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Artificial Intelligence - the frenzied hope of many . . . .

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The BBC carried the following headlines in a news report:

PM plans to ‘unleash AI’ across UK to boost growth

Whenever the supporters of AI begin to pontificate on the topic of their latest fantasy, they sound like a recital from a science fiction comic!

It is the ‘be all and end all’ of man’s fondest dream! Supporters of AI would have us believe that it will usher in a utopian era, BUT will it??

BBC commentators, Liv McMahon, Zoe Kleinman & Charlotte Edwards had some words of warning for the Prime Minister!

“But the government faces questions over how much time and money will be needed to make its vision a reality, amid concerns over borrowing costs and the falling value of the pound.”

“The government tasked AI adviser Matt Clifford with creating a UK action plan for supporting the growth of artificial intelligence and its use in public services.

He came back with 50 recommendations which are now being implemented.

Among these is for the UK to invest in a new supercomputer to boost computing power – marking a change in strategy after the Labour government ditched the previous government’s plans for a supercomputer at Edinburgh University.

Sir Keir said AI ‘will drive incredible change’ in the country and ‘has the potential to transform the lives of working people’.

‘We’re going to make AI work for everyone in our country,” he added, saying the “battle for the jobs of tomorrow is happening today’.

“Sir Keir said the UK would become one of the AI “superpowers” – mirroring former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s drive to boost the UK sector so it could rival that of the US and China.”

The article goes on to set out: _

How the AI plan could affect you

Among the government’s proposals are:

AI will be used by the public sector to enable its workers to spend less time doing admin and more time delivering services. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-01-15 a 11:43 pm


A further step down the road to national destruction

I recall once, in the late 1970s, when preaching in the Bedford, England area and staying with my dear friend, Dr Stephen Scott-Pearson and his family, I paid a visit a small museum there which was dedicated to the memory of John ‘the Tinker’ Bunyan, a native of that area.

The lady who supervised the little establishment asked me to sign the visitors book and excitedly informed me that Prince Charles had visited the museum and signed the visitors’ book but a short time before. She spoke excitedly of him and asked me what I thought of him, doubtless expecting me to endorse her opinion.

In reply I said, ‘King Charles I was a rascal, King Charles II was a greater rascal and I expect King Charles III to be an even greater rascal!’

This greatly astonished the dear lady but if she is alive, still she has had ample evidence that my assertion was in fact very true!

The latest evidence of Charles III’s ‘rascality’ has been announced in the press in recent days. One news website,  GB news, heralded forth:

King Charles ‘set to travel to Italy to hold momentous first meeting with Pope’ since becoming monarch.

He is a ‘lover’ of all things popish as the previous encounters with the papal antichrists indicate.

Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-01-11 a 11:01 pm


Tears of Joy and Sorrow

Rev. Ivan Foster

This is the audio recording of the message I preached at Wednesday night’s prayer meeting in Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church.

The text was Ezra 3:10-13.

Read sermon notes here

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Posted on 2025-01-09 a 11:36 pm


So near and yet so far away . . . .

Here is the headline in a BBC news report on Thursday, 2nd January.

UK’s biggest ever dinosaur footprint site unearthed

It is about the discovery of fossilised footprints of large dinosaurs. Of course you have the ‘evolutionist’s folly’ displayed in that they dated at some 166 million years ago.

The report details how they were uncovered. “The tracks were first spotted by Gary Johnson, a worker at Dewars Farm Quarry, while he was driving a digger.

I was basically clearing the clay, and I hit a hump, and I thought it’s just an abnormality in the ground,” he said, pointing to a ridge where some mud has been pushed up as a dinosaur’s foot pressed down into the earth. But then it got to another, 3m along, and it was a hump again. And then it went another 3m – hump again. Another trackway site had been found nearby in the 1990s, so he realised the regular bumps and dips could be dinosaur footprints.

“I thought I’m the first person to see them. And it was so surreal – a bit of a tingling moment, really,” he told BBC News.

The footprints uncovered

The Evolutionist — ‘So near yet so far away from God’s truth’!

This was offered by way of explanation for the wonderful preservation of the very old footprints: “Something must have happened to preserve these in the fossil record,” said Prof Richard Butler, a palaeobiologist from the University of Birmingham. We don’t know exactly what, but it might be that there was a storm event that came in, deposited a load of sediments on top of the footprints, and meant that they were preserved rather than just being washed away.” Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-01-05 a 12:04 am


The men the Free Presbyterian Church needs in 2025

“‭And Uzziah‭ . . .‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭ when he was strong‭, his heart‭ was lifted up‭‭ to ‭his‭ destruction‭‭: for he transgressed‭‭ against the LORD‭ his God‭, and went‭‭ into the temple‭ of the LORD‭ to burn incense‭‭ upon the altar‭ of incense‭.‭ ‭And Azariah‭ the priest‭ went in‭‭ after‭ him, and with him fourscore‭ priests‭ of the LORD‭, ‭that were‭ valiant‭ men‭:‭ ‭And they withstood‭‭ Uzziah‭ the king‭, and said‭‭ unto him, ‭It appertaineth‭ not unto thee, Uzziah‭, to burn incense‭‭ unto the LORD‭, but to the priests‭ the sons‭ of Aaron‭, that are consecrated‭‭ to burn incense‭‭: go out‭‭ of the sanctuary‭; for thou hast trespassed‭‭; neither ‭shall it be‭ for thine honour‭ from the LORD‭ God‭.‭ ‭Then Uzziah‭ was wroth‭‭, and ‭had‭ a censer‭ in his hand‭ to burn incense‭‭: and while he was wroth‭‭ with the priests‭, the leprosy‭ even rose up‭‭ in his forehead‭ before‭ the priests‭ in the house‭ of the LORD‭, from beside the incense‭ altar‭.‭ ‭And Azariah‭ the chief‭ priest‭, and all the priests‭, looked‭‭ upon him, and, behold, he ‭was‭ leprous‭‭ in his forehead‭, and they thrust him out‭‭ from thence; yea, himself hasted‭‭ also to go out‭‭, because the LORD‭ had smitten‭‭ him,‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬”2 Chronicles 26:14, 16-20.

Paul wrote, “‭For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning,” ‬Romans 15:4. There is much to be learned from the verses from 2 Chronicles 26 which I have quoted above. I read them on the Lord’s Day, 22nd December.

How very relevant they are for the Free Presbyterian Church today!

The first thing I would have you notice in the verses is that:

I. GOOD MEN CAN MAKE VERY SERIOUS MISTAKES!

1. Without a shadow of doubt, Uzziah was a good man, a great man! We can take God’s word on that!

“‭Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did. And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper,”‬ 2 Chronicles 26:3-5.

2. Yet despite his undoubted regeneration by the grace of God, he committed a dreadful sin. We are told the ‘source’ of his sin. “And his name‭ spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.‬ When he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction,” verses 15-16. That phrase simply means that when his kingdom became wonderfully strong for the Lord “marvellously‭ helped‬” him, he became proud and haughty, and that to his “destruction”. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-01-01 a 11:00 pm


Happy New Year!

Sincere good wishes to all our readers for a happy 2025 and my grateful thanks for your support and prayers for the witness of ‘The Burning Bush’ during the last year.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name,” Hebrews 6:10.

Posted on 2025-01-01 a 10:49 pm