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Comfort for a worm
preached by Rev. Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley on Sun Aug 6, 1967

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preached by Rev. John Wylie on Tue Jan 1, 1985

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“‭Take heed‭‭ therefore‭ unto yourselves‭, and‭ to all‭ the flock‭, over‭ the which‭ the Holy‭ Ghost‭ hath made‭‭ you‭ overseers‭, to feed‭‭ the church‭ of God‭, which‭ he hath purchased‭‭ with‭ his own‭ blood‭,” Acts 20:28.

If there was a need for such a warning to elders in the days of apostolic blessing, how much more it is needed in these days of world-wide repudiation of the truth of the Gospel and the increasing tide of Satanic deception?

This is a sermon preached on January 1st, 1984 by Rev. Ivan Foster at Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church.

Posted on 2026-09-01 a 6:00 am

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Rev James Porter, minister of Bethel Free Presbyterian Church, read out the following statement at the Free Presbyterian protest Friday evening:

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Sadness at planned Pleasure Boys show

It is grieving to have the Pleasure Boys show in Enniskillen. From media and press reports regarding this event it is evident that it is sinful, extremely immoral and of an indecent nature. It is something that is shameful, degrading and to be repudiated. Such a show is contrary to God’s Word which encourages purity of life and righteousness for the good of all  in society. The Bible says in 1 Timothy 5:22, “Keep thyself pure,” and in Proverbs 14:34, “Righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people.” Romans 1:18 also warns, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness.”

To all involved in the organisation, promotion and participation of this event, I urge you to refrain from it and heed the gospel message. In Mark 1:15 Christ says, “Repent ye and believe the gospel.” Repentance means to turn from your sin and forsake it. To believe the gospel means you confessing your sin to God and trusting in Christ and His sacrifice alone for the pardon of all your sin and for power to live a new life for God’s glory, which leads to heaven. The Bible says in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Posted on 2026-08-30 a 10:58 pm

“Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.” 2 Timothy 4:2-5’

One aspect of Christianity that the world particularly hates, indeed, there are all too many Christians who are not very happy regarding it also, and that is, publicly rebuking sin!

Nevertheless, raising our voices against that which is a breach of God’s Law is an essential part of being a Christian!

The Enniskillen protest was led by Free Presbyterian ministers, Rev James Porter (Bethel), Rev Raymond Robinson (Kesh) and Rev Samuel Fitton (Kilskeery).

Click here to read the protest statement by Rev James Porter.

First Murder Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-08-29 a 5:00 pm

“And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite,” 1 Samuel 17:58.

I recall still with joy the day the late Dr John Douglas pointed out to me in this chapter that the occasion on which David slew the champion of the Philistines, Goliath, was on his second visit to the camp of Israel!

That fact is not too obvious and is easily missed. How like the truth of Christ’s future visit to the land of Israel is seen and understood in the Holy Scriptures!

The truth of that occasion is hidden to many, sad to say.

The fact is seen in the early part of the chapter.

“But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem. And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren; and carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge. Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines,” verses 15-19.

May I ask you to consider from this chapter, which is full of prophetic foreshadowings of days in Israel that are fast approaching, these simple truths.

I. DAVID CAME BACK TO THE CAMP OF ISRAEL WHEN THERE WAS NONE TO ANSWER GOLIATH

1. Israel was under attack from her ancient enemy. “Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim,” verse 1.

The enemy had invaded Judah and with the aid of their giant champion, Goliath, planned to destroy Israel. Hear Goliath’s boastful challenge.

“Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together,” verses 8-10.

He enlarged upon his ‘plans’ when he derided David.

“And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field,” verse 44. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-08-28 a 6:00 am

“And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us,” Romans 8:17-18.

These verses were part of may Bible reading on Tuesday 18th July.

As we said in our first part of this article, Romans chapter 8 is brimful of a gloriously heart-warming setting forth of the sweetest Gospel truths. This is a truth that can’t be overestimated!

Each statement of the Holy Ghost inspired apostle is a miniature Bible in itself!

These two verses contain so much but I do wish to set froth a few considerations that were suggested to my soul as I read them.

I. THE SUFFERINGS EXPERIENCED ARE AN ASSURANCE OF SHARING IN CHRIST’S GLORY.

Paul states the truth most emphatically in 2 Timothy 2:12.

“If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us.”

1. To refuse to publicly own Christ, when it will cost us a measure of suffering, if only by loss of social standing, is tantamount to inviting the Lord to deny us! Dr John Brown commented on these words, ‘There is a secret and silent denying of him, when men are ashamed of him, and do not confess him, . . . There is a partial denying of Christ, which was Peter’s case, though his faith in him, and love to him, were not lost.’

Such a denial will cost the one guilty of such, the fulness of the blessed presence of the Lord. This may be seen in David’s ‘denial’ of the Lord when he engaged in wicked activities and was mercifully brought to recognise the cost of those actions. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-08-25 a 10:26 pm

“And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us,” Romans 8:17-18.

These verses were part of ay Bible reading on Tuesday 18th July. Romans chapter 8 is brimful of a gloriously heart-warming setting forth of the sweetest Gospel truths. This is a truth that can’t be overestimated!

Each statement of the Holy Ghost inspired apostle is a miniature Bible in itself!

These two verses contain so much but I do wish to set forth a few considerations that were suggested to my soul as I read them.

I. THE PRIVILEGED POSITION AND STANDING OF THE CHRISTIAN

“Children, heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ”.

1. There is a reference first of all to our spiritual birth. That is when it all began. Before we were ‘Born again’, were “the children of disobedience . . . the children of wrath,” Ephesian 2:2-3.

We were sinners in rebellion against God and destined for hellfire! We were totally undeserving of the kindness of God which plucked us “a brand . . . out of the fire?,” Zechariah 3:2.

2. As children born into God’s family, we became heirs of God. We were born into an unspeakably rich inheritance!

What has been made over to us and which we have begun to enjoy to a small degree, cannot be valued in human terms. Just the knowledge imparted to us by the Gospel has been valued by David, as “more to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb,” Psalm 19:10.

If that is the value of the ‘the letter’ telling us of our inheritance, what must not our inheritance be worth?

Again its value is seen in that it is an eternal inheritance. Hear Peter’s words on this matter. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-08-20 a 6:00 am

This message was preached on Wednesday evening, 19 August 2026, by Rev. Ivan Foster (Rtd) at Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church.

View a video of this sermon below:

 

“‭And‭ I say‭‭ also‭ unto thee‭, That‭ thou‭ art‭‭ Peter‭, and‭ upon‭ this‭ rock‭ I will build‭‭ my‭ church‭; and‭ the gates‭ of hell‭ shall‭‭ not‭ prevail against‭‭ it‭,‭” Matthew 16:18.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

I am sure I am correct in calling this verse a ‘keystone’ of Bible truth! It is central to the revelation that God has given us in His Word.

Here is revealed the indestructible foundation upon which all that God purposes to do is built and founded.

The devil

It is no wonder that the devil, through the lies of the Roman Catholic Church, attacks this verse and would pervert its meaning to the utter misleading of any who will listen to her deceits!

We need go no further than this verse for a refuting of that lie.

The Greek word for ‘Peter’ is Petros. It is a masculine Greek noun meaning a stone or small rock, a mere fragment of a ‭rock‬.

The Greek word translated ‘rock’ is Petra. It is a feminine noun meaning a solid rock, cliff, or massive bedrock foundation. It is a reference to the confession of Peter a few moments before. “Thou‭ art‭‭ the Christ‭, the Son‭ of the living‭‭ God‬‬‬‬‬‬‬,” verse 16.

Effrontery

The devil’s effrontery is seen in that despite this clear distinction between Peter and the Rock upon which the Saviour would build His church, he dares to have his minions fly in the face of these truths and seek to promote a most damnable lie. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-08-19 a 11:18 pm

Yesterday, the congregation of Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church, marked its 52nd anniversary with messages by the minister, Rev Samuel Fitton, and a special season of prayer in the afternoon.

You may listen to Rev Fitton’s messages here:

 

Here are pictures from that event 52 years ago, on August 17th, 1974, and published in a previous marking of the anniversary.

 

It is soul-stirring to look back and rejoice in the labours of so many who raised the hall who are now in glory.

‘One by one their seats were empty,
One by one they went away.’

We are thankful to the Lord that He has maintained the witness of the hall, which in 1977 was constituted as a Free Presbyterian Church congregation.

In February 1978 I became the pastor of the small flock.

The following year, Kilskeery Independent Christian School was commenced under the principalship of Mrs Ann Foster BA, now too in glory since June 8th, 2024.

May the Lord answer the prayers offered yesterday, and on many previous occasions, for ‘showers of blessing’ to fall upon the whole Kilskeery district and far beyond.

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
Monday, 17 August 2026

 

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Posted on 2026-08-17 a 6:15 pm

Former Irish President Mary McAleese says Queen Elizabeth ‘abhorred’ Ian Paisley and his politics

So reads the headline in an article in today’s ‘Belfast Telegraph’. (15.8.26).

As to whether the report of the Queen’s words is true, I would need more evidence before I would accept the word of arch-hater of Ulster Protestants, Mary McAleese.

Nazis

I made this comment regarding her in 2010.

‘The Irish Republic is more clearly reflected in the 2005 speech by President Mary McAleese at the sixtieth anniversary of Auschwitz concentration camp’s liberation when she likened Ulster Protestants to Nazis for, she claimed, some Protestants taught their children to hate Roman Catholics just as the Nazis taught their offspring to hate Jews. The Irish Republic is no haven for Protestants as its dwindling Protestant population demonstrates.’

I wonder what the Queen thought of those comments, more vicious and untrue than anything attributed, unfairly, to Dr Ian Paisley by his enemies!

Thousands of those Protestant ‘Nazis’ responded to the call to arms in World War II, in common with their fellow citizens of the United Kingdom from England, Scotland and Wales, along with allies from across the world. The Irish Republic, of which Mary McAleese later became President, remained neutral and even officially ‘mourned’ the death of Hitler!

As an Irish Republican, she will happily use lies and slander against those she hates, believing, as her church teaches her, that when used in a ‘good cause’, untruths and falsehoods are legitimate!

Anything that Dr Paisley ever said by way of criticism of the activities of the late Queen Elizabeth II, was factual and scriptural.

Her ignoring of the teaching of the Bible, that she would have publicly spoken of in an honouring fashion, has reaped a sad harvest amongst her offspring.

The present king is married to the woman who was his mistress for many years and the cause of the breaking up of his marriage to the late Princess Diane.

Sadly, the late Queen failed to express in a tangible fashion, any abhorrence of the wickedness of her son as did the Church of England of which she was the titular head, now the position occupied by her ungodly son. In fact she endorsed his wickedness.

I fear that the Lord had words she would have found more dreadful than anything of Ian Paisley’s words, that were reported to her!

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
15th August 2026

Posted on 2026-08-15 a 7:54 pm

“And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey. For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire,” Jeremiah 21:8-10.

“But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein. I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live,” Jeremiah 27:11-12.

WHAT PROPHECY SAYS OF US HERE IN THE BRITISH ISLES?

I believe we can find the mind of God in the Bible for these ‘British Isles’.

The territories of the ancient Roman Empire will be assembled again as a political and religious unit in the days before  Christ’s return.

We are specifically told that in the interpretation Daniel gave to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, of the dream that he had.

Great Image

“Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth,” Daniel 2:31-35.

Daniel went on to explain the dream.

“This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold. And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure,”  verses 36-45.

We must note that “the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure”. This will most certainly come to pass.

These four great kingdoms are Babylon, the Medes and the Persians, the Grecian Kingdom and finally, the Empire of Rome.

The fourth kingdom

The Millennial Kingdom that the Lord will set up, is manifested in the closing days of the final of these four earthly kingdoms. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-08-15 a 6:00 am

Here is a recording of Dr Paisley preaching on the subject ‘Comfort for a worm’ in August 1967.

It was his 21st anniversary as minister of Ravenhill Free Presbyterian Church.

Sermon

It was sent to me by a grandson who was thus by this means able to share in what his grandfather rejoiced in for many years.

Those who can look back to those times will rejoice again to hear the voice and the preaching of a man, who in his heyday, was the greatest preacher in 100 years that Ulster ever was privileged to hear.

I appeal to today’s young Free Presbyterians to listen to the voice of authentic Free Presbyterianism.

Sincerely in Christ’s name,
Ivan Foster

Posted on 2026-08-13 a 5:47 pm

This is the substance of an article by Adam Kula in ‘The Belfast Newsletter’ this morning (12.8.26).

It is found under the headline:  Sinn Fein’s latest IRA commemoration described as ‘atrocious’ and ‘coat-trailing glorification’ of Provo killer

 Thomas McElwee was an IRA terrorist murderer who took his own life in prison.

Where will such a person spend eternity?

I will let the Bible, God’s infallible Word, answer that solemn question.

“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and MURDERERS, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death,” Revelation 21:8.

News reporters are not inclined to state this truth, but that is how God states the matter for all to know and take heed.

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The report states:

The latest IRA commemoration by Sinn Fein has been labelled “atrocious” by the UUP leader, while a man bereaved by the Provos has hit out at “depraved” republican ideology.

Jon Burrows MLA and Geoffrey Dunlop were reacting to Sinn Fein’s involvement in a graveyard commemoration of Thomas McElwee in Bellaghy in south Co Londonderry on Sunday.

Geoffrey Dunlop had been aged four years old when his mother Yvonne was killed by a firebomb planted by McElwee, and he has now accused the party of “coat-trailing, politically-motivated glorification” of the killer.

Mr Burrows meanwhile said “Sinn Fein cannot credibly claim to represent everyone while continuing to honour those responsible for murder”.

Michelle O’Neill was among those in attendence in Bellaghy on Sunday, and fellow Sinn Fein MLA for Mid Ulster Emma Sheerin was the main speaker at the gathering.

Ms Sheerin posted about it online afterwards (as did several local branches of Sinn Fein) and she described McElwee as “the best of us”, saying “he gave his life on hunger strike for Ireland, and for us all”.

Mr Burrows said: “Emma Sheerin MLA has described Thomas McElwee as ‘the best of us’.

“He was nothing of the kind.

“A man who burned a young mother to death was one of the worst of us, and no amoun of eulogy will change that.

“Looking forward does not mean excusing terrorism, glorifying its perpetrators or disregarding the lifelong suffering of innocent victims and their families.”

Mr Dunlop (whose brothers Denis and Terry were aged eight and seven respectively when their mother was killed) said: “We just can’t understand why Sinn Fein continue to think it is OK to hurt our family.

“They claim one of their core policies is violence against women and girls.

“What about our mummy’s life – was it worth nothing because of what she happened to be born by birth?”

According to the book Lost Lives, Mrs Dunlop had been aged 27 when she died in an IRA bombing of her father’s shop, Alley Katz Boutique, in Ballymena’s Bridge Street, on October 9, 1976.

It was one of 16 linked firebomb attacks across the town, and McElwee was one of several IRA men convicted over the attacks.

Posted on 2026-08-12 a 5:37 pm

Marching bands praised as Ulster-Scots heritage showcased at all-Ireland Fleadh

‘Roll on 2027’ as Fleadh 2026 comes to an end

Such have been the local headlines in the wake of the recent  ‘All Ireland Fleadh’ in Belfast.

Ecumenism, and those deceived by the modern and false philosophy it propagates, enthusiastically embraced this latest Republican scam.

It was not merely a musical function but it was an exercise designed to promote Romanism and the culture its unbiblical religion promotes. The spirit of Sinn Fein undergirded the whole  exercise; concealed yes, but emerging clearly for all to see was the conniving hand of Sinn Fein.

The sham was not really that hard to spot by those who were not blinded by the likes of Alf McCreary of the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ or deceived by the likes of the Deputy First Minister, Emma Little-Pengelly of the DUP, who happily desecrated the Sabbath in order to aid Sinn Fein launch this exercise in deception.

It is likely the case that not all involved in the musical activities were aware of what underlay the activities, but that did not make them any less part of the deception.

Surfaced

The dark and evil spirit that underlay the activities broke the surface on occasions.

Here is just a glimpse of the what lay behind the whistles and fiddles!

Republican band’s performance in Belfast city centre during the Fleadh was ‘last straw for many unionists’

Stormont Speaker to write to Chief Constable after pro-IRA song ‘mistakenly’ played to food van customers at Fleadh

The ‘Stormont Speaker’, Edwin Poots, is a leading member of the DUP, which promoted this deceitful musical ‘hullabaloo’. How utterly hypocritical of him and his fellow DUPers to belatedly voice concern!

While this ‘sweet-sounding ecumenical extravaganza’ was charming the  easily deceived amongst the Protestant and Loyalist community, Sinn Fein was maintaining its true strategy elsewhere!

Anger as Sinn Fein targets Royal Black ‘Last Saturday’ parade

Village’s Protestants halve in 20 years – Orangeman blames sectarian hostility

These two headlines show that there was evidence elsewhere of what Irish Republicanism is truly like.

What will it take, apart from the total rejection of deceitful voices like that of Alf McCreary, to awaken Ulster to the wicked chicanery of that unholy alliance of Irish Republicanism and the pontificating Ecumenists and their lies?

Is it not a case of that which Paul seeks to warn the Corinthians? Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-08-12 a 6:00 am

“For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you,” 1 Corinthians 1:11.

Commenting on the above verse, Dr John Gill said:

‘The person the apostle speaks of was one that very probably lived at Corinth, and was a member of the church there, and at the head of a family of great worth and credit; who being grieved at the growing animosities, and disturbances there raised, wrote to the apostle, and gave him a distinct account of them, desiring him to use his interest to put a stop to them.’

Here was a grief that was born out of a love for the Saviour and a distress born out of a holy jealousy for the honour of His name and His cause, which had been stigmatised by the divisions and sins in Corinth!

I believe that there is such distress aplenty within the ranks of the Free Presbyterian Church at present. Such is not wrong but most proper and good.

The Lord is grieved at sin

Sin amongst the people of God grieves the Lord!

“Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God,” (Hebrews 3:8-12.

Those who “have the mind of Christ” will share in that grief and vexation. It is impossible for the holy person to avoid being grieved at the state of the Free Presbyterian Church at present.

Mocked

There are ministers and elders who publicly have mocked the idea that there has been a departure from the path upon which our founding fathers stepped out in 1951.

Such a view is born of either indifference to the reality of the backsliding all around today or of an ignorance of the nature of the holy paths ventured upon in Crossgar in March 1951! Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-08-10 a 6:00 am

As God providentially raised up Elijah, we believe He is calling out a faithful remnant to maintain a testimony, free from compromise against every opposition of the enemy.

As a separated Church of God, sinners saved by grace and born again of the Holy Spirit, conscious of the violation of God’s commandments so rampant in this evil age, and conscious also that we could have a name to live and be dead, we humble ourselves before God and solemnly covenant together, by His grace, to stand with Christ in this evil day, for all that He is for, and against all that He is against.

As worshippers of the one God of heaven and earth, in the Trinity of His sacred persons, Father Son and Holy Spirit, to whom be all honour and glory for ever, Amen.

As a Witness to the whole Word of God, the Bible, in its sixty-six books, verbally inspired by God the Holy Ghost, as the final authority on all matters of Doctrine, Faith and Practice – the infallible Word of God to man.

As a witness to the Infallibility of the Person and Word of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who was and is God — God manifest in the flesh by the Virgin birth, and essentially not only Son of God but God the Son.

To maintain Testimony to the Glory and Honour of the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ in His three mediatorial offices, Prophet, Priest and King. He alone is the sole King and only head of the Church.

To maintain a Testimony to the Crown Rights of Jesus Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords, the Prince of Kings of this earth and Governor among the nations.

To maintain Testimony to the Gospel of Free Grace of Almighty God and the Power of the Precious Blood of the Lamb, in a day of apostasy, declension and compromise.

To maintain a Testimony to the truth of Christ against the lie of the Roman anti-Christ, the supernaturalism of Christianity against the anti-supernaturalism and modernism-called, the divine unity of the Church against the delusive uniformity of the ecumenical movement headed up in the World Council of Churches, the doctrine of the Holy Spirit’s infilling against the deceptions of charismatic fanaticism and the fervour of true Christian zeal against the formality of a dead and defunct orthodoxy.

“We preach Christ Crucified,” His Virgin Birth, His Vicarious Death, His Victorious Resurrection, His Vivid Ascension, His Vitalising Intercession and His Visible Appearing.

These blessings and this complete victory of our adorable Lord are secured and sealed to us by the precious blood of the eternal Covenant. Heb 13:20-21

“Earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints”  Jude 3.

“Wherefore, take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” Ephesians 6:13

Posted on 2026-08-09 a 10:36 pm

“This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them; that every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother. Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go. But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying, at the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear. And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name: but ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth,” Jeremiah 34:8-17.

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I read these words on August 6th, and saw how offensive to the Lord were the actions of the rulers of Jerusalem when they made a covenant with those in their service in keeping with that commandment the Lord had established for Israel and recorded in Exodus 21:2:

“If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing”.

Sadly, they had almost immediately gone back on it and forced those liberated back into bondage. Upon reading this, I thought of the ‘Covenant’ made before the Lord that the ministers, elders committee men and members of the Free Presbyterian Church entered into on 28h February 1988, the 350th anniversary of ‘The National Covenant of Scotland’. To read this 1988 Covenant, click here.

It was a Covenant which may be summarised by the synopsis, “To stand faithfully for all that Christ is for and  against all that He is against.”

Most of the older Free Presbyterian ministers, office-bearers and members would have signed that Covenant.

I must say that there are many who have failed to faithfully keep that which they solemnly swore to uphold before the Lord, by signing their name to the Covenant! Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-08-08 a 4:57 pm

“And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey. For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire,” Jeremiah 21:8-10.

“But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein. I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live,” Jeremiah 27:11-12.

“The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire: and thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon. Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword: but thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD,” Jeremiah 34:1-5.

I. THE MESSAGE OF GOD TO HIS FAITHFUL PEOPLE IN A DAY OF APOSTASY IS ‘SURRENDER’!

“He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey,” Jeremiah 21:9.

I can recall, as if it were yesterday, Dr S B Cooke, in my first year in the Homiletics class in 1965, say of the message of God given to Jeremiah that, ‘to preach surrender in a day of apostasy is the most difficult message any man will ever be required to preach, especially here in Ulster!’

I know now that he was saying it to us with an understanding of just what was coming upon ‘Protestant Ulster’!

Proof

On July 28th, I read Jeremiah 24 where there is given to us the ‘parable’ of the ‘two baskets of figs’. One had ‘very good figs’ and the other had ‘very naughty (disagreeable, unpleasant) figs’.

The Lord was picturing by the ‘good figs’, those who surrendered to His just judgment for their sins and yielded to Nebuchadrezzar and went into captivity, Jeremiah 24:1.

“Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good. For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart,” Jeremiah 24:4-7.

The unpleasant figs, however, represented those who rejected the justice of God in His punishing of their sins by Nebuchadrezzar and his army, and resisted him and perished as result. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-08-07 a 6:41 pm

Reared Protestant and unionist, the Fleadh in Belfast has many layers for me… it’s a revelation that shows we can be brought together

So pontificated the Belfast Telegraph’s ‘Apostle of Ecumenism’, Alf McCreary!

‘The Fleadh’ is a gathering of musicians setting out to promote the culture of Irish Republicanism. It is being very successful thanks to the efforts of the Belfast Telegraph, the local BBC and of course the Democratic Unionist Party!

I have often thought of a verse in Genesis whenever I think of the disposition that the Irish Roman Catholic has for ‘traditional’ music.

Amongst the descendants of Cain, the murderer and hater of God’s truth, was one ‘Jubal’.

“And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ,” Genesis 4:21.

Music has a place in the purpose and worship of God. Such music is distinct from that which springs up from the sinful impulses of man’s depraved heart and is a means of ‘consoling’ those who have no knowledge of God or enjoyment of His mercy and grace.

There is a classification of music that I once saw characterised as being centred upon ‘men in a bar, sorrowfully crying in their beer over a lost love’!

That is the world’s song!

The music of this world is a means of ‘comfort’, needed by those who are lacking in any of the comforts that true faith in Christ will bring.

The Saviour’s invitation is: “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light,” Matthew 11:28-30.

Those who reject that loving invitation turn to the ‘pleasures of sin’ for rest and relief from the burdens of life.

The pub and céilí is theIrishman’s traditional alternative to the comforts of the Gospel. The most popular Irish songs are songs narrating loneliness, departure, farewells and tragedy!

The Christian, on the other hand delights to unite with other believers to sing a different song:

Let us sing of his love once again,
Of the love that can never decay,
Of the blood of the Lamb who was slain,
Till we praise him again in that day.

Consequently, it is not surprising to see Alf McCreary and the  rest of the ‘Ecumenical Camp’ extolling the wonders of ‘The Fleadh’!

DUP

Nor is it surprising that the DUP have joined in the promoting of this ‘Republican Propaganda’ exercise.

First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly attended the official launch of the week-long Fleadh Cheoil

That visit took place on Lord’s Day, August 2nd. Sabbath breaking means nothing to the DUP.

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How can Free Presbyterians be in membership of this godless political organisation or support it in any way?

Another example of the ‘sucking in’ of the blind and benighted, so-called Protestants, was given us in the local BBC news, today (6.8.26).

‘New territory’ as marching band musicians prepare for the Fleadh

 

The BBC article indicates that DUP Belfast Councillor, Tracy Kelly was one of the instigators of this Republican ‘Propaganda Coup’!

It is but the latest in an ongoing series of successful manoeuvres by Sinn Fein that has left Unionism totally ‘outfoxed’ — not for the first time nor for the last!

Appearing religiously and politically ‘WOKE’ is the consuming aspiration of the DUP, irrespective of principles, truth or professed allegiance to the cause of Ulster!

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
6th August 2026

Posted on 2026-08-07 a 6:32 pm

A series of sermons titled “CAN WE EXPECT A BREATH OF REVIVAL AMIDST THE APOSTASY OF THESE LAST DAYS? “, preached at Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church beginning on Sunday morning, July 19, 2026 by Rev. Ivan Foster (Rtd).

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Posted on 2026-08-02 a 11:54 pm

A series of sermons titled “CAN WE EXPECT A BREATH OF REVIVAL AMIDST THE APOSTASY OF THESE LAST DAYS? “, preached at Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church beginning on Sunday morning, July 19, 2026 by Rev. Ivan Foster (Rtd).

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Posted on 2026-08-02 a 3:34 pm

“And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey. For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire,” Jeremiah 21:8-10.

“‭But the nations‭ that bring‭‭ their neck‭ under the yoke‭ of the king‭ of Babylon‭, and serve‭‭ him, those will I let remain still‭‭ in their own land‭, saith‭ the LORD‭; and they shall till‭‭ it, and dwell‭‭ therein.‭ ‭I spake‭‭ also to Zedekiah‭ king‭ of Judah‭ according to all these words‭, saying‭‭, Bring‭‭ your necks‭ under the yoke‭ of the king‭ of Babylon‭, and serve‭‭ him and his people‭, and live‭‭,” Jeremiah 27:11-12.

King Zedekiah has sent messengers unto Jeremiah, Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest (not the same Pashur who was judged of God for his abuse of Jeremiah, 20:1-6). The request they made of the prophet was, “Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us,” Jeremiah 21:2.

We may date this encounter with Jeremiah about one year before the fall of Jerusalem in BC 588!

Jeremiah had been preaching for some 40 years by this time, preaching what he had begun to preach as a young man, even the message given him by the Lord.

“But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak,” Jeremiah 1:7.

What that message was is stated for us in the same chapter 1.

“And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north. Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah. And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands. Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them. For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land. And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee,” Jeremiah 1:13-19.

So, after all the years of preaching the same message and issuing forth, in the plainest of terms, and suffering much affliction for so doing, the last of the wicked kings upon the throne of Judah STILL doesn’t understand the message of God! He is still blindly hoping that the Lord will come to their aid! Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-08-01 a 6:00 am

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A series of sermons titled “CAN WE EXPECT A BREATH OF REVIVAL AMIDST THE APOSTASY OF THESE LAST DAYS? “, preached at Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church beginning on Sunday morning, July 19, 2026 by Rev. Ivan Foster (Rtd).

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Posted on 2026-07-29 a 10:19 pm

There is hardly an opening prayer offered in a Bible-believing Sabbath service that does NOT contain an offering of thanks for the freedom we enjoy here in Northern Ireland to gather in God’s house to worship Him in accordance with His Word.

However, I suggest that few give thought to the sad truth that that freedom and others, which the Gospel of Christ has brought to our land, are slipping away under the corruption and error promoted by wicked men in an ever more increasingly rebellious world.

A recent article in the ‘Belfast Newsletter’ highlighted one of the latest evidences of the threat to the Gospel in today’s society.

PSNI does not deny cleric’s claims that openly carrying a Bible in Northern Ireland hospitals could be criminal

It comes from the Government’s measures to protect those who wish to kill the unborn by abortion.

An Independent Methodist minister, Pastor Jonathan Campbell of Newbuildings Independent Methodist Church, in Co. Londonderry, has raised the question of the possibility of a minister committing a criminal offence by openly carrying a Bible in any hospital covered by an abortion protest buffer zone.

That is a zone which surrounds any hospital where abortions are carried out and within which any action that can be construed as a Christian protest against abortion – such as carrying a Bible – is deemed a criminal act!

Pastor Campbell said he is deeply concerned about the possibility.

The response of the Police Service of Northern Ireland ought to concern every Christian.

The ‘Newsletter’ reports: ‘The issue arose after police gave the Policing Board guidance on how the Safe Access Zone legislation applies at hospitals with abortion clinics.’

‘At a recent Policing Board meeting, member Patrick Nelson asked police how the legislation affected routine chaplaincy work, including praying with patients, reading scripture with them, carrying Bibles, pastoral ministry and visible religious practice. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-07-27 a 6:00 am

“Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble,” Jeremiah 11:14. (BC 608)

“Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good,” Jeremiah 14:11. (BC 601)

“Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee,” Jeremiah 7:16. (BC 600)

A few days ago I read the last of these verses as part of my daily reading. As I read them I remembered that this was not the first time that Jeremiah had received this command from the Lord. According to Ussher’s chronology, what is written in  chapter 7 is dated about 600 BC, chapter 11, 608 BC and chapter 14 is likely dated about 601 BC.

I have listed them above in chronological order. As is the case in many places in Holy Scripture, the chapters do not always appear in chronological order.

First command

In chapter 11:14, the events of which came first in these series of verses, Jeremiah is given  his first command to stop praying for the people. “Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.”

I believe, as is ever the case with the Lord, His tone is somewhat gentler in this the earliest issuing of the warning against Judah, of that which He would bring upon them for their sin.

The next command is given some seven years after, again according to Ussher’s chronology. This time there is a specific forbidding to pray for the “good” of the people.

“Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good,” 14:10-11. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-07-25 a 6:00 am

This message was preached in June 1985, 41 years ago. It is a reminder of the chicanery of the British Government and the authorities here in Northern Ireland and the betrayal of our Protestant and constitutional heritage that has long been at work.

I might point out that in the message recorded here I mention Revelation 17 and the identify of the ‘woman’, that features in that chapter, as ‘Roman Catholicism’. Since preaching that message, through further studies of God’s Word, I have come to believe that Romanism is indeed the main ‘present-day’ embodiment of the evils personified in the ‘woman’, but I believe that the final manifestation of all things evil will be, as the Bible repeatedly says, a resurgent ‘Babylonianism ’.

Sincerely in Christ’s name,

Ivan Foster

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“Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?”  Psalm 94:20.

The annual band parade in Castlewellan was banned because of a hastily arranged mass in the chapel, made so as to clash with the parade and thus give an excuse to the authorities to ban that parade. The parade was rearranged for last Thursday, June 27th. At no time did the local police wish to ban the parade. The banning was a political decision. The announcement of the ban was made in the early hours of Thursday morning in order to create the greatest possible confusion and to hinder the making of any alternative plans.

I issued a call for men to come to Castlewellan and that call was responded to despite the cancellation of buses that had been booked to carry supporters and bands to the parade and extensive police roadblocks stopping any approach to Castlewellan.

When I made to approach Castlewellan from Newcastle, just over one mile, I was told by the police that I could neither drive nor walk there. I insisted that I had a right to walk to Castlewellan and was arrested for ‘disorderly conduct’. I was released from police custody in Newcastle RUC police barracks at about 12:15 am on Friday morning.

During the evening the police were defied and Castlewellan was paraded.

The blame lies entirely with those who made the decision — Hermon, head of the RUC and Hurd, the Secretary of State for NI! Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-07-23 a 6:00 am

AND YOU THOUGHT THINGS COULD NOT GET WORSE!!

The DUP leader, Gavin Robinson told the ‘London Evening Standard’ when speaking to reporters at CS Lewis Square in east Belfast, that he had “many exchanges” with the Rhondda and Ogmore MP, Sir Chris Bryant, described him as “good fun”.

What a ludicrous description of a man described by the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ as a a former ‘gay’ Anglican priest!

It is clear that the DUP and its leadership has lost all contact with the moral code of God’s Law!!

Sincerely in Christ’s name,

Ivan Foster
21st July 2026

Posted on 2026-07-21 a 6:06 pm

“‭And‭ they departed‭‭‭ from‭ the presence‭ of the council‭, rejoicing‭‭ that‭ they were counted worthy‭‭ to suffer shame‭‭ for‭ his‭ name‭.‭ ‭And‭ daily‭‭ in‭ the temple‭, and‭ in every‭ house‭, they ceased‭‭ not‭ to teach‭‭ and‭ preach‭‭ Jesus‭ Christ‭,” Acts 5:41-42.

An open air meeting took place in the common area of Kilskeery after the Sunday evening service. These are generally held during the summer and early fall months when the weather is conducive.

This meeting was conducted by Rev. Ivan Foster (Rtd).

Posted on 2026-07-19 a 10:10 pm

A series of sermons titled “CAN WE EXPECT A BREATH OF REVIVAL AMIDST THE APOSTASY OF THESE LAST DAYS? “, preached at Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church beginning on Sunday morning, July 19, 2026 by Rev. Ivan Foster (Rtd).

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Posted on 2026-07-19 a 9:51 pm

A series of sermons titled “CAN WE EXPECT A BREATH OF REVIVAL AMIDST THE APOSTASY OF THESE LAST DAYS? “, preached at Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church beginning on Sunday morning, July 19, 2026 by Rev. Ivan Foster (Rtd).

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Posted on 2026-07-19 a 9:50 pm

AN ANSWER TO FOUR LECTURES DELIVERED IN ENNISKILLEN CATHEDRAL BY THE BISHOP OF CLOGHER RICHARD HANSON

by

REV. IVAN FOSTER

Minister of Lisbellaw Free Presbyterian Church

Published as a booklet in 1970

The rage of the Bishop against the rock of Holy Scripture

 

Chapter VII (Final Part)

Ecumenism … or … What is the Choice?

‘But there is really no alternative to the Ecumenical Movement, nothing else that has power to gather all the scattered, fragmented and dispirited forces of Christianity into a shape which gives us hope for the future, nothing that has the same chance of winning the allegiance of what is best in all forms of Christianity, nothing that can so well appeal to or so well use whatever there is of Christian intellect today. To oppose the Ecumenical Movement seems to me to opt for suicide.’ (Bishop’s Lecture 3.)

The Bishop claims that only ecumenism can unite the ‘best in all forms of Christianity’. I want to give you a look at what the Bishop calls the best of Christianity. We shall look at the statements of some of the world’s leading ecumenists. We will allow the reader to gauge for himself whether or not Ecumenism is Christianity at its best.

Mary a prostitute. . . Jesus an illegitimate 

Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, former President of the Methodist Conference, in his book, The Christian Agnostic, suggests that the Virgin Mary became a prostitute of the priests and the pregnancy that resulted is described in the Gospels as the Virgin Birth. Dr. Weatherhead goes as far as to suggest that Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, fathered Jesus Christ, while Mary was a temple prostitute. We quote: ‘We are told that, though old, Zacharias was not impotent, for he made his wife Elisabeth pregnant though she was past the normal time of childbearing… We are then told that Mary entered the house of Zacharias (Luke 1:39-40), stayed there three months, and then returned to her own house (Luke 1:56). In such a ‘sacred marriage’ as I have described, a stay of three months was required in the house of the priest, or in the sacred precincts, to make sure that pregnancy was established’. (See pages 61-63.)

Jesus of German blood

Dr. Nels Ferre, an American ecumenist, vies with Weatherhead in his depraved lunacies. He puts forward the following lecherous suggestion: ‘Mary, we remember, was found pregnant before her engagement to mild Joseph. Nazareth was held by a Roman garrison where the soldiers were German mercenaries. Jesus is also reported throughout a continuous part of the history of art, it is claimed, to have been a blonde. This is supposedly unnatural for the Mediterranean countries where this same tradition started and was continued. Hence Jesus must have been the child of a German soldier’!

Telling lies to God 

Dr. Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, is quoted in the Daily Mail, 2-10-61, as saying: ‘I believe it is quite in order for a person to stand up in church and recite the Creed, even if he has scruples about the Virgin Birth, provided he believes in the Pattern of Faith as a whole’. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-07-18 a 6:00 am

“And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem,” Jeremiah 11:9.

The old adage, ‘Birds of a feather flock together’, came back to me as I read the above verse on Wednesday, 15th July.

The meaning is simple for those that perhaps have never heard this saying.

The idiom simply means that people who are similar in their interests, beliefs and ambitions, tend to associate and spend time with one another in order to promote that which they have in common.

There was just such a gathering in the days in which Jeremiah ministered to a disobedient and defiant Judah.

1. The meaning of the word ‘conspiracy’. It is the word that the Lord uses of this union of enemies! The word means ‘a treasonable, unlawful alliance’. That is how the Lord saw this amalgam, who were gathered together to oppose Him, His laws and His servant, Jeremiah.

2. The cause that united them. “They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers,” verse 10.

They wanted to return to the ways of sin from which the Lord had delivered the nation!

What they were pursuing was “the imagination of their evil heart,” verse 6.

Such desires have ever surfaced in opposition to ‘continuing on’ in obedience to God on “the old paths, where is the good way,” Jeremiah 6:16.

The reaction to such a revealing of God’s purpose for His people in that day and a calling on these men to obey, was to respond most defiantly, “We will not walk therein.” Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-07-16 a 4:56 pm

A sermon preached by Rev Ivan Foster in Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church on 7th June 1987.

“And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod. When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again. And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him,” 1 Samuel 5:1-4.

In the midst of apparent defeat, God continues to work!

The information in the first verse reminds us that the Lord may permit the enemy to the remove the ordinances He has instituted and even the visible evidence of His presence amongst His people if there is a turning away from Him as there was in the days of Eli.

Such a defeat and set back for the people of God is viewed as a great victory over the Lord. In that we have a strong reason to avoid ‘backsliding’ because of the dishonour it brings to the name of the Lord.

The defeat of Israel at the hands of the Philistines was the direct result of her sin and rebellion rather than any superiority of the Philistines’ skills of war. Sin had cost them the Lord’s blessing and brought about their consequent defeat.

While the Philistines attributed their victory to their god, ‘Dagon’, the Lord soon demonstrated the folly of that notion!

The incident is illustrative of what takes place at conversion.

I. CHRIST COMING INTO THE SOUL OF THE BELIEVER IS MARKED BY AN OVERTHROWING OF  THEIR FORMER ‘GOD’.

Here is the nature of the work of God in the heart of the converted sinner.

1. Before conversion the soul is a ‘house of Dagon’! The devil is “the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience,” Ephesians 2:2. The devil is the ‘god of this world’! “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them,” 2 Corinthians 4:4.

2. When Christ enters the heart through faith, the power of the devil is broken. Immediately the Lord begins to work in our hearts and lives. “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” Philippians 2:13. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-07-14 a 6:42 pm

AN ANSWER TO FOUR LECTURES DELIVERED IN ENNISKILLEN CATHEDRAL BY THE BISHOP OF CLOGHER RICHARD HANSON

by

REV. IVAN FOSTER

Minister of Lisbellaw Free Presbyterian Church

Published as a booklet in 1970

The rage of the Bishop against the rock of Holy Scripture

 

Chapter VI

An Answer to the Bishop’s slander of the Reformation

It is on the subject of the Reformation that the Bishop once more gives us a display of his Jesuitry and cunning. We quote from  his second lecture: “Now I want to look briefly at a period of change in Christianity which will probably be better known to the audience: the Reformation  of the 16th century. We usually think of this as the period above all others of change in the Church and in Christianity”. We shall return for a moment to the Bishop’s discussion of the various changes, but firstly let us settle one question. Did Christianity and the Church change at the Reformation? Do not drink the Bishop’s proffered cup, for the keen eye will detect the taint of poison. The Reformation was a “time of change”, but the changes did not take place in the Church or in Christianity. By the “Church” I mean the unchanging and unchangeable religion of the Word of God.

The Bishop’s inventions

As we rake through the rubble of the Bishop’s collapsed intellectualism we constantly come across this one persistent falsehood. Varied may be its disguises, but its nature never changes. Dr. Hanson labours assiduously throughout these lectures to make “CHANGES” acceptable to his audience, and his readers. To do this he invents periods of change in the Church. The date and background for his “changes” are not chosen at random, but carefully. He first of all suggested that the 2nd century was a time of change, and so of course it was, but the changes were political and philosophical, not doctrinal. Empires may fall, philosophical theories perish, but the religion of God’s Word is unaffected in its intrinsic nature. Jesus said “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my word shall never pass away”.

Now again Dr. Hanson seeks to introduce another of these periods of change. Again he has carefully chosen his time and background. No one will deny that the 16th century saw many changes. BUT WE CONTEST HIS STATEMENT THAT THE CHANGES TOOK PLACE IN THE CHURCH AND IN CHRISTIANITY. The changes were men and women leaving the CHURCH OF ROME in their tens of thousands, and by the work of the Holy Spirit made members of the CHURCH OF GOD – “The church of the first-born, which are written in heaven” (Heb. 12:23). It was not changes in Christianity that took place, but men changing their God, changing from the God of popish Rome to the LIVING GOD OF THE BIBLE. There was no more a change in Christianity during the Reformation than there was when Paul preached in Thessalonica and “many turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come” (1 Thess, 1 : 9-10). The Reformation saw a MULTIPLICATION OF BELIEVERS, but NOT an ALTERATION OF BELIEF. With this fundamental fact in mind we shall examine the rest of the Bishop’s statement.

One of the results of the Reformation, he tells us, was that “it left a Church divided into fragments, some of them sharply opposed to the others”. Here the Romanist comes to the fore of Dr. Hanson’s character. “It left a Church divided”. This was the chant of super-ecumenist Pope John, which has been taken up by the like-minded deceivers. We need to remember that it was the false and idolatrous Church of Rome that was shattered. Dr. Hanson is insinuating that Martin Luther committed the sin of schism, i.e., withdrawing from God’s people. Martin Luther did not sin. He obeyed a Divine principle and SEPARATED FROM DARKNESS. The harm done by Martin Luther’s action can be likened unto the disturbance in the tomb of Lazarus when he rose from the dead, or to the bursting open of the graves by the dead raised at the time of Christ’s crucifixion. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-07-11 a 6:00 am

This is one of today’s headlines in the Belfast Telegraph.

Jeffrey Donaldson moved in with gay DUP colleague – despite public anti-LGBT stance

This headline indicates how far the DUP has departed from what it formerly stood for.

It is clear that the DUP accepts perverts into membership as well as highlighting again the shameful perversity of its former leader – Donaldson.

Here is a quote from the article:

“Convicted paedophile Jeffrey Donaldson moved in with a gay DUP colleague during a rocky time in his marriage – despite his public anti-LGBT stance.

The Sunday World first planned to publish this story 15 years ago – but refrained from doing so after Donaldson presented a manufactured pack of lies, which included a bogus claim of imminent suicide.

The individual who opened his home to the aspiring unionist politician was also an elected representative for the Democratic Unionist Party.

He has not been identified here at this time because of the sensitive nature of his current employment.”

How can any Christian hold membership in and financially and electorally support this evilly duplicitous party?

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)

Friday 10th July 2026

Posted on 2026-07-10 a 1:15 pm

“Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. . . A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; he prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?” Jeremiah 5:1, 30-31.

So begins and ends a chapter from which I recall preaching in Lisbellaw Free Presbyterian Church, some 59 years ago.

Back then, the application of these words were not as pertinent as it is today.

The wickedness which brought judgment upon the nation to which Jeremiah ministers, was on the horizon of Ulster, as it were, but the terrible forebodings set forth by the prophets are on our doorstep now!

The other 28 verses of this chapter set forth the sins of the nation and the consequences of ignoring God’s merciful warnings.

I. THERE WAS A PUBLIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE LORD BUT THE LORD DECLARED IT FALSE.

“And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely,” verse 2.

There is a like deceit abroad today among God’s people. “Jehovah lives” is the confession of many but His law is increasingly set aside.

We in the Free Presbyterian Church are NOT in the place or following the path of our forefathers seventy five years ago.

The ecclesiastical separation established back then is no longer adhered to and such breaches are sanctioned by our Presbytery! Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-07-09 a 2:36 pm

Matthew 8:11-12

The danger of casting away our privileges is ever with us!

The spirit of the ‘Prodigal Son’ abides in every Christian and if not crucified will lead to an abandoning of the ‘Father’s House’ and a hastening to the ‘far country’ of worldliness and the abandoning of God’s Word.

Read sermon notes here

 

This is what the Saviour warns of in those well known words: “And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth,” Matthew 8:11-12.

This message was first preached at the Lord’s Day evening service in Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church on 29th June 1986, by the minister, Rev Ivan Foster.

The Centurion, whose request to Christ brought forth these words from the Saviour, was a Gentile, a Roman soldier brought up in the darkness of heathendom.

His posting to Israel had been a blessing in disguise. You can imagine how his wife and family, if he had such, reacted to the news of his transfer. Now, however, they sing of the merciful providence that planned it so.

His approach to Christ and his forthright display of faith became the means of delivering a timely warning to a nation, Israel, greatly privileged and in danger of throwing their privileges away.

It has a very present and pertinent application to the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster for it is evident that there are those in pulpit and pew who are seeking a change from the path that the Lord led our founding fathers to in 1951, to new paths which are in conformity to the thinking of this world.

Such a departure will only lead to that crowded path, which the Saviour said “leadeth to destruction.”

Posted on 2026-07-07 a 6:00 am

AN ANSWER TO FOUR LECTURES DELIVERED IN ENNISKILLEN CATHEDRAL BY THE BISHOP OF CLOGHER RICHARD HANSON

by

REV. IVAN FOSTER

Minister of Lisbellaw Free Presbyterian Church

Published as a booklet in 1970

The rage of the Bishop against the rock of Holy Scripture

 

Chapter V

The Second Coming of Christ – Were the early Christians mistaken?

To further his claim that Christianity has changed, the Bishop tries to imbue his audience with the idea that the early Christians and apostolic writers believed that the Lord Jesus Christ was going to return at a very early date. When this did not happen he says that there was a change of thinking concerning the Second Coming of Christ. To knock this argument down all we have to do is pour a little of the “water of the Word” upon the Bishop’s sandy foundation and his little house of false reasoning will sink out of view. The question then is this: Did the early Christians believe that Christ was to return in their day and were they encouraged to believe this by the writers of the New Testament? Our answer is “No”, but of course the Bishop’s would be “Yes”.

In his second lecture he states: “But the greatest difference of all facing the Church of the 2nd century has yet to be mentioned. By the year 150 it had become unmistakably clear to everybody that the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ was not likely to take place in the immediate future . . . St. Paul’s letters are, of course, the earliest books of the New Testament. From every one of the letters which we can with confidence attribute to him (he never misses a chance to spread doubt, does he?) we gain a strong impression that he expects the arrival of Christ in his lifetime or immediately afterward. The earliest of the Gospels, that of Mark, shows the same intense expectation of an almost immediate arrival of Christ. It is only in Mark that we find the words attributed to Jesus: “There be some of those standing by who shall not taste of death till they see the kingdom of God coming in power” (Mark 9 : 1). Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-07-04 a 6:00 am

“And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,” Exodus 9:16. 

Preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Lord’s Day, March 2 1986.

Here is, at least to some small measure, the faith and hope of Free Presbyterians some 40 years ago.

Is something of the same message preached today in our pulpits? The denouncing of ecumenical treachery and betrayal of God’s truth; the same protest against the political compromising in the face of  Romanism’s, ecclesiastical and political, resurgence?

Or are there many of our pulpits silent on such matters and are there ministers who seek fellowship with those, described in our Presbytery’s statement, entitled: ‘OUR STAND ON SEPARATION’, as ‘brethren who maintain fellowship with those who deny the faith.’

If this is so, what a dishonouring of the God who has been so merciful to us as a denomination and what a judgment we will most surely face if there is not a repenting and turning back again to the ‘Old Paths’ of Scriptural obedience!

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
Thursday 2nd July 2026

Posted on 2026-07-02 a 6:00 am

“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side,” Isaiah 60:1-4.

One thing is ever a source of displeasure when I turn to a chapter like Isaiah 60! It is the notes that most publishers of the Holy Scriptures have placed above the chapter in an attempt to supposedly help the reader understand its contents.

However, when it comes to prophetic chapters, the notes are too often erroneous and most misleading!

In my Bible the notes above Isaiah 60 read:—

1. The glorious access of the Gentiles into the church.
15. The blessings of the church after affliction.

These words are utterly wrong. This chapter is not about what happened after the crucifixion of Christ and the Gospel outreach which followed Pentecost. No, it is dealing with the conversion and the restoration of Israel to God’s favour and blessing at the second coming of Christ and what follows that glorious event amongst the Gentile nations.

Not the Church

Some verses plainly indicate that it is not the church but Israel that is referred to.

“And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee,” Isaiah 60:10.

The redeemed people of God, the church, has never been subject to wrath! Chastening yes, but WRATH, no!

“For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons,” Hebrews 12:6-8.

“As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent,” Revelation 3:19.

“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,” Romans 5:1.

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit,” Romans 8:1.

Judgment

However, God’s wrath has rested upon Israel ever since they rejected the Lord Jesus Christ, their Messiah. That which they had experienced in a measure under the Babylonian captivity has been their experience to a much greater degree since their rebellion and rejection of their Messiah.

“And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them,” Ezekiel 39:23-24.

Those words were written around 587 BC, and were a foretaste of that which would follow their even greater wickedness in the rejection and crucifixion of the Messiah.

Since AD 70, and the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple and the scattering of the nation, the Jew has been an outcast until this day. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-07-01 a 6:00 am