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This is one of the national press headlines in the latest development in the ‘undoing’ of Brexit saga!

The Brexit surrender begins: Starmer ‘gives French access to UK waters for 12 years’ and is set to commit Britain to obeying Brussels’ rules on food

A UK-wide referendum took place in June 2016, in which 51.89 per cent voted in favour of leaving the EU and 48.11 per cent voted to remain a member state.

At that time I published a statement from the Sovereign Grace Advent Testimony on the matter of the UK leaving the EU.

It read as follows:

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“Statement from the Sovereign Grace Advent Testimony on the recent decision by the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union

Europe in Bible Prophecy

The subject of Europe is very prominent in the news at present and that interest has only increased not diminished since the outcome of the EU referendum has been decided.

We are constantly being told by all political leaders what this result means, what is going to happen now and where it will all lead?

It seems that everyone has an opinion to give or a statement to make on the subject!

All of which has only led to greater confusion, division and uncertainty.

But the question that should concern us as Bible believing Christians is – What saith the Scriptures?

What does the Word of God have to say on the subject of the future of Europe? That should be our response to every situation and subject in life and our nation’s membership of the European Union should be no different. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-05-19 a 6:30 pm

This evening Rev Samuel Fitton preached a very appropriate and timely message on the subject: “New Pope…Same Problem!”

I am posting his message for it is one that every Free Presbyterian needs to hear and heed.

It is where our denomination once unashamedly stood and the stand to which we must return if we are to be the witness of God in our land once again.

It is a message in total harmony with the witness of our forefathers and the Reformers. It is the message God has owned and honoured in the past and which He, the unchanging God, will honour yet again as it is preached.

Sincere regards,

Ivan Foster

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Posted on 2025-05-18 a 11:37 pm

Many ‘provincial’ newspapers have articles written by one who calls himself ‘The Rambler’. The name suits the style of the writer in that it is usually a series of collections of tales and stories and anecdotes of folk and their experiences, which would not normally make the headlines or generate a great deal of media interest, but which prove of interest to a dedicated readership who love nostalgia!

The Belfast Newsletter has a ‘Rambler’ but I don’t really think that there are many who, for any reason at all, find his articles of interest.

I am referring to one, John Coulter!

He has been paid to produce, yet again, the greatest mishmash of opinionated balderdash that ever came forth from a ‘Biro’!

His latest article is entitled: ‘Could we Christians be to blame for falling numbers in the pews?’ It is dated 14th May 2025.

As is often the case, no matter what topic he claims he is writing about, it is the Bible-believer that he targets!

This article is a series of conjured up scenarios that have little basis in truth. He paints a picture of the ‘Fundamentalist’ in the darkest hues.

He loves to misapply the Word of God and quotes those whose philosophy is anti-Bible!

In this latest ‘schoolboyish’ attempt at writing, he says: “Some of the most powerful lobbies in many places of worship are judgemental church gossips, especially in militant fundamentalist denominations. They love to pour out their bile on what you are doing wrong, but have these gossips ever stopped to think of the harm they are doing to the Christian faith?”

As ever, the ‘militant fundamentalist denominations’ are squeezed in , under any old pretext, in order to do them down! He goes on to say: “Physically, when you point the finger at someone over something, there are three fingers pointing back at you! Are the judgemental church gossips and militant fundamentalists who like to point out my faults as a journalist for the opinions or challenges I express actually saying they are themselves sinless?” Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-05-17 a 8:58 pm

— A brief exposition of Psalm 15 —

“He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour,” verse 3.

In verse 3, the Psalmist returns to highlighting that which is not found in the character of those who shall abide in the tabernacle of the Lord or who shall dwell in His holy hill.

I. THE CHARACTER OF THE CHRISTIAN IS AS COMPLEX AND AS ELABORATE AS IS THE GLORIOUS NATURE OF GOD.

That is because the true Christian, upon his regeneration, has become a ‘partaker’ of the nature of God. “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust,” 2 Peter 1:3-4.

Being a’ partaker of the divine nature’ is not to be understood as the Christian being ‘deified’! This is impossible, of course. The nature, perfections, and glory of God, are incommunicable to creatures. Rather, it means that by way of resemblance and likeness, we partake of the divine nature. The new man, being formed in the heart in regeneration, takes on the image of God, and bears a likeness to the image of his Son. It is the beginning of a gracious process by which the image and likeness of believers is more and more changed, from glory to glory, through the application of the Gospel, and the promises of it. “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord,” 2 Corinthians 3:18.

John speaks of that final transformation in 1 John 3:2. “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”

This Psalm therefore sets out the important features of  one ‘born again’ from above.

II. GOSPEL HOLINESS IS SEEN IN A BELIEVER’S BEHAVIOUR TOWARD HIS NEIGHBOUR.

The term ‘neighbour’ appears twice in this verse three though all three statements within the verse relate to the believer’s attitude toward his neighbour. Both words which appear as ‘neighbour’, though different in the Hebrew, refer to those close by.

1. He backbiteth not with his tongue. It is usually with the teeth that we bite! But how hurtful and wounding can be the tongue. ‘Backbiting’ is a much more serious sin than many imagine! The word ‘backbiteth’ comes from a Hebrew root signifying foot. It most surely indicates a person who ‘foots it’, goes from one house to another, spreading ill reports. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-05-16 a 6:50 pm

Victims of a former school welfare officer who was convicted of sexual assault have told BBC News NI their school did not do enough to prevent the abuse.

So reads the headline on today’s BBC Northern Ireland website.

It is not the first time a headline of similar import has appeared in the press of recent years. This time it is a reference to events in Lagan College, the much hailed ecumenical answer to every problem in the world of education!

Man-made ‘havens’ provide no safety for children since ‘sinful man’ is the problem in all the world’s difficulties!

It is only as we order our affairs in accordance with the Word of God that we may experience that spoken of by David.

“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me,” Psalm 23:1-4.

Here is the text of the report that appears on the BBC news site.

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Victims of a former school welfare officer who was convicted of sexual assault have told BBC News NI their school did not do enough to prevent the abuse.

Neil Beckett groomed the schoolgirls and used his position as a welfare officer at Lagan College in Belfast to access vulnerable young women.

He was found guilty on 17 counts and jailed in December. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-05-13 a 11:25 pm

Rome is unchanging in its corruptions and perversions.

Spiritually, utterly blind ecumenical writer, Alf McCreary, writes under the headline: ‘The Catholic Church seems to have made a wise choice in Pope Leo XIV’

What a fool the man is and all those who likewise have hailed the arrival of the new pope.

To the day that system is destroyed by Christ, it will remain – “The great whore . . .  with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication,” Revelation 17:1-2.

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
10th May 2025

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POPE LEO XIV ‘ACCUSED OF MISHANDLING SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST PRIESTS IN CHURCHES’

Campaigners have called on the Vatican to ‘conduct a thorough investigation’ into Robert Prevost’s handling of the claims

Bill Bowkett
‘The Standard’
21 hours ago

The new pope has been accused of mishandling allegations of child sexual abuse in his churches in the United States and Peru.

Robert Prevost 69, who will be known as Leo XIV, is said to have failed to properly investigate multiple allegations made against priests. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-05-10 a 7:29 pm

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated his first Mass as the new pontiff

He tells cardinals in the Sistine Chapel that he hopes his election can help the Catholic Church bring light to the “dark nights of this world”

This is one of the headlines that a blinded and beguiled press used to trumpet the arrival of the new occupant to the office in the ‘Roman Catholic Church’, whereby he is henceforth blasphemously named, ‘The Vicar of Jesus Christ’!

For centuries, the occupant of this office has been deemed by Bible-believers as ‘that Antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalts himself, in the Church, against Christ and all that is called God,’ (Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 25, Section 6).

That is the proper view of the man who now calls himself ‘Pope Leo XIV’.

The many titles the pope embraces and the claims he makes of himself and his office totally vindicate the use of the Confession of Faith’s definition of him.

He was born in Chicago as Robert Prevost and he is the first North American to be elected pope. Donald Trump, in keeping with his usual fatuous mouthings, called it a ‘great honour’!

Equally deluded is the leader of the Church of Ireland. He is reported in the Belfast Newsletter as declaring that he is ‘rejoicing’ over election of new pope!

But then he is but part and parcel, along with the new pope, of that evil amalgam which is the beginnings of that which will emerge soon as:

‘MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH’! (Revelation 17:5)

His opening gambit is in keeping with Rome’s blind arrogance and bloated self-glorification. He states that he hopes that the Catholic Church can bring light to the “dark nights of this world”! Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-05-09 a 5:52 pm

This article was shared with me by a concerned and deeply troubled Free Presbyterian.

It is a warning to American Baptists that the witness of separated Biblical Christianity is fast disappearing in that land.

We may take the truths of this article and place the following heading upon it and it is true of the cause of God here in Ulster:

FREE PRESBYTERIANISM IS FAST ABANDONING THE SEPARATIST STAND TO WHICH GOD CALLED IT AND WHICH SAW GOD’S ABUNDANT BLESSING FALL UPON IT IN DAYS WHEN IT WAS FAITHFUL TO THAT STAND!

The likes of Danny Roberts, openly a neo-evangelical and anti-separatist, is welcomed into Free Presbyterian pulpits and representatives of the party supporting murder and terrorism, Sinn Fein, welcomed and lauded in a Free Presbyterian meeting organised to support the ‘Gaelitising of Northern Ireland’. Furthermore, worldly music, long opposed by our church, is now all too evidently employed in some congregations and open opposition to such is resisted and condemned.

This drift began with the sad decision of Dr Ian Paisley in 2007 to enter a ‘power-sharing’ deal with Sinn Fein/IRA.

These things and others of the same ilk have taken place and they are either excused or ignored by the leadership of our Presbytery.

It is all too evident to many Free Presbyterians that there is an abandoning of our historic separatist stand and that can only lead to the judgment of God falling upon us for such rebellion.

I challenge the Moderator and Clerk of our Presbytery to deny what I say and show why I, and many others, ministers and elders, are wrong in our concerns.

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
9th May 2025

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Why Most Fundamental Baptist Churches Will Be Emerging Within 20 Years

Enlarged May 6, 2025 (first published December 15, 2011)

David Cloud, Way of Life Literature, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061

866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org

“A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished” (Proverbs 22:3).

We are witnessing a great blending and merging among every type of church, from fundamentalism to Catholicism, which will culminate in the totally apostate harlot “church” that will be aligned with the antichrist (Revelation 17-18). Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-05-09 a 5:12 pm

— A brief exposition of Psalm 15 —

“He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart,” Psalm 15:2.

This second verse sets out to answer the question posed in  verse 1.

The answer is continued in the rest of the Psalm but verse 2 deals with it in a positive manner. It tells us in an affirmative way what marks the character of the one who ABIDES and DWELLS in God’s presence.

I. THE HOLY PERSON HAS A PARTICULAR WALK.

“He that walketh uprightly. . .”

1. Every step that the Christian takes is markedly different from that of the world. As Paul exhorted: “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God,” Romans 12:2.

The Christian cannot but be “in the world” but they are not “of the world”.

That concept simply means that in the world we actively participate in the legitimate activities of its everyday affairs; living a normal life, and engaging with others, including those who may not share the same beliefs or values.

But there must be a maintaining of a separation from the world’s sinful influences and values. These are so often associated with materialism, greed, and worldly pursuits which dominate business affairs and must be constantly guarded against. We must not be governed by worldly standards or judgments. The unregenerate person will rarely hesitate to act unlawfully or dishonestly, at least to some measure, in order to gain profit! The excuse that is often offered is , ‘Sure, everyone does it!’.

That may be so but the Christian MUST NOT do it. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-05-08 a 12:36 am

Here’s a Roman Catholic newspaper’s reaction to a sermon by Rev Daniel Henderson of Moneyslane Free Presbyterian Church on the subject: “Was Francis an Antichrist?’

The topic made front page in the ‘Irish News’ of 5th May 2025.

Listen to this old-fashioned gospel message which states what has been known amongst Bible-believers for many centuries!!

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Posted on 2025-05-06 a 11:59 pm

THE FOLLOWING NEWS ITEM APPEARED IN ‘THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH’ OF FRIDAY 2ND MAY.

Evangelical Presbyterian Church hits out at Belfast pilot scheme extending Sunday trading hours

What I noted with despair and disappointment is that there is no mention of the desecration of the day ordained of God as a day termed in this New Testament era, as the ‘Day of the Lord’!

John the Apostle wrote from the island of his exiled sufferings for the cause of the Saviour.

“I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,” Revelation 1:9-10.

It was an essential part of the Ten Commandments that one day in seven be observed reverently.

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it,” Exodus 20:8-11.

The Lord ‘hallowed’, or made holy, the seventh day in the Old Testament era, as a commemoration of the finishing of His six-day work of creation. In this New Testament age, we find Christians gathering on the first day of the week, in commemoration of another ‘finished work’ — that of the Saviour’s work of redemption as was indicated by His rising from the dead on the first day of the week.

This became the ‘Christian Sabbath’ or rest day, with the same reverence shown to it and observed by believers as was commanded of God for the Sabbath Day of the Ten Commandments.

“And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight,” Acts 20:7. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-05-03 a 6:00 am

“But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith. Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand,”  Acts 13:8-11.

I am inclined to believe that this response by Paul to the evil withstanding of God’s message of mercy as he and Barnabas sought to win the deputy of the isle of Cyprus, Sergius Paulus, to Christ, was the cause of John Mark leaving the apostolic band and returning to Jerusalem and the eventual sad division between Paul and Barnabas (Acts 15:36-40).

Sad

Barnabas was wrong. I think that is evident from the fact that his name never appears again in the record of the Acts of the Apostles!

There can be no doubt that there was aggression in Paul’s response. Many feel that ‘aggression’ (a readiness to stoutly confront an opponent) is wrong in a Christian.

Sad Lack

Personally, I feel that there is a sad lack of ‘Christian aggression’ today on the part of some Free Presbyterians, in the face of the ever-increasing attack by the devil and his agents, against God and His Word and His honour is plainly visible! Where is the enthusiasm shown by David when facing Goliath? “And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine,” 1 Samuel 17:48.

Something of a distancing of themselves from the zealous actions and protests back in the 1960s is somewhat evident within the ranks of Free Presbyterianism. Closer links with the camp of the apostasy and a putting of ‘clear blue water’ between themselves and the bold and zealous protests and witnessing of former days is the inexplicable desire of some!

The great prophet Elijah, he who was privileged, along with Moses, to appear with Christ on the Mount of transfiguration, said: “I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword,” 1 Kings 19:10.

The words, “I have been very jealous” stem from the Hebrew word meaning “zealous”. It must be remembered that the Lord says of Himself: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,” Exodus 20:4-5.

The Hebrew word used of the Lord in the above verse is from the same Hebrew source as the word Elijah uses of his attitude in 1 Kings 19:10.  The Lord is pure and holy in His jealousy, while Elijah’s would have been somewhat tainted by the sinfulness of his nature. As a son of Adam, he was, like David, born in sin and shapen in iniquity (Psalm 51:5).

Nevertheless, there is obviously a kinship between the feelings of the Lord and His servant with regards sin!

We are after all, commanded to be holy like the Lord. “For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy,” Leviticus 11:44, (1 Peter 1:16).

Foolish

I realise that ‘zeal’ can lead to folly and we must guard against it. John and James, the ‘sons of thunder’, were guilty of such and rebuked by the Lord. “And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem. And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. And they went to another village,” Luke 9:52-56. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-05-01 a 8:00 am

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Alf McCreary: Pope Francis – the world at large respected this man of deep faith and humanity

So runs the headline in the ‘Belfast Newsletter’ of an article written by the ‘arch-ecumenist’ and Presbyterian, Alf McCreary.

I grieve that the ‘Belfast Newsletter’ gives space to this man’s deceptions while, at the same time, it purports to attempts to combat the deceptions of Sinn Fein/IRA.

I freely admit that I detest this man’s writings for they have invariably been deceitful, anti-scriptural and ungodly!

He has been writing for many years in Northern Ireland and must be considered one of the chief architects of the theologically liberalising and apostatising influences within the ‘Protestant’ community.

He may consider that such a title coming from me is a wonderful compliment and endorsement but he will not think so when he will soon be called before the Judge of all the earth, to give an account of his deeds and words!

The above headline is an example of the wicked lies he has sown in the hearts and minds of the people of Ulster, over many years.

I. THE ‘RESPECT’ THAT THE WORLD PAID TO THIS MAN, OF WHICH HE WRITES, WAS AS LASTING AND AS REAL AS ‘DISNEYLAND SNOW’!

The Internet says of this ‘phenomenon’. “Downtown Disney snowfall happens nightly, every half hour, beginning at 6 p.m. The entirety of the snowfall lasts between two and three minutes.”

Apart from displaying themselves and squabbling behind the scenes as to who should get the best and most prominent  seats, the ‘mourners’ were more reminiscent of pop concert attenders than the sad and bereaved!

The showing off their latest fashion and defiance of convention by the ‘ladies’ was likewise an indication of the ‘sham sorrow’. The pretended ‘wearing sorrow on your sleeve’ was totally hypocritical of many at the funeral.

Taking a ‘mobile phone selfie’ was more important than shedding a tear! Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-04-28 a 6:29 pm

I have just sent in to the Editor of the ‘Belfast Newsletter’, this response to a letter from a Mr Ferguson which appeared in yesterday’s edition.

I am replying because there are some matters in the letter that need correcting and also the issue dealt with needs a response from one involved in the controversy of Dr Paisley’s entering power-sharing arrangement with Sinn Fein/IRA from the very outset.

I think too that there is a need to highlight, for the present generation, details of events that were not made public at the time.

I trust that this will encourage those looking to the Lord for a restoration of the Free Presbyterian Church to its former stand for God, to continue praying for such.

Let us echo the prayer of the Psalmist.

“Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved,” Psalm 80:19.

Sincerely in Christ’s name,

Ivan Foster

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Dear Editor,

In response to Mr Richard Ferguson’s letter of yesterday (22/4/25), I must first of all point out that the ‘headline’  — ‘Free Presbyterians accepted the abomination of sharing power with Sinn Fein/IRA, which has helped a minister to hold an Irish language event’ contains both a falsehood and a truth.

1. It is false to say Free Presbyterians accepted the abomination of sharing power with Sinn Fein/IRA. That implies a wholesale acceptance of the folly of Dr Paisley back in 2007.

I think the fact that Dr Paisley had to step down as Moderator in January 2008 indicates that a majority of the Presbytery were opposed to him holding the position of ‘First Minister’ in the power-sharing executive at Stormont and that of Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church.

I believe the subsequent removal of him as First Minister and then as leader of the DUP, was an indication of heaven’s disapproval of the step he had taken.

I personally had told him, as a member of a Free Presbyterian Presbytery delegation, which met with the leaders of the DUP in November 2006, that his actions were akin to those of Jehoshaphat. The great king had acted foolishly and was rebuked by the Lord through his servant, Jehu, the prophet. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-04-23 a 4:59 pm

— A brief exposition of Psalm 15 —

III. WHERE IT IS THE TRUE BELIEVER IS TO ABIDE.

“LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?”

For the Old Testament believer these two places represent the location of the God appointed place where He is to be worshipped.

1. It was a place appointed by the Lord. “But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee,”Deuteronomy 12:5-7.

That is what distinguishes the religion of Christ, true religion, from all those invented by man. Every element of true religion is ordained of God!

In the Westminster Confession of Faith, the underlying confession of Free Presbyterianism, there is this statement in the chapter dealing with the Holy Scriptures. ‘The whole counsel of God, concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man’s salvation, faith, and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture: unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of the Spirit, or traditions of men. Nevertheless, we acknowledge the inward illumination of the Spirit of God to be necessary for the saving understanding of such things as are revealed in the Word; and that there are some circumstances concerning the worship of God, and government of the Church, common to human actions and societies, which are to be ordered by the light of nature and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the Word, which are always to be observed.’ (WCF, Chapter 1, Paragraph 6). Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-04-23 a 6:00 am

Every form of complimentary adjective has been employed to describe the pope who has just died.

Considering that he and all previous popes, have assumed titles which they have no right to and are guilty of blasphemy by so doing, I, along with all who believe the Bible, believe he was not what the duped followers of his religious teachings believed him to be.

He, along with all previous popes, led a religious organisation which, despite its claim to be the only ’true church’, was in world-wide violation of God’s Law, especially that stated in the ten commandments, Exodus 20:4-6, and repeated many times throughout the Bible.

“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.”

This law is broken repeatedly every day in all Roman Catholic places of worship and in the homes of the ‘faithful’!

That which God forbids is a chief feature of the religion of the popes!

The Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 25:6 says this of all popes:

‘There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ. Nor can the Pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalts himself, in the Church, against Christ and all that is called God.’

That view was shared by Protestants generally from such men as John Wesley to Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

I well recall seeing his angry and bad tempered display when a poor benighted woman devoutly clasped his hand in misplaced affection. He slapped her hand away in a most irritated manner.

I believe that the world was given a true glimpse of the man and the highly ‘stage-managed’ persona of the ‘holy, humble, gentle’ deceptive facade was breached. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-04-22 a 10:44 pm

This is a copy of a letter sent out by six Free Presbyterian ministers as a protest against the recent spectacle of two Free Presbyterian ministers organising a meeting to promote the Irish language in company with Sinn Fein representatives.

See —

The Irish Language and the Sinn Fein/IRA campaign to extort more money from the public purse to finance their ‘Gaelitising’ Ulster!

This letter will refresh the hearts of many Free Presbyterians who have mourned at the path down which the Free Presbyterian Church has been led in recent years.

It should encourage those who will rejoice at the actions of the six ministers who signed the letter to pray that many others will show the same courage and ‘Stand up, Stand up for Jesus’ in these evil times.

Sincerely in Christ’s name,

Ivan Foster

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Letter: We regret the fact that fellow Free Presbyterian ministers would allow themselves to be used over the Irish language

As Free Presbyterian ministers, we wish to respond to recent media reports of a meeting held in Farranshane House Antrim, on the history of Presbyterianism and the Irish language. The meeting was organised by Rev Paul Thompson who gave subsequent media interviews to the BBC and Cool FM, and was attended by Sinn Fein chair Declan Kearney who claimed to have been personally invited by the Rev Thompson.

No one can deny our history and the fact our Protestant forefathers used the Irish language as a means of evangelising native Irish speakers in the 17th-19th centuries. They are to be honoured and commended for their efforts. However, the context and use of the Irish language is completely different today. It has been hijacked by violent republicanism to fight a culture war against Protestant and Unionist traditions and culture. Whilst symbols, emblems and expressions of Unionist traditions are opposed and have been removed from public places, Sinn Fein has aggressively pushed the Irish language into the public arena, even into places where only a minority desire it.

We are dismayed that Free Presbyterian ministers would allow themselves and their event (regardless of their intentions) to be used by Sinn Fein and the media to promote their republican objectives. We are also aghast at claims that at least one Sinn Fein member was personally invited to this event and thereby afforded a predicable opportunity to promote his political agenda. We stand with the victims of republican terrorism, not with those who continue to support and glorify the terrorists who murdered and maimed innocent people in an immoral terrorist campaign, and as such we wish to publicly disassociate ourselves from it.

It is noteworthy that while there may have been a Gospel presentation this was absent from the coverage in the media. Tellingly, the BBC kept back an interview with the Secretary of State in which he questioned opposition to Irish signage recorded last week until Friday with the result that the report on the event in Farranshane House ran on the same day.

We regret that the organisers allowed themselves to be used in this fashion.

Rev Darryl Abernethy,
Rev Graham Middleton,
Rev Brian McClung,
Rev David McLaughlin,
Rev Daniel Henderson,
Rev Andrew Patterson

Posted on 2025-04-21 a 4:40 pm

“Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable,” 1 Corinthians 15:12-19.

These verses came before me while Rev Samuel Fitton was preaching a really excellent message on the resurrection of Christ yesterday morning — ‘Proofs of the resurrection’  from 1 Corinthians 15:4. I would encourage everyone to listen to it.

In various forms across the world many have sought to witness to the truth of Christ’s resurrection from the dead on the third day as stated by the angel to “Mary Magdalene and the other Mary” was they came “to see the sepulchre”.

“And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you,” Matthew 28:5-7.

Many of these events smack of superstition  and man-inspired notions of how we should remember the Lord’s death and resurrection.

We have been told how we should do that in the simple gathering around the `table of the Lord’ of which Paul sets down God’s will in 1 Corinthians 11:23-34. It is thus we show “the Lord’s death till he come.”

In 1st Corinthians 15, Paul is rehearsing the truths of the gospel. “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain,” 1 Corinthians 15:1-2.

Ministers ought to note that they need to often repeat the simple, central truths of the gospel, especially when error has enter the congregation.

GOSPEL TRUTH is God’s antidote to SATAN’S LIES!

In considering the verses of our text, please note:

I. THE TRUTH OF THE RESURRECTION HAS ALWAYS BEEN ATTACKED.

There have been many which have said, like these foolish people in Corinth, “there is no resurrection of the dead”.

1. It is a hated truth because it declares the defeat of the devil. So said Peter. “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil,” Hebrews 2:14.

Likewise, Paul spoke of the triumph of the cross. “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it,”  Colossians 2:14-15. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-04-21 a 8:00 am

The Irish Language and the Sinn Fein/IRA campaign to extort more money from the public purse to finance their ‘Gaelitising’ Ulster!

Today’s BBC Northern Ireland news website had the following article prominently (naturally) displayed!

Free Presbyterian Church holds Irish language event

Two pictures adorned the news report.

They are of Rev Paul Thompson (left) and Rev Kyle Paisley.

The report was all about a meeting entitled: ‘Preispitéirigh agus an Ghaeilge’, and was held at Farranshane House in Antrim’s Rathenraw estate. It was organised by the Pastor of Antrim Free Presbyterian Church, the Reverend Paul Thompson.

Rev Kyle Paisley is reported as saying: “Languages, including Irish, are “a gift of God to communicate and to make connections with people.”

He must never had have read or understood the Genesis account of why God, as a judgement rather than a blessing, confounded the languages of mankind because of the rebellion instigated at Babel.

“Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth,”  Genesis 11:7-9.

The report say that Rev Thompson stated that the event was the fruit of a lot of work that’s been going on behind the scenes in our community. ‘There’s a deep intersection between Presbyterianism and the Irish language,’ Mr Thompson told BBC News NI. ‘I think there’s a great ignorance over the role of Presbyterians. From a Christian Pastor, we’re seeing young people embrace this as something that’s part of their past, their heritage. It’s creating that environment for people to look back at their history,’ he said. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-04-18 a 6:48 pm

Many ministers, including Free Presbyterian Church ministers, may well have received this morning an email from Caroline Bradley, national representative of ‘Care for the Family’.

It is an invitation to become involved is a series of meetings, convened by organisations prepared to cooperate with error, and which are held in ecumenical churches or those sympathetic to Ecumenism.

The invitation is to be rejected and that for the following reasons.

1. The observations and objectives they set out to achieve are in and of themselves commendable but the methods employed are unscriptural.

These organisations claim to be opposed to the ‘secularisation’ within society, which is to the detriment to Bible principles. However, they are ill-informed as to God’s ordained means of accomplishing these objectives. They fail to see who and what is responsible for the digression away from the Bible, not just by society generally but by the mainline church in particular!

It was not the ‘Communist Party’ or the ‘Atheistic Society’ which initiated the modern trends that have taken the churches on a path back to Romanism and away from the fundamental truths of the Bible!

No, such trends began most openly within ‘Christendom’, as far back as the early years of the 20th century! Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-04-17 a 1:49 am

— A brief exposition of Psalm 15 —

One Commentator introduced his thoughts on this Psalm 15 with these words: ‘This psalm refers to a single subject, but that the most important which can come before the human mind. It is the question. Who is truly religious? who will enter heaven? who will be saved? The psalm contains a statement of what real religion is; one of the most explicit and formal of the statements which we have in the Old Testament on that subject.’

There indeed can be no more important subject than how a sinner can be right with God!

Job

In his contentions with his ‘comforters’, Job asked the question and gives an answer: “Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one,” Job 14:4.

This question comes up again and again in the book of Job.

“What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?” Job 15:14.

“How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?” Job 25:4-6.

A Guide Needed

Man is at a loss to find the way of redemption in and of himself. He needs a guide, a guide and teacher! The Saviour said: “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit,” John 3:6. The plain implication of these words is that there is a great chasm between the ‘flesh’ and the ’spirit’, that is, the Holy Spirit. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-04-16 a 8:00 am

This is an article that was written and distributed in 1986. Therefore its data is somewhat out of date but I might suggest that it is was almost prophetic in its warnings regarding the failure to meet the dreadful challenge facing children under ungodly education within the State school!

Sadly, I think that it must be conceded that few Free Presbyterian parents took any heed to the dangers facing their children back in 1986 and, sadder still, there are even fewer taking any heed to the warnings of the even greater threats children face today in State schools.

Many Free Presbyterians will acknowledge that there has been a decline from the position occupied by our church on the matters of worldliness, separation from apostasy and contending for the faith, back some 40 years ago. That is evident in the lack of concern amongst Free Presbyterian parents regarding the dangers their children face.

Such a decline augurs ill for our church unless the Lord, in mercy, stirs our people and awakens them to their backsliding.

May we hear the voice of Christ in those words He wrote to the church at Ephesus: “I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent,” Revelation 2:2-5.

Might I just add that if there are any ready to respond to the appeal at the end of this article that they contact the Convenor of the Presbytery Education Board:

Rev Brian McClung,
8a Boltnaconnell Road,
Crumlin,
Co. Antrim,
BT29 4SZ.

(bdmcclung@btinternet.com)

Or the Principal of Kilskeery Independent Christian School:

Mrs Pamela Foster, BA(Hons), MEd,
Kilskeery Independent Christian School,
Old Junction Road,
Kilskeery,
Co. Tyrone,
BT783RN.

(pj.foster@independentchristianschool.org)

Sincerely in Christ’s name,

Ivan Foster

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CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS and the FUTURE of FREE PRESBYTERIANISM

by Rev. Ivan Foster

In 1978 the Presbytery of Ulster of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster heard a request from Rev. Ivan Foster to consider the need for Christian schools. Following a discussion a delegation of ministers and elders met officials of the Department of Education. The outcome of that meeting was a recommendation to Presbytery that permission be granted to any church that wished to start a school. The Presbytery agreed in principle and appointed a Presbytery Education Board, chaired by Rev. Foster, to supervise the new missionary enterprise. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-04-12 a 6:24 pm

This is the recording of my message on the Sabbath evening past and the notes of that message.

I trust it will be a blessing to you.

Sincerely in Christ’s name,

Ivan Foster

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Posted on 2025-04-07 a 6:25 pm

We are told in a news report that an asteroid is on a possible collision course with the earth.  Here is a link to the article:

Asteroid update issued as ‘city-destroying’ space rock continues towards Earth 

I thought upon another ‘star’, and its devastating collision with the earth, when I read this report.

“And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter,” Revelation 8:10-11.

The news article reports that scientists, who are following the course of this asteroid, estimate the date of a possible, and that word is to be emphasised, collision with the earth, in 2032. Were it to hit the earth, it is again estimated by the scientists that the impact would be 500 times more destructive than the explosion at Hiroshima in 1945, when the Americans dropped an atom bomb upon the Japanese city, in order to force the Japanese to surrender.

Illustration

This news item is most illustrative of the glorious event of the second coming of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Few are aware of the approach of this asteroid. Indeed, this article might be the first you have heard of it! In like manner, few, even amongst Christians, are aware of the signs of the nearing of the Saviour’s return. This is a time of ‘slumbering and sleeping’ (Matthew 25:5) instead of watching and waiting (1 Thessalonians 5:6)!

However, as 2032 looms nearer, I am sure that virtually all mankind will be aware of this event and, depending upon what further news the scientists tracking this asteroid publish, might well be filled with trepidation and fear.

This is how it will be as the second advent draws near and signs of that event become more obvious to those who have been indifferent and careless about eternal matters. Hear what the Saviour says.

“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory,” Luke 21:25-27.

Bible

The Bible says that at the close of this age, when the Lord causes the third of seven trumpets to sound, a ‘great star’, a celestial body, will strike the earth with most serious consequences. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-04-05 a 5:25 pm

A book has been recently published in the USA entitled:

The Scandal of Schism

The author is Chris Anderson, who has been a pastor, church planter, and a missions catalyst around the world. He is the president of Church Works Media, an author, and a hymn-writer of well over 50 hymns.

The publishers’ ‘blurb’ on this book reads:

A Journey from Sinful Division to Biblical Fidelity

‘Is Christian unity a lost cause in today’s polarized world?

What if the greatest threat to Christianity comes from within?

The Scandal of Schism addresses these questions head-on, providing a balanced view of when separation is necessary and when it is sinful. In this book, Chris Anderson guides readers through the delicate task of maintaining church unity without compromising on truth. This book emphasizes the importance of separating from those who promote error, cooperating with those who uphold the truth, and avoiding schisms that distort the gospel. Anderson’s narrative is both a memoir and a theological exploration, making a compelling case for a renewed commitment to biblical fidelity and loving unity. With personal insights and biblical wisdom, Anderson lays out a roadmap for Christians seeking to respond to division or difference with humility. Readers will find guidance and hope for fostering harmony in their own hearts as well as in their local churches.’

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Now what does this quote taken from the above statement mean?

‘This book emphasizes the importance of separating from those who promote error, cooperating with those who uphold the truth, and avoiding schisms that distort the gospel.’

Well, we get an answer to that question from one whose name heads the list of endorsements — Dr Mike Barrett.

Here is his endorsement.

“This book is long overdue. I wholeheartedly recommend it—as an encouragement to recovering sectarians and an exhortation to those who will likely disagree. Anderson exposes his heart as he chronicles his journey from rigid separatism to a more balanced interpretation and application of biblical separation. Happily, there are many—myself included—that have taken the same journey. I have never considered myself to be a radical sectarian, but in the providence of God, I was born, raised, educated, and involved in ministering within extreme fundamentalist environments. Ironically and thankfully, it was in those places that I became thoroughly convinced of Calvinism and covenant/reformed theology. Consequently, I was suspect to some in fundamentalism and a token novelty to others. I serve now in a wider, yet conservative, evangelical environment without a guilty conscience and still believe in biblical separation. This book is not about my journey, but I so resonated with its message. In reading this book, you may find yourself either agreeing with Anderson or perhaps beginning a similar journey for yourself.”

—Michael Barrett, Senior Research Professor, Biblical Studies, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

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Please note this statement in Dr Barrett’s endorsement :—

‘Anderson exposes his heart as he chronicles his journey from rigid separatism to a more balanced interpretation and application of biblical separation. Happily, there are many —myself included—that have taken the same journey.’

The ‘rigid separatism’ from which Chris Anderson and Dr Barrett have journeyed, to take up a position of a ‘more balanced interpretation and application of biblical separation’, is that separation taught in the Word of God and which the Free Presbyterian Church here in Ulster has sought to adhere to since our founding in 1951. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-04-03 a 5:01 pm

Posted on 2025-04-02 a 10:33 pm

“Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people,” Proverbs 14:34.

I read this verse in my daily reading on Thursday of last week and I greeted it as an old and well-loved friend. I learned it from hearing it repeated in prayer meetings some sixty one years ago, when I was just converted to Christ.

Would I be right in thinking that if I were starting out on the pilgrimage of life today, this verse would not be as familiar to me because of not hearing it quoted in today’s prayer meetings,  in the manner in which it was quoted back then?

I think that, sadly, it would be as I fear!

I. IT SEEMS THAT BACK THEN, THIS VERSE WAS ON THE LIPS OF VERY MANY IN THE PRAYER MEETINGS.

It was quoted as a means of comfort, as there was an earnest seeking to see our province turn back to the Lord.

It was quoted in defiance of the ‘pundits’ who advocated the adoption of liberal and modernistic theological notions of what it was would benefit society. In general, such ‘moral think tank theorists’ favoured the abandoning of “the old paths, where is the good way,” (Jeremiah 6:16) in order that a ‘Bibleless” society be formed! Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-04-01 a 3:03 pm

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“For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works,” 2 Corinthians 11:13-15.

As I said in Part 1 and also in the introduction to Part 2 of this article, I set out to expound the verses above and apply them to an impious email from one purporting to be a female ‘minister of the gospel’.

It will be seen in that first article that the silly woman who attacked me, mocked young girls for wearing berets as they sang in church. She seemed totally unaware that a head covering is commanded in Scripture for a lady engaged in public worship in the house of God, 1 Corinthians 11:4-6.

She but confirms that she is one of the ‘Bible-rejectors’ who abound today and who can blithely call themselves ‘servants of God’!

I then moved on to note how that from the dawn of this Christian age, the devil has been actively corrupting the truth of God by his evil agents who creep into unsuspecting churches (Jude 3-4) and who transform themselves into what is professed to be “ministers of righteousness.”

We now take up the final part of the study.

THE APPROACH OF THE FINAL THREE AND A HALF YEARS OF THIS AGE HAS BEEN SIGNALLED BY A NUMBER OF OCCURRENCES IN RECENT TIMES.

1. The world-wide rejection of the Word of God within professing Christendom. There has always been heresy and false doctrine to be found within the ranks of the professing people of God. Judas Iscariot was, as it were, the forerunner of those who, pretending to be true disciples, were in fact intent on destroying the work of Christ.

Heresies

Such has caused great divisions and disruptions but as Paul says: “For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you,” 1 Corinthians 11:19. The activities of the ‘heretics’ serve to stir up the true believers, like sailors on a ship boarded by pirates, and every effort is made to resist such and remove them from the ranks of the people of God.

Thus, some of the greatest definitions and explanations of the fundamentals of the faith have come out of those controversies that the invasions by false prophets have generated. There is no better example than the wonderful Catechism and Confession of Faith that emerged in the wake of the great Protestant Reformation. They still serve as ‘anchors of the soul’ to true believers.

Since the Second World War we have seen a flood tide of departures from the truth of the Bible. It has advanced so far that ‘faith’ of Sodom and Gomorrah has become the standard of religious thought in most of the mainstream denominations.

Here in Northern Ireland, once considered the home of the most conservative of true Protestantism, Ecumenism with its objective of reunion with Roman Catholicism and the embracing of every false and immoral perversion of man, has ordained openly professing sodomites to office.

The total rejection of the Bible, which the embracing of sodomy and its associated perversions which ever increase in diversity and number and are embraced by governments and public bodies such as churches and schools, as unexceptional manifestations, while in truth they are disclosures of devilish depravities!

2. The spirit of murder that is ever more common. I found this graph on the Internet:

At one stage, around 2004, the number of murders in England and Wales had increased five-fold from 1960 and it is presently some three times what it was sixty years ago.

Stabbing

Murder by stabbing is very common amongst the young and the motive is usually one of the most trivial kind! Life carries no value and can be taken on the basis of the slightest perception of an insult!

Furthermore, ‘infanticide’ has increased horrifyingly. Little ones are done to death in the most fiendish manner. Many recent court cases have revealed that children have been treated most cruelly by those supposedly caring for them. The little ones have been done to death in a manner in which no human being would put to death an animal! Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-03-31 a 6:00 am

The following headline appears in a UK national daily newspaper on Wednesday, 26th March, 2025.

EU urges ALL citizens to prepare for war with ‘survival kits including food and water to survive 72 hours’ amid fears of WW3

It brings to mind the Saviour’s words in Matthew 24:6.

“And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.”

The newspaper report states:

“The European Union is pushing for every household in the 27-nation bloc to have a three-day survival kit ready in case of war or natural disasters.

EU crisis management commissioner Hadja Lahbib said the proposals will be formally presented today as part of a broader ‘preparedness strategy’.

Brussels is hoping to ensure every citizen is equipped for 72 hours of self-sufficiency amid the growing threat of continental conflict breaking out.

EU citizens will be told to stock up on a dozen key items, including matches, ID documents in a waterproof punch, bottled water, energy bars and a flashlight, as part of their ‘resilience’ kit.

European leaders have said the invasion of Ukraine could soon break out into a ‘global’ war.

Some Scandanavian (Sic) countries have already stepped up their prepation (Sic) by distributing war survival guides.

The EU has now joined such efforts following a landmark report from Finland’s former president Sauli Niinisto last year on strengthening Europe’s civilian and military preparedness.”

Saviour’s words

To return to the words of the Saviour, quoted at the beginning of this article, it is very clear that as this age draws to a close communal unrest, societal break up and fragmentation and national disputes will increase. We are to expect nations to become more belligerent toward each other.

Headlines like that above, feed the notion that we are on the verge of a catastrophic nuclear confrontation between East and West that will destroy the world and end humanity! Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-03-28 a 5:10 pm

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Posted on 2025-03-28 a 4:25 pm

This article was forwarded to me and I am sure that that there is much that is useful in it as a means of discovering the threat to Bible Christianity that Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) presents.

An exposure of the errors of CCM, by Rev David DiCanio, was so resented by a few in the Free Presbyterian Church that upon his refusal to repent of doing that which is in keeping with the Standards of his church, he was cast out of his missionary work and disowned.

We are looking to the Lord to deal with this action against our brother and put right this dreadful wrong, at whatever cost to those who put their hand to this shameful act.

Sincerely in Christ’s name,

Ivan Foster

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Video Series – The Satanic Attack on Sacred Music

March 25, 2025

Few things are more dangerous doctrinally and philosophically to a Bible-believing church than contemporary Christian music and contemporary worship music. It is at the heart of the blending and merging that is creating the end-time, one-world “church.” It is a bridge to extremely dangerous things.

The victory is not merely “keeping the hymnal.” The victory is in proper, ongoing education for the entire church. Tradition and ignorance will not do.

The Satanic Attack on Sacred Music – This course consists of a textbook and a video series with about 18 hours of teaching, packed with photos, graphics, audio and video clips. One previewer commented, “The series is broad and deep with serious factual analysis according to properly interpreted Scripture.” Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-03-25 a 8:36 pm

This message, by one of the number of young Free Presbyterian ministers who share the views and convictions of the founders of our Church, is really worth hearing both by the older generation of our denomination and, most importantly, by the younger generation.

View a video of this sermon below:

Posted on 2025-03-22 a 5:41 pm

A teacher, who professes to be a Christian, has been sacked for stating what the Bible teaches regarding the moral perversions involved in the ‘LGBT’ and ‘transgender’ movements. Read the report here.

Bishop Justus C of E School in Bromley, south London, sacked Glawdys Leger for telling pupils that being LGBT was a sin.

WHY?

In truth, I am at a loss to understand why any professing Christian would wish to teach in a school run by the Church of England or the Church of Ireland, given that both are wholly aligned with the apostasy and departure from God’s Word today. Both systems are ‘pro LGBT’ and the true believer has no place in such a school. God has never commanded His people to enter the apostasy in order to resist it! To do so is to step outside His will and so deprive oneself of His help when trouble comes.

Paul said: “At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me . . . and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion,” 2 Timothy 4:16-17.

To try and do ‘right’ by doing ‘wrong’ will bring the Christian to that place of danger whereby they may experience something of God’s wrath. This we are warned of in Revelation 18.

“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities,” verses 4-5.

Furthermore, it will encourage Christian parents to send their children to such schools when they see one professing faith in Christ there as a teacher!

There is only one place a for a Christian to teach and that is in a Christian School!

Reaction

The reaction to this teacher’s statement of simple Bible truth is proof of the utter sellout of that denomination to the lie of the devil! It is no fit place for a Christian.

Let it be remembered that if we would serve and honour the Lord, there is but one place to do it! Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-03-22 a 5:18 pm

“For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works,” 2 Corinthians 11:13-15.

As I said in Part 1 of this article, I set out to expound the verses above and apply them to an impious email from one purporting to be a female ‘minister’ of the gospel.

It will be seen in that first article that the silly woman who attacked me, mocked young girls for wearing berets as they sang in church. She seemed totally unaware that a head covering is commanded in Scripture for a lady engaged in public worship in the house of God, 1 Corinthians 11:4-6.

She but confirms that she is one of the ‘Bible-rejectors’ who abound today and who can blithely call themselves ‘servants of God’!

I am moving on to note how that from the dawn of this Christian age, the devil has been actively corrupting the truth of God by his evil agents who creep into unsuspecting churches (Jude 3-4) and who transform themselves into what is professed to be “ministers of righteousness.”

We now take up the second part of the study.

THE GREAT SATANIC DECEPTIONS, SEEN THROUGHOUT THE AGES, WILL INTENSIFY AT THE CLOSE OF THIS AGE.

Just as the devil’s past deceptions have been very successful,  to the beguiling of countless millions through his denials of the gospel, though utterly failing to overthrow or hinder the eternal purpose of God, so the truth that I have just stated is one the devil has sought to deny, conceal and deride! Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-03-20 a 5:11 pm

The following is an article which appeared in the Sovereign Grace Advent Testimony magazine, ‘Watching and Waiting’, October-December 1983.

It was brought to my mind when a recording of a panel discussion at a ‘Youth Meeting’, sent to me, indicated that they had been told by one Free Presbyterian minister, who ought to have known better and whose name I will not reveal for I would not wish him to be embarrassed by a public exposure of his folly, that a verse in Psalm 122 did NOT mean what it plainly said!

The verse was: “‭Pray‭‭ for the peace‭ of Jerusalem‭: they shall prosper‭‭ that love‭‭ thee,” verse 6.

The young people were told that the word ‘Jerusalem’ did not mean the city of Jerusalem but rather the ‘church’!

This is the thinking of the ‘A-millennialist’, who has learned his eschatology from the notions propounded by a heretic from the third century, one Origen.

There is a simple maxim that every Christian should remember regarding our understanding of the Bible. It is: ‘God says what He means and means what He says’! We should ever take the words of Scripture literally except where we are told that they are parabolic or figurative or symbolic. We do not need men to come to us and tell us, ‘When God said this, He really meant something very different!’

Those who would put forward this notion want to place themselves between the reader of the Bible and God and be a ‘mouthpiece’ who can tell them the real meaning of Holy Scripture.

That is ‘priestcraft’ and can only lead people astray as we see in Roman Catholicism today! Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-03-19 a 12:59 pm

Posted on 2025-03-17 a 10:34 am

(Youth Rally, Markethill Free Presbyterian Church, March 16th, 2025)

It is a common feature of Holy Scripture that the Lord constantly repeats what His purpose is for His people. That is because we forget so quickly. Hence the warning: “Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons,” Deuteronomy 4:9. Some of you here tonight are the children and grandchildren of faithful Christians, with whom it was my privilege in years past, to share in the Free Presbyterian Church’s public stand for the Lord in these times of apostasy.

If that is your ancestry, then give thanks to the Lord for His mercy and grace to you and your forebears.

Read sermon notes here

 

The Free Presbyterian Church Founders (L to R) — Jack Gibson, George Hutton, Cecil Harvey, Rev Ian RK Paisley, William Emerson, Rev George Stears, James Morrison, George K Gibson, William Miscampbell, and Hugh James Adams.

Posted on 2025-03-17 a 9:50 am

“For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works,” 2 Corinthians 11:13-15.

Yesterday (11/3/25) I received an email from a female, or at least it was signed by one bearing a female name and with the designation (Rev) attached. With the satanic confusion that is abroad today, it is difficult to tell at times!!

She is someone living in complete defiance of Paul’s teaching in Titus 1:5-6. “For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.”

Whatever else she may be, she cannot be in obedience to this Scripture and claim to be a minister of Christ!

The title ‘elder’ is interchangeable with the title ‘overseer’ or ‘bishop’ as Acts 20:17, 28 demonstrates. A minister, an elder who labours “in the word and doctrine,” 1 Timothy 5:17, can only be a man. That is the teaching of the Bible!

Claims

This person claimed to be a ‘sister in Christ.’ She further claimed that she was converted over sixty years ago and has been ‘over 40 years . . . in Christian ministry.’

This person then began what was really just a tirade against our conformity to Biblical worship.

Here is one comment: ‘Watching live Free Presbyterian worship on utube I observe the need for outward conformity to expectations. Recently from XXXXX FP I was delighted to see a choir of about 40 young people but dismayed to see how the young girls all felt constrained to wear strange berets  (very similar to the Brethren head coverings.) There can be no Scriptural authority to put such expectations on them. I suspect that are merely responding to church and peer pressure.’

Those are her words not mine!

Doubtless, the final words are meant to ‘embarrass’ me! I find I have no difficulty finding myself aligned with any who, in this matter, obey the teaching of the Bible.

I would much rather be in such company than in that of this sneering female Bible-rejector!

The source of this ‘constraint’, so contemptuously referred to, is merely a desire to obey God.

“Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head. But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered,” 1 Corinthians 11:4-6.

So much for ‘no Scriptural authority’, as asserted by this female ignoramus!

Rant

She continues her foolish rant: ‘My conclusion is that the Free Presbyterians could more rightly be known as the Bound Presbyterians.’ Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-03-13 a 11:09 am

This article sprang out of an email I sent to a Christian bother who felt that the Free Presbyterian Church’s actions in  its protests in the past could not be justified from the Word of God. Naturally, I disagreed.

I tried to set forth the reason why back in the heyday of our protests, when Dr Paisley was in his prime, we believed we were obeying the Word of God in going out to challenge the Ecumenists, Modernists and Romanisers, who had taken over the established denominations.

I hope the article it is helpful to younger Free Presbyterians.

Sincerely in Christ’s name,

Ivan Foster

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Explaining the stand of the Free Presbyterian Church since its founding.

“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear,” 1 Peter 3:15.

In this article, I would like to try and give the Protestant perspective of the political and religious controversies here in Northern Ireland.

As we look at the state of things today in Northern Ireland, there is one in high office who upholds the political view that the IRA were right in their terrorism and generally did no wrong. Sinn Fein leader, Michelle O’Neill, who is ‘First Minister’ in the Stormont Assembly,  has the support of many in the electorate who believe that the only ones who had the right ‘to shoot to kill’ were the members of the IRA.

It is for this reason that there have been ongoing attempts by such to punish, by imprisonment, soldiers and policemen, who in the course of their duty and in the defence of life, shot those engaged in terrorism. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-03-07 a 11:36 am

I am posting this sermon — ‘A message for Protestants from the funeral sermons of priests at the funerals of the Loughgall IRA gang’ — preached by me on 24th May 1987, in Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church.

Read sermon notes here

 

My memory of it was stirred while corresponding with a dear Christian to whom I was seeking to explain and defend the witness of Free Presbyterians over the years.

Our witness was not perfect or free from error, “For ‭there is‭ no man‭ that sinneth‭‭ not,” 1 Kings 8.46, but I believe that I can say that there was with us, over the years, a ’spirit of jealousy’ like that which possessed Elijah. “‭And he said‭‭, I have been very‭‭ jealous‭‭ for the LORD‭ God‭ of hosts‭: for the children‭ of Israel‭ have forsaken‭‭ thy covenant‭, thrown down‭‭ thine altars‭, and slain‭‭ thy prophets‭ with the sword‭; and I, ‭even‭ I only, am left‭‭; and they seek‭‭ my life‭, to take it away‭‭,” 1 Kings 19:10.

The Lord bless you all richly,

Ivan Foster

Posted on 2025-03-05 a 12:49 pm

This is copied from the BBC Northern Ireland news website of today (3/3/25).

The repudiation of the IRA campaign of murder and slaughter by this man is self-extolling and falls far short of true Biblical repentance.

He only changed his views when it became possible that he would become a victim of the terrorism that he had practised on others!

To say that the IRA’s campaign of slaughter ‘was a total waste, absolute total waste of energy, of life, of resources’ is very far removed for a true acknowledgment before God, that he is guilty of heinous crimes deserving of the wrath of God!

Such is the standard ‘expressions of sorrow’ offered by Irish Republicans. Regularly you have evidence of this hypocrisy and affected piety and posturing, as was the recent case of the ‘First Minister’, Michelle O’Neill’s extolling of IRA murderer, Brendan McFarlane.

See:—

Sinn Féin defends tributes to IRA man

All that grows and sprouts from the fallacious roots of Romanism is false and fraudulent!  The BBC and others of that ilk, may be ready to ‘canonise’ this murderer, but that is not how heaven sees his kind! Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-03-03 a 4:38 pm

Here is what ‘contemporary worship music’ or ‘contemporary Christian music’ will eventually bring about!

I am grateful to the brother who brought this article to my attention.

Just as a tiny microbe may enter our body without us being aware of it, but soon it will manifest its evil impact and bring illness and even death, so a seemingly small error may enter the body of the ‘Church’ and, if not checked and dealt with properly and scripturally, bring down to ruin that church.

However, as is often the case, that meant to destroy the infection is resisted by our body and a cure is not affected.

We see that in our church at the present time, Contemporary Christian Music has been embraced by some. When an alarm was sounded by Rev David Dicanio, his timely and proper warning was resented and resisted and he was ejected by the foolish actions of misguided men. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-03-03 a 3:55 pm

In the Autumn of 1887, Charles Haddon Spurgeon and his congregation withdrew from the Baptist Union.

In his magazine, ‘The Sword and Trowel’ of November 1887, he wrote the follow definition of what the Baptist denomination had become and why it was he had to withdraw from it.

His definition is truly one that gives us a clear view of just what it is for a Christian church to apostatise. It also pictures for us the spiritual state of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, from which Dr Paisley led a separation back in March 1951. As a result of the heresy of Prof Davey and his ilk the PCI had sunk down into the same depths as the Baptist Union in the last century.

“As a matter of fact, believers in Christ’s atonement are now in declared religious union with those who make light of it; believers in Holy Scripture are in confederacy with those who deny plenary inspiration; those who hold evangelical doctrine are in open alliance with those who call the fall a fable, who deny the personality of the Holy Ghost, who call justification by faith immoral, and hold that there is another probation after death, and a future restitution for the lost. Yes, we have before us the wretched spectacle of professedly orthodox Christians publicly avowing their union with those who deny the faith, and scarcely concealing their contempt for those who cannot be guilty of such gross disloyalty to Christ. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-03-01 a 6:29 pm