By Debra Downey

We have such a deep rich history with 20 centuries of beautiful hymns that has been passed down to us, from generation to generation.  Hymnody is the study of our hymns and should be periodically touched on in conferences. One of my research books had this in the preface: “In each era, creative people have offered their gifts to the Lord, shared by congregations and passed on. So as we worship, we are entering an ongoing song, composed long before our time and continuing into eternity.” Randy Peterson "Be Still My Soul"

Contents:

• Music History
• Early Influential Hymnodists
• Interesting background stories on some well known hymns

by Pastor Mark Downey

December 31, 2017

Scripture Reading: Acts 14:21-22

The following is a letter Pastor Mark wrote as an expert witness for a Christian Identity prison case up in Michigan.  They've been fighting it for years, and hopefully this will dissolve once and for all.  Those in Michigan should start making plans to attend the trial in August.

Dear Professor,

Let me thank you for allowing me to participate in this case as I've been pondering the ramifications, not just in the prison systems, but for pastors, authors and expositors of Christian Identity. There are adversaries who can obviously twist what we're about with impunity in a few prisons with the hopes that these political opinions transform into laws and then those laws are shown in courts to be applicable to people like myself, which would have an unprecedented prejudice against law abiding Identity Christians and perhaps trickle down to mainstream Christian churches. In fact, this strategy is already in motion and I'll discuss it when I get to the SPLC. This case is important because it is blatant discrimination and the perpetrators would love for there to be a domino effect to silence us forever.

Sermon Notes by Pastor Mark Downey

Scripture Reading: Luke 22:35-38 “And He said to them, When I sent you without purse and wallet and sandals, did you lack anything? And they replied, No, nothing. Then He said to them, But now he having a purse must take it, and likewise a wallet, and he not having a sword must sell his coat and buy one. For I say to you that it is necessary for this Scripture to be fulfilled in Me, that also ‘He was reckoned with the lawless.’ For what is written about Me is reaching its fulfillment. And they said to Him, “Lord, look! Here are two swords!” And He said to them, It is sufficient.”

Forgive me for the alliteration (a series of words starting with the same letter) in our title. Perhaps a sequel could be Baal, Bongos and Babylon. The Titanic ship of Babylon keeps getting closer and closer to the iceberg of God. The Admiralty jurisdiction wants to confiscate all life preservers and life boats with the artificial storms of Marxist Dialectics. There will be some who jump ship into the great whore that sits upon many waters (Rev. 17:1, 15). They would rather surrender their souls to the final beast empire of prophecy than walking on water as Peter did momentarily. I'm waxing a bit poetic, but can you feel the crescendo of our times hitting the boiling point of Christians in the saucepan? The antichrists probably think of us as the frog, but don't want us jumping out of their century long conspiracy to boil us to death. They want voluntary compliance; for us to beg them to please turn up the heat. But be warned, the first breath you take after you surrender will not be the breath of life, but the polluted air of zombies. After so many years of senseless gun-related shootings, they envision the White Christian American to march down to their local police station and tell the Chief, “Please take my gun”. Hardly any of these sensational shootings make any sense and most have an uncanny pattern of coincidences, always aided and abetted by the mainstream jewish media. They very seldom tell the whole truth about a shooting and suppress revealing information that would suggest others were involved besides the lone nut. However, God goes so far as to say, “And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth” Rev. 18:24.

Sermon Notes by Pastor Mark Downey

Scripture Reading: Exodus 18:19-23

This is not a sermon about a person named Harvey Reichstag, but rather the conjunction of the worst ever US natural disaster (according to AccuWeather.com) and the worst ever political arson fire. The recent hurricane in Texas and the German Parliament building set ablaze have a common denominator. In 2011 I wrote a sermon called “Katrina? You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!” Six years later, we're seeing something. We're seeing a storm of devastation nearing 40 inches of rain and $200 billion in damages. In fact, we are seeing a slew of hurricanes. Both the hurricane(s) and the arson are not what they appear to be. Both exploitations are borne of political expediency for propaganda purposes. Both have an impact on national security. Both have a calculated future because of the evil inherent from the events. Both have an inevitable clash between Christianity and jewish communism. Both foment extraordinary extremism. Both have biblical implications. That may not be specific enough yet to draw some corollaries. So please allow me to explain if you can handle the truth. I say that because most people have been programmed to automatically close their minds to anything having to do with race, God and government; the latter two falsely euphemized as church and state. But, the walls of our minds were meant to be overcome. The Truth shall make you free from the barriers of disinformation.