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Seven Profound Questions

- This is part of a series on the theme of accountability. – As the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges, Chuck Colson learned the need for accountability the hard way.  Now, as the founder and chairman of the board of Prison Fellowship ministries, he meets regularly with a [...]

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A Taste of the Classics Volume 2

Here is Volume 2 of my new series, A Taste of the Classics. This is available at the KenBoa.org Store. Volumes 3 and 4 will be available in about a month. This series encapsulates and discusses the classic works that helped shape Western civilization. Volume 2 explores The Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis), Paradise Lost [...]

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A Taste of the Classics Volume 1

Here is Volume 1 of my new series, A Taste of the Classics. This is available at the KenBoa.org Store. This series encapsulates and discusses the classic works that helped shape Western civilization. Volume 1 explores Mere Christianity (C. S. Lewis), Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan), The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky), and The Imitation of Christ [...]

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Progressing in Godly Character: A Prayer

Father, I desire to be a person after Your own heart. I want to be pleasing and obedient to You, and when I sin against You, I want to acknowledge it quickly with no excuses and waste no time returning back to Your embrace. I know that I will never attain perfection in this life, [...]

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The Spiritual Warfare: A Prayer

Father God, I know that I am engaged in a spiritual warfare on the three battlefronts of the flesh, the world and the devil. These forces are opposed to Your rule and authority, and the most chilling of them is the flesh, because it is internal. I affirm that the good I want I do [...]

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A Simple and Practical Bible Reading System

A number of people have asked me about a Bible reading system that I use. Here is a description, and I hope you will find it to be of help. My Bible reading system involves four 3×5 cards that I use to mark four reading cycles in Scripture. The first card cycles from Genesis to [...]

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Personal Principles and Values

Here is a list of forty personal principles and values that I have collected and review from time to time.  It is convicting for me to go through these, since they are all beyond my experience.  This list may be of use to you as you seek to integrate your life in Christ with your [...]

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Two Weekly Videos

My Wednesday Morning Men’s Fellowship teaching is available each week on the KenBoa.org website. They are also archived back to 2006, and these can be viewed at http://www.kenboa.org/audio_and_video/weekly_video My Sunday Morning Class is also available each week on the KenBoa.org website. They are archived back to 2008, and these can be viewed at http://www.kenboa.org/audio_and_video/sunday_school

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My New Twitter Account

I changed my KenBoa Twitter account to KennethBoa. Please sign up by going to twitter.com/KennethBoa

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A Great Prayer from the Past

Thanks be to Thee, O Lord Jesus Christ, for all the benefits which Thou hast given us; for all the pains and insults which Thou hast borne for us.  O most merciful redeemer, friend and brother, may we know Thee more clearly, love Thee more dearly, and follow Thee more nearly; for Thine own sake.  [...]

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