Prayer as Gift

The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.  James 5:16 NASB Righteous – Now we reach the critical word of James’ statement about prayer.  The Greek is dikaiou.  This is a word derived from the concept of justice.  The man who is just (righteous) is the man who has been declared “not guilty”…

Shooting Blanks

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, Romans 5:1 Justified By Faith – It’s extremely unfortunate that Cardinal Hugo and Joseph Athias divided the Bible up into chapters (introduced about 1240 AD) and Arabic numeral verses (introduced in 1661).  While such conventions became necessary for technological…