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  • 6. Setting Boundaries, Part 2

    Affirm and Validate

    Be on the other person's side.
    It's grace before truth. Grace means "favor." Establish your favor, care, and belief in the person before "facing the issue."

    1. In ongoing problem solving where there is no big issue, you need not utter some big proclamation of your love and commitment. You are merely correcting a problem.

    http://feeds.bible.org/sue_bohlin/boundaries/bohlin_sue_boundaries_06.mp3
    Biblical Topics: 
    Boundaries
    Christian Life
    Messages
    Spiritual Life
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  • The Historical Reliability of the Gospels

    Differences Between the Four Gospels

    Skeptics have criticized the Gospels, the first four books of the New Testament, as being legendary in nature rather than historical. They point to alleged contradictions between Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They also maintain the Gospels were written centuries after the lifetimes of the eyewitnesses. The late date of the writings allowed legends and exaggerations to proliferate, they say.

    Are the Gospels historical or mythological?

    Biblical Topics: 
    Apologetics
    Gospels
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    Probe Ministries

  • Bible Literacy Quiz

    This article is also available in Spanish.

    It's alarming to us at Probe Ministries to see the drop in biblical literacy among Americans. Growing numbers of people don't know what the Bible says, even the most basic foundational truths and people and facts.

    Evangelical pollster George Barna says,

    Biblical Topics: 
    Bible Literacy
    Women's Articles
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  • 4. Boundaries With Family

    Susie had a problem that I had seen countless times before. This thirty-year-old woman would return from a visit to her parents' home and suffer a deep depression.

    When she described her problem to me, I asked her if she noticed that every time she went home to visit, she came back extremely depressed.

    "Why that's ridiculous," she said. "I don't live there anymore. How could the trip affect me this way?"

    http://feeds.bible.org/sue_bohlin/boundaries/bohlin_sue_boundaries_04.mp3
    Biblical Topics: 
    Boundaries
    Christian Life
    Messages
    Spiritual Life
    Wisdom
    Women
    Partner: 
    Probe Ministries
    /assets/women/bohlin_boundaries_handout&questions_04.zip

  • 2. Consequences: The Law of Sowing and Reaping

    Review of Lesson 1:

    A boundary is your personal "property line."

    It defines who you are, where you end, and where others begin.

    When we know what we want and do not want, what we are for and against, what we love and hate, what is "me" and what is "not me," we are setting boundaries.

    http://feeds.bible.org/sue_bohlin/boundaries/bohlin_sue_boundaries_02.mp3
    Biblical Topics: 
    Boundaries
    Christian Life
    Messages
    Spiritual Life
    Wisdom
    Women
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    Probe Ministries
    /assets/women/bohlin_boundaries_handout&questions_02.zip

  • Islam in the Modern World

    Islam and the Clash of Civilizations

    Islam is a seventh century religion. For a moment, think about that statement. I doubt anyone would consider Christianity a first century religion. You might acknowledge that it began in the first century, but you wouldn't probably describe it as a religion of the first century because the timeless principles of the gospel have adapted to the times in which they are communicated.

    Biblical Topics: 
    Islam
    Terrorism
    World Religions
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    Probe Ministries

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