by Jim Baumgaertel | Mar 14, 2007 | Gospel for West Africa, Steve Phillips, West African Update
Dear Brethren, Over the course of five agonizing months, an ulcerated mass of tissue had progressively erupted into a four inch diameter tumor that now protruded a full two inches from his frail chest. From his gaunt and grizzled form, pleading hollow eyes restlessly...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Mar 8, 2007 | Are We Like Christ?, Gospel for West Africa, Steve Phillips, THE STORM BREAKS - Chapter 4
FELIX c.303 AD Felix, a bishop in the church of Thibaris in Africa, was arrested and brought before the Procurator [Roman official] who demanded from him his copies of the Word of God in order to burn them. Their conversation went as follows. “It were better, that I...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Feb 6, 2007 | Gospel for West Africa, Out of the Depths - The Mystery of Suffering, Steve Phillips
HOW LONG, O LORD? WILL YOU FORGET ME FOREVER? [Ps.13:1] The gently led nursing flock whose lambs are carried in the bosom of the Good Shepherd [Isa.40:11], have not yet known the God of darkness. Jubilant multitudes whose lips spill over with “Hosanna� are nowhere...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Jan 27, 2007 | Are We Like Christ?, Gospel for West Africa, Steve Phillips, THE STORM BREAKS - Chapter 4
Diocletian’s edict that all the sacred books of the Christians should be burned was a fiery trial for the saints of God. Since the copies were hand written and not the common possession of all as our printed Bibles are to us today, the leaders of the churches were...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Dec 28, 2006 | Gospel for West Africa, Steve Phillips, West African Update
Steve & Patricia Phillips Steve has recently completed a book entitled: Black but Lovely: Thoughts on the Song of Songs. This and his other publications can be read and/or copied by visiting the website: https://www.procinwarn.com/West-Africa/west-africa.htm and...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Dec 6, 2006 | Gospel for West Africa, Out of the Depths - The Mystery of Suffering, Steve Phillips
BEHOLD, I HAVE REFINED YOU, BUT NOT AS SILVER; I HAVE TESTED YOU IN THE FURNACE OF AFFLICTION [Isa.48:10] Life made bitter by grueling taskmasters makes tears your food, night and day. It is what Israel knew, enslaved in the iron furnace of Egypt under the Pharaoh who...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Nov 17, 2006 | Are We Like Christ?, Gospel for West Africa, Steve Phillips, THE STORM BREAKS - Chapter 4
PERPETUA c.202 AD A beloved African sister of wealthy and noble birth, highly educated and honorably married, was taken captive by persecutors of the faith. Only twenty-two years old and with babe at her breast, she was begged by her aged and pagan father to deny...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Oct 18, 2006 | Gospel for West Africa, Out of the Depths - The Mystery of Suffering, Steve Phillips
ALTHOUGH HE WAS A SON, HE LEARNED OBEDIENCE FROM THE THINGS HE SUFFERED [Heb.5:8] In all their affliction He was afflicted [Isa.63:9]. Truly Christ Jesus our Lord was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief [Isa.53:3]. From birth there was no room for Him except...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Oct 14, 2006 | Are We Like Christ?, Gospel for West Africa, Steve Phillips, THE STORM BREAKS - Chapter 4
FELICITAS c.164 AD A Christian widow at Rome along with her seven sons and the church that met in their home, were used of the Lord to convert many to Christ. Full of fury, the pagan priests raised complaint to the Emperor and caused them to be brought before Publius,...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Sep 26, 2006 | Gospel for West Africa, Steve Phillips
Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves From all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, Perfecting holiness in the fear of God [2 Cor.7:1] Purity & the Will of God It is God’s will that you be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual...
