AN EXCELLENT WORD FOR TODAY WHICH EVERY CHRISTIAN SHOULD HEED!
“We will not be silent!”
“Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence,” Psalm 94:16-17.
It is said of God’s servants in the days of Nehemiah that: “They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon,”Nehemiah 4:17.
Today, the ‘sword’ cannot be laid aside for the enemy is on every side and ever increasing in number and aggressiveness.
It is for this reason I have written this article, even though it comes hard on the heels of my last one.
I never wish to overburden my readers, but I am compelled to publicly answer those who attack the Saviour and His truth and also share with you this article.
I must say that the words of Malachi provided guidance on what to do.
“Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name,” Malachi 3:14-16.
Journalist Gareth Hanna talks about his spiritual journey and why he wants to do more to follow in Christ’s footsteps”
When I saw this headline in the ‘Belfast Telegraph’, I thought of the encounter between Paul the apostle and the demon-possessed young woman in Acts 16. (more…)
What I do not say is that this man’s late father was, for a short time, a student in the Free Presbyterian Church, before he left and joined the ministry of the apostate Presbyterian Church in Ireland.
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Sincerely in Christ’s name,
Ivan Foster
Sir,
Your contributor, Mr John Coulter, presents a sadly disappointing article in today’s ‘Belfast Newsletter’, which is entitled: ‘Gay policy for churches is tricky enough, handling trans issues will be even more so’.
I say disappointing, since Mr Coulter comes from a background where, I believe, the Bible and its teachings would have been honoured, yet never once in his article does he quote from God’s Word.
His late father, being a Presbyterian minister, would have signed the Westminster Standards as a statement of his faith. The Shorter Catechism asks in question 2: ‘What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?’
The answer given is gloriously succinct!
‘The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him.’ (more…)