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Dr. James Boice

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July 25, 2025
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Are we truly prepared to follow Christ at any cost? Are we willing to bear pain for his sake? These questions become more than hypothetical when something as personal and precious as a family relationship is on the line. Today on The Bible Study Hour, Dr. Boice will explain how even the God-ordained institution of the family must be placed in submission to the call of Christ.

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We've all felt the sting of mental pain. Some of us are distressed by our jobs or our families; others have suffered from severe mental disorders for their whole lives. Whatever your story, you need to know the perfect peace that comes only by resting in the Lord God. In this booklet, Dr. Boice examines what the Bible says about the mental anguish that we face, and draw from God's Word pastoral comfort for the suffering.

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The gospel message is a simple one and we shouldn’t try to complicate it. But while it may be simple to understand, it’s far from easy to accept. Truly embracing the cross of Christ requires repentance and demands our full allegiance. Today, on The Bible Study Hour, we’ll learn that while the costs may be great, discipleship yields the greatest blessing of all - peace with God!
July 24, 2025
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We categorize people by age, gender, nationality, and socioeconomic status. And within the church, we even separate ourselves between denominations. With so many ways to distinguish and divide, how can we identify those who are truly unified as believers? Today on The Bible Study Hour, Dr. Boice will help us answer two important questions in our search for unity in the body of Christ.
July 23, 2025
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Whether you’re barely making ends meet or you’ve found yourself blessed with a life of abundance, God calls each of us to live by the same standard when it comes to how we relate to material possessions. Today on The Bible Study Hour, Dr. Boice will teach on the importance of “traveling light” and challenge us all with the question, “what’s keeping you from true discipleship?”
July 22, 2025
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From our earliest years, this world teaches us that personal prestige and reputation should be our foremost priorities. We’re wired to pursue power, climb the ladder of success and get an edge up on our competition. But this natural worldview is radically reversed in Jesus’ teaching. Today on The Bible Study Hour, Dr. Boice will teach on the transformational power of humility.
July 21, 2025
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None of us can guarantee the choices of the next generation. We can only choose for ourselves whether or not we'll serve the Lord. On The Bible Study Hour, Dr. James Boice talks about choosing - choosing God now, tomorrow, the day after, and to the very end of our lives.
July 20, 2025
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In this busy, noisy world, our default is often to block out the many things that constantly clamor for our attention. Today on The Bible Study Hour, Dr. Boice will encourage us, instead, to serve those in need of friendship and encouragement by giving a listening ear. Listening, in fact, is one of the greatest ministries a believer can offer a hurting world.
July 18, 2025
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Is the Christian life nothing more than the drudgery of compliance?…the constant restriction of rules and regulations? Today on The Bible Study Hour, we’ll hear a biblical perspective on what true freedom looks like - and we’ll find out that it has a lot to do with obedience. You’re about to find out why Dr. Boice claims a believer’s life should be a great adventure and full of surprises!
July 17, 2025
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When Jesus commanded the disciples, saying, “Follow me,” he didn’t mean “tag along if you feel like it.” The call to discipleship demands a radical lifestyle of submission and sacrifice. Thanks for joining us for this broadcast of The Bible Study Hour with Dr. James Boice. We’re about to find out how biblical self-denial is possible in a world that tells us to look out for our own interests at all costs.
July 16, 2025
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A “light burden” seems like an oxymoron.But isn’t that exactly what Jesus promised in Matthew chapter 11 when he encouraged us to come learn from him and find rest for our souls? Today, on The Bible Study Hour with Dr. James Boice, we’ll investigate the mystery of true discipleship: how taking on Christ’s burden actually lightens us from the weight of our own sin.
July 15, 2025
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer coined the term “costly grace” in his warnings to a weak, German church that refused to stand up to Nazi tyranny during World War 2. Today on The Bible Study Hour, we’ll find out how costly grace is at the heart of biblical discipleship, and Dr. Boice will challenge us to consider how many modern church pews are filled with those who are unwilling to pay the price.
July 14, 2025
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About The Bible Study Hour

The Bible Study Hour offers careful, in-depth Bible study, preparing you to think and act biblically. Dr. James Boice's expository style opens the scriptures and shows how all of God's Word points to Christ. Dr. Boice brings the Bible's truth to bear on all of life. The program helps listeners understand the truth of God's Word in life-changing, mind-renewing ways.The Bible Study Hour is a ministry of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

The Alliance exists to call the twenty-first century church to a modern reformation that recovers clarity and conviction about the great evangelical truths of the Gospel and that then seeks to proclaim these truths powerfully in our contemporary context.

About Dr. James Boice

James Montgomery Boice's Bible teaching continues on The Bible Study Hour radio and internet program, preparing you to think and act biblically. Dr. Boice was regarded as a leading evangelical statesman in the United States and around the world, as he served as senior pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and as president of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals until his death in 2000. His fifty-plus books include an award-winning, four-volume series on Romans, Foundations of the Christian Faith, commentaries on Genesis, Matthew, and several other Old and New Testament books. The Bible Study Hour is always available at TheBibleStudyHour.org.

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