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Letter to the 'Belfast Newsletter'
I have just sent this letter into the ‘Belfast Newsletter’ in response to one recently published. When I first read it I was troubled by some of the statements in it but I believed that the writer’s intentions were good and so I hesitated to comment.
However, it troubled me that perhaps inadvertently, error was being stated so, as gently as I could, I sought to correct one of the improperly worded statements and thus register the need for great care when writing about the Lord and His purpose.
I can but hope that my motives are understood.
Sincerely in Christ’s name,
Ivan Foster
Dear Editor,
The study of the character and nature of God, revealed to us in the inspired Word of God, is the most exact of all ‘sciences’!
Inaccuracies in definition of terms have eternal consequences.
“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him,” John 3:36.
It is for this reason I wish to make a comment on the letter titled: ‘Irish Christianity that has existed for nearly 2,000 years is dying and in desperate need of reform’ (28/1/26).
I am largely in agreement with the thesis of the letter.
I am, however, concerned about the wording of some of the statements in the letter. I have lived to set forth the teaching of the Bible in the fear of the Lord for over 60 years. Any inaccurate declaration of what the Bible teaches or bordering on such, I will correct and oppose as best I can.
In this letter there are statements which need more careful elucidation.
This is not necessarily a criticism of the writer but my reaction to the possibility of a misunderstanding of God’s Word.
I will but mention one example. The writer says: ‘The Judeo-Christian foundations that held the world together are starting to crumble and the old certainties are showing cracks.’
If he means, ‘That faith and trust in the foundation of Bible religion, the Word of God, is declining world-wide today’, then I agree with him.
BUT the FOUNDATION of true Bible religion cannot ‘crumble’ or be thought of as ‘showing cracks’!
“For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ,” 1 Corinthians 3:11.
Christ, our foundation and His Holy Word, CANNOT crumble or crack. But there can be a rejecting of this foundation. That is what has happened under the modernistic and ecumenical ‘ministers’ of today!
I am sure that is what the writer is seeking to set forth.
“If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Psalm 11:3. Dr John Gill explains these words to mean: ‘The doctrines and principles of religion are derided and subverted.’
The Bible teaches that this shall happen in the latter days of this age. The Bible is today generally rejected as the foundation of true faith and the teaching of the Gospel is ‘destroyed’ (Hebrew – thrown down).
Paul warned: “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils,” 1 Timothy 4:1.
The ‘new foundation’ set forth in the majority of pulpits as ‘the hope for eternity’ is the “doctrines of devils”.
I understand this to be what your writer was objecting to and on that basis I support him.
I trust that no offence is caused by this sincere attempt to make clear the lies and deceit that are abroad today and which are the root and origin of today’s increasing anarchy and apostasy.
Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
30th January 2026
Posted on 2026-01-30 a 5:29 pm
Teacher uses 40-year-old law to withdraw from teaching religion
This headline appeared on the local BBC news website on Wednesday 28th January. It serves to remind Christian parents, Free Presbyterians in particular, that there are teachers in the state system who do not necessary believe the Bible but who nevertheless teach pupils ‘about’ Christianity!
View the BBC news article here.
This teacher freely acknowledged that “he was not ‘anti-Christian,’ and did not “have a problem teaching children about Christianity.”
Problem
His problem with the state system is stated as: “He said there was currently a system where ‘one worldview is dominant’.
‘I just think it places a burden on a six-year-old or a seven year-old to understand where Christianity sits in relation to other religions or no religion,’ he said.”
There are many in the teaching profession who would share his view. Indeed, out there in the ‘religious world’ there many clerics in the ecumenical denominations who have long taught that there is more than ‘one world view’!
After all, King Charles III desires to be known as the ‘Defender of Faith’, rather than the title, ‘Defender of the Faith’, which is a reference to Protestantism, when the title was later defined!
It was originally bestowed on Henry VIII by Pope Leo X in 1521 for defending Roman Catholic doctrine, but it was later reaffirmed by the English Parliament to signify the monarch’s duty to defend of the Reformed faith. A duty most monarch’s failed in most dismally!
Luther
But the nation, indeed, nations, have moved on from the 16th century Protestant Reformation. That ‘religious movement’ was in essence, a return to Bible truth after centuries of practising the superstitions and perversions of Roman Catholicism.
It is generally agreed that one of the first steps back to the Word of God was Martin Luther’s nailing up his 95 theses on the church door in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517. Click to read more…
Posted on 2026-01-29 a 6:00 am
A little boy answers the question of the apostles
“Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest. And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him, And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great,” Luke 9:46-48.
This reasoning as to who would be greatest amongst the apostles was one born of the sinful heart of man. Even we believers today are subject to such carnal thoughts as those that then prompted the discussion amongst the apostles as they followed the Lord to Capernaum.
We should note that they not merely ‘reasoned’ which of them would be the ‘greatest’ (the highest, the most important) in the kingdom of heaven. But the subject was a matter of dispute as Mark tells us, (Mark 9:33).
They were giving most serious thought to this subject.
The word translated ‘reasoning’ or ‘disputed’ first appears in Mark 2:6 and refers to the ‘reasoning’ within the hearts of certain scribes who were bothered by the Saviour’s claim to forgive sins.
“When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only? And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?” Mark 2:5-8.
Church disputes
There likely have been more divisions and disagreements within the assemblies of God’s people about this matter than any other! Self-importance and the perceived failure of others to see our ‘importance’ has been at the heart of many a conflict among Christians.
John the Apostle encountered this desire for ‘preeminence’! Click to read more…
Posted on 2026-01-24 a 6:00 am
‘Greenland’ — the new Lebensraum!
European countries issue joint statement on Donald Trump’s Greenland tariffs as leaders mull counter-measures
Starmer joins European allies warning of ‘dangerous downward spiral’ in Nato after Trump’s ‘gangster’ threat of trade war unless he gets Greenland
So read two headlines of articles in which the defiant reaction of national leaders to Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on those not supporting his aim of taking over Greenland was set forth!
President Trump has repeatedly said Greenland is vital to US security due to its strategic location and large mineral deposits, and has not ruled out using force to take it.
A QUESTION COMES TO MIND :—
What is the difference in Donald Trump’s justification for his demands to take over Greenland, by force if necessary and Adolf Hitler’s justification for invading and subjugating his neighbours — Lebensraum (‘Living Space’) — which he claimed would safeguard the life and wellbeing of his Germany?
Hitler’s evil delusions led to World War II and the death, deprivation and misery of countless millions, including 5.3 to 5.5 million military personnel and over 2 million civilians of his own nation!
Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
19th January 2026
Posted on 2026-01-19 a 6:00 am
A message preached in the USA in 2009 with a timely application back then and even more so today
‘Do thyself no harm’
A message preached at the 30th anniversary of Malvern Free Presbyterian Church, 17th May 2009.
On Friday 16th January, I read Acts 16, marvelling afresh at the wonderful record of the advance of the Gospel into Europe. Two women, one on each side of the great spiritual divide, played a major part in the visit of the God’s servants to Philippi. Lydia, a most courageous, godly woman, verses 14-15. And then there was the “certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination”, verse 16.
For every faithful soul who desires to advance the Gospel cause there is a counterpart, who does all to hinder the Gospel by subtly and craft or by physical and cruel opposition.
What a wonderful drama unfolded way back then in Philippi!
May you find comfort and blessing in this seventeen year old message.
(The ‘John’ I refer to in my introductory remarks, was most likely the former minister of Malvern, Rev John Greer.)
Rev. Ivan Foster (Rtd)
Sabbath Day, 18th January 2026
Posted on 2026-01-18 a 6:00 am
Consideration of a much misunderstood and misapplied prophecy by the Saviour - Part 4
Luke 21:5-38.
“And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled,” Luke 21:20-24.
As we come to study the next section of the words of the Saviour’s prophecy, given in response to the question of His disciples, verse 7, we come face to face with that which I allude to in my title for this study. In these verses there is that to which I refer as ‘a much misunderstood and misapplied prophecy by the Saviour.’
I. THERE IS A CLOSE SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE ABOVE PASSAGE AND MATTHEW 24:15-31.
Matthew 24:15-22 reads:—
“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.”
Yes, there is a close similarity but they do not refer to the same events as those of Luke 21:20-24. That I will seek to show you. It is this seeing the two portions of Holy Scripture as referring to the same events which creates a misunderstanding of the Saviour’s words.
But firstly please learn that:
1. The tactics of the enemies of God and His people never change! On a number of occasions I have said that the devil is a slave of his own depraved heart and mind. He instinctively attacks the cause of God in a manner dictated by his own depravity.
I am sure that most readers have watched a video of the lions in Africa hunting their prey. Their tactics never change!
Well, so it is with the one who “as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,” 1 Peter 5:8.
As the lions of Africa CANNOT change their instinctive hunting methods, so it is with the lion from hell and all who follow him.
Similarity
Consequently, you will see a great similarity in the Bible’s record of the many attacks, from many sources, upon God’s people throughout the ages.
How often we read, ‘AGAIN’ in regard to the backsliding of Israel and also the repeatedly attacks of her enemies.
“And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD,” Judges 4:1. What they did was the result of the devil’s temptations and allurements but it always followed the same pattern. See Judges 6:1, 8:33, 10:6, 13:1 for examples of this repetition!
Depraved man cannot alter his habits, just as the devil cannot alter his. As a result we may see a foreshadowing of the final events of this age, when the great apostasy takes place, when the devil and those duped by him muster their forces in a manner manifested in the many previous attacks he launched. Click to read more…
Posted on 2026-01-16 a 4:57 pm
There is no 'Caleb' in this Hebron!!
In Joshua 14:6-13 we read these words:
“Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea. Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart. Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God. And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children’s for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God. And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said. And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.”
In a time when the carnal and worldly notions and views of men crowded out simple faith in the promise of God and the way that God’s people should go, Joshua and Caleb stood up and defied such foolish and blasphemous thinking.
The incident is recorded in Numbers 14:2-9.
“And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. But all the congregation bade stone them with stones.”
That spirit of ‘returning to Egypt’ has ever pursued the people of God. It is evident in ‘Hebron Free Presbyterian Church in Ballymoney.
(Copy of a video sent to me of ‘Hebron Hub’)
In a video the leaders of that congregation glory in the ‘entertainment suite’ they have opened in the church building. Click to read more…
Posted on 2026-01-13 a 11:11 pm
One archive containing the names and evil deeds of IRA terrorists no government can expunge
The following headline appeared in ‘The Belfast Telegraph’ of Saturday 10th January, 2025.
File claiming Gerry Kelly was key IRA figure in 1990s ‘removed from Dublin archives at request of Irish government’
(See also ‘Secret Garda security briefing note identified Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly as key figure within the IRA’)
(Another article worthy of note —
Woman identified by Garda as Enniskillen bombing IRA commander ‘living an ordinary life in Fermanagh)
There is a saying in Ulster regarding that which is well-known: ‘Even the dogs in the street know that it is so!’
If our canine neighbours could only laugh, there would be much ‘guffawing’ from our furry friends the length and breadth of Ulster at the attempted denial of Gerry Kelly and the attempts of the fools in the Dublin government who have complied with his demands to hide away his past links with terrorism!
The ‘Belfast Telegraph’ report states:
‘A once-classified file which included a secret garda briefing note that claimed Sinn Fein’s Gerry Kelly was a key figure in the IRA in the mid-1990s has been recalled after being publicly released by Ireland’s National Archives, it has been reported.
It was among documents recently declassified in Dublin under the 20 and 30-year rules.
However, the file has now been withdrawn, according to The Irish Times, who reported it was at the request of Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs.
The department, Sinn Fein and Mr Kelly have all been contacted for comment.
According to The Irish Times, the file was pulled following “urgent consultations between the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Justice” in the Republic.’ Click to read more…
Posted on 2026-01-12 a 6:00 am
1st prayer meeting of 2026 in Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church
A twice repeated command twice rejected!
“Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken,” Jeremiah 6:16-17.
Rev Samuel Fitton, minister of Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church, preached upon the verse 16 at both services on the Lord’s Day past. He has chosen it as the motto text for the new year. His exposition was most instructive and I commend both messages. The messages may be viewed here and here. There was a problem with the sound in the evening broadcast but it was restored before the preaching begins, so simply fast forward to about 30 minutes into the recording.
Companion
This text has been a long time companion of mine from when I first encountered it. It took on greater importance for me when in my first year in the Free Presbyterian Theological Hall, Dr Bert Cooke said with his unique way of emphasising a truth, ‘Jeremiah is the book for today!’
I was moved to study it closely during my three month stay in the Crumlin Road Jail, back sixty years ago in 1966. I have seen repeatedly and increasingly the truth of Dr Cooke’s words as the years have passed and the apostasy has deepened and impacted upon those who foolishly have seen fit to try and narrow the gap between the apostasy and the Lord’s separated witness!
Whispered
The response of the disobedient and defiant, recorded twice here — “We will not walk therein . . . We will not hearken” — may be heard whispered amongst our ranks. That is alarming and frightening for any who believe what the Lord says in the verses that follow our text!
Please consider . . .
I. THE COMMAND OF GOD PLAINLY GIVEN.
“Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths . . .”
These words carry all the authority of heaven! They are not the product of Jeremiah’s mind or heart, though of course he was in complete agreement with what is said by the Lord. No, this was a divine directive to a confused and deceived people in need of direction. Click to read more…
Posted on 2026-01-06 a 6:15 pm
Kingsmill Massacre's 50th anniversary
‘The pain will be as raw now as it was at the time’: Kingsmill Massacre’s 50th anniversary marked today and tomorrow with commemorations
This is a report in the ‘Belfast Newsletter’ of the marking of the 50th anniversary of the ‘Kingsmill Massacre’ of 10 Protestant workmen returning home from work in a mini-bus on 5th January 1976.
The 11th man survived, despite being shot 18 times! The one Roman Catholic workman in the mini-bus was told to run away before the shooting started!
The murderers were members of the IRA.
No one has ever been convicted of involvement!
Here is the link to the BBC’s report of the anniversary.
‘When dad came home it was in a coffin’
This, and the thousands of other atrocities should never be forgotten by the people of Ulster!
Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
Monday 5th January 2026
Posted on 2026-01-05 a 6:00 am
Consideration of a much misunderstood and misapplied prophecy by the Saviour - Part 3
Luke 21:5-38
“And it shall turn to you for a testimony. Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake. But there shall not an hair of your head perish. In your patience possess ye your souls,” Luke 21:13-19.
In our last study, the concluding point that we made was:—
FROM IMMEDIATELY AFTER CHRIST’S ASCENSION UNTIL HIS RETURN, HIS PEOPLE HAVE SUFFERED AT THE HANDS OF AN ANTAGONISTIC AND HOSTILE WORLD!
As is stated in verse 12, before the events of the later times of the Saviour’s absence from us, there will come persecution. “But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you . . .”
In truth, there never has been a time when the persecuting of the people of God was not taking place.
Yes, there have been times of comparative quiet, when God’s people were unmolested. But other times the flames of cruel hatred have raged hot.
Stephen
Stephen, the first martyr of the Gospel era, asked this question of the Sanhedrin, before which he had been summoned to give an answer to the charges laid against him by the “Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia,” Acts 6:9:
“Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers,” Acts 7:52.
That question makes it clear that the message of God and His messengers have always been opposed, even unto death.
Here, in verse 12, the Saviour warns His disciples that such a spirit of antagonism will continue throughout the intervening years before His return in glory.
We come now to a new section – verses 13-19.
I. SUCH TIMES OF OPPRESSION BECOME OPPORTUNITIES TO WITNESS.
“And it shall turn to you for a testimony. Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.” Click to read more…
Posted on 2026-01-03 a 6:00 am
Happy New Year!
Posted on 2026-01-01 a 5:36 pm
Entering 2026 looking for the return of Christ
Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church’s last prayer meeting of 2025.
Read sermon notes here
Watch a video of this sermon below:
Posted on 2026-01-01 a 12:01 am