by Rob Taylor | Jan 1, 2009 | Challenges
Ezekiel 36:26 – I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. When you accept Jesus as Savior, God purifies you from your sins. This cleansing will be followed by the...
by Rob Taylor | Jan 1, 2009 | Challenges
Titus 2:11–14 – For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of...
by Rob Taylor | Jan 1, 2009 | Challenges
Philippians 3:14 – I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Because Paul realized that he had not arrived, there was only one option open for him. He had to press on. There was no turning back for Him. “I press!” carries...
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....