by Jim Baumgaertel | Jan 4, 2011 | Steve Phillips
A newly re-edited book By Brother Steve Phillips A returned missionary from West Africa “Counterfeiting is a serious crime attached with severe punishments for those offending. Not only are private citizens defrauded and deceived thereby, but it is an assault...
by Jim Baumgaertel | May 27, 2007 | Gospel for West Africa, Out of the Depths - The Mystery of Suffering, Steve Phillips
BELOVED, DO NOT BE SURPRISED AT THE FIERY TRIAL AMONG YOU, WHICH COMES UPON YOU FOR YOUR TESTING, AS THOUGH SOME STRANGE THING WERE HAPPENING TO YOU [I Pet.4:12] If the Master is maligned as Beelzebub, the members of His house must fare even worse at the hands of men...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Apr 19, 2007 | Are We Like Christ?, Gospel for West Africa, Steve Phillips, THE STORM BREAKS - Chapter 4
For the first three hundred years, persecution came in ten “waves,� with periods of relative peace between. Many were faithful and did not yield to temptations to deny Christ. These were the Confessors [faithful survivors of torture and prison] and Martyrs. Others...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Mar 28, 2007 | Gospel for West Africa, Out of the Depths - The Mystery of Suffering, Steve Phillips
BLESSED IS HE WHO DOES NOT STUMBLE OVER ME [Mt.11:6] A man sent from God [Jn.1:6], indeed, none greater that has been born of women [Mt.11:11] and more than a prophet [Mt.11:9]; this was John. Filled with the Spirit while yet in his mother’s womb [Lk.1:15] and...
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...
