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God's Good, Pleasing and Perfect Will

May 2, 2025

The world says that success, romance, and financial stability all make the good life. But we tend to think God’s plan gets in the way of what we really want to do. However, God’s will is perfect. If we try it out, we’ll find that God’s way actually does leads to happiness. Tune in to hear Dr. James Boice talk about God’s perfect plan, this week on The Bible Study Hour.

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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.

Past Episodes

How often do you reflect on Glory? Nations, cultures, civilizations – these don’t last, and their existence is like a gnat. But its people with whom we joke, work, marry and cheat. Find out how this contradicts the essence of our culture. Tune in this week to hear Dr. James Boice talk about a right view of man, right here on The Bible Study Hour.
May 1, 2025
What is the spiritual renewal of your mind? Many assume it means only thinking about theology. But you may be surprised to hear that you can think spiritually even about filling your car with gas. And just because you’re sitting in church doesn’t mean your mind is where it should be. Tune in to hear Dr. James Boice talk about how to renew our minds, this week on The Bible Study Hour.
April 30, 2025
We live in a mindless age. Televisions have replaced books, and sound bytes have replaced serious reflection. But it’s not just the world that has given up thinking – Christians have, too. We’ve been “vannatized”. Find out what it means to be vannatized, and how we should be exercising our minds, listen this week to the The Bible Study Hour with Dr. James Boice.
April 29, 2025
You may remember the old saying, “I don’t smoke, and I don’t chew, and I don’t go with those who do”. When Paul tells us not to be conformed to the world, he’s not talking about smoking habits, but rather how we think. This week Dr. James Boice will teach us how to renew our minds, right here on The Bible Study Hour.
April 28, 2025
With their first attempt to capture Ai thwarted by the Lord, the Israelite army is told to attack again.  Discouraged and fearful after their first defeat, Joshua will have no miraculous intervention at Ai.  The walls will not fall down, but—nevertheless--they must go up and fight a second time.  Join Dr. James Boice next time on The Bible Study Hour as he shares the lessons learned at Ai.
April 27, 2025
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.
April 25, 2025
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
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
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
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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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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