protection Archives - Bible Advocate Advocating the Bible, representing the Church, and glorifying the God of grace and truth Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:33:28 +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 protection Archives - Bible Advocate 32 32 Whither Shall I Go From Your Spirit?* – Second Place https://baonline.org/whither-shall-i-go-from-your-spirit-second-place/ Fri, 30 Oct 2020 15:21:18 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=26367

Smiling person outdoors with a second-place ribbon in the corner, green garden background.

Toward the end of my seventh grade year, I developed depression. I wasn’t sleeping, I wasn’t eating, and I was isolating myself from my friends because I knew that they wouldn’t understand or be able to help me. In eighth grade, I indulged in self-harm. I didn’t want to kill myself — not yet. But […]

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]]> No Regrets https://baonline.org/no-regrets/ Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:58:46 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=4812

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I toss my gym bag over my shoulder and head for the exit at the rec center. Normally I tune out sounds from the racquetball court as I pass by it. But this day, the squeaks from shoes on a polished floor and the ricochet of a slammed ball make me stop. My mind suddenly […]

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]]> A Sun and Shield https://baonline.org/a-sun-and-shield/ Thu, 25 Jan 2018 23:58:10 +0000 https://baonline.org/?p=4372

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King David certainly had a way with words — not just in the eloquence and poetry of many of the psalms he composed, but also in the way he could pack so much meaning into even a short expression. “The Lord God is a sun and shield” (Psalm 84:11) is a wonderful example of this. […]

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