compassion Archives - Bible Advocate Advocating the Bible, representing the Church, and glorifying the God of grace and truth Thu, 15 May 2025 20:42:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://baonline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/05/cropped-file-32x32.jpg compassion Archives - Bible Advocate 32 32 The Struggle is Real https://baonline.org/the-struggle-is-real/ Mon, 01 May 2023 20:09:43 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=29787

The struggle is real

Yes, the struggle is real! There’s a battle going on. Let’s raise awareness, fueled by the good news that Jesus is onto this!

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]]> Failure to Strength https://baonline.org/failure-to-strength/ Fri, 17 Jun 2022 06:00:05 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=28609
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One of the most memorable failures in the Bible is recorded in Mark 14:27-31 and 66-72. Just after the Last Supper, Jesus told the disciples that they would all be scattered and desert Him. The apostle Peter assured Him that if everyone else were to deny Him, he would not, and was prepared to die. […]

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]]> Compassion for the Masses: Six lessons gleaned from a busy day of ministry with Jesus https://baonline.org/compassion-for-the-masses-six-lessons-gleaned-from-a-busy-day-of-ministry-with-jesus/ Fri, 06 Aug 2021 10:00:19 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=27499

Compassion for the Masses

Ministry must be motivated by a genuine compassion for the needs of the masses and is about meeting people's needs.

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]]> Scars That Bleed https://baonline.org/scars-that-bleed/ Fri, 11 Jun 2021 06:00:55 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=27274

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Some experiences change you forever. When I was fourteen, my first boyfriend raped me. I was forever changed, and I didn’t tell anyone — especially not my mom because she had forbidden me to see him. I had disobeyed her when I went to his house with no one else home. In the short term, […]

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]]> Faithful! https://baonline.org/faithful/ Fri, 21 May 2021 06:00:12 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=27221

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The Bible instructs us to be like God, but many attributes of His we cannot attain to or even mimic: His eternality, His knowledge of all, His power over all, His transcending presence, and His perfection, to name a few. But some attributes we may properly aspire to, such as His loving-kindness, mercy, grace, and […]

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]]> What’s Really Going on in the United States Right Now? https://baonline.org/whats-really-going-on-in-the-united-states-right-now-visionary-leadership/ Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:00:30 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=25948
Visionary Leadership

What's Really Happening in the United States

Visionary Leadership

Visionary Leadership in a Global Crisis These are troubling times. As I’m writing, the World Health Organization is reporting over 16,000,000 global cases of COVID-19 and over 650,000 deaths. The Center for Disease Control reports that 4,000,000 of those cases and nearly 150,000 of those deaths are here in the United States. I know several […]

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]]> Inside Job https://baonline.org/inside-job/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 23:58:08 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=4854

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Wendi Johnson as told to Karen Foster I pulled my baking sheet out of the oven and inhaled the sweet scent of chocolate chip cookies. When I bit into a warm one, my tears came — again. These cookies were bound for the male inmates in one of our state prisons. Would one of the […]

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]]> Balancing Justice and Mercy https://baonline.org/balancing-justice-and-mercy/ Thu, 07 Jun 2018 23:58:50 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=4722

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Most of us are familiar with Lady Justice. We may have seen statues and paintings of her holding a sword in one hand and a balance scale in the other. The sword, of course, represents punishment and justice, and the balance scale symbolizes fairness in the justice dispensed. If we look closely at these representations […]

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