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Seen but not understood!
The following is one headline that followed the Bondi beach massacre.
Bondi Beach massacre: Church of Ireland archbishop condemns ‘creeping anti-Semitism plaguing the world’
(Belfast Newsletter, 15th December 2025)
The attack on the Jewish families is but the latest in a mounting wave of ‘anti-semitism’
Condemnations abound as are calls by the public and political leaders for action to be taken to stop the victimising of the Jewish people.
What is not evident is an understanding of what lies behind such attacks!
For this we must turn to the Bible and there we will learn that to REJECT the Lord Jesus has terrible consequences.
XENOPHOBIC
To link the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus with the Jewish race is considered xenophobic and racialist by many who are ignorant of the truth of God.
Repeating historical facts regarding the rejection of Christ by the Jewish race is not any more racist than teaching the history of Germany’s part in the Second World War!
That history includes the massacre of millions of Jews in a most devilishly cruel manner. It is not wrong to recall such terrible events and to comment truthfully on them, condemning them afresh!
RECORD
The Lord has given us an inspired account of the sad and inexcusable action by Israel when they, in the words of Isaiah the prophet, some six hundreds years before Calvary, “despised and rejected” Him.
“Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not,” Isaiah 53:1-3. Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-12-15 a 6:04 pm
Why the Cross?
O Christ, t’was full for Thee!
But Thou hast drained the last dark drop,
‘Tis empty now for me!
That bitter cup, love drank it up;
Left naught but love for me!
Photo by Richard Bell on Unsplash
“He humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross,” Philippians 2:8.
There are many ways to die! By an accident; by the hands of an evil person; on a battlefield or even by our own hands, which some are most foolishly seeking to legalise!
Why was the cross chosen by God as the means by which our Saviour, the Lord Jesus, should die?
It was in the darkness of the night that this matter arose in my mind. In the morning I began a search of my Bible wherever the word ‘cross’ appeared. One needs ever to refresh one’s knowledge of the truths of God. Thus the Psalmist said of the “blessed man” that “his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night,” Psalm 1.
When I came on my text I saw that my question was wonderfully answered.
I. TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR THE SINS OF HIS ELECT CHRIST MUST DESCEND TO THE DEPTHS OF HUMILIATION.
1. This was because He had to became as our sin. “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him,” 2 Corinthians 5:21.
Christ on the cross pictures the sinfulness, the gravity of sin, in the sight of God! The humiliation of Christ was of God! It was ‘He’ who heaped humiliation upon the Saviour!
That was because Christ had assumed our sin and became ‘sin’ in the sight of the Father and was therefore treated by Him as such.
2. Sin is the lowest state into which man can sink! Mankind fell by Adam’s transgression and the humiliation of Christ on the cross, when He bore our sin, illustrates how far man fell. Mankind does not feel or know how low they are before God. Self-opinion is always very high! However, the humiliations and sufferings of Christ on the cross indicate and illustrate where sin has brought mankind!
3. When the sinner upon death is committed to everlasting damnation, in truth he has not sunk any further than when he was alive, he is just being committed to that place befitting his dreadful state. When the prisoner is taken from the dock to the prison cell, he does not become more guilty or depraved. He is being confined to that place appropriate to his sinfulness. Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-12-13 a 6:00 am
Kindness misunderstood and misrepresented! - Part 3
“Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead. And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him. But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land? Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away,” 1 Chronicles 19:1-4.
I am seeking to set forth the parallels in this passage with the kindness of God toward sinners, displayed in the Gospel message sent to those who “were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly,” Romans 5:6.
We have considered the greatness of the King, even the Lord, who sent the Gospel condolences and the spurning of the kindness by those to whom the expression of love was sent.
The chief manifestation of the rejecting of the Gospel is the humiliating of God’s servants.
History tells a sad and horrific tale of the sufferings of the servants of the true God.
Mention is made of this byPaul in his epistle to the Hebrews.
“And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth,” Hebrews 11:36-38.
The ‘Dark Ages’ was a time of great persecution of the people of God. The Roman Catholic Church is stained with the blood of many tens of thousands of men, women and children, whom it deemed were only worthy of destruction.
God has appointed a day when their blood will be avenged! Heaven will sing on that day! The hurting of His servants is counted by Him as a hurting of Him. Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-12-11 a 6:00 am
No Room in the Inn
Lights aplenty festoon not just the streets and shops of cities, towns and villages, but I have noticed a great increase in the number of private houses with the trees in their gardens swathed with flickering lights and illuminated heralds of ‘Christmas’!
It is all supposedly to mark the birth of Christ and yet there is little reference to Him at all amidst the pagan festivities.
Indeed, so absent is Christ from the minds of those engaging in these activities, that they are ignorant of the fact that the Bible tells us Christ was NOT born in December!
Celebrating a birthday, the date of which they have completely mistaken – such is the folly of this season!
But, ‘so what’, say those who thus indulge the desires of the flesh! Any excuse for a good time is all that most are interested in.
But Luke 2:7, displays the world’s true attitude toward the Son of God!
“And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.”
There is still no room for Christ in this world given over to the pursuit of the fleshpots of this world!
Sincerely in Christ’s name,
Ivan Foster
10th December 2025
Posted on 2025-12-10 a 11:24 pm
Rev. Dr. Bertram Stanley Douglas (Bert) Cooke, Service of Thanksgiving
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Rev. Dr. S. B. Cooke in his younger days
Dr and Mrs Agnes Cooke in earlier days
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Posted on 2025-12-08 a 6:01 pm
Dr. Cooke has gone to glory
The passing of ‘Mr. Valiant-for-truth’
Dr S B Cooke (1929 — 2025)
Dr Cooke was a dear friend of mine and we last talked together on Monday past at the nursing home in Kilkeel where he and his dear wife have been. He went to heaven this afternoon.
I wish to express my sincere condolences to his wife Agnes, also a dear friend, his brother Ronald and his family in the USA, his two sisters Nancy and Audrey, and Agnes’s loved ones.
Bertie Cooke was a man esteemed amongst his brethren for his wisdom and tenacious stand for the principles of Free Presbyterianism.
We praise God for his lasting witness and testimony.
“And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb,” Revelation 7:13-14.
Funeral Service in Moneyslane Free Presbyterian Church
Monday 8th December at 12 noon, followed by burial
in the Ballygowan Free Presbyterian graveyard
(Full details here)
Posted on 2025-12-05 a 10:16 pm
Educated eejits spout more baloney!
Religious Education ‘not suitable’ for NI society, study suggests
We will acknowledge one unintended grain of truth in the above BBC headline, and it is this. What passes for ‘Religious Education’ in Northern Ireland, is not suitable for anywhere in the world, never mind here!
The Core Syllabus for Religious Education in Northern Ireland is jointly defined by the Department of Education (DE) and the representatives of the four main Christian churches in Northern Ireland (Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Anglican, and Methodist).
Thus it is an evil ‘homogenisation’ of modernistic and liberal theology and idolatrous superstition and man-made traditions!
I always find it utterly unreasonable that those who feel that they had to leave, or even flee, from their homeland, for one reason or another and seek refuge in the United Kingdom, feel it necessary to immediately begin to try and transform our land into that from which they felt they had to get out of.
That to me is very strange indeed!
However, that said, there is a great need for educating Northern Ireland on matters religious from the Word of God, the ‘only rule of faith and practice’. Martin Luther is quoted as saying: ‘The true rule is this: God’s Word shall establish articles of faith, and no one else, not even an angel can do so.’ Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-12-04 a 4:52 pm
A letter to the ‘Belfast Newsletter’
Sir,
A letter from James Hardy was published in your newspaper on 3rd December 2025.
It had the heading:
‘Following the debate over the teaching of Religious Education in schools, are Bible basics best explained at home?’
It most certainly is a clear command of the Lord that the ‘home’ is to be a place of Scriptural Instruction for children.
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: and thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.,” Deuteronomy 6:4-9.
There can be no disputing the place given to Biblical instruction of the young within the home in the purpose of God. It is emphasised a little further on in Deuteronomy. Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-12-03 a 6:09 pm
Where, why and when was Jesus born?
Given the paganism masquerading as ‘Christianity’, seen everywhere at this time of the year, I always like to bring a word of instruction to the boys and girls of Kilskeery Independent Christian School regarding what the Bible says about the birth of Christ.
Read sermon notes here
It is a word that today all too many believers would need to heed since the ‘celebration of Christmas’ has infiltrated their ranks!
There are none who can deny that it is pagan in its origins and its form.
Nor can it be denied that Christ was NOT born on 25th December!!
No good can come of this conforming to the world’s ways and practices and the adopting of the follies of unregenerate man.
Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
Posted on 2025-12-01 a 6:00 am
Kindness misunderstood and misrepresented! Part 2
“Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead. And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him. But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land? Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away,” 1 Chronicles 19:1-4.
As I said in part one of this Gospel study, these verses formed part of my daily Bible reading on Monday, 25th November. As I read them I thought of the parallel there is between the kindness of David, the reaction of the Ammonite king and princes to his kindness and the parallel reaction of men to the greater kindness, by far, of the Word that the Lord sends to sinful man, amidst the mourning that sin has wrought universally amongst us!
Please consider: —
I. THE WORDS OF SYMPATHY TO THE MOURNERS CAME FROM A GREAT KING.
We are told that at that time, following a series of great victories by David over neighbouring nations, that it had all come about because, “Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went,” 1 Chronicles 18:13.
1. For David to take note of the sadness that had come upon the household of “Nahash the king of the children of Ammon”, by the death of the old king, was an act of gracious kindness. It is very obvious from the passage that David was engaged in the establishing of his kingdom with the help of the Lord. For him to take the time to consider the grief of the family of Nahash indicated his love and concern for the family of a man who had shown kindness to him (verse 2).
Likewise, we can say with the Psalmist that “The LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth,” Psalm 47:2. Yet, the “great King”, “so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life,” John 3:16. That displays kindness and love at their ultimate level!
It has ever been a source of great wonder to me, and indeed to all who have experienced the saving grace of God, why he ever took notice of me. Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-12-01 a 6:00 am