Prov 4:1-9 Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding. I give you sound learning, so do not forsake my teaching. When I was a boy in my father’s house, still tender, and an only child of my mother, he taught me and said, “Lay hold…

“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.” James 5:15-16 NIV84 The key to putting power in our prayers is personal righteousness. This is not at all meaning our perfection,…

The bible teaches us that the “acts of the sinful nature are obvious” (Galatians 5:19) and that those who are in the world apart from God “think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation” (1 Peter 4:4) – that “dissipation” being the…