by Jim Baumgaertel | Aug 15, 2006 | Are We Like Christ?, Gospel for West Africa, Steve Phillips, THE STORM BREAKS - Chapter 4
Yet the Catacombs, a maze of underground burial tunnels beneath Rome, preach their silent testimony of the triumph of the gospel. Though skeletons of the saints have heads cut off, ribs and shoulder blades broken, or bones blackened by fire, nevertheless, the...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Jul 29, 2006 | Are We Like Christ?, Gospel for West Africa, Steve Phillips, THE STORM BREAKS - Chapter 4
Nero was the first to unleash the fury of imperial Rome against the saints. He was an almost indescribably wicked and perverted man. At night he would disguise himself as a common man and roam the streets of Rome with other rogues, raping women and murdering young...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Jun 14, 2006 | Are We Like Christ?, Gospel for West Africa, THE STORM BREAKS - Chapter 4
While Christianity was viewed by Rome as a sect of the Jews, it did not draw their attention since Judaism had legal status in the empire. But as Christianity increasingly became separate from the synagogues and spread throughout the Roman world, it was recognized to...
by Jim Baumgaertel | May 27, 2006 | Are We Like Christ?, Gospel for West Africa, SO SEND I YOU - Chapter 3, Steve Phillips
John was the last of the Apostles who made the final contributions to the NT revelation. His writings set forth Christ as the sufficiency for the church during the following centuries up until His return. In the history of God’s people, the time came when it was...
by Jim Baumgaertel | May 13, 2006 | Are We Like Christ?, Gospel for West Africa, SO SEND I YOU - Chapter 3, Steve Phillips
Jesus never traveled even up to 120 miles from His birthplace. Paul, in about ten years’ time, had established the church in four major regions of the Empire where there had been no churches before; in Galatia, Macedonia, Achaia, and Asia. Yet he too had not reached...
by Jim Baumgaertel | May 4, 2006 | Are We Like Christ?, Gospel for West Africa, SO SEND I YOU - Chapter 3, Steve Phillips
As the Father has sent Me, so send I you [Jn.20:21] WHOM DOES GOD SEND? The work of the gospel is a work of transformation into the image of Christ. The Lord Jesus is the Pattern for both the one proclaiming and the one receiving the message of Life. Conformity to...
