harmony Archives - Bible Advocate Advocating the Bible, representing the Church, and glorifying the God of grace and truth Thu, 15 May 2025 20:42:20 +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 harmony Archives - Bible Advocate 32 32 Are We Loving Each Other? https://baonline.org/are-we-loving-each-other/ Tue, 29 Dec 2020 11:00:44 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=26572

Love each other

Actively love each other. Remember that your church family are members of the body of Christ, just as you are a member of the body of Christ.

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]]> The Fullness https://baonline.org/the-fullness/ Fri, 04 Dec 2020 07:00:26 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=26525

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Most of us have a favorite verse of Scripture and, if asked, could tell why we like that text a lot. Could we also explain how the verses just before and after our favorite impact and help unpack its full meaning? Without revealing its location yet, I’ll tell you my favorite verse for today and […]

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]]> Working Toward Harmony https://baonline.org/working-toward-harmony/ Fri, 31 Jul 2020 06:00:10 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=25920

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Are you concerned about harmony within the church? Many of us are. How then can we be reconciled with our brothers and sisters in our congregations? What is the ministry of reconciliation that 2 Corinthians 5:18b talks about: “Christ . . . gave us the ministry of reconciliation”? After reading this text, I asked myself, Am […]

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]]> Paul said to follow him as he followed Christ. Why not just follow Jesus directly? https://baonline.org/paul-said-to-follow-him-as-he-followed-christ-why-not-just-follow-jesus-directly/ Sat, 01 Sep 2018 14:43:28 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=23952

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Paul told the Corinthians to follow (“imitate,” NKJV) him as he followed Christ (1 Corinthians 4:16; 11:1). Why not just follow Jesus directly, instead? Why follow Paul?    You may be assured that Christians do not follow Paul in the same sense that we follow Christ. In the ultimate sense, we have only one Teacher-Rabbi-Leader […]

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