by Jim Baumgaertel | Jul 4, 2018 | Loving the Truth
The Bible is not really the standard of truth for people unless everyone, who professes Jesus as Lord, has the freedom to disagree with each other. If an individual or system suppresses the freedom to disagree, then they have become the standard of truth,...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Jul 3, 2018 | Loving the Truth
Scriptures Worshipping Created Things Rather than the Creator Worship of Angels No Other gods Before Me The god of this World Self Exaltation Molech, Baal, & Demons Your own godhood The Beast and his Image The Cult of Community Idolaters Lovers of Themselves Works...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Jul 3, 2018 | Loving the Truth
Who coined this phrase? How might this phrase be useful? How might this phrase be misused? Should someone in a fellowship presume to be the standard of truth? How should we deal with someone who thinks it’s his job to “stomp” on every...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Jul 3, 2018 | Loving the Truth
What you’re against or what you’re for? An elder, in the assembly I am a part of, recently made the point that we ought to be more known by what we are for than what we are against. I agree. “For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Jul 3, 2018 | Loving the Truth
6/24/06 updated 6/27/06 In the 1980s when I was an activist, I would speak to Churches and groups. I would often start by saying that if we took a poll of Evangelical Christian church-goers, “Which is worse: Ignorance or Apathy?”, the majority would...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Jul 3, 2018 | Loving the Truth
…Contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. Jude 3 …Be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. Titus 1:9 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Jul 3, 2018 | Loving the Truth
Among Professing Christians Only one is Biblical… 1. The Bible is the standard of Truth and each person is individually accountable for seeking that truth, understanding and obeying that truth, and advocating that truth. The Bible is taught with Biblical...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Jul 3, 2018 | Loving the Truth
By the Enemies of God Everyone who has not been reconciled to God through Jesus Christ remains an enemy of God. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind,...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Jul 3, 2018 | New Life In Jesus Christ
From the movie, “Contact”… Spoken by two of the characters: “If there is no life on other planets… It seems like an awful waste of space.” But it’s not a waste of space! The vastness of the universe is an...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Jul 1, 2018 | Loving the Truth
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. Jesus in Matthew 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church...
