by Rob Taylor | Jan 1, 2009 | Challenges
1 Peter 4:9 – Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. One means of demonstrating love to the brethren is by practicing hospitality ungrudgingly. Hospitality is a tremendous privilege. No matter how slight the kindness, it will be rewarded greatly, even...
by Rob Taylor | Jan 1, 2009 | Challenges
2 Corinthians 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. One motive for being well pleasing to Christ is that you must appear before...
by Rob Taylor | Jan 1, 2009 | Challenges
Philippians 4:11-13 – Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound...
by Rob Taylor | Jan 1, 2009 | Challenges
James 1:17 – Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. In the Greek text there are two separate words to describe God’s giving. The first word means...
by Rob Taylor | Jan 1, 2009 | Challenges
John 15:13 – Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. An entire nation was revived when John Knox prayed, “Lord, give me Scotland, or I die.” But what many people don’t know is what Knox wrote concerning...
by Rob Taylor | Jan 1, 2009 | Challenges
1 Thessalonians 5:25 – Brethren, pray for us. Paul asks for the prayers of the saints. He never outgrew the need for prayer and neither should you. The force of his request is a strong “keep on praying.” Paul’s appeal for prayer was to those he...
