Recent Articles and Sermons

by Pastor Don Elmore

October 2, 2011

Mark 11:15-19: "And they come to Jerusalem; and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out those that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those that sold doves;  And would not allow that any man should carry any vessel through the temple. And he taught, saying, unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? But ye have made it a den of thieves. And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him; for they feared him, because all the people were astonished at his doctrine. And when evening was fully come, he went out of the city."

by Pastor Don Elmore

August 28, 2011

Vitamin water is very deceptive.  For it is really sugar water with artificial ingredients masquerading as fruits.  For example:  the kiwi – strawberry vitamin water is sugar water with artificial ingredients masquerading as the kiwi and strawberries.  It has no kiwi and strawberries in the beverage and its vitamin A is artificial, too. Even the lawyers of the manufacturer, Coca-Cola, admitted that vitamin water was not beneficial for the consumers to drink.

The same is true for many of the things that are advertised for us to buy.  Another example is Kellogg and Betty Crocker products that advertise that they contain blueberries.  We all know that real blueberries are full of antioxidants and are very beneficial to the consumer, but for the love of huge profits – look at what they do.  The blueberries that they advertise as being in their cereals, muffins, cookies, cakes, etc. are artificial:  made up of Red Dye #50, Blue Dye #1 and in some cases, also Blue Dye #2.  For those who have children who are ADD or ADHD should avoid at all cost the red dye.   Who would ever expect red dye in a product made with Blueberries?  You need to read the labels – some will find this to be a real shocker; possibly life saving!

The food and drink companies constantly advertise their products as being healthy; but in reality it is nothing more than junk food or beverage.  The same is true in political and spiritual matters.  What are a lot of our national congressmen and congress ladiesdoing the last couple of weeks?  Where are John Hagee and Glen Beck?  They are in Israeli enjoying an all-expense paid vacation to the promise land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob!  AIPAC is the paying sponsor.  Glen Beck is holding his “Courage” campaign in Israeli with both Christians (?) and Jews in the filled audiences.  Glen Beck is seen (on YouTube) asking an Ashkenazi Rabbi to come to his meeting on last Thursday (August 25th) to give a prayer for Israeli.  There are videos of Glen Beck and John Hagee giving their speeches along with several Rabbis.  All are applauded loudly.

Does this make you angry?  How mad does this make you? 

by Pastor Mark Downey

September 18, 2011

The reason I selected Ezekiel 3:17-24 for today’s Scripture reading for this subject is to warn the wicked, those who have misappropriated the Word of God for the justification of ungodly acts that result in the loss of life. It is never a time to kill if there is no divine sanction. We call that murder and we’ve been discussing murderers for the last couple of weeks. God’s resolution for homicide is not a life sentence in prison, not plea bargaining, not extradition, not counseling and therapy. It is death. It is the only principle of law of ‘eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth’, or to boil it down to the law of like for like, that without it, would utterly destroy the peace of society, sowing the seeds of discord, hatred and revenge. It is the law of retaliation as prescribed by God. In other words, we must convincingly establish the axiom that crime does not pay. Sin is the transgression of the Law and the wages of sin is death.

by Pastor Mark Downey

September 4, 2011

Today’s message dovetails with Pastor Elmore’s sermon entitled ‘Murderers’ (8-28-11) and comes from a series I did several years ago called ‘Why We Hate Jews.’  Nothing I have written has gotten a more vitriolic response from jews and judeo-Christians than this one, due to the fact that jewish ritual murder is indelibly part of the historical record; as much as they would like for it to disappear down a memory hole.  Martin Luther was an outspoken critic of not only the church, but even more vociferous of the synagogue in which he said in his book ‘The Jews and Their Lies’, “They stabbed and pierced the body of the young boy Simon of Trent. They have also murdered other children…

by Pastor Mark Downey

The invention of the sword goes back to the early Egyptians around the time of the Bronze Age, which was about a thousand years after Adam.  I believe metallurgy was a gift from God to the White race.  Two identification marks (and there are over 100) of Israel would be great agricultural wealth and land having an abundance of minerals.  Deut. 8:9 covers both aspects, “A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness… a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou may dig brass.” 

Swords developed gradually from the scythe, a farming tool used to harvest grain.  But where did the White man get the idea for a sword?  I think it’s interesting that God introduces the first recorded weapon of war in the Bible, not man.  If you recall Adam and Eve being driven out of the Garden of Eden, God placed the “Cherubim and a flaming sword that turns every way to guard the way to the tree of life” (Gen. 3:23).  The idea of a sword then is to protect something.  In early usage, the sword, no doubt, defended their source of life, their gardens, from outside threats. 

If you look up the word ‘sword’, you’ll find the Hebrew word ‘chereb’ (#2719), which comes from 2717 meaning ‘to parch (through drought)’, supporting the word chereb, which means drought, having a secondary definition of ‘a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as well as 2717 saying, ‘by analogy, to desolate, destroy, kill.’ 

A Cincinnati Enquirer Article

This is how the article begins in the Saturday, June 11, 2011 Enquirer:

Groundbreaking for the $172 million Ark Encounter project could be as early as August, now that tax rebates for the attraction have been greenlighted.

The approval of incentives virtually assures the project will be built on the Grant County site identified by developers at a December press conference in Frankfort.

‘This was the site that we really liked and everything was predicated on getting this approval,’ said Mike Zovath, senior vice president for Answers in Genesis and project manager for Ark Encounter LLC.

Pastor Mark Downey

July 24, 2011

By way of review, so far we have established that the old man to which Scripture points to negatively is none other than self and all of the hyphenated character defects that emanate from it: self-righteousness, self-centered, self-indulgent, self-aggrandizement, self-justification, self-will and on and on it goes.

by Pastor Mark Downey

August 7, 2011

In Charles Dicken’s ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, a well known classic line stated, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”  I’ve been hearing for years that these are trying times and that it’s an exciting time in which we live.  I’m guilty of repeating these clichés, but I don’t find it very exciting when my patience is tried.  Nevertheless, Scripture saith, “Tribulation worketh patience” (Romans 5:3).  So, men and brethren, what shall we do? 

We live in a day and age in which there are some very smart and wise people as well as despicable idiots; the best and the brightest vs. the worst and the dullest.  We live in an era of true believers and also rancid atheists.  It is a winter of freezing blizzards and a summer of scorching drought.  We put all our cards on the table, yet have nothing to wager – nothing to win and nothing to lose.  Millions think they will be raptured off to heaven and millions resign themselves to the pits of hell. 

by Pastor Mark Downey

August 21, 2011

Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your country is doing to you.  Josiah did what we should be doing and he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord.