2025 Sermons

Adorned with Victory

by Rev. Jim Jester

July 13, 2025

SCRIPTURE READING: Exodus 15:1-5

Psalm149 was probably composed soon after the return from the captivity in Babylon. It is filled with the spirit of intense joy and hope, which must have been natural for God’s covenant people at that period of time. Men of strong faith and loyalty must have felt that the restoration of the people to their own land, was seen as proof of Divine favor, and that it could be regarded as a pledge of a great future yet to come for the nation.

This psalm expresses the praises of God’s people for how they were delivered from Egyptian bondage. The first song in the Bible (Ex. 15:1-18, which we read in part), sang by Moses and Miriam, goes into great detail about this deliverance; much of which is touched on in other psalms.

SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (Part Four)

Copied from the sermon notes of Pastor Don Elmore

July 6, 2025

Scripture Reading Acts 17:16:  

Paul was by himself in Athens. He would be by himself for about three to four weeks. His spirit was stirred when he saw how the city was so idolatrous.

Paul had previously been chased out of Thessalonica by the Jews who then followed him to Berea to duplicate the same thing. They were hunting for Paul and were waiting at the place where he was staying. When his brethren found out what was happening, to keep the Jews from finding and violently hurting or killing him, they put him on a ship and quickly got him out of town. Paul’s supporters didn’t have enough money to pay for all his fellow missionaries to travel by ship (my opinion), so the rest of them had to travel by land. The ship that Paul was on took him 275 miles to Athens.

Exodus Set to Music

by Rev. Jim Jester

June 29, 2025

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 114:1-2

Psalm 114 is the second psalm of a series of psalms known as the Egyptian Hallel (Ps. 113-118), and is sung as part of Israel’s Passover ceremony. It is known as the “Song of the Exodus,” and it pictures God’s deliverance of Israel from Egypt.  It is likely that Jesus and his disciples sang the Hallel at their Passover feast recorded in the New Testament. It is also thought that this psalm was used to encourage the exiles on their return from Babylon. It has no introduction and no conclusion. It is an elaboration of the previous psalm. It begins and ends abruptly, without Hallelujah and without the name of the LORD.

By Walter Giddings

June 22, 2025

Featured Scripture:  Hebrews 12:16

 In The Scriptures, against whom is this charge of fornicator laid? What makes someone a “fornicator”? (1 Corinthians 5:11). Of what is a “fornicator” guilty of committing? Most of us here could say a “fornicator” is guilty of committing fornication. Is that “dodging the question”? Is that a humorous way of confessing our ignorance? Is that the same as saying a Jew is a non-Gentile, and a Gentile is a non-Jew? If we are expecting God does better than that, this Lesson might well bear fruit!

by Brian Jones

June 15, 2025

Does God have your heart, mind and soul?  If God has your heart, you will love what He loves and hate what He hates.  

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SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (Part Three)

Copied from the sermon notes of Pastor Don Elmore

June 8, 2025

Scripture Reading:  Acts 17:26

According to an old and a new gallop poll which asked the following question, “Do you approve or disapprove of marriage between Black people and White people”, the results have changed drastically in the 63 years they have asked this question.

In 1958: 4% of Americans approved of interracial marriages between Blacks and Whites, while 94% disapproved.

In 2021: 94% of Americans approved of interracial marriages between Blacks and Whites, while 4% disapproved.

What happened in the last 63 years?

In Remembrance of His Works

by Rev. Jim Jester

June 1, 2025

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 111:1

Psalm 111 begins with the simple declaration of “Praise the Lord,” i.e., in one word: “Hallelujah!” The first time we encounter the word “hallelujah” in the New Testament is in Revelation 19. That is when the Lord Jesus has judged Babylon the great, and begins to exercise His public kingship: “And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God.” (Rev. 19:1) So with this one word, hallelujah, it was as if the psalmist thought, “Before I describe how I will praise Him, let me simply declare His praise.” This declaration also implies that others should do the same.

By Walter Giddings

May 25, 2025

Keynote Scripture: Philippians 3:20

“For our conversation is in heaven.”

Do Christians make the best citizens in any country? Would you prefer a Christian who is commanded by The God of The Bible to “love thy neighbour as thyself” for a neighbor? Or would you prefer a Muslim who is commanded by the god of the Koran to kill every Infidel? Would you prefer a Christian who is commanded by The God of The Bible “thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour”? Or would you prefer an atheist who believes he is God?! And, yes, most self-declared atheists are hypocrites [doubleminded] in order to clear the field of all competitors! (Psalm 94:20). As a god, does the atheist believe he is the rightful owner to all your property, and works tirelessly to organize a throne of iniquity to frame laws of mischief to seize the property of others?  Does he?! 

By Walter Giddings

May 11, 2025

Keynote Scripture:  Psalms 9:16

(Matthew 26:59-61).  Our previous Lesson we titled Judgments.  In that Lesson our Key Scripture, Psalm 9:16, was the same as it is for this Lesson, Statutes and Judgments!  In Judgments we attempted to know The Great I Am God of Israel more intimately “by the judgment which he executeth...”!!!  At the end of that Lesson we asked the Question, “What if 2 Witnesses, willing to perjure their Sacred Oath of Testimony, can be found? 

By Water Giddings

April 27, 2025

Psalms 9:16:  "The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth:...”

(Deuteronomy 17:8-13).  How well does American Israel know the LORD?  How well does American Israel understand The Judgments of her God?  Are we still doing stupid Sheep stuff?  

Do our Bibles ask the question, Who will rule? God or man? Are we despisers of God’s Judgments?