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Why we should love the Jewish people
To mark the anniversary of the cruelty experienced by the Jewish people under Adolf Hitler, when 6 millions were murdered, I republish this article from 2016. It is the substance of what was taught to the pupils of Kilskeery Independent Christian School back then.
Ivan Foster.
Why we should love the Jewish people
As the introduction to this article states, it is the substance of two school assembly talks, in Kilskeery Independent Christian School, I gave to the children back in 2016 to mark ‘Holocaust Memorial Day’, January 27th.
It states some truths that are very relevant in the light of the upsurge of hatred toward the Jewish people, not just on the borders of Israel but reports of anti-semitism are coming in from many lands where there is an ignorance of what modern society owes to the Jewish race.
Why we should love the Jewish people(Holocaust Memorial Day 2016.)
The substance of two school morning assembly messages given in Kilskeery Independent Christian School, by retired minister and school administrator, Rev Ivan Foster, on 27th and 28th January.
“Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed,” Genesis 12:1-3.
It is clear from the first words spoken to Abraham, from whom sprang the Jewish people, that he and his descendants would be those about whom there would a division of opinions. There would be those that would “bless” them and there would be those who would “curse” them!
Those that “bless” them would be blessed of God and those that “cursed” them would be cursed of God. They were, in heaven’s eyes, a very special people. Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-01-27 a 10:34 am
The Bible says that there are only two genders - male and female!!
The ludicrous, utterly ridiculous and perverted notion, promoted today by all too many organisations and public figures, that there are more than two genders, flies in the face of the declaration of God at the creation of man.
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them,” Genesis 1:27.
Mankind bears the ‘image’ of God, not His divine nature but likeness to God principally consists and most eminently appears in man’s soul.
In its nature and substance it is like God, spiritual, invisible, immortal. (Matthew Poole)
Man was, at the first, pure and holy. Today, man is a fallen creature as a result of Adam’s failure to obey God as our representative in the Covenant of Works and thus bringing upon all mankind guilt and condemnation.
In this age of the final apostasy, man has dived to the depths of depraved folly by permitting the notion of many genders to be embraced and incorporated in law.
While I am aghast at the pride and arrogance manifested by Donald Trump in his inaugural speech, I am happy to hear his comments on the ‘multiplicity of genders’ so promoted today!
I must offset his views, however, with the fact that he has endorsed sodomy by appointing sodomites to positions in his government.
See But Still They Adore Him
An article in today’s ‘Belfast Newsletter’ touches on the folly and the consequences of the acceptance of the liberal views of genders.
President Trump’s clarity on gender poses a tricky question for some of Northern Ireland’s politicians
Here it is. Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-01-25 a 5:05 pm
Service of ordination and installation of Rev Samuel Fitton
Here is the link to the service of ordination and installation of Rev Samuel Fitton as minister of Kilskeery Free Presbytery Church this afternoon.
Taking Part in the service: Rev James Porter (officiating), Rev Brian McClung (Opening Prayer), Rev Ivan Foster (Scripture Reading). Prescribed Questions (Rev John Greer), Sermon (Rev Samuel Murray) and Presbytery Greetings (Rev John Armstrong).
I trust that you are blessed as you watch the video.
Ivan Foster
Posted on 2025-01-25 a 3:19 pm
The folly and cost of putting family interests first!
“And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do. And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark. But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work. And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus; and Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God. And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches,” Acts 15:36-41.
(Robert Murray M‘Cheyne’s Bible Reading Calendar-15th January 2025)
Even in the halcyon days of the Holy Ghost empowered apostolic age, there were disputes amongst the brethren. Faithfulness to God and His will brings one into conflict with those less inclined to seek to rigidly abide by the plain Word of God.
Compromise is ever suggested to us by the flesh when we find ourselves caught between God’s will and that which is more pleasing to ourselves and those whom we would seek to please.
The incident before us here in Acts chapter 15 records that which has been repeated ‘ad nauseam’ throughout the ages!
Paul, moved by a concern for recent converts, suggests to his hitherto faithful companion in the service of God that they retrace their steps and visit those they had been the means of leading to Christ and ‘ see how they do’.
It immediately becomes obvious that poor Barnabas was harbouring some resentment regarding a sad incident which took place during their first missionary journey. It was a journey initiated by the Lord.
“Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away,” Acts 13:1-3.
I. IT WAS ON THIS JOURNEY THAT LEADERSHIP AND GOD-GIVEN AUTHORITY OF PAUL WAS MANIFESTED.
1. It is to be noted that Saul at the first is given a lesser prominence than Barnabas. Verse 1 has Barnabas mentioned first and Saul last! Again, in verse 2 the Lord refers to Barnabas before Saul. This order is repeated in verse 7.
But it changed thereafter! Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-01-18 a 5:30 pm
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Posted on 2025-01-15 a 11:49 pm
Artificial Intelligence - the frenzied hope of many . . . .
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.
Posted on 2025-01-11 a 11:01 pm
Tears of Joy and Sorrow
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 hereWatch this sermon below:
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 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