Visiting Pastor Sermons

“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?

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!

“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.

by Pastor Lawrence Blanchard

July 20, 2025

Most people, including the majority of God's Covenant People, are drifting through life because they don't have a definite purpose. The theme of the Bible is the realization of the Kingdom of God here and now. With this understanding they can recover a God-ordained vision and passion to define a definite purpose and a definite plan to achieve that purpose.

Available in audio only.

Pastor Blanchard is the author of the Covenant Heritage book series, which is a culmination of 36 years of study and research in the Bible and other related fields.  Per Pastor Blanchard's website, YourBiblicalHeritage.com:

The Covenant Heritage books offer step-by-step systematic training that transforms ordinary people into Bible masters. The Bible Mastery Boot Camp is the interactive video teaching and training series that follows the first four books of the Covenant Heritage Series.

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 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?

“.. they saw God, and did eat and drink.”

by Walter Giddings

January 19, 2025

“I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD.” (Isaiah 54:5).  Is a matter established at the mouth of at least two if not three witnesses? 

           5 For thy Maker is thine husband; 

            the LORD of hosts is his name; and

            thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel;

            The God of the whole earth shall he 

            be called. 

                                                  Isaiah chapter fifty-four. 

Shall we give Verse 5 a close look?  Is God speaking through the end time Prophet Isaiah?  To whom is He speaking?  Does Israel have a “Kinsman Redeemer”?  At the end of the Age (future), will He be called “The God of the whole earth”?  Will that put to an end that rebel Angel Satan’s serious Case of Adverse Possession of the earth that began with Adam’s Abdication of The Throne of Dominion? 

By Walter Giddings

November 10, 2024

Galatians 6:14-16 “ .. and upon the Israel of God.”

“God was making His most significant attempt since ancient Israel to create a new Israel; of people living in obedience to the laws of God, through faith in Jesus Christ.” Peter Marshall and David Manuel.  The Light and the Glory

We ended Lesson 6 Covenantkeepers listing every mention of “God’s New Israel” and “New Israel” in Peter Marshall and David Manuel, The Light and the Glory, 1977.  Of the 10 books in my possession, relating to America’s Covenant with God, Marshall and Manuel are the only researchers, to date, to index these terms!  Why?!

In our day, this is a startling statement.  It is their conclusion developed from 204 historical works, covering The Pilgrims and Puritans to the Framing of our Republic.  And both writers, Marshall and Manuel, agree it is radical to the extreme: