Recent Articles and Sermons

The Lord of All the Earth

by Rev. Jim Jester

October 5, 2025

SCRIPTURE READING: Hebrews 1:1-4

Psalm 97 continues in the theme and tone of the previous psalms. It uses phrases found in other psalms and other Old Testament passages.

J. M. Boice has commented, “Psalms 96, 97, 98 each hail God’s coming as the world’s King. But psalms 96, 98 soar with delight at what is in store for the world when Jesus returns, while in Psalm 97 the frightening and awesome side of God’s kingly rule is emphasized.”

The psalmist celebrates the Lord’s dominion over nations and nature, describes its effect on foes and friends, and then encourages the latter.

“They took him down from the tree”

By: Walter Giddings

September 28, 2025

Featured Scripture: Acts 13:39 

(John 18:1-2).  There was a location in the garden.  Judas knew “the place”.

What was this place?  Was this place in a garden? Did this place have a name? Golgotha” the Hebrew name for “the place of a skull”.

“The place, which is called Calvary”  If Golgotha and Calvary are “the place” where Jesus and his apostles “ofttimes resorted thither”, is then “the place” where Jesus prayed three times, in agony, to sweat, as it were, drops of blood?! Could it be that “the place” that Judas knew, to where Jesus and the disciples “ofttimes” returned, was “the place” which was the very site of Christ’s Crucifixion?

Copied from the sermon notes of Pastor Don Elmore

September 21, 2025

Scripture Reading:  Revelation 18:4

This is the first of two sermons that will tell the brief story of my church life when I was not a preacher. It covers about the first 40 years of my existence here on earth and tells of my search for the truth of what the Bible teaches.

What church should a person go to? Who is a Christian, is a question that is seldom answered. It is implied by their “no answer” that everyone, or almost everyone, on the list below is a Christian. But how could all the following denominations, with large memberships, be Christian when they hold opposite theological opinions to other Christian churches? Here are the approximate numbers of all the members of the largest and different Christian denominations in the world:

King and Judge

by Rev. Jim Jester

September 14, 2025

SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Chr. 16:23-24

The call to the people of Israel in the previous psalm to praise the LORD as a great King (Ps. 95:1-7) is also now made to the nations in the following psalms (96-100). In these psalms, it is not the kingship of David that is sung, but that of the Lord Jesus Christ. The kingships of David and of Jesus are very closely related to each other, for the great Son of David is the Lord of hosts. Psalm 96 looks forward to the fulfillment of these promises when God openly exercises His authority over the nations.

There is no author attributed in the Hebrew text, but Psalm 96 contains the middle verses of the psalm David sang for the entrance of the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem, suggesting that David was the author.

Copied from the sermon notes of Pastor Don Elmore

September 7, 2025

Scripture Reading: Titus 1:14:

“Not giving heed to Jewish fables [or myths of Judaism], and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. 

The apostle Paul’s letter to Titus, who was one of his co-workers during part of a couple of his missionary journeys, gives to his fellow helper a stern warning. He gave him instructions to not give any credence to … it wasn’t any Oriental fables or Negro fables or Greek fables … but only to Jewish fables. I wonder why that was. Was Paul anti-Semitic?

Ken Ham, of Answers in Genesis, wrote an article that appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper in 2017. The article was entitled "There is Only One Race -- The Human Race."  This  sermon will examine Ken's article.

By Walter Giddings 

August 31, 2025

(Genesis 3:8-10). The mention of the trees “in the garden” in Genesis 3 notes them to be a hiding place. There are two famous instances in legend and history where a forest of trees provided significant cover for an effective hiding place. David, before he became king, was King Saul’s greatest warrior.  When he fell out of favor with King Saul, David and his men hid themselves in the forest of Haro-sheth. When Robin Hood fell out of favor with Prince John in old England, he and his merry men successfully remained hidden in Sherwood Forest. Even Adam and the woman sought cover among the trees of the garden of Eden! But our Creator and Maker, who alone is God (!), has pursued us all who are born from above, and has drawn us to His Beloved Son Jesus. In His Omnipresence no one can be hidden!

The Lord Reigns

by Rev. Jim Jester

August 24, 2025

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 2:1-6

Psalm 93 can be seen as the first psalm in a series of psalms (93-101) that describe and sing of the kingship of the LORD (Yahweh), that is, the Lord Jesus. At the same time, Psalm 93 is also a continuation of the previous psalms. It is the fulfillment of the promises of God as listed in Psalm 92.

The Lord is now King. In Psalm 93, the faithful remnant sings of the consequences of God’s action in favor of His people. We also see this in Psalms 96, 97 and 99. In the new series of psalms, beginning with Psalm 94, we get a look back at the trials the remnant went through.

“my delights were with the sons of Adam” Proverbs 8:31

By: Walter Giddings

August 17, 2025

(Job 20:4). One of Job’s friends, Zophar the Naamathite, is making the point “that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.”  And he is saying this has always been true, all the way back, to way back!

“Since Adam was placed upon earth” … To what point of time is Zophar referring? When did God do this?

The Concept that God took Adam from another place to place him “upon earth”, and “put him” in the Garden is expressed equally in both Hebrew and English.

Third Missionary Journey, Part Two:  Journey to Rome

Copied from the sermon notes of Pastor Don Elmore

August 10, 2025

Scripture Reading:  Matthew 28:1-7

Our nation will soon have “anti-Semitic” laws that will declare that anyone who says anything against the Jews will go to prison. Well, they will have to ban the Bible, because it is very “anti-Jewish.” The first five books of the New Testament (Covenant) reveal multiple attempts by the Jewish authorities to have both Jesus and his chosen vessel, Paul, murdered, like in this verse (see part seven of this series).

Answers in Genesis started about 30 years ago in one small part of a strip mall in Florence, Kentucky. It was there that they sold their merchandise and started their outreach to churches. They opened their Creation Museum to the public in 2006 at a cost of $27 million, and the Noah’s Ark Exhibit opened in 2017 at a cost of over $100 million. The Museum opened with no debt because they built the Museum as they received the money. But for the Ark, AiG borrowed 62 million dollars on bonds from their “supporters”, i.e., the city of Williamstown, who AiG will pay back with interest, with 75% of their property tax going to this cost, over the next 15 – 30 years.

Next on their agenda, in 2026, is the indoor model of Jerusalem during Jesus’ time and then they will build the Tower of Babel. I will quote what they say on their website about this exhibit of three-part model of Jerusalem:

“They will follow Jesus’ ministry in Jerusalem and learn about archaeological finds confirming the Bible’s history.”

But Jesus’ ministry wasn’t in Jerusalem, but rather to the north in Galilee. There was a lot of activity at the end of his ministry in Jerusalem, but that was not where His ministry occurred. The disciples were informed to go where they were from and meet Him in Galilee and it wasn't in the entire world as Judaized dispensationalist churches would have you believe.