by Jim Baumgaertel | Jul 6, 2018 | Loving the Truth
August 2006 Part 1 Once upon a time there was a Conspiracy Theory Zealot who was obsessed with suspicions and paranoia. Fred believed every whacko theory he read that explained “what really happened” about every major tragedy and triumph in civilization for the last...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Jul 6, 2018 | Loving the Truth
TWO ELEMENTS – SCHOLARLY HISTORY – HISTORY AS IDOLATRY – TRUE HISTORY – BIBLICAL VIEW OF HISTORY TWO ELEMENTS World history is a matter of two elements: Mankind rebelling against God, and God reaching out in mercy and...
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...
