by Rob Taylor | Jan 1, 2009 | Challenges
3 John 2-4 – Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. For I rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, just as you walk in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear...
by Rob Taylor | Jan 1, 2009 | Challenges
Galatians 1:10 – For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ. Paul’s idea was not “I want to persuade God to my point of view.” The idea is that God was his audience. When he...
by Rob Taylor | Jan 1, 2009 | Challenges
James 1:19-20 – So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. We can learn to be slow to wrath, by first learning to be swift to hear and slow to speak....
by Rob Taylor | Jan 1, 2009 | Challenges
2 Corinthians 12:10 – Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. Naturally speaking, it is quite impossible for you to take pleasure in the type of...
by Rob Taylor | Jan 1, 2009 | Challenges
1 John 2:4 – He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. John is looking at the over-all character of a person’s life. If someone says he knows God but does not keep His commandments, then it is clear...
