KICS 38th Annual Prize-giving of Kilskeery Independent Christian School, Friday evening, 10th November, by 4th year Theological student of the Whitefield College of the Bible, Mr Daniel Henderson.
Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Frances Fitzgerald resigns from (Dublin) Government
Dublin Premier, Leo Varadkar, after saying a mere few hours earlier that he was standing by his deputy, will have more than Northern Ireland and Brexit to think about now with Sinn Fein snapping at his heels!!!!! Read the RTE news report
Ruth Dudley Edwards: Gerry Adams’s hate campaign against the Protestants of Ulster shows no sign of slowing
This lady is not a Protestant nor is she a Unionist but rather a citizen of the Republic of Ireland! Read the Belfast Telegraph report
“Are we nearing the end of the age and how close is Christ’s return?”
By Rev Ivan Foster
When considering such a question as this, we must carefully bear in mind the words of the Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 24:42: “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.”
Setting a date upon the Lord’s return is utter folly in the light of these words and even more so in the light of Mark 13:32. “But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.”
There are those who use this verse in Mark 13 as an argument against the study of prophecy since, they claim, even the Lord Jesus does not know the day of His return. Therefore it is useless for us to search the Scriptures for indications of when He will return, since He would not have been able to give us such information!
To me, such a notion that the verse is teaching that Christ is in ignorance of the day of His return is quite ludicrous and contrary to, indeed it is nothing short of a denial of, the truth regarding the deity and the Godhead of Christ. Read more…
You can also listen to a message on this subject here.
Irish deputy PM no confidence motion could force election
After huffing and puffing in a threatening manner against Northern Ireland and trying to use the Brexit issue to promote the cause of a ‘united Ireland’, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, an unashamed sodomite, has found trouble in his own backyard!!!
“Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land,” Isaiah 37:6-7. Read the BBC news report
John Cushnahan: Gerry Adams never condemned the divisive terrorism of the IRA
As both reports above indicate, nothing highlights the intransigence of Popery and the utter folly of Ecumenism than the “Poppy Day Massacre” and its aftermath
Enniskillen: ‘I am still in shock about the lauding of Martin McGuinness’
An event that must never be forgotten though all attempts by the police to catch the murderers has ceased long ago!!
As the 30th anniversary of the “Poppy Day Massacre” approaches let us remember the victims and their shameful betrayal by the cover-up of the dreadful crime by the British Government, Sinn Fein, the Ecumenical Churches and the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Read more…
Lurgan priest Monsignor Hamill resigns after ‘historical complaint’ probe
“A Dromore diocese spokesman said the complaint was “upheld”, but they were unable to give further details.” Read the Irish News report
Sinn Fein ‘glorification of terrorism’ an obstacle to deal, says Arlene Foster
It should not merely be an ‘obstacle’ but the fact Sinn Fein members carried on a terrorist campaign for 30 years, the very insurgents now being glorified, should forever rule out any power-sharing alliance with them!!! Read the Newsletter report
Evangelical quits Church of England leadership over ‘heretical’ stance on sexuality
While we commend this lady for her actions, we must say that the command of Holy Scripture is not “move toward the gate of the camp” but rather: “Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach,” Hebrews 13:13. Separating from a committee of the apostate Church of England does not fulfil this commend. There must be an utter separating from all fellowship with it. “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,” 2 Corinthians 6:17. Read the Daily Telegraph article
Adams ‘inverting history’ of peace process: ex-SDLP leader
How many lives has he not turned upside down never mind the ‘inverting’ of history??? Read the Newsletter article
Francie Molloy: I won’t quit Sinn Féin over abortion
It has been rightly noted that the party which rose to power through murder will not baulk at the murder of the unborn! Read the Irish News report
Northern Ireland to leave EU on same terms as rest of UK – DUP’s Arlene Foster
I have a particular affinity with IRA victims: Gerry Adams
This is the most bewildering and baffling statement from a man given to obfuscation, a man who most see as the direct cause of the murder of many hundreds of innocent people, Protestant and Roman Catholic, British and Irish!
What has just been said about Robert Mugabe can truly be applied to Adams – “He is mad”!!!! Read the Newsletter report
Victim’s sister wants answers from Adams
“The thought of Gerry Adams “walking off into the sunset” to enjoy retirement after a career defending the IRA is “outrageous” said the sister of a Birmingham bomb victim.” Read the Newsletter report
Sammy Wilson: The welcome demise of Mugabe and Adams
“This weekend has been a bad one for presidents and a good one for those who are sick and tired of suffering under their destructive leadership.” Read the Newsletter article
DUP outrage over abortion changes
The DUP continues to enter political alliances with the enemies of the Bible and then complains when they act out their wickedness!! Read more…
Michelle O’Neill (Sinn Fein leader in NI): I support liberalising Sinn Féin’s abortion policy
These are the people the DUP go into league with!! Read more…
Dublin has to face down British and DUP if it wants Executive back: Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams
No longer ‘power-sharing’ but ‘Dublin take-over’ is Sinn Fein/IRA’s objective. This has ever been its long-term objective!! Read the Belfast Telegraph article
Protestant cleric praises James McClean over poppy stance in Remembrance Sunday sermon
Comment.
Australians vote in favour of legalising same-sex marriage
While we feel shame at Australia’s decision and for the actions and attitudes of all who think likewise here in the UK, it is not so with those who vote “Yes” to this evil thing!
“Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD,” Jeremiah 6:15.
There will be a visitation for this, more terrible than men can conceive. “They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed,” Luke 17:27-30. Read the ITV news article.
‘Are we saying that Christians cannot do social work in NI?’
That is just what the Northern Ireland Social Care Council is saying and it is in line what Church and State agencies have been saying for some time! The age of Antichristianity draws nearer!! Read more…
Annual Remembrance Day service in Omagh disrupted by IRA bomb left near the cenotaph
Westminster sex scandal: Theresa May calls for ‘culture of respect’
This is the Prime Minister who seeks to promote sodomy and the various perversions allied to it and said that the Toriy party has been wrong on gay rights in the past (See here)!!!
Such sowing must bring a bitter harvest – Galatians 6:7-8.
The web of lies that entangles Ulster
“No lie is of the truth,” I John 2:21.
The synopsis of a sermon preached in Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church on Sabbath evening, September 11th, 1994, By Rev Ivan Foster
(A warning issued 23 years ago of the deceit and lies at work on the subject of ‘peace’ in Ulster!!)
There are times when the finger must be pointed and the lie exposed. The cause of truth in a time of deception demands that a most vigorous witness be maintained. When there is a babble of voices proclaiming the lie the servant of God must be all the more strident in order to ensure that his voice rises above the lie. We live in just such a day. The fabric of national life is riddled with the woodworm of deception and falsehood. Politics, religion, business, every strata of the nation’s affairs is corrupted by untruths. A great deception is being wrought especially upon the Ulster people in the realm of religion and the constitutional future of our province. Read more…or click here to listen.
SF fails to set out alternative to prevent public sector implosion
Their objective is the downfall of Northern Ireland and that has always been known, even in 2007 when the DUP most perversely entered a power-sharing agreement with them!! Read more…
Dodds calls for direct rule ministers to be appointed in weeks if deal isn’t agreed
Back where we started after 10 wasted and detrimental years, the effect of which likely can never be undone!! Read more…
New Stormont battle as DUP calls for imminent move to direct rule
Sinn Fein’s present strategy is not the re-establishing of power-sharing at Stormont but the introducing of some form of ‘joint rule’ by London and Dublin.
They seek to create a crisis by ever stymieing the ‘Stormont talks’ with the DUP and from the sidelines, calling for Dublin and London to intervene in concert and replace Stormont Rule.
Sinn Fein has ever sought to undermine Northern Ireland’s Union with Great Britain and this was the reason behind their push for ‘power-sharing’ in 2006 at which the DUP, in its greed for power, jumped. Now power-sharing has run its course so Sinn Fein is presently pushing for a further step in its long term plan to destroy Northern Ireland but now by creating a further crisis. Because their 30-years of terrorist tactics failed and ‘power-sharing’ did not produce the fruits that Republicans hoped it would, the latest objective is joint Dublin-London rule, a short step from a Dublin take-over. Read more…
Sinn Fein wants to airbrush Londonderry out of history: unionists
Important history of an old and popular tune! Read more…
A coming event that draws very near
(The substance of a sermon preached in Bethel Free Presbyterian Church at the evening service, July 4th, 1976, by Rev Ivan Foster.)
“And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him,” Jude 1:14-15.
We are dealing with a prophecy that is almost 6000 years old.
From the very beginning, mankind has had a knowledge of the coming of Christ in judgment. The Old Testament is full of information concerning the events at the end of this age.
Notice that Enoch was looking to that day for the execution of justice upon the ungodly. Read more…
The Funeral Service of Mrs Edna Turrell
In Jireh Chapel, Lewes, September 8th 2017
Speakers: Rev Patrick Baker, Mr Noel Shields and Rev. Ivan Foster
“Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints,” Psalm 116:15.
LGBT report is not just about bullying but has an agenda
The following letter, which appeared in the Belfast Newsletter on 18th September 2017, is worth reading in the light of the abominable campaign pursued by the alliance of witless idiots who support the increasing demands of the sodomite collectives!! – Editor
Everyone wants to see an end to bullying but Alliance MLA Trevor Lunn’s call for legislation making things “illegal” off the back of last week’s report entitled ‘Post-Primary School Experiences of People who are LGBT’ is concerning.
What does Mr Lunn want made illegal?
Consider the following quote: “Transgender young people were significantly disadvantaged by schools not understanding them or their needs and that particular attention needs to be paid to: names, pronouns, uniform, toilets and changing facilities.”
Are Alliance suggesting biologically male pupils be permitted by law to use female toilets and changing facilities? Should biologically male school staff have similar rights?
Are Alliance suggesting legislation to stop Christians witnessing to fellow pupils because telling someone “being LGBT is wrong in the eyes of God” is language that has made pupils “uncomfortable”?
Should legislation require people address individuals using pronouns not associated with their sex but what they, on any given day of the week, want to “identify” as?
These issues doesn’t stop in schools. Martin Ponting, who was sentenced to life in 1995 for the rape of two girls under the age of 16, was recently moved to an all-women prison in Surrey. He has now been segregated from the other prisoners for reasons as yet unconfirmed by the authorises. Will the Martin Pontings of the world be the next people liberals campaign for?
In Orwell’s 1984 the Party seeks to force people to deny reality. In one famous scene the novel’s protagonist is told: “The Party is strong and omniscient, and therefore if the Party says that two and two equals three, or five, it will always be right: you, by yourself, cannot know the truth.
Similarly, Alliance appears to believe that because a biological male says he is a girl society should be forced, by the state, to agree.
The report Alliance suggests we base legislation on isn’t just about bullying. It pushes an agenda which could have serious ramifications for personal space, child protection, female sport and freedom of speech and religion.
Samuel Morrison, Traditional Unionist,
The unspeakable evil of promoting ‘Transgender Ideology in Schools’
Here is how one newspaper reported a recent controversy about this appalling issue.
“A Christian family is preparing to sue their sons’ Church of England school after boys were allowed to come to class wearing dresses.
Nigel Rowe, 44, and his wife Sally, 42, removed their six-year-old son from the unnamed school after a male classmate was allowed to attend the primary school in a dress.
They intend to educate him at home on the Isle of Wight alongside his eight-year-old brother. The older boy was pulled from the same school – which has a uniform – a year ago when a boy in his class also started wearing dresses. Read more…
High-ranking priest linked to child abuse images recalled from Holy See’s US embassy
“The US state department said it had asked the Vatican to lift the official’s diplomatic immunity on August 21, but the request was denied. For the US state department to make such a request, its lawyers would have needed to be convinced there was reasonable cause for criminal prosecution.”
What an evil system Romanism is!! When will its duped adherents recognise this fact??
It has just been announced that The Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary (PRTS) of Grand Rapids, USA, of which Dr Joel Beeke is the President, is to launch a research centre for puritans and establish a combined doctoral programme in conjunction with The Theological University of Apeldoorn. The cooperation is based on an initiative by TUA rector Prof. Dr. H. Selderhuis to give more attention to the research of puritanism in Apeldoorn and to seek contact with PRTS.
Dr. Selderhuis is not only the director of the Refo500 Foundation; he is also chairman of the Refo500 Reformation Research Consortium. Read more…
Letter to Lord Mayor of Belfast
An open letter from Rev David McLaughlin of Carryduff Free Presbyterian Church to the Alliance Party regarding the decision of the Alliance Party Lord Mayor of Belfast, a professing atheist, Nuala McAllister, to refuse to have anyone return thanks at her installation dinner. Read more…
Dr Beeke’s ‘Boozy’ Reformation Tour!!
In a recent Facebook posting Joel Beeke said this:
“JOIN US ON THE PRTS REFORMATION TOUR 2018!
I want to extend a very special invitation to you: a once in a lifetime opportunity to spend two weeks with Dr. Michael Haykin, Dr. Ian Hamilton, David Woollin, and me (Dr. Joel Beeke) visiting some of the most amazing places in the world—amazing because of their stunning beauty, but also amazing because of the way God has worked wonderfully throughout history in these locations.”
The Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary tour brochure informs you that on the “Rhine River Reformation Cruise” among the amenities provided are “Mini-Bar (all staterooms except on Haydn Deck)”, the “Panorama-Bar and Lounge” and “Sun Deck with Lido-Bar”.
It obviously is going to be a very ‘spiritual’ experience!! Read more…
Bodies of ‘hundreds’ of children buried in mass grave
How misnamed was the branch of popery that ran the home: The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul!!!
GP probed for giving child, 12, gender-change hormones
Does not this amount to child abuse of the vilest form? What child of 12 knows about the far-reaching consequences of emotions aroused most likely by the counselling of fools!!!!
What madness has gripped this country? It is the direct consequence of rejecting the Bible and the nation casting itself adrift, driven by the winds of depravity and that without the moral compass of God’s truth.
“A message for Protestants in the sermons preached by Roman Catholic priests at the funeral of IRA men shot by the SAS when they attacked Loughgall police station on May 8th, 1987.”
A message preached at the evening service in Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church on May 24th, 1987, by Rev Ivan Foster.
The scene at the police station after the IRA had exploded a bomb
The 8 IRA men shot by the SAS as they attacked Loughgall RUC station
Sam Houston, Ulster-Scot who avenged the Alamo and is revered as ‘Father of Texas’
Sam Houston is one of those with Ulster roots who played such a part in the founding and establishing of the USA. Others included Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone as well as many of those whose signatures are on the 1776 ‘Declaration of Independence’!
John Lewis Gender Neutral Clothing Labels Faces Public Backlash
The backlash will be very limited and short-lived I fear. This prostrating before the “vile affections” of the sodomite community seems to know no limits.
Just where will this bowing and scraping before ‘gender free’ lobby end up??
TUV Publish Document Spelling Out Dangers of Irish Language Act
This is an important document every loyalist should read! Read it here.
Memorial Service for Gordon Wilson
In an section headed: Notes and Comments in the magazine of The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, August 2017 edition, there appeared the following article.
I have reprinted it because it illustrates the universal creeping departure from the Word of God that may be seen in a denominations which once stood for God and where God’s power rested upon the preaching of His Word.
Let the Free Presbyterian Church beware! Read more…
Victim’s son vows to ‘expose hyprocrisy of Gerry Adams
A welcome exposé but the man’s hypocrisy is common knowledge but sadly, such is today’s society’s moral views, no one really cares!!
It is difficult to understand why this habit is prevalent amongst professing Christian women. I don’t believe that those who practise this habit can find any precedent for it in the behaviour of former generations of godly women.
One wonders how a husband is not perplexed by a wife’s habit of painting her face, when it is usually the case that she paints herself only when preparing to go out to meet others. It surely is obvious that she is not painting her face for him as invariably she is bare-faced in her own home! Why should that be so?
The Lord said this to Israel on one occasion: “Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life,” Jeremiah 4:30.
These words make it clear that “the painting (or rending), of the face” by a woman is the action associated with one desirous of alluring a man. That in itself is enough reason for any chaste woman to abhor utterly such a practice! Read more…
The Future for this Age and the People of God.
“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come,” 2 Timothy 3:1.
The Word of God makes it clear for us just what will be the character of the final days of this age. It also makes clear, just how we may know that we have entered the last days.
Such a knowledge is sadly beyond the parameters of the average Christian today.
It ought not to be!
Jacob was able to say to his sons: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days,” Genesis 49:1. But tragically, the vast majority of the sons of Jacob today have no knowledge of the meaning of their progenitor’s words.
But believers should not be in such ignorance. Read more…
Will the real Gerry Adams please stand up?
Police, the intelligence services, journalists and academics all claim Gerry Adams was a senior member of the Provisional IRA. The Sinn Fein president has always denied this. In an extract from his new, unauthorised biography of Adams, Malachi O’Doherty sieves the evidence.
Victim’s son vows to ‘expose hyprocrisy of Gerry Adams’
A welcome exposé but the man’s hypocrisy is common knowledge but sadly, such is today’s society’s moral views, no one really cares!! Read the Newsletter report here.
IRA killers of innocent farmer shouldn’t be jailed, says Gerry Adam
Adams, supporter of murder and terrorism that he is, surprises no one by such a perverse line of thinking!
He bought the release of many murderers through the compromises, wrung from weak Unionists, that underpin the short-lived “power-sharing” Executive.
Stormont has all but fallen but the terrorist will continue to enjoy their freedom while victims’ family continue without redress or justice!!!
“Encounters with Christ”, by Ann Foster, is a Bible-based record of some notable miracles of healing wrought by the Saviour during His earthly ministry. He healed multitudes, giving sight to the blind, casting out devils, cleansing the lepers, causing the lame to walk, the deaf to hear, the maimed to be whole, the palsied to recover and imparting life to the dead. These miracles were always accompanied by earnest prayer, a consciousness of need and faith on the part of the one who sought healing. They also illustrate vital gospel truth. Sinners are spiritually blind, controlled by Satan, unclean, lame, maimed, paralysed and dead as a result of sin and they desperately need the spiritual healing and deliverance which Christ alone can give. They too must come with a deep consciousness of their sin, earnestly seeking salvation and believing that Christ alone can save.
The book also details some notable conversations with individuals. Again gospel truth is illustrated. In the Lord’s conversation with the woman of Samaria, He revealed to her the depth of her iniquity and His identity as the Messiah. The sinner must realise and acknowledge his sin in the eyes of a holy God and recognise Christ as God’s only anointed Saviour. In His conversation with Nicodemus, He stressed the necessity of the new birth even for a self- righteous sinner, spoke of His death on the cross, using the symbol of the uplifted serpent in the wilderness, to secure eternal life for His people.
However, not all who were healed were saved. Some, like Malchus, accepted healing for his severed ear, but rejected Christ’s message. Not all who talked with Christ, like the rich, young ruler, heeded His instruction to leave all and follow Him if he wished to obtain eternal life. Mercifully, Nicodemus was born again, despite all appearances to the contrary, for we find him at the cross with Joseph of Arimathea, carefully removing Christ’s body, wrapping it in spices and fine linen, laying it in the tomb and rolling the stone to the door.
“When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him,” Isaiah 59:19. (Read 1-21)
This statement is set in a prophetic context. It will undoubtedly find its final fulfillment in the day referred to in verse 20, the day of the Redeemer coming to Zion.
Revelation 11:1-15 is a record of the Holy Spirit raising up a standard in the very face of Antichrist’s flood of persecution against Jerusalem and its elect people in the last 42 months of this age.
But this statement embodies a general principle of truth which is clear to all. What is said of the Spirit of God acting against the enemy in the latter times is true of all occasions when the enemy attacks.
There is nothing new about the devil’s attacks nor is there anything new about God’s reaction. There never was a day in which the devil did not seek to come in like a flood. It is not a question of if but when.
In our day it is clear he is doing just that. Our text contains instruction and hope. Here is a foresight of his plans.
The Fire at Windsor Castle — was it the Finger of God?
“For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken,” Ezekiel 38/19 (Read Amos 4/6-13)
(A message preached by Rev Ivan Foster some quarter of a century ago and worth remembering as the Royal house and the nation rejoices at the Queen’s 90th birthday)
Fire is both the symbol and the substance of God’s wrath and judgment. The first and the final references in the Bible indicates this to be so.
“Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the out of heaven;” Genesis 19:24, and
“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.
The recent fire in Windsor Castle should be seen as a testimony of divine displeasure against the sin of the Royal family in particular and the nation’s in general.
The Royal family took the name Windsor from the Castle’s name at the time of the first World War to conceal their links with German royalty. Their family name is Saxe-Coburg Gotha. The castle is the favourite abode of the Queen. The fire started in the Queen’s private chapel.
The religious and spiritual affairs of the Royal family are undoubtedly subjects of divine disapproval.
Listen to the complete message using the player below.
Saturday 20th April (1968) was an important day for the Free Presbyterian Church and for County Fermanagh. On that day, Rev. Ivan Foster was ordained as the first minister of the first Free Presbyterian Church in the county.
For many years apostates, fearful of the effects of a strong Gospel preaching church upon their iniquitous intrigues, sought to keep us out of Fermanagh. However the Lord opened up the way, and what God opens no man can shut. As a result Lisbellaw Free Presbyterian Church was opened. Since this work commenced the devil and his agents have been busy, but their desires to bring to nought this gospel witness have miserably failed.
It was with great joy that the Presbytery of Ulster ordained Mr. Foster and installed him in Lisbellaw, The two ministers who, along with him spent three months in prison at the hands of a politico-ecumenical plot, took a major part in the ordination service. Dr. Paisley preached the main message and Rev. John Wylie (Coleraine) preached the charge to the newly ordained minister. Read more…
“And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus,” 2 Timothy 3:15.
The Message The Methodist Conference Would Not Allow Me To Preach
by Rev Ivan Foster
This sermon was printed in the “Revivalist”, July-August 1967. The message had been preached in an ‘After Church Rally’ in Mossley Orange Hall, 18th June 1967.
I must confess that I have never been asked to preach at the annual Methodist Conference in Belfast. Nevertheless, when I read some of the statements contained in sermons preached at this conference it was abundantly clear that any men with a message of truth would not be welcomed at this affair. I quote for example a guest speaker at the conference, Dr. Alfred Martin. In Tuesday, 13th June’s issue of the “Newsletter” we read the following words concerning the obedience of Methodists to the spirit of false ecumenism – “Already you have made it clear that if loyalty to Christ and obedience to his EXPRESSED COMMAND AND SPIRIT are called Romeward trends by knaves seeking a trap for fools then you are willing to be misunderstood.” Read more…
Christian Institute in cooperation with Humanists and The Peter Tatchell Foundation, a pro-sodomite anti-Christian organisation
There is one particularly unalterable law laid down by the Lord as to how His TRUTH is to be defended and His CAUSE maintained.
It is expounded for us by Zerubbabel and Jeshua, the Jewish leaders in charge of the rebuilding of the temple, in response to the suggestion by “the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin” that they would join in and help in the labour of rebuilding God’s house. Read more…
On 5th April 1964, Ivan Foster was converted to Christ. As a twenty-year-old, his feet were already set firmly on the downward road to hell when God broke in upon his soul most unexpectedly. Within one week he was under the ministry of Dr Ian Paisley who was then in the zenith of his pulpit power. What blessed days they were for the young convert!
On 5th January 1965, he began studies for the gospel ministry in the Free Presbyterian Theological Hall. He will always be thankful that one of his lecturers was Pastor James Kyle Paisley, father of Ian Paisley. He was ordained to the ministry and installed as minister of Lisbellaw Free Presbyterian Church on April 20th, 1968.
There followed wonderful times of mercy and blessing which saw four new congregations formed within a short time, including one in Co. Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland and a part played in the formation of Newtown Square Free Presbyterian church in USA, now Malvern FPC, Pennsylvania.
But while the last fifty-two years hold many blessed memories for Ivan Foster, including that happy day he married Ann Beattie on March 8th 1968, no day can feature more clearly in his heart than that of the day when he became, by God’s everlasting mercy, a child of God!
Just after his retirement in 2008, he was invited to give a word of testimony in Mullaglass Free Presbyterian Church on November 11th. He had to return on March 8th to complete that testimony.
Below are the two messages entitled: “Once I was blind!”
May the Lord be pleased to bless it to your heart and to His glory.
(Errata in Part 2: 1979 should be 1978 @ 45 mins 48 secs. Cecil Menary should be Cecil Harvey @ 53 mins 23 secs.)
Joel Beeke’s attitude to sodomy inadvertently substantiated
An incident was related to me just yesterday which unwittingly serves to show how the influence of Joel Beeke’s attitude toward sodomy, as exposed by Pastor Ralph Ovadal in his article “The Downward Spiral of Dr. Joel Beeke’s Ministries Continues”, is widely shared by so-called evangelicals.
I was told of a young Christian being invited to a youth testimony meeting by a fellow Christian some twelve months ago. Being a little anxious regarding the church in which the meeting was taking place, the person felt that because of the nature of the meeting, a testimony meeting, little harm would come of accompanying a friend.
However, one of those testifying spoke of herself as being a sodomite but nevertheless a Christian! Read more…
Editor’s correspondence with ‘Father’ Patrick McCafferty
Pastor James McConnell and the RC priest Patrick McCafferty with whom he is most friendly
Back in 2002, I entered into a correspondence in the pages of “The Burning Bush” with a Roman Catholic priest from Belfast. The correspondence arose after I wrote a letter in reply to an article by the priest in “The Belfast Telegraph” of August 24th, 2002.
I was grieved at such a platform being given to the errors and deceptions of Rome and commented on the priest’s article in a letter to “The Belfast Telegraph.”
It will be noted how our two replies to the priest were edited by the ‘Letters Editor’ of “The Belfast Telegraph” before they quickly closed the exchange after two exchanges.
The Word of God was not liked by that ecumenical newspaper back then and it is still the case. Every effort was made to shield and protect the priest of Rome from the rebuke of God’s Word.
We are republishing the correspondence, which continued for eight exchanges, and appeared in “The Burning Bush” from October 2002 until May 2003, because of the publicity given to the ‘warm relationship’ that was manifested between this priest and Pastor James McConnell during the recent trial occasioned by Pastor McConnell’s pulpit statements about Islam. Pastor McConnell asked ‘Father’ Patrick McCafferty to speak on his behalf during the trial.
All this “ecumenical camaraderie” between the pastor and the priest may appear to some to give endorsement of the teachings of Rome and it is for this reason we highlight again the errors this priest, like all Roman Catholic clerics, propagates.
Needless to say, it also highlights the folly of James McConnell!
Rev. Foster is engaged in an ongoing series of studies in Kilskeery Independent Christian School morning assemblies in which he deals with the theme, “Pictures of Christ in the Bible”, i.e. the descriptions and types of Christ given in the Scriptures.
Each new study will be added as it becomes available and you can listen to new studies using the player below.
Previously published studies in this series can be heard here.
Here is how one newspaper reported a recent controversy about this appalling issue.
“The US state department said it had asked the Vatican to lift the official’s diplomatic immunity on August 21, but the request was denied. For the US state department to make such a request, its lawyers would have needed to be convinced there was reasonable cause for criminal prosecution.”
In an section headed: Notes and Comments in the magazine of The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, August 2017 edition, there appeared the following article.
It is difficult to understand why this habit is prevalent amongst professing Christian women. I don’t believe that those who practise this habit can find any precedent for it in the behaviour of former generations of godly women.
“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come,” 2 Timothy 3:1.
“When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him,” Isaiah 59:19. (Read 1-21)
“For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken,” Ezekiel 38/19 (Read Amos 4/6-13)
Saturday 20th April (1968) was an important day for the Free Presbyterian Church and for County Fermanagh. On that day, Rev. Ivan Foster was ordained as the first minister of the first Free Presbyterian Church in the county.
This sermon was printed in the “Revivalist”, July-August 1967. The message had been preached in an ‘After Church Rally’ in Mossley Orange Hall, 18th June 1967.
There is one particularly unalterable law laid down by the Lord as to how His TRUTH is to be defended and His CAUSE maintained.
On 5th April 1964, Ivan Foster was converted to Christ. As a twenty-year-old, his feet were already set firmly on the downward road to hell when God broke in upon his soul most unexpectedly. Within one week he was under the ministry of Dr Ian Paisley who was then in the zenith of his pulpit power. What blessed days they were for the young convert!
An incident was related to me just yesterday which unwittingly serves to show how the influence of Joel Beeke’s attitude toward sodomy, as exposed by Pastor Ralph Ovadal in his article 
