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The Encouragement of the Scriptures

June 13, 2025

Are there parts of the Bible that you just don’t think are very useful? Obscure passages, maybe out of Ezekiel or Habakkuk, that don’t mean anything to you? Let me assure you that if God inspired them, just as he inspired all Scripture. Then it must be useful for you! Join us this week to hear Dr. James Boice talk about the encouragement we can get from Scripture, right here on The Bible Study Hour.

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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.

Contact The Bible Study Hour with Dr. James Boice

Mailing Address
Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
The Bible Study Hour
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Lancaster, PA 17601 
Telephone
 1-800-488-1888