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God's Effectual Call
Dr. James Boice on 01/15/2025

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Foreknowledge and Predestination
Dr. James Boice on 01/14/2025

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A Golden Chain of Five Links
Dr. James Boice on 01/13/2025

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Think & Act Biblically

Tuesday: The Elder
01/14/2025

One similarity between the two letters is that each begins by the author's introduction of himself as "the elder." In the one case he writes, "The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth" (2 John 1). In the other letter he writes, "The elder unto the well-beloved Gaius,

Monday: The Immediate Problem
01/13/2025

The letters of 2 and 3 John are the shortest books of the New Testament, shorter even than Jude or Philemon which also each have only one chapter. But this does not mean that either 2 or 3 John is insignificant. To be sure, in some ways each merely repeats the general message of 1 John, which is lon

Friday: Keep Away from Idols
01/10/2025

The proper contrast to the true or genuine God is that which is a false god or idol. Consequently John concluded with the otherwise unexpected warning, “Little children, keep yourselves from idols.” In the context of this book we are probably not to think of the various carved idols of antiquity, th