by Jim Baumgaertel | Feb 6, 2007 | Gospel for West Africa, Out of the Depths - The Mystery of Suffering, Steve Phillips
HOW LONG, O LORD? WILL YOU FORGET ME FOREVER? [Ps.13:1] The gently led nursing flock whose lambs are carried in the bosom of the Good Shepherd [Isa.40:11], have not yet known the God of darkness. Jubilant multitudes whose lips spill over with “Hosanna� are nowhere...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Jan 27, 2007 | Are We Like Christ?, Gospel for West Africa, Steve Phillips, THE STORM BREAKS - Chapter 4
Diocletian’s edict that all the sacred books of the Christians should be burned was a fiery trial for the saints of God. Since the copies were hand written and not the common possession of all as our printed Bibles are to us today, the leaders of the churches were...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Dec 28, 2006 | Gospel for West Africa, Steve Phillips, West African Update
Steve & Patricia Phillips Steve has recently completed a book entitled: Black but Lovely: Thoughts on the Song of Songs. This and his other publications can be read and/or copied by visiting the website: https://www.procinwarn.com/West-Africa/west-africa.htm and...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Dec 6, 2006 | Gospel for West Africa, Out of the Depths - The Mystery of Suffering, Steve Phillips
BEHOLD, I HAVE REFINED YOU, BUT NOT AS SILVER; I HAVE TESTED YOU IN THE FURNACE OF AFFLICTION [Isa.48:10] Life made bitter by grueling taskmasters makes tears your food, night and day. It is what Israel knew, enslaved in the iron furnace of Egypt under the Pharaoh who...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Nov 17, 2006 | Are We Like Christ?, Gospel for West Africa, Steve Phillips, THE STORM BREAKS - Chapter 4
PERPETUA c.202 AD A beloved African sister of wealthy and noble birth, highly educated and honorably married, was taken captive by persecutors of the faith. Only twenty-two years old and with babe at her breast, she was begged by her aged and pagan father to deny...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Oct 18, 2006 | Gospel for West Africa, Out of the Depths - The Mystery of Suffering, Steve Phillips
ALTHOUGH HE WAS A SON, HE LEARNED OBEDIENCE FROM THE THINGS HE SUFFERED [Heb.5:8] In all their affliction He was afflicted [Isa.63:9]. Truly Christ Jesus our Lord was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief [Isa.53:3]. From birth there was no room for Him except...
