Pastor Taylor is a native of Pine Bluff and a graduate of Pine Bluff High School. He attended Ouachita Baptist University and received his B.A. in 1967. He did graduate Work at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in Mill Valley, California. He received his Master of Divinity degree from there in 1970 and the Doctor of Ministry degree in 1980. While attending Seminary, Pastor Taylor served as a Student Chaplain at San Quentin State Prison for two years. He has served as Pastor in Arkansas, Chicago and the San Francisco Bay area. Pastor Taylor and his wife JoAnne have two grown children and twelve grandchildren.
If you had a bank that credited your account each morning with $86,400, and that carried no balance from day to day.
It also allowed you to keep no cash in your account from one day to the next, and cancelled what you did not use that day…
What would you do with your $86,400? For most of us that would be a “no brainer.” We would draw out the full amount.
Well, we all actually do have such a bank. It is called TIME.
Every morning each one of us is credited with 86,400 seconds. We can use it as we choose.
But we cannot save any of it, or hold it over for tomorrow. Neither can we make any overdrafts of it.
If we fail to use any portion of it the loss is ours alone and it can never be regained.
In Chicago at one time there were a series of large billboards which declared in large letters…
YOU HAVE 24 HOURS TO LIVE. Then as you got closer, in smaller letters there was this in small print, “Today that is, so what are you doing with your time and your life?”
TIME. Something everyone of us receives in equal daily amounts.
In fact one of the most asked question today is “What time is it.”?
That is a good question, really. For a number of reasons. It is a good question to ask for spiritual reasons as well as in the desire to know where we are in relation to the day.
In the book of Ecclesiastes the writer is admonishing us to consider carefully the use of our time. Listen:
1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8)
It also allowed you to keep no cash in your account from one day to the next, and cancelled what you did not use that day…
What would you do with your $86,400? For most of us that would be a “no brainer.” We would draw out the full amount.
Well, we all actually do have such a bank. It is called TIME.
Every morning each one of us is credited with 86,400 seconds. We can use it as we choose.
But we cannot save any of it, or hold it over for tomorrow. Neither can we make any overdrafts of it.
If we fail to use any portion of it the loss is ours alone and it can never be regained.
In Chicago at one time there were a series of large billboards which declared in large letters…
YOU HAVE 24 HOURS TO LIVE. Then as you got closer, in smaller letters there was this in small print, “Today that is, so what are you doing with your time and your life?”
TIME. Something everyone of us receives in equal daily amounts.
In fact one of the most asked question today is “What time is it.”?
That is a good question, really. For a number of reasons. It is a good question to ask for spiritual reasons as well as in the desire to know where we are in relation to the day.
In the book of Ecclesiastes the writer is admonishing us to consider carefully the use of our time. Listen:
1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8)