by Jim Baumgaertel | Mar 20, 2011 | Churchianity
North Koreans Use Cellphones to Bare Secrets By CHOE SANG-HUN “Citizens feeding information about life in their country to the outside world is something of a revolution for a brutally efficient gulag state that has forcibly cloistered its people for...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Mar 7, 2011 | Commentary, Counterfeit Christianity
New Age Endorser & Emergent-Contemplative Author, Leonard Sweet Skip Heitzig, Calvary Chapels, Greg Laurie Worship Leader Magazine On the Lighthouse Trails site 3/26/10
by Jim Baumgaertel | Mar 2, 2011 | Churchianity
Should families, who would rather not turn their children over to youth groups and Sunday Schools, be legalistic about these convictions and crusade about their convictions in a divisive and rebellious way? Should families, who would rather not turn their children...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Feb 25, 2011 | Commentary, Counterfeit Christianity
“UK Observer: “Blair courts controversial US pastor Rick Warren in bid to unite faiths” ” As Reported by Lighthouse Trails 3/14/10 UK Observer Article
by Jim Baumgaertel | Feb 9, 2011 | New Testament Fellowship
From a Brother in West Virginia 2/24/10 (posted 3/4/10) Dear Jim, I don’t quite know how I stumbled onto your website, but I did while doing some research on the web looking for Christian resources. Having read Frank Viola’s Pagan Christianity...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Feb 6, 2011 | Commentary, Counterfeit Christianity
The See the Article by Bob DeWaay as quoted on the Lighthouse Trails Blog 3/3/2010 “Missionary or Missional? For hundreds, if not thousands, of years Christians have used the term “missionary” to describe one who goes out to preach the gospel to an unsaved world...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Feb 5, 2011 | Churchianity
The Power of Mark Driscoll over his Congregation 2/15/10 updated 2/16/10 In the New York Times article, “Who Would Jesus Smack Down?”, By Molly Worthen, January 6, 2009, the clergyman at Mars Hill Church in Seattle is portrayed as a totalitarian dictator....
by Jim Baumgaertel | Feb 3, 2011 | Churchianity
We should be concerned about coercive, oppressive, and abusive churches. We should be concerned about trends in churches of “anything goes” unbiblical teachings and unity at the expense of sound doctrine. It has become evident that every church...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Feb 3, 2011 | Commentary, Counterfeit Christianity
“A note of interest to illustrate the [shift] that organized Christianity is going through: Anne Lamott, who was just featured in Charles Stanley’s In Touch magazine, endorsed Eat, Pray, Love, the book, and has gone on speaking engagements with Elizabeth...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Jan 25, 2011 | Disciple of Jesus Christ
From the Berean Call – December 29, 2009 THE ABSENCE OF SIN “Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.” (2 Peter 3:13) For thousands of years the followers of God have battled...
