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The Inscrutable God

April 15, 2025
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Life is meaningless. Work, career advancement and wealth are meaningless. Play and pleasure are meaningless. So are knowledge and wisdom. If you take off the rose-colored glasses, this will be the world you find. But is this bleak picture really all there is? Tune in this week to The Bible Study Hour to hear Dr. James Boice talk about the source of meaning in life.

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God doesn’t behave how we think he should. Often his plans seem arbitrary. Sometimes they appear downright contrary to his character. But God’s plans are always consistent, and they’re always perfect. Tune in to hear Dr. James Boice talk about the amazing ways of God, this week on The Bible Study Hour.
April 14, 2025
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As our Savior hung on the cross, it looked as though His enemies had won, but in defeating Him, not only were His adversaries defeated, but death itself was crushed.  Join Dr. James Boice next time on The Bible Study Hour as he takes us through the ploys of Christ’s enemies and their elaborate plot that, from the beginning, was doomed to failure.
April 13, 2025
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Do you feel lonely this holiday season? Do you feel like God has forgotten you? You’re in good company. Joseph went through many times when he was alone, without friends or family, and it seemed like God had forgotten him. But we’ll see that God never forgets the people whom he loves.
April 11, 2025
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We look for wisdom in many places; our friends, philosophers, or even self-help books. But Scripture tells us that the wisdom of God is far beyond the wisdom of man. In fact, our wisdom is foolishness in comparison. In response, we should worship our wise God and get our wisdom from him. 
April 10, 2025
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God knows every single detail in the IRS tax code. He also knows the history of every pot in ancient Egypt. And he knows every thought, action, and word of every human being across the face of the earth, both now and in all ages past and future. Tune in this week to hear Bible teacher Dr. James Boice talk about the perfect knowledge of God, this week on The Bible Study Hour. 
April 9, 2025
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Do you tremble at the fear of the Lord? Are you floored when you think about the glory of God? Let’s be honest – most of us don’t spend much time thinking about God’s glory. In fact, we spend very little time thinking about him at all. Well, tune in this week for some fuel for your thoughts, right here on The Bible Study Hour.
April 8, 2025
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Remember the last time you asked for a favor. You probably reminded the person of a favor you did for her recently. Or maybe you promised to do something soon to make it up and even out the debt. Grace is not like that. You cannot compel God to give it to you. You cannot negotiate for it. How then do we access grace? Tune in to hear Dr. James Boice explain the only way to receive God’s grace, this week on the Bible Study Hour.
April 7, 2025
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There’s only a short step between victory and defeat. One moment we can be on a spiritual high from great success and the next we’re plunged into the valley of spiritual failure. Such was the experience of Joshua and the Israelites as they left the victory at Jericho and suffered the humiliating defeat at Ai. Join Dr. James Boice next time on The Bible Study Hour as he studies the repercussions of having “sin in the camp” when we walk with the Lord.
April 6, 2025
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It’s pretty evident that humans aren’t faithful. We look at spiritual giants of the Bible – Abraham, Moses, David – and see them go astray. We look around at our culture and see people not keeping their promises either in business or relationships. We peek into our own hearts and see the same thing. How does God deal with all this unfaithfulness? In a surprising way. Tune in to hear Dr. James Boice talk about God’s faithfulness to his people, this week on The Bible Study Hour.
April 4, 2025
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Usually a legal agreement is made between two parties who bind themselves to its terms. God made a unique covenant with us. He set the terms, and he is bound to them, regardless of our actions. Today we’ll be talking about the nature of covenants, and the special covenant God made for us. 
April 3, 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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