by Jim Baumgaertel | May 1, 2012 | Counterfeit Christianity
Worldly Agenda The Truth Project expresses some profound truths from the word of God, but then, at strategic points the scriptures are twisted to turn our heavenly calling into an earthly agenda. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is replaced by the “World View”. ...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Mar 5, 2012 | Commentary, Counterfeit Christianity, The World Religion
One of the many ways professing Evangelical Christians are being merged with the world religion is through celebrity gurus. Read about gurus in India to see how they are treated by their devotees. Within Evangelicalism there are gurus promoted by the powerful that...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Sep 26, 2011 | Commentary, Counterfeit Christianity
Most recent Lighthouse Trails article: Letter to the Editor: Concerned About Voice of the Martyrs Catholic Promotion – added 9/24/2013 “From a Lighthouse Trails reader (who spent years as a missionary in Latin America) who sent the following letter...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Aug 31, 2011 | Commentary, Counterfeit Christianity
As noble as his life and death were, in many ways, I recommend that we should be Acts 17:11 Bereans and compare what Bonhoeffer taught with the Bible. I think the two most important questions to ask are, Did Dietrich Bonhoeffer preach the Biblical Jesus? Did he...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Aug 7, 2011 | Counterfeit Christianity
Increasingly I hear professing Christians approach the search for truth as if at a smorgasbord. “I’ll take this and I’ll take that and I’ll not take this or that.” (“eclectic”) In the 1980s I only heard the so-called...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Jul 16, 2011 | Counterfeit Christianity
Would it be right for a Christian to write an allegorical novel that portrayed the good guys as routinely being sexually immoral and that, within the story, it was considered alright, because it’s an allegory? Many would call a novel, portraying such sexual...