Support the Bible Advocate in 2016
Donate to Bible Advocate Dear BA Reader and Friend, As I write this annual fundraising letter to you, outside my window a spring storm…
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Jason Overman is Editor of Publications of the Bible Advocate Press. After 24 years in the publishing industry (in sales and management) with the Harrison Daily Times, Jason left his general manager’s position to join the BAP family in 2015. He has served in ministry for 30 years and currently pastors the Church of God (Seventh Day) in Jasper, Arkansas, with his wife, Stephanie, and two children, Tabitha and Isaac. Jason enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, reading theology, playing his guitar, and taking in the beautiful Ozark Mountains he calls home.
Disciples Together
I feel a little like Apostle Paul on his third missionary journey, leaving Philippi after the Days of Unleavened Bread and hurrying to Jerusalem in…
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Forgiveness
Forgiveness Heaved by the seething lake, Rising with each rippling flex Of its restlessness, Then diving, Smashing into the next, I sweat my faith …
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Baptism Through the Bible
The word baptism and its variants appear almost one hundred times in the New Testament, but never in the Old Testament. Something exceptional was happening…
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“I Thirst!”
by Jason Overman He had plenty of water to make wine for a wedding, to wash the disciples’ feet (John 2:7; 13:5), but now there…
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“Who Do You Say I Am?”
If we are to be disciples, shouldn’t we begin by asking just who we will follow? Or more pointedly, who is our Master? At whose…
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Of Beasts and Men
We humans have an affinity with beasts. Little wonder, considering we both were made from the ground on the sixth day.
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Necessary Transgressions
A shudder ran through the church the day the Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage. Even for those of us who weren’t surprised…
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The Blessed Day
The week has passed. My work is done. Sun has set; Sabbath is here. I’m so ready.
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Women of Witness
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary…
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