: among Solomon’s forces are “the devils, every builder and diver, and others bound together in chains.”

The idea of Solomon binding demons to build is developed folklore. Most fully in the Testament of Solomon, a text from the early centuries AD that elaborates Solomon commanding demons via a magic ring.

The Bible’s temple construction is entirely human and administrative: Solomon levies workers, contracts with Hiram of Tyre for cedar and skilled labor, quarries stone. 1 Kings 5:13-18. Not one demon. Not one jinn.

And here’s the theological problem the Quran’s version creates: the Bible condemns consorting with spirits as detestable. “There shall not be found among you.., a medium or necromancer.” Deuteronomy 18:10-11. A Solomon who commands demons is a Solomon in violation of God’s own law.

The Bible’s Solomon builds with human hands, and his sin (when it comes) is idolatry through foreign wives, honestly recorded. 

1 Kings 11:4. The Quran gave Solomon a demon workforce from later legend.

The Bible kept him human, and kept the temple a picture of something greater: “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up… He was speaking of the temple of His body.” John 2:19-21.

Solomon’s temple pointed to the true Temple: the body of Christ, torn down and raised.

[Dr. Abby Johnson @AbbyJohnson]

The brutality of what the governor endorsed and legalized cannot be understated. Full term babies are going to literally be ripped apart in the womb in the name of ‘healthcare’ and ‘choice’ and these women all proudly stood behind the governor with big smiles while she signed a death warrant.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

After I left from Islam, I had a point in life where I examined all the different religions, including Judaism and Christianity.

As I studied the Old Testament, I couldn’t deny it - Jesus is written all over the Old Testament.

Let me give a profound example:

There’s a law in the Old Testament about “accidental killers.” Numbers 35. 

If a man killed someone unintentionally, the victim’s family could hunt him for blood vengeance. 

But God set up cities of refuge. Reach the city, and you’re safe. Numbers 35:11-15.

But two conditions. 

You had to STAY inside the city. 

And you could only go free when one specific person died: the high priest. 

“After the death of the high priest the manslayer may return.” Numbers 35:28.

The death of the high priest set every refugee free.

I was a guilty man running, blood on my hands.

And Jesus is called “a great high priest.” Hebrews 4:14.

His death is the death that opens the door. 

Every guilty person hiding in Him walks free the moment the High Priest dies.

But here’s the wonder: 

Jesus is BOTH. He’s the city I flee into, “we who have fled for refuge” (Hebrews 6:18) AND the High Priest whose death releases me.

The refuge and the ransom, in ONE Person.

I ran into Him to escape judgment. And His own death is what set me free inside Him.

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

This is what a 34-week-old baby looks like outside the womb.

In Massachusetts, you can now abort an unborn baby at this age.

The only difference is the child’s location.

[Darryl Hall @LifewellD]

They do not fear bad news; they confidently trust the Lord to care for them.
Read Psalm 112
https://t.co/11ZCJd57IU

[Darryl Hall @LifewellD]

a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously...
Read 2 Corinthians 9
https://t.co/2BIJ0aMsmr

[Darryl Hall @LifewellD]

Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see.
Read Hebrews 11
https://t.co/XzBfYEmU7D

[Darryl Hall @LifewellD]

And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do
Read Hebrews 10
https://t.co/I247YVRt2X

[Darryl Hall @LifewellD]

But that isn't what you learned about Christ.
Read Ephesians 4
https://t.co/SQTDn1fg6c

[Darryl Hall @LifewellD]

Don't miss church tomorrow!

[Darryl Hall @LifewellD]

This Sunday's message will use the latest Spiderman film to illustrate some important truth from life and the Bible. Hope you plan on being at church!

[Shane Pruitt @shane_pruitt78]

The Church must:

-Make disciples,
not consumers.
-Preach the Bible,
not opinions.
-Plan theological worship services,
not theatrical ones.
-Make Jesus famous,
not ourselves.
-Expand God's Kingdom,
not our brand.
-Be ambassadors of Christ,
not causes.

[Darryl Hall @LifewellD]

All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong
2 Timothy 3
https://t.co/kHijVBsxMH

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I thought the Old Testament was just old Jewish history. Disconnected stories.

Then I saw the thread.

The high priest in Israel could only enter God’s presence once a year, behind a thick veil, with blood, and only after endless washing. The veil screamed: you cannot come in. Access denied. Leviticus 16.

That veil stood for 1,500 years. A wall between God and man.

Then Jesus died.

And the Gospel records that at the exact moment He died, that veil ripped. Top to bottom. Matthew 27:51.

Top to bottom, because no man could reach the top. Only God could tear it, and He tore it from His side.

And here’s the part that undid me.

For 1,500 years the message was STAY OUT.
Jesus died and the message became COME IN.

Islam kept me behind a veil, washing, performing, hoping to get close.

The cross tore the veil so I could walk straight in.

Meeting Jesus has me cost everything, and I’d do it 1000x over again. It’s just that worth it.

[Darryl Hall @LifewellD]

Avoid worthless, foolish talk that only leads to more godless behavior.
Read 2 Timothy 2
https://t.co/BwRcMA0uvt

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

My father watched the second plane hit the Towers with his own eyes. What happened after is why I’ll never let you mock Muslims on my page.

He lived the aftermath every brown man in New York lived. The looks. The suspicion. The word “Muslim” turned into a weapon pointed AT us.

And here’s what nobody understands about why leaving Islam is so hard:

When the world attacks your people, your identity FUSES to the group. Persecution doesn’t weaken tribal faith, bro.

It WELDS it that much tighter.

Questioning Islam didn’t feel like doubting doctrine. It felt like joining the side that profiled my father.

So fellow Christian, hear me, because I love you and you need this:

When you mock Muslims… when you sneer… when you make it about “those people”…

You are WELDING the very chains you claim you want broken.

Every insult buys another decade of resistance. Every sneer confirms everything they were told about you.

My rule, and it’s non-negotiable on this page:

Savage on the BOOKS. Tender on the PEOPLE.

The books can be weighed. The people are my mother. My cousins. Me, ten years ago.

Jesus looked at crowds exactly like mine and had COMPASSION, because they were like sheep without a shepherd.

Compassion, bro. Not contempt.

You want to reach Muslims?

Love them so well the truth becomes safe to consider.

That’s how I got reached. It’s the only way anybody does.

Jesus said, Love your neighbor. Even if it costs you everything,