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April 25, 2025
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We sometimes think we can compartmentalize Christianity in our lives. Romans makes it clear that we can’t do this if we are truly following God. He wants our bodies as living sacrifices. What does that mean? Tune in to hear Dr. James Boice talk about this reasonable service to the Lord, right here on The Bible Study Hour.

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What motivates you? Is it approval, money, or love? These often drive us. But when it comes to living for God, they won’t get you very far. So what is it that causes us to offer ourselves as living sacrifices to God? Tune in to hear Dr. James Boice talk about the greatest motivation of all, right here on The Bible Study Hour.
April 24, 2025
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Normally a sacrifice is dead. In fact, that’s the very nature of a sacrifice – something has to die. So what does it mean when Paul tells us to be living sacrifices? How can we be a sacrifice if we are alive? Tune in this week to hear Dr. James Boice explain how a life looks when it’s sacrificed for God. That’s right here, on The Bible Study Hour.
April 23, 2025
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Self preservation is a basic instinct. We don’t want to do anything that infringes on our comfort. But our lives are no longer ours to keep. We are not our own – we were bought with a price. Tune in to hear Dr. James Boice talk about what it means to die to yourself and live for God, this week on The Bible Study Hour.
April 22, 2025
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We tend to breeze through doctrine in order to get down to the business of so called “practical living”. But by looking at the world around us, we see that matters of practical living are hollow without the truth of God to give them substance. Tune in to hear Dr. James Boice talk about necessary connection between what we believe and how we act, this week on The Bible Study Hour.
April 21, 2025
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There was the old paradise, Eden…and one day there will be a new paradise, the New Jerusalem. But must we wait for that utopia?  We find ourselves caught between the two.  Join Dr. James Boice next time on The Bible Study Hour as he answers the question, “What’s a believer to do while he waits for Christ’s return and the restoration of paradise lost?”
April 20, 2025
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If God is sovereign, what meaning do our actions have? If we believe God is sovereign, won’t we lose initiative and become lazy? Won’t we stop taking responsibility for what we do? Tune in for answers about God’s sovereignty and glory, right here with Dr. James Boice on The Bible Study Hour. 
April 18, 2025
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We tend to think that God made the world for us. He made it beautiful for us to enjoy. He gave us gifts and talents so that we can work and do our jobs well. When we take a good look at Scripture, though, we see that God created all things, including us, for his own glory. Tune in to hear Dr. James Boice talk about an important paradigm shift we all need, this week on The Bible Study Hour.
April 17, 2025
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We can never put God in our debt. It doesn’t matter how fervently and consistently we do devotions, or how much money we give to the church, or how many good things we do in a week. We cannot make God obligated to us. Everything good we do came from him in the first place. Tune in this week to The Bible Study Hour to hear Dr. James Boice teach on God’s self-sufficiency.
April 16, 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.
April 15, 2025
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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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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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