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My reply to a wicked and deceitful letter

Today there appeared in the columns of the ‘Belfast Newsletter’ a letter berating the disciplinary actions taken against those in the Sandymount congregation of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland who were involved in the electing and ordaining an openly sodomite man as an elder. The writer is Professor Ruth Whelan.

Here is a link to my comments on a report which appeared in the press earlier this month.

“Presbyterian minister faces sanctions over gay couple support”

Here is Professor Ruth Whelan’s letter.

I was most anxious to answer this wicked and deceitful letter. Here is my reply, submitted a few minutes ago to the ‘Belfast Newsletter’. Pray that it will be published and that good will come of it. (more…)

The wilful blindness of men!

“And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also,” Exodus 7:23.

As it was in Egypt at the time when God’s judgments began to fall upon that land as the run-up to the ‘Exodus’, the Lord’s delivering of His people and a bringing them on their way to the land promised of old to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, even so will it be again when the time comes for the Lord to fulfil His great promise to His elect people to return again to reign on the earth.

What happened in Egypt some 3500 years ago is instructive for us today for “all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come,” 1 Corinthians 10:11.

Of course, ungodly men do not see this to be so, but God’s people should ever see the Bible as a map upon which is wonderfully outlined not only God’s dealings with men and nations in the past but, foreshadowed in such dealings, a pattern for the future. (more…)

What is the Church? A message by Rev. Jonathan Creane

Yesterday morning in Kilskeery, Rev Jonathan Creane, minister of Convoy Free Presbyterian Church in Co. Donegal in the Irish Republic and minister in charge of Kilskeery congregation during its vacancy, preached a message entitled, “What is the Church?”.

It was a most edifying and encouraging message and I would like to share it with our readers. (more…)

Ezekiel: The ignored watchman

A series of messages by Rev. Andy Foster Ezekiel was God’s watchman to the nation of Israel. In the first part of his ministry he warned of the sin of the nation and highlighted the consequences it had brought, and would continue to bring. He was largely ignored and dismissed.

In the second part of his ministry he proclaims messages related to the glorious future of the nation of Israel, restored by grace and redemption. Sadly, these messages are still often neglected and overlooked!

Click here to watch.

Why I have closed my account with SermonAudio
As of 30th May, 2017, I have requested that SermonAudio close my account. That has taken place and I no longer mount sermons there. Instead, my own website The Burning Bush will now house all my sermons. It has long been the home of my articles and news links. Gradually we will mount the 1376 messages I had on SermonAudio on my own site.
Statement by the Ulster Presbytery on attendance at the Roman catholic Mass
Statement by the Ulster Presbytery on the Pope's visit to the UK
The papal visit: Why we oppose it. A booklet explaining our opposition to the state visit of the Pope to Great Britain. Click on the link to read or download and print.
Biblical Protest and Witness Await Pope’s UK Visit By Richard Bennett
Ignoring sin...no basis for blessing. A plea to Free Presbyterians.
The Union with today’s Great Britain holds out no hope for the Ulster Protestant. Written at the request of the Belfast Newsletter and published in its edition of August 13th 2010.
Why should Martin McGuinness as First Minister alarm those who told us all that Sinn Fein had radically changed and was ready for Government?
A word to the distressed amongst God’s flock today - a word of direction and hope to those who have struggled
with the deep disappointment and sense of betrayal they have suffered and the despondency
which has settled into many a Free Presbyterian heart.
Ulster Crisis - 2006-2008 An account, given at the recent Congress of Fundamentalists at Foundations Bible College, of the distress felt amongst believers in Ulster during the controversy aroused by the decision of Dr Paisley and the DUP in 2006 to enter a power-sharing government with Sinn Fein/IRA, a party which openly condoned murder and terrorism. A timely consideration for God's people in the light of more recent revelations in the political realm!
The gospel is no longer enough - a timely article by Rev Andy Foster on a dangerous folly embraced by all too many fundamentalist ministers.
What Peter Robinson once thought of the Sinn Fein/IRA man to whom he is politically shackled
Premillenial Protestantism
Lesson learned from 30 years in Christian education. The substance of an address given at the 2010 Annual Education Board Dinner in Lisburn, Friday 28th May, in the presence of Education Board members, teaching staff of the Free Presbyterian Christian schools and their spouses.
A message from a quarter of a century ago...which sheds light on our present circumstances. Christian Schools And The Future Of Free Presbyterianism. A message preached by Rev. Ivan Foster at the 2nd Seminar on Christian Education, held in Martyrs Memorial Church, Belfast, as part of the annual Easter Convention March 29th, 1986.

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