What you believe about the Scriptures will drastically affect the remainder of your life. Now, I know that's a loaded statement. But I 100% believe it is true not only for the unbeliever but the believer as well.

Godliness is no optional spiritual luxury for a few quaint Christians of a bygone era or for some group of super-saints of today. It is both the privilege and duty of every Christian to pursue godliness, to train himself to be godly, to study diligently the practice of godliness.

— Jerry Bridges

The Christian home is a godly indoctrination camp!

God has ordained the home to be the primary worldview shaper of the next-generation. Stated another way, it has always been the intention of God that a father and mother would purposefully disciple the kids within their four walls to know who God is and know the Truth found in His Word.

Failure to keep watch over your heart opens the doors to all types of sin in our lives. It opens the door to anger, bitterness, drunkenness, envy, gossip, lust, pride, sloth, and much more. And we find ample proof of the vulnerableness of our hearts all through the Scriptures,

“The heart of man is his worst part before it is regenerated and the best afterward; … the greatest difficulty in conversion is to win the heart to God; and the greatest difficulty after conversion, is to keep the heart with God.”

- John Flavel

In the book of James, we are reminded of a requirement for God-honoring prayer. Faith. James writes specifically in James 1:6-8, “6 But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind…