2013 Sermons

by Pastor Mark Downey

Scripture Reading: Revelation 2:14

Note from Pastor Elmore:  This is the last part of a three part series by the late Mark Downey.  Mark died of cancer on March 28, 2018.  Mark preached this at our church almost ten years ago.  I consider this one of his classics. 

by Pastor Mark Downey

July 14, 2013

Presented to the Fellowship on March 28, 2021 by Alan Breitenstein

Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy 31:10-13

I'm a baby-boomer and growing up in the 1950's, when you could walk down the street in relative safety, I remember my mom saying, "Don't talk to strangers."  Even 50 years ago, America was changing for the worse.  Christianity was on the verge of a major downswing towards a hyphenated judaization and multicultural diversity.  Back then, the proverbial stranger was a hitchhiker with his thumb up for a ride or someone you didn't know offering candy to children.  The innocence of such things soon changed, because of a few gruesome crimes, which later became quite common.  In fact, the dark side of strangers has become serial, as in killers and pedophiles.  Trust is no longer taken for granted.  Talking to strangers today can be deathly.  And so we have to ask if the Bible prohibits our people from conversing with the strangers of forced integration.  Actually, it’s more than just mere conversation; it is the mindset of modern social interaction.    

By Pastor Don Elmore

December 29, 2013

Scripture Reading 1 Kings 9:6-8

Have you ever wondered why so many of our brethren don’t seem to care when you tell them about the covenant and the promises that our God made with us?  Many just go on and live their lives neither agreeing nor disagreeing with anything that you say. 

It must be similar to what they did to the concentration camps in the Soviet Union and in Germany in World War II.  They made the captives of those camps to be in a fog; they didn’t object to most of the regulations that they were given.  The number of guards was cut to 75% of what they had been before.  That has happened because we are serving other gods; we are not obeying the Commandments that our God gave to us.

They put a by-product of aluminum in the water.  It made the prisoners docile and inhibited their questioning the authority of the camp leaders. Later they convinced many of the people to vote to add it to their water supply too; its name—fluoride.  It is now in most of the public water systems in America. 

This is a good explanation as to why we will have in January as the head of the Federal Reserve System, Janet Yellen, the first jewish woman. and as her assistant Stanley Fischer, a jew who was born in Africa and was head of the Israeli national banks for eight years before coming in his present position in America.  He was a former head of the economic department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, former number two official at the International Monetary Fund and former chief economist at the World Bank.

by Pastor Mark Downey

December 22, 2013

Scripture Reading: II Thes. 2:10-12

From the KJV we read about “strong delusion” and that was my original title for this message.  However, upon reviewing other translations, instead of the word ‘delusion’ was the word ‘error.’  The Ferrar Fenton read “the energy of error”; the Christogenea NT read, “an operation of error” and still others said, “a working of error,” “a deluding influence,” and “a misleading influence.”  I wondered how could there be such a disparity of terms and what are these verses really talking about.  It obviously has something to do with the contest between truth and lies.  Common sense here tells us that the best safeguard against error or more poignantly the delusion (the mental condition in which you believe something that is not true) is “the love of the truth.” 

Pastor Don Elmore

December 15, 2013

Scripture Reading: Joshua 9:3-15

The ancient jews of this story in Joshua 9 tells of how they deceived our forefathers as they were fighting the war over the land of Palestine.  Our God had instructed Israel to kill every father, mother and child in the area; to make no covenant with any of the people.  But when the Gibeonites [close-by tribe] heard of what Israel’s God had done for them, they decided that they would disguise themselves  as being a people from a far-away land who had come to serve Israel.  The jews deceived Israel and got them to make a covenant with them. This action saved the lives of the Gibeonites but brought much difficulties to the Israelites.

How many people do you know that don’t like what President Obama/Sorento has done?  How about Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton?  How about Vernon Jordan, or….how about Nelson Mandela?  They all support or supported Communist’s ideals and strategies.  What’s up?

Nelson Mandela had something in common with Martin Luther King, Jr.  To the Israeli he was a hero and is called a “mensch” or “great man” because he helped to overthrow “racism.”  The leaders of Israeli lauded Mandela while overseeing the deportation and imprisonment of Israeli black immigrants, saying Mandela “led the fight against racism.”

by Pastor Mark Downey

December 8, 2013

Scripture Reading:  Romans 9:3-5

Christianity today is plagued with tens of thousands of denominations, because Christians have lost the meaning of biblical adoption and have adapted to other religions of the world.  Apostasy means a ‘falling away’ and abandoning previously held beliefs.  Nothing could be more reinventing than the hyphenated “judeo-Christianity” and cause for another writ of divorcement from God.  At one time, blacks and other dark people knew their place in White society; and White Christian Americans understood their place in God’s scheme of things; His law and order for a civilized society.  They were the ‘heirs of the promise’ with a divine destiny.

by Pastor Don Elmore

December 1, 2013

Scripture Reading:  Exodus 20:1-3

Sandy Hook is nothing more than a big….no not a big, but a massive hoax—a false flag.  Just like all the others:  Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; The Lusitania; 9/11 destruction of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon; Aurora Movie Theater shooting; Boston Marathon bombing; JFK assassination; Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting….it doesn’t hold up when you investigate it.

by Pastor Don Elmore

November 17, 2013

Scripture Reading: Isaiah 41:8-10

It was over twenty years ago while I was teaching high school math; when one of my math students asked me a question.  It was during lunch time and we were both in my math room munching on the lunch they we brought from home.  She asked:  “Have you read Peter Marshall’s book, “The Light and the Glory.” I knew a Peter and Catherine Marshall; Peter was the Senate Chaplain and his wife was a best-selling author.  But this was co-authored by their son.  I answered, “No.  I was not aware of the book.  What is it about?”  She answered:  “Well, we are using this book in Sunday School class.  It tells about the Pilgrims and how God performed all the miracles for them.”

That piqued my interest.  I hadn’t heard of “all these miracles” that God performed for the Pilgrims in the early days of our nation.  So, after I went home I bought the book.  I read it and was fascinated. 

That fall we had our Thanksgiving meal at our house.  I mean the church’s first Thanksgiving meal; which is, of course, around two weeks before the real Thanksgiving Day celebrated by our nation.  We started celebrating it because why noted a lack of the correct motives in celebrating it with family and friends.  It wasn’t supposed to be a social event and a sports day, but a religious service.  God was to be thanked for His kindness and goodness towards us in giving us a good harvest.

by Pastor Don Elmore

November 3, 2013

Scripture Reading: Ephesians 1:4-6

I was brought up as an Arminian; i.e. a man who chooses God.  I never heard the words election used in the Bible.  I could have read the words, but had no idea what it meant.  When I was about 21 years old, I read a religious newspaper that taught “Calvinism.”  They actually were proud and emphasized what John Calvin taught; and I was surprised to learn that is what most American churches taught and believed two centuries ago: the “TULIP doctrine”: 

Total depravity
Unconditional election
Limited Atonement
Irresistible grace
Perseverance and preservation of the saints (Eternal security)

Compared with the Calvinistic five points is the Arminian position:

by Pastor Don Elmore

October 27, 2013

Scripture Reading: Matthew 25:40

This verse is given as the verse which is used as the one which the Universalist uses to fleece our people into giving part of their money to them in order to think that they are doing this for Jesus Christ.  Look at these recent examples: