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Series 2 - Bible Answers for...

These lessons will give biblical answers to a wide variety of practical questions about how to live a Christian life in the modern world. Relationships, communications, finances, addictions and challenges of all types will be answered from the sure and practical wisdom of the Word of God.

Bible Study Guide Lessons

A Healthful, Smoke-Free Life
Smoking and smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco) involve two major issues: the great harm to health and the problem of addiction. This lesson looks at both issues, plus a much greater issue—your relationships with God and with other people.

Communication Pitfalls
The Bible has a lot to say about our relationships, including how we communicate. How we listen to others and what we say and don't say can build or destroy the connections we have with others. God tells us how to avoid many common pitfalls that can damage our relationships.

Coping With Loneliness
When we're lonely, we want it to go away, but too often we find it keeps coming back. What help does the Bible give for dealing with loneliness and the depression that too often goes with it?

Coping With Stress
How would you describe the world we live in today? Challenging, fast-paced, dangerous, unstable, immoral? The apostle Paul describes the last days as "perilous times" (2 Timothy 3:1). What are the results? Stress! We can find ourselves feeling anxious and apprehensive about how the challenges of the world will affect us personally. Thinking about these things, we can simply get stressed out.

Dealing With the Death of a Loved One
In this lesson we'll study what the Bible reveals about death, about God's promise of life after death, how to comfort one another and how to obtain God's gift of comfort and peace.

Dealing With Difficult People
The Bible shows that God gives mankind freedom to choose. And some people choose to cause trouble for others. When Jesus Christ lived as a human, He had to deal with many difficult people. But Christ dealt with these difficult people in the right way. His examples, along with other instructions in God's Word, teach us how to handle those who cause strife.

Dealing With Depression
The Bible shows that humanity has suffered from discouragement and depression since the beginning. Depression can affect all people, small and great. Many Bible heroes, such as David, Moses, Job and Elijah, dealt with it. What can we learn from their examples and biblical principles?

Dealing With Health Problems
Health problems hinder us, cause us stress and often generate intense emotions such as discouragement, fear, loneliness, anger or depression. Being encouraging and helpful to someone who is sick or injured is an extremely valuable service. May we all continue to grow in understanding about how to be effective helpers and encouragers.

Dealing With Money Problems
Money in one form or another has been around and valued highly by most for thousands of years. But money, debt and finances have also been the source of many personal and family problems over those years. What does the practical wisdom of the Bible teach us about how to deal with money problems?

Dealing With Unemployment
The Bible shows that God Himself works, and He created mankind to work. Since God intends for us to be working, what does He want us to do when we lose our job? What does the Bible say about coping with the growing problem of unemployment?

Dealing With Worry
The Bible records that God's servants often faced anxiety-producing situations. How did they handle those worries and pull out of those anxieties? How can you use the same strategies to successfully deal with the potential triggers for worry in your life?

Decision Making
We face decisions every day. How can we determine the best choices to make, especially in the big decisions and the ones that seemingly have no clear answer?

Eating Disorders
An eating disorder is a symptom of a storm that is ripping through a person's heart. To conquer the eating disorder, there must first be healing of the storms within. Part of the healing must be spiritual. The spiritual hole in your heart must be filled with God's love and truth.

Gambling—Why It's Wrong and How to Stop
This lesson addresses two issues—gambling and addiction to gambling. It also relates those issues to your relationships with God and the people you love.

Getting Along With People
The Bible has a lot to say about relationships, good and bad. In the pages of God's Word, we can find the secret to having good relationships. And the Bible says it starts with you!

How to Be a Good Neighbor
The Bible shows that there are two great commandments. The first commandment is to love God with all our being. The second commandment is to love our neighbors as ourselves. So how do we show that we love our neighbors?

How to Help and Encourage Someone With a Health Problem
Health problems hinder us, cause us stress and often generate intense emotions such as discouragement, fear, loneliness, anger or depression. Being encouraging and helpful to someone who is sick or injured is an extremely valuable service. May we all continue to grow in understanding about how to be effective helpers and encouragers.

Job Satisfaction and the Value of Work
Why is work so important and who are we really working for?

Keys to a Happy Marriage
God created Adam and Eve and placed them in the Garden of Eden as the first married couple. Marriage is ordained and established by God, and He includes keys to a happy marriage in the Bible.

Keys to Good Communication
God is the Great Communicator, and He has revealed many important communication principles in the Bible. By following these keys, we can strengthen our relationships and learn to think and act more like our loving Creator.

Preparing for Marriage: Before You Say "I Do"
God created us male and female, and He created in us the desire to love and be loved, to form an intimate relationship with our soul mate. He blesses this union in marriage, and He teaches us in the Bible many things we can do to prepare for a successful and happy marriage.

Self-Injury—Understanding and Overcoming It
This lesson briefly addresses three issues—understanding self-injury, how God can help you, and how to get help and support from others. It will also point the way to good relationships with God and the people you love.

Understanding and Overcoming Substance Abuse
For anyone struggling with substance abuse or addiction, there is reason for great hope! God created us and gave us His Word, the Bible, with the essential keys for overcoming and spiritual growth. With that foundation and the strength that comes from God, plus professional advice and counseling, you can win the victory over substance abuse!

 

 

 

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