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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.
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He watched the killing of Stephen, the first martyr. He went on to do everything he could to stamp out the newly formed Christian church. We would not expect him to become a convert and a missionary and an apostle, but that is what God did.
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Imagine you're right in the middle of a very successful outreach program. People are coming to Christ daily. God is blessing your efforts. Then an angel comes and tells you to leave this successful ministry and go into the desert? What would you do? Would you argue? Would you go?
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"Kill them all, that will stop the spread of this evil." This was the plan used in Jerusalem two thousand years ago to stop the spread of Christianity. It didn't work. The enemies of Christianity have used intimidation, threat, force, imprisonment and death to stamp out the Church.
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Too frequently we hear news stories about the persecution of our brothers and sisters. We are thankful for our safety while we’re both saddened and horrified by such news. Yet we must remember that Christianity began in unjust persecution. Listen next time as Dr. Boice challenges us with the story of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, and encourages us to fight the good fight in our own trials.
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Romans chapter three is really the heart of the Word of God. It’s the Gospel presented in its purest and most condensed form, showing both our need and the solution to that need through the work of Jesus Christ. Join Dr. James Boice next time on The Bible Study Hour as he directs our attention to the simple, yet profound truths contained in this powerful passage of Scripture.
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Are you a service-oriented person? There are two types: those who live to serve and the others who live to be served. The world is filled with both—so are churches. What about you?
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If you are a believer, you will face trials like alienation, slander, humiliation and sorrow—things that none of us looks forward to. But they are a part of the life of any believer—one who is actively living for God in an increasingly hostile society. Why does that happen? Because when we are faithful to God’s ways, we make unrepentant sinners uncomfortable.
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The punishment of Ananias and Sapphira from the book of Acts seems severe. They were struck dead by God for a seemingly trivial offense. Seems like a harsh punishment. But this story teaches us a very important lesson about God.
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Wouldn’t you like to go back in time, and sit with the early believers as they met for worship? Wouldn’t you love to see how they lived together as a community of faith, sharing the good news of Jesus? We don’t have a time machine, but in Acts chapter 4 we do have a portrait of the worship and work of the early church.
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It doesn’t happen every day for us, but it started happening right away for the early apostles. God tells you to do something, and the state says you can’t. What do you do? What are your options? What are the issues?
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There is only one man who never walked in the counsel of the wicked or stood in the way of sinners, and that person was the God-man, Jesus Christ. But was Jesus the man the psalmist describes in Psalm One? Join Dr. James Boice next time on The Bible Study Hour as he takes a deeper look at the man described in one of the Bible’s most beloved psalms
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On one side are gangs of priests, Sadducees, rulers, and elders. They’re backed by the authority of their office, and they wield the power of intimidation and imprisonment. On the other side are Peter and John. They’re backed by the authority of God’s word, and they wield the power of the Holy Spirit.
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A man who can’t walk sits outside the temple begging for money. Most people look away. A few give him a coin. But today, two men stop and talk. They’re flat broke themselves, but they do give him something. And the man who can’t walk stands up, walks around, starts jumping, and runs into the temple praising God.
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Every church has its distinctive. Each congregation is different. But all biblical churches share the same essentials. What are they? What activities are at the heart of every true church in every time and place? Next time on The Bible Study Hour, Dr. James Boice looks at the early church and finds the believers doing four things that define what it really means to live as Christ’s disciples.
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It’s biblical. It’s Christ-centered. It’s fearless. It’s persuasive. It’s Peter’s first sermon, and it’s a winner. In fact, God uses it to win 3000 new disciples, 3000 new sons and daughters, 3000 new members of the body of Christ. Next time on The Bible Study Hour, Dr. James Boice talks about Peter’s Pentecost sermon as a model for how all of us can testify to what we know about Jesus.
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What do you think of when you hear the words wind and fire? A forest fire? The classical elements of the universe? A ’70s blues band? In the book of Acts, wind and fire mean just one thing: the arrival of the Holy Spirit. Next time on The Bible Study Hour, Dr. James Boice explores why God chose these images to reveal the character and work of his Spirit in the newborn church.
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We’re usually pleased when someone remembers our birthday, but of all the birthdays of all the people who have ever lived, there’s probably none remembered as faithfully as the birth of our Savior. Join Dr. James Boice next time on The Bible Study Hour as he reminds us of the paradoxes and the implications surrounding the birth of Christ.
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Waiting is hard. And it’s harder when you don’t know how long you’ll have to wait. When Jesus left his disciples, he told them their mission. But instead of giving them marching orders, he gave them “waiting orders”: Wait for the Holy Spirit.
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So, Jesus, what’s the story? If you’re not planning to take control and become king, how are people supposed to know about this kingdom of yours? Where are your loyal subjects going to come from? Who’s going to recruit them? How are we going to get them to sign up?
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You’re starting a new, global enterprise designed to last at least 2000 years and change the world. You’re the founder, the leader, the head. Your startup plan is to spend six weeks meeting off and on with your leadership team—and then vanish just before you go public.
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