Christian living Archives - Bible Advocate Advocating the Bible, representing the Church, and glorifying the God of grace and truth Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:35:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://baonline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/05/cropped-file-32x32.jpg Christian living Archives - Bible Advocate 32 32 The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible, Second Edition https://baonline.org/the-charles-f-stanley-life-principles-bible-second-edition/ Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:30:18 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=24338

Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible 2nd Edition cover with mountain and Bible image.The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible is designed to lead believers into a life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ, and to help them experience the good news about God’s mighty kindness and love. Built around 30 Life Principles Dr. Stanley has gleaned from Scripture during his fifty years of teaching and pastoral ministry, this Bible is […]

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]]> A Beautiful Witness https://baonline.org/a-beautiful-witness/ Thu, 17 Oct 2019 23:58:03 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=24139

Woman smiling at a man over coffee in a cozy cafe setting.Cosmos and cosmetic — two words that don’t seem to have much in common but share a common Greek root. The Greek word has two primary meanings: order and beauty. While these ideas might seem disparate to us, in Greek they were closely related. Things in proper order, like the cosmos, were beautiful. Beautiful things […]

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]]> Changing Concepts https://baonline.org/changing-concepts/ Thu, 12 Jul 2018 23:58:14 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=4791

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The Church of Christ, later known as the Church of God (Seventh Day), of the 1860s did not have a written position on Christian lifestyles. Apparently she left standards of morality and Christian living up to the Christian community as a whole. The church’s theological concerns were weekly Sabbath observance, the second coming of Jesus, […]

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]]> This We Believe https://baonline.org/this-we-believe-5/ Fri, 06 Jul 2018 05:58:27 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=4785

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Statement of Faith 9 Marriage   This we believe: Marriage is an institution of God and is an exclusive lifetime union between one man and one woman for the purpose of perpetuating humanity and enriching human experience. Reflecting the bond between Christ and His church, marriage may be broken only by sexual immorality. Like the […]

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]]> Is going to church necessary? https://baonline.org/is-going-to-church-necessary/ Thu, 01 Sep 2016 15:57:46 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=24041 I don’t go to church anymore. I’ve been hurt too many times. Is church necessary?   Yes, it is — and not just for the many reasons explored in this issue. It’s also necessary because church hurts. Many people suffer in church from judgment, hypocrisy, and abuse. People experience physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and relational […]

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