by Jim Baumgaertel | Mar 16, 2012 | Loving the Truth, Personal Testimony
Sometimes it seems like I’m just now learning the Bible after thirty-five years of being a Christian. The more I study the word of God the more amazing I realize it is. From Genesis to Revelation it is cohesive and coherent and interwoven with common themes and...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Sep 18, 2010 | Personal Testimony
Gig Harbor, Washington State USA Posted 4/19/08 Updated 11/25/11, 8/21/2017 After years in Calvary Chapels and about five years hoping to be a part of a mature Biblical house church, I decided that my family would become a part of CBF. That was about 2003. People had...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Jun 7, 2009 | Personal Testimony
Daily Sobbing Sessions I was going through sobbing sessions nearly every day in Vallejo, California. My first wife was divorcing me. I was twenty-three years old. I had come within about a week of being “baptized into the Mormon Church”. I...