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Dr Taylor Marshall Podcast

#063: Is Being A Christian Hard or Easy?

Dr Taylor Marshall Podcast

Dr. Taylor Marshall

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

4.7 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2015

⏱️ 36 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

My goal this week is to examine whether it’s easier or harder to be a Christian and how “peace” and “rest” should be at the center of our lives as followers of Jesus Christ. Click to Listen: #063: Is Being A Christian Hard or Easy?   If the audio player does not show up in your email or browser, please click here to listen. Proverb of the week: Sirach 25:5-6 Featured Segment: Is being Catholic easy or hard? Announcements: 2015 Enrollment for New Saint Thomas Institute is now closed. We had over 400 new students enroll and if you are one of them or one of our existing Member students, thank you so much. It’s going to be a great year in the New Saint Thomas Institute. If you want to join but missed the enrollment deadline, you can sign up to be on our priority waiting list so that you receive priority notification before we make any announcements about future enrollment possibilities. Please visit: newsaintthomas.com for more details. 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You're listening to the Taylor Marshall Show episode is 63 and did you know that 63 is the

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international calling code for the Philippines and Pope Francis just left the Philippines?

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Hmm. Interesting connection.

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Anyway, here's episode 63. Howdy and thank you for tuning in to the Taylor Marshall Show. This is the

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podcast for everyone who wants to create daily habits and learn enough theology to take their faith to the next level.

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And this week we're going to look at a question.

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Is it hard to be a Christian or is it easy to be a Christian? We're going to look what Jesus says.

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Plus, all the tip of the week and much more. Well welcome back to the show.

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We're going to talk about a question that is at the heart of the gospel, the teachings of Jesus

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Christ. And that is, is it difficult or easy to be a Christian?

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Maybe to even amplify it a little bit.

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Is it difficult to be a Catholic with all the extra teachings we have and you know no fish on

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Fridays and you know no sex before marriage and even when you get married you can't

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contraceptives is it hard to be a Catholic is it hard to be a Christian the people on

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the outside who aren't Christians look at the life of Christians say mmm that

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looks too hard I don't want I don't want to pay that price or is there something easy

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about Christianity is being Catholic easier than not being a

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Catholic so today we're going to explore that I'm just going to give you a heads up

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I think it's easier than it is harder. And I'll explain why.

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And we're going to look at a passage in the Gospels where our Lord Jesus Christ

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talks a little bit about that.

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But before we jump into our featured segment,

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