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Valuing and Respecting Your Neighbor As Yourself

By BCL / January 7, 2025

If we are to love our neighbor as ourselves, we must first know what it means to love ourselves. Yet, we cannot love ourselves rightly until we know God’s love for us in Christ.

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Biblical Marriage — Relational and Legal

By BCL / January 3, 2025

Why is there both a relational and legal aspect to marriage, and how does earthly marriage help us understand the believer’s union with Christ?

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The 15 Vices of Galatians 5:19-21 and How to Resist Them

By BCL / December 30, 2024

The battle between the flesh and the Spirit wages throughout our lives. The apostle Paul gives us a list of 15 vices to deepen our perception of the ways of the flesh and how to resist them.

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15 Ways to Reduce Daily Stress and Be More Fruitful in 2025

By BCL / December 26, 2024

Here are fifteen ways, along with corresponding Bible passages, to reduce your daily stress and be more fruitful in 2025.

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What Is the Spiritual Fruit of Meekness?

By BCL / December 18, 2024

In our day meekness is weakness; it is to be spineless and unassertive. Christian meekness, however, flexes its muscles not by using the weapons of the world. What is the spiritual fruit of meekness?

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15 Key Christian Books for Your 2025 Reading List

By BCL / December 11, 2024

Kickstart the new year by adding these key books on the Christian faith to your 2025 reading list, and they make great Christmas gifts too!

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7 Reasons Why God Makes a “Crook” in a Christian’s Lot

By BCL / November 18, 2024

“Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked?” (Eccles. 7:13). Here are seven reasons why God allows various afflictions, also known as “crooks,” in the lives of his children.

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What Does It Mean to “Put Off the Old Self” and “Put On the New Self”? — Ephesians 4:20-24

By BCL / November 6, 2024

All who are in Christ have the benefits of justification and sanctification. What does this mean, and what is Paul saying about the “old self” and the “new self” in Ephesians 4:20-24?

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Pietism vs. Piety — What’s the Difference?

By BCL / October 25, 2024

Many people seek a personal, subjective experience with God of some kind. Does the Bible encourage Christians to do this?

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