Allan Taylor

Follower of Jesus Christ. Associate Pastor, First Baptist Concord, Knoxville, TN. Husband, father, grandfather. Go Vols!

[Allan Taylor @allantaylor23]

God often responds to complaints with challenges. So difficulties often indicate where faith must grow.

[Allan Taylor @allantaylor23]

One cannot address their problems until they first contain their ego!

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Good things become bad things when they keep you from the best thing!

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It was into the home that sin first came. It is in our homes that revival first needs to come.

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Amen! Our country needs to repent & turn back to God!

[Carol M. Swain, PhD @carolmswain]

In a world gone mad, where evil is called “good,” darkness is praised as “light,” and bitter is sold as sweet — God’s Word and warnings ring louder than ever:

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!”

Isaiah 5:20-21 (KJV).

Our leaders are fighting wars on multiple fronts at once. Israel is under siege. America is stretched thin. Ukraine is mired in what seems to be a never-ending war.

China, Russia, and Europe are opportunistic players in this global crisis.

Favor from the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is our only hope.

We don’t need another congressional hearing or another speech about red lines.
We need God’s wisdom!

Let’s stop scrolling. Bow our heads and pray as the Lord leads.

Lord Jesus, grant our leaders supernatural wisdom and discernment.
Expose every lie and deception.

Protect the innocent.

Give our leaders humility and the courage to always choose light over darkness and good over evil in both domestic and foreign affairs.

I lift this petition in the name of Jesus.
Amen.

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[Allan Taylor @allantaylor23]

Great perspective indeed!

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Allan Taylor @allantaylor23]

“We have come to a place where calling sin, sin, is itself considered sin.” (Adrian Rogers)

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A story worth telling. A testimony worth reading

[Byron Donalds @ByronDonalds]

To you, it's just a Cracker Barrel parking lot. To me, it's where I gave my life to Jesus Christ.

I was 21 years old. I was working at the Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee after some of the worst years of my life. I'd made mistakes. Real ones.

I grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, raised by a mom who worked hard and didn't accept excuses. But I made decisions that should have ended my story before it ever really started. By the grace of God, they didn't. But every day, I was carrying them.

One afternoon, a church group came into the restaurant, just back from a revival. I served them their meals like I served any other table. But something happened while I was serving them. I can't fully explain it to you. The Lord spoke to me. He said, “Stop running from Me.”

It knocked me back.

I went to find the table, and they were all gone. I could see through their windows that they were getting on their bus, and I knew deep down that if I let them drive away, I was going to keep running. So I went outside. The last woman, just as she was stepping onto the bus, turned to me and asked, “Are you okay?”

I told her, “No ma’am, I’m not okay.” I told her the Lord was telling me to stop running.

That whole bus emptied out, stood with me in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee, Florida, and prayed over me right there.

I gave my life to Christ that day. Right there.

I still get emotional about it. Because I know what I was before that moment, and I know what He's done since. He gave me a wife who shares my faith. He gave me three sons. He gave me a career, a community, a calling I never would have dared to ask for. He took a kid from Crown Heights who’d run out of chances and gave him a life that doesn't make sense apart from grace.

People ask me sometimes why I talk about it. Why I bring up the parking lot. Why I don't just keep that part private and let folks see the polished version.

I'll tell you why.

Because there's a young man out there right now — maybe in Tallahassee, maybe in Tampa, maybe in Miami, maybe in a small town in the Panhandle — who thinks his story is already over. Who thinks the mistakes he's made disqualify him from the life he could have had. Who thinks God doesn't want anything to do with somebody like him.

I'm here to tell him: that's a lie.

In life, you're not who you are at the lowest point. You're who you choose to become after.

The Lord met me in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. He'll meet you wherever you are.

You just have to stop running.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

In Tennessee, we recognize June as Nuclear Family Month.

God was clear about His design for humanity, and I’m grateful to live in a state that celebrates and supports that foundation.

[Allan Taylor @allantaylor23]

Keeping God’s commandments does not save us. It demonstrates that we are saved. A changed heart produces a changed life.

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Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life like yours, this earth would be God’s paradise. (Phillip Brooks)

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Was reminded in my devotions today that I need God’s presence more than His presents!

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“There is just one basic dealing which can enable man to be useful before God: brokenness.” (Watchman Nee)

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Our preacher said this morning: “If Jesus is not a big deal to you, you don’t know Him!” Amen!

[Allan Taylor @allantaylor23]

“We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to The Ten Commandments of God.” (James Madison)

[Shane Pruitt @shane_pruitt78]

MORMONISM: started by Joseph Smith claiming an angel gave him a message.

ISLAM: started by Muhammad claiming an angel gave him a message.

BIBLE: “even if an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, a curse be on him (Gal. 1:8)!”

[Allan Taylor @allantaylor23]

Sin tolerated eventually becomes sin celebrated!

[Allan Taylor @allantaylor23]

“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying” (Martin Luther)