Open Mobile Menu
Get Involved!
The most important step to plugging in at Taylors is getting involved in biblical community, and Life Groups are the best place to start.
@TheRealJames | Week 15 | Authentic Prayer | Taylors FBC Sermon
July 17, 2016 | Sermon Notes
Authentic Prayer / James 5:13-18
Pray at All Times, in All Circumstances (James 5:13-14)
Respond with Personal Prayer (James 5:13)
Request Intercessory Prayer (James 5:14)
Prayer Changes Things (James 5:15-16)
Prayer Restores and Renews (James 5:15)
There’s Healing Potential within a Praying Community (James 5:16)
Prayer + Righteousness = Transformational Power (James 5:16-18)
God uses Ordinary People to do Extraordinary Things
Answers to Prayer are Within the Reach of Any Believer
Where Prayer Focuses, Power Falls
@TheRealJames | Week 14 | Authentic Responses | Taylors FBC Sermon
July 10, 2016 | Sermon Notes | John Alexander
James 5:12
Matthew 5:33-37
1 Samuel 2:3
Proverbs 16:2
@TheRealJames | Week 13 | Authentic Endurance | Taylors FBC Sermon
July 3, 2016 | Sermon Notes
Authentic Endurance / James 5:7-11
How does God want us to respond when we’ve been treated unfairly?
Where does the motivation to respond that way come from?
James 5:7-11
Exercise Patience (James 5:7)
Exercise Faith in His Promised Return (James 5:8)
Exercise Restraint (James 5:9)
Emulate the Example of Others (James 5:10)
Embrace the Lord’s Purpose and Provision (James 5:11)
If you want to smile through your tears, if you want to rejoice through times of suffering, just keep reminding yourself that what you’re going through isn’t the end of the story, it’s simply the rough journey that leads to the right destination. – Chuck Swindoll
Embrace the hope of tomorrow to patiently endure the hardships of today.
@TheRealJames | Week 12 | Authentic Power | Taylors FBC Sermon
June 26, 2016 | Sermon Notes
James 5:1-6
1. A lifestyle of hoarding disregards an eternal perspective on people and possessions.
2. A lifestyle of injustice disregards the heart of God for the lowly.
3. A lifestyle of indulgence reveals an appetite solely for my own passions.
Luke 12:32-34
1 Timothy 6:6-10
@TheRealJames | Week 11 | Authentic Planning | Taylors FBC Sermon
June 19, 2016 | Sermon Notes
James 4:13-17
1. Planning with control over your future in mind is planning without God in mind.
2. Life is uncertain, short, and out of our control.
3. Condition your mind and heart to see that all my possessions, relationships, and plans belong to God.
Prayer: plan nothing without petitioning God.
Practice: do nothing without the permission of God.
4. Leaving God out of our plans is living in prideful rebellion.
@TheRealJames | Week 10 | Authentic Humility, Part 2 | Taylors FBC Sermon
June 12, 2016 | Sermon Notes
James 4:6-10
1. Humility resists the Devil.
2. Humility draws us close to God.
3. Humility brings confession that leads to holiness.
4. Humility produces seriousness toward sin.
5. The gospel’s formula: the way “up” is “down.”
@TheRealJames | Week 9 | Authentic Humility, Part 1 | Taylors FBC Sermon
June 5, 2016 | Sermon Notes
James 4:1-10
1. Humility brings submission and opens the door to God’s grace.
James | Week 8 | Authentic Speech | Taylors FBC Sermon
March 13, 2016 | Sermon Notes
1. Teachers face great accountability for their content and character (James 3:1).
2. Control over your words leads to control over your life (James 3:2-5).
3. Words can cause great damage – deep and wide – if untamed (James 3:5-9).
Ephesians 4:29-32
4. Words divulge what is genuine and display the fruit of our lives (James 3:9-12).
Jesus in Matthew 12:33-37
5. To speak evil of others is elevate ourselves to God’s level (James 4:11-12).
James | Week 6 | Authentic Faith | Taylors FBC Sermon
February 21, 2016 | Sermon Notes
1. Faith without fruit is not authentic faith at all (James 2:14-17)
2. Belief about God does not equal belief in God (James 2:18-19)
3. Authentic faith is affirmed and completed by works not achieved by works (James 2:20-26)
Ephesians 2:8-10
A. Abandonment of everything.
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. – Elisabeth Eliot
B. Available to all.
Two questions to monitor spiritual health:
Who am I trusting?
Why am I working?
James | Week 5 | Authentic Love | Taylors FBC Sermon
February 14, 2016 | Sermon Notes
1. You cannot carry the name of Jesus in one hand and show favoritism with the other (James 2:1)
2. We’re quick to show favoritism because our hearts are conditioned by our culture (James 2:2-4)
3. Favoritism runs counter to the culture of God’s kingdom (James 2:5-7)
God’s thinking on our differences:
a. God has made us in his image and our diversity reflects His glory (Genesis 1:26-27)
b. God’s character shows no favoritism (Romans 2:11, Ephesians 6:9, and Colossians 3:25)
c. The gospel breaks down ethnic barriers (Ephesians 2:14)
d. The nations–all ethnic groups–will be worshipping together around the throne at the end of history (Revelation 7:9-10)