by Pastor Don Elmore

January 15, 2012

Scripture Reading:  Joshua 24:31

In the Answers in Genesis booklet, “How Can I Become a Child of God?” they divided the small booklet into several divisions.  For example, it starts out with the topic Creation, followed by Corruption, Confusion, Christ, Cross and the Consummation and then two pages entitled the same as the booklet.  They make the same basic divisions in their museum.

In the page titled, Confusion, it makes two very big assumptions:

by Pastor Don Elmore

August 14, 2011

Fifty years ago, when I graduated from high school, I knew that I didn’t know anything about the Bible. I knew that the church that I had been going to in my younger days was not the right one. I began my search for the true church…Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Christian Science, and many others.

I eventually went to Roman Catholic classes (one a week for about 8 weeks). They taught that their church was the true one, with one of the apostles of Jesus, Simon Peter, their first pope. Here is what they said:

By Pastor Don Elmore

December 4, 2011

We are living in very deceptive times.  The Bible says that almost the entire world will be deceived by the evil seed.  Almost everything in this age is an illusion.  Our money, our holidays, our institutions and even ourselves are images of examples of what the Bible talked about what would happen in the end of this age. 

For example, our big holiday of Christmas is a big illusion. In the Friday, December 2, 2011, Cincinnati Enquirer, in its “Faith Matters” column,The Creation Museum, the product of Answers in Genesis 1-11, begins this weekend with a “preview of events for its annual Christmas celebrations with the events opening to the public next weekend. The museum has an extensive Christmas program, including Christmas Town, a combination of live nativity and dramas.  The museum exhibits and “The Christmas Star” planetarium program each have admission and tickets.  Admission after 5 p.m. on Christmas Town nights is $5.  The Garden of Lights includes 60,000 Christmas lights, and the Christmas Town includes a reenactment of first-century Bethlehem and a marketplace with gifts and souvenirs.  The outdoor Christmas Town and Garden of Lights are free through the season; with the town open 6 to 8 p.m. on Dec. 9, 10, 16, 17, 26, 27, 30 and 31.”  

The word “Christmas” is not even mentioned once in the Bible; so much for sola scriptura! Christ’s mass was forbidden to be celebrated by many Protestants and before them the churches who were separate from and never a part of the Universal (Catholic) Church. One wonders as he hears of Black Friday and Cyber Monday how insane the season has become. It is like the letter to the editor that appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer on November 29th: 

By Pastor Don Elmore

October 30, 2011

Jeremiah 3:20-25: 

Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD. A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God. Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God. Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

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 Don Elmore

July 31, 2011

According to Loraine Boettner, in his much-studied and theologically influential book, The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination, “The Calvinistic view is the only logical one if we accept the Scriptural declaration that salvation is by grace” (p. 103). Calvinists insist that God in His sovereignty, and in eternity, chose or picked out of mankind whom He would save (by means of Christ’s death and the work of the Holy Spirit) for no other reason than His own wise, just and gracious purpose. The Reformed Faith separates the human race into two portions and ordains one to everlasting life and the other to everlasting death. As the Westminster Confession states:

By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His glory, some men and angels are predestinated to everlasting life, and others are foreordained to everlasting death. These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeable designed; and their number is so certain and definite that it cannot be either increased or diminished.

Sermon Notes from Pastor Don Elmore

Do you remember the message that I brought on the 3 different variations of the tribe of Judah?

1. 1. Shelahites – Mixed with Canaanites (true Jews of today)
   2. Zerahites – true seed of Israel
   3. Pharezites – true seed of Israel

The three variations of Judah still have a lot of descendants today; only one is rightly called Jews.

by Pastor Don Elmore

This past week I have felt that our nation has been the recipient of those whose father was the originator of the lie (John 8:44).  They have certainly told many lies in the nation’s past—but this week they had to change their lies so often.