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Posted on 2025-07-29 a 4:59 pm

The isolation of Northern Ireland from the rest of the United Kingdom has reached a new level, or as Jim Allister MP, rightly puts it, a humiliating stage.

‘Day of humiliation’ for UK as Irish Sea Border Control Post opened in Larne – Jim Allister

So runs the headline in the ‘Belfast Newsletter’ of July 28th, 2025.

That which Irish Republicanism, the Roman Catholic Church and the anti-Protestant members of the British parliament, both Conservative and Labour, have long sought — the expulsion of Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom, is all but accomplished!

‘​The division of the United Kingdom under the Windsor Framework has been ‘cemented in’ by the opening of a new border control post at Larne, Jim Allister has said.’

‘​On Monday, a new piece of Irish Sea Border infrastructure became operational at the County Antrim port – with Belfast due to have its facility put in place early next month.

‘​The division of the United Kingdom under the Windsor Framework has been ‘cemented in’ by the opening of a new border control post at Larne, Jim Allister has said.

​On Monday, a new piece of Irish Sea Border infrastructure became operational at the County Antrim port – with Belfast due to have its facility put in place early next month.

The Border Control Posts (BCPs) are a requirement of the post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and EU – and are designed to allow the EU to monitor what products are entering Northern Ireland, which is treated as a part of the European single market.’

‘As the All-Ireland Internal Market for Goods is defined by laws made by Dublin, and the rest of the EU, which are then simply imposed upon us, these Border Control Posts serve a wholly ignoble purpose. They are there to protect the ‘integrity’ of the consequence of our disenfranchisement and secure the disruption of our best economic interests as we are forcibly alienated from the greater part of what has been our home economy for goods for more than two hundred years.’

This amounts to an ‘expelling’ of Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and it has to be said that the DUP aided and abetted this act of treachery! The DUP entered an agreement with the Conservative Government in 2024 by which a power-sharing executive, led by Sinn Fein/IRA was restored and out of that agreement sprang the ‘Windsor Framework’ and the ‘hiving off’ of Northern Ireland from mainland UK! Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-07-29 a 4:55 pm

I have a few pulpit engagements here in Kilskeery during the minister’s holidays.

As the Lord helps me, I hope to speak on subjects that I have felt vitally important during my time of preaching, now in its 60th year.

Here is Sunday evening’s message:

Read sermon notes here

 

Watch a video of this sermon below:

Posted on 2025-07-27 a 10:16 pm

I have a few pulpit engagements here in Kilskeery during the minister’s holidays.

As the Lord helps me, I hope to speak on subjects that I have felt vitally important during my time of preaching, now in its 60th year.

Here is Sunday morning’s message:

Read sermon notes here

 

Watch a video of this sermon below:

Posted on 2025-07-27 a 10:11 pm

The opening lines of the BBC report on the ‘Belfast Perverts’ march today under the headline:

‘Belfast Pride’s 2025 theme strikes defiant note’

read as follows:

“Belfast Pride is striking a defiant note as it holds its annual parade in the city on Saturday.

Pride’s 2025 theme is ‘Not Going Back’, which organisers said was chosen because they believe ‘LGBTQIA+ rights are under attack, here and across the world’.

The festival’s co-chairpersons, Neil Millar-McDonagh and Lynn Millar, said the ‘Not Going Back’ theme sent a clear message.

‘As we celebrate how far we’ve come, we stand firm in our commitment to keep moving forward – towards love, equality and justice for everyone in our LGBTQIA+ community,’ they said.”

This evil theme was endorsed by the Alliance Party, according to today’s ‘Belfast Newsletter’ headline.

Alliance endorses theme of Belfast Pride – despite its direct challenge to the policies of the Executive

However, everyone who fears the Lord and believes the Bible will condemn the evil flaunting of the deviant and unnatural lifestyle they have chosen to follow. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-07-26 a 6:31 pm

I have a few pulpit engagements here in Kilskeery during the minister’s holidays.

As the Lord helps me, I hope to speak on subjects that I have felt vitally important during my time of preaching, now in its 60th year.

Wednesday evening, I wish to speak on the subject of Israel. We are commanded of God to “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee,” Psalm 122:6.

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Watch a video of this sermon below:

Posted on 2025-07-24 a 9:17 pm

Posted on 2025-07-23 a 5:49 pm

“And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash. And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim,” Judges 2:8-11.

I read these words with a trembling and vexed heart on Saturday 19th July, for they all too vividly describe what is happening yet again amongst God’s people! I also read that morning a companion chapter, Jeremiah 15.

In them both there is reiterated the judgment that follows departure from the Lord by His people!

Such is the tendency of the Christian to stray that under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost Isaiah said: “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way,”Isaiah 53:6.

That ‘straying’ brought about the Saviour’s sufferings on the cross as the means of atoning for our sins and rescuing us and bringing us to the safety of the fold.

Despite being acutely aware of this truth, God’s people, with sad regularity, drift away from the Lord and set aside the clear teaching of His Word and, in consequence, raise children who because of the ‘drift’ of their parents, KNOW NOT THE LORD, NOR YET THE WORKS WHICH HE HAD DONE.

I. I BELIEVE THAT THE ROOT CAUSE OF THIS SAD DEPARTURE AND CONSEQUENT JUDGMENT, IS THE FAILURE OF THE ADULT GENERATION TO RIGHTLY TEACH THEIR OFFSPRING!

On Friday 18th July ‘The Christian Institute’ issued a statement which was headed:

Long-awaited sex ed guidance removes age limits for sex education

“It is also now explicitly clear that “all” teaching materials for sex education lessons “should be available to parents”, including external resources.

Previously, some schools have refused to allow parents access to materials, citing copyright issues, with providers claiming to be fearful that their content would be plagiarised.

But the new guidance also states that where contracts exist that would prevent parents from accessing “any material at all”, these contracts are “void and unenforceable”. This is because “they contradict the clear public policy interest of ensuring that parents are aware of what their children are being taught in sex and relationships education”.

“While this is welcome, the new guidance does contain some concerning updates regarding LGBT content. Previous wording had stated: “Primary schools have discretion over whether to discuss sexual orientation or families with same-sex parents”.

But this has been replaced by: “We strongly encourage primary schools to teach about healthy loving relationships, and to include same-sex parents along with other family arrangements when discussing families”.

While this statement relates to education on the mainland, here in Northern Ireland, the Department of Education tends to keep in step with what happens in the schools in the rest of GB.

Presbytery’s foolish decision

In response to directives from the Department of Education here in Northern Ireland, the majority in our Presbytery passed a resolution back in March of this year, part of which stated:

“That the imposition of the new ‘Relationships and Sex Education’ directives for schools has launched sustained assaults on so many points of God’s moral law for mankind is a painfully obvious fact. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-07-22 a 6:00 am

In our first two studies we concentrated upon the importance of prophecy and the role it plays in the life of the believer. We also noted the central location of prophetic events in Holy Scripture — the areas around the Mediterranean Sea and in particular that land that the Lord is pleased to call “my land”, (2 Chronicles 7:19, Isaiah 14:25 etc). In our third article, we went a little further and began to note the details of the prophecies given in these two chapters.

In this our fourth study, I would like to come to some more of the details given in these two visions granted to Daniel. The first vision, recorded in chapter 7, which centres upon the emergence of the four great kingdoms (verse 17) which “arise out of the earth”, will be our focus in this study.

The word translated ‘earth’ may be seen to be used in a context which clearly indicates that it is not a reference to the whole surface of the earth. In Daniel 2:39, there is a reference to the ‘third’ great kingdom, the Grecian empire.

“And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.” Now the Grecian empire did not rule over all the lands of the earth, so we can see that the word ‘earth’ here is used in a limited fashion. I believe that it refers to the ‘prophetic’ earth, the territories dominated by the four great kingdoms of holy Scripture which owe their mention in the Bible to the fact that they ‘interacted’ with the people and land of Israel, God’s land and people!

The fourth ‘beast’, or kingdom, is described as being “dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly”, verse 7. That kingdom is the ‘Roman Empire’!

I. I MUST STRESS THAT THE FOURTH KINGDOM, THOUGH EMERGING LONG AGO, AROUND 2171 YEARS AGO, AFTER THE FALL OF THE GRECIAN EMPIRE, WILL STILL BE IN EXISTENCE WHEN CHRIST RETURNS!

That is made very plain in Daniel 2:44. “And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.”

The kingdom that the Lord will set up is inaugurated at His return. That is made plain in Revelation 11:15. “And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.” Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-07-19 a 6:00 am

“‭Praise‭‭ him, ye heavens‭ of heavens‭, and ye waters‭ that ‭be‭ above the heavens‭.‭ ‭Let them praise‭‭ the name‭ of the LORD‭: for he commanded‭‭, and they were created‭‭.‭ ‭He hath also stablished‭‭ them for ever‭ and ever‭: he hath made‭‭ a decree‭ which shall not pass‭‭,‭”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ Psalm 148:4-6.

I will quote but one of a great variety of headlines setting forth unconverted man’s baseless conjecture regarding the future of our planet and the cosmos.

‘The Four Ways The Earth Will Actually End’

I will not give the ‘link’ to this stupid article, for I would not encourage any to read such idle buffoonery!

The truth of the matter is that men, observing the signs of decay and decline in the environment of the earth, have in their folly, drawn conclusions that are contrary to the plain statements of Holy Scripture.

These conclusions also run contrary to the dominant concept of modern biology — EVOLUTION!

Charles Darwin, ‘the patron saint’ of Evolution, has misled the world, aided by a multitude of like-deluded ‘eejits’, into believing that by a process that cannot be observed, and therefore is unscientific, life on earth began as a mere single cell which ‘evolved’ through millions of years, until, MAN appeared. Evolution claims that he ‘appeared’, only after passing through many stages of ‘development’ which included a time in which our ‘ancestors’ swung about in the branches of trees, having first of all spent ages crawling on our bellies as an unspecified assortment of ‘creepy-crawlies’!

So, we are told, humanity evolved!

Considering the behaviour of many today, you could be forgiven for considering that the genes of a monkey are indeed to be found in mankind’s DNA!

However, despite their belief in Evolution, the ‘wise and the learned’ today see the opposite process at work and conclude that the earth will one day cease to be, destroyed as a result of man’s abuse of the constituent elements of the earth.

We are told that the fears of today’s ‘environmentalists’ are rooted in the ‘accelerating effects of climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and the potential consequences for human societies and ecosystems.’

There is indeed abundant evidence of man’s abuse of creation, brought about by his greed and indifference to the consequences of his actions.

HOWEVER, while decay is evident, that does not mean that it is a FATAL process!

The past and the future of the earth, the sun, the moon and the stars are declared for us in God’s Word.

I. CREATION HAD ITS ORIGINS IN THE SIX CREATIVE ACTS OF GOD, SOME 6000 YEARS AGO. 

“‭In the beginning‭ God‭ created‭‭‭ the heaven‭ and‭ the earth‭,‭”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬Genesis 1:1.

“‭For ‭in‭ six‭ days‭ the LORD‭ made‭‭ heaven‭ and earth‭, the sea‭, and all that in them ‭is‭, and rested‭‭ the seventh‭ day‭: wherefore the LORD‭ blessed‭‭ the sabbath‭ day‭, and hallowed‭‭ it,‭”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ Exodus 20:11. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-07-18 a 6:00 am

16 and 17-year-olds to be able to vote in next general election

It will make little difference since we are presently ‘governed’ by ‘politically immature adolescents’ !!

Posted on 2025-07-17 a 4:47 pm

As stated before, I plan to mount recordings of sermons I have preached in the past. These sermons are based upon the Word of God and therefore are ever relevant since the blessed book of God is always and ever right up to date.

Peter said: “ I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance,” 2 Peter 3:1.

I would hope that what was said in weakness in years past, by one who can say like Amos of old, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son,” 7:14, will be listened to with profit, especially by those who we’re not yet born when the controversy of 2007 and ‘power-sharing with Sinn Fein/IRA’ brought such confusion into the Free Presbyterian Church.

I hope then to periodically mount again, in many instances, the ‘blowing of an alarm’.

Here then is one of those sermons

Sincerely in Christ’s name,

Ivan Foster

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A sermon preached in Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church on August 2nd, 1998, by the minister, Rev Ivan Foster.

There is only one book to which we may turn as we search for an explanation for the working of God’s providence in these evil days. That book is, of course, the BIBLE.

This blessed book shows how that God, amidst what we see as confusion and chaos, is accomplishing His grand purpose amongst men. In the Bible God explains that purpose to His people. “He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel,” Psalm 103:7.

God’s people have recourse to a book wherein is stored the wisdom of eternity. When events around us puzzle and perplex, then turn to the Bible. That is what David did. “Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors. . . . I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts,” Psalm 119:24, 99-100. The Saviour’s words in Matthew 24:15 underscore our need of consulting God’s Word as the map of the ages, wherein God’s people will find their path clearly laid down. In the day of Antichrist’s manifestation, the directions given by the Saviour will benefit only those who study His words. “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,” Matthew 24:15-16. Peter too tells us of the benefits of God’s Word in a day of darkness. “We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts,” 2 Peter 1:19. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-07-16 a 6:00 am

BBC headline :

Tuam: Ireland’s secret burial sham

It was a story of institutional inhumanity – which, at first, many found unbelievable.

Hundreds of babies and children, buried in an unmarked mass grave, at the site of an institution for unmarried mothers near the west coast of Ireland.

St Mary’s Home operated in Tuam, County Galway, from 1925 until 1961.“In the early decades of the Irish state, founded in 1922, the Catholic Church held an immensely powerful position – and that meant those who fell outside the demanded norms of the Church, and society, faced huge social stigma.”

This article makes sad reading indeed!

But it is not the first exposure of the cruelty, abuse and total antichristianity of the institutions of the ‘Roman Catholic Church’, not only in Ireland but WORLDWIDE! Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-07-14 a 6:00 am

In our first two studies we sought to set forth some important, though basic, prophetic truths that are found on the very surface of these two chapters. I would like now to begin to look at some of the specific details, given us in these same chapters, of the character of the regime of these four kingdoms, especially the fourth and final kingdom.

1. We should note that the divine depiction of the kingdoms is that of each one being more wicked than the one before! There is progression but it is downward. The creatures symbolising the four kings/kingdoms are increasingly fierce and cruel. We move from a ‘lion’ to a ‘bear’ with prey in its mouth and which is engaged in the ‘devouring of much flesh’. We then move to a ‘leopard’, a strikingly beautiful and sleek creature, but a cruel ambush predator. It is followed finally by an indescribable creature which was “dreadful‭‭ and terrible‭, and strong‭ exceedingly‭; and it had great‭ iron‭ teeth‭: it devoured‭‭ and brake in pieces‭‭, and stamped‭‭ the residue‭ with the feet‭ of it‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬,” Daniel 7:7.

The Descent

The descent into depraved cruelty is also demonstrated in the early depictions of these four kingdoms, recording in chapter 2.

There we are told of a decline from ‘fine gold’, to ‘silver’, to ‘brass’, to ‘iron’ and finally to ‘clay’! The ‘value’ of these kingdoms, as pictured by these metals and clay, is subject to ‘deflation’! Just as a nation that possesses gold is benefitted by what that precious metal can buy and likewise, a nation with no gold but ‘silver’, will not enjoy benefits to the same degree as the nation possessing gold.

These kingdoms slip from a substantial measure of benefits enjoyed by the inhabitants, to a lower and lower level of enjoyment of life’s comforts. The gold evolves to silver, to brass and finally to iron and clay.

Further Described

The kingdom is further described for us in the answer given to Daniel by the angel.

“‭Thus‭ he said‭‭, The fourth‭ beast‭ shall be‭‭ the fourth‭ kingdom‭ upon earth‭, which shall be diverse‭‭ from‭ all‭ kingdoms‭, and shall devour‭‭ the whole‭ earth‭, and shall tread it down‭‭, and break it in pieces‭‭,‭”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ Daniel 7:23. Its diversity from the other kingdoms is repeated, for the same thing is said earlier in verse 7.

‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭The word ‘diverse’ does not tell us that it was ‘different’ in character from the other three kingdoms, but rather that was ‘transformed’, it had changed (as the Hebrew equivalent of the Aramaic here translated as ‘diverse’, shows us in the other places it appears) into a more devilish system ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬of evil! Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-07-12 a 8:00 pm

“‭They have healed‭‭ also the hurt‭ ‭of the daughter‭ of my people‭ slightly‭‭, saying‭‭, Peace‭, peace‭; when ‭there is‭ no peace‭.‭ ‭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.‭ ‭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.‭ ‭Therefore hear‭‭, ye nations‭, and know‭‭, O congregation‭, what ‭is‭ among them.‭ ‭Hear‭‭, O earth‭: behold, I will bring‭‭ evil‭ upon this people‭, ‭even‭ the fruit‭ of their thoughts‭, because they have not hearkened‭‭ unto my words‭, nor to my law‭, but rejected‭‭ it,‭”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ Jeremiah 6:14-19.

One of the chapters for reading, June 10th, set down in Robert Murray McCheyne’s Bible reading Calendar

In this day of repeated scandals and mounting criticism heaped upon the National Health Service, there are those who pose as ‘physicians’, who carry a much greater burden of failure and guilt!

It is one thing to fall short in the care of the PHYSICAL wellbeing of the nation, but it is an immeasurably greater failing to mislead and neglect the SPIRITUAL wellbeing of it.

That is the failing of those who would claim to be ‘spiritual physicians’ here in Ulster.

Ever since the so-called, ‘Good Friday Agreement’ was signed by politicians here in 1998, it has been heralded as the birth of ‘peace’ in Northern Ireland by the deceitful in church and state.

In truth, the fruit of this agreement has been the establishing of the allies and supporters of IRA terrorism in positions of power.

Example

An example of the character of those exalted to power as a direct result of the endorsement of the GFA, may be seen in the comments of Sinn Féin’s ‘President’, Mary Lou McDonald.

She made this comment on her ‘Facebook’ on Tuesday past — “On this day in 1981, Joe McDonnell gave his life on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. A courageous son of Belfast, his sacrifice remains a beacon in the struggle for the freedom and unity of Ireland. Joe McDonnell will never be forgotten.”

Right!

She is right in one matter! He will never be forgotten. His crimes will be dealt with by the Lord one day and since he died as a result of his politically motivated suicide, it may be assumed that he died in defiance of God and His Law and he will therefore be damned for his many crimes and wickednesses — as will ALL who die without Christ. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-07-11 a 6:00 am

My days of writing articles are drawing to a close. No one can stop the clock or the calendar or the aging process!

While I may mount an article occasionally, I intend to try and maintain a witness against the growing apostasy and the sad compromise amongst many Free Presbyterians in the face of this latter-day rebellion against the Lord.

What I plan to do is to mount recordings of sermons I have preached in the past. These sermons are based upon the Word of God and therefore are ever relevant since the blessed book of God is always and ever right up to date.

Peter said: “I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance,” 2 Peter 3:1. I would hope that what was said in weakness in years past, by one who can say like Amos of old, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son,” 7:14, will be listened to with profit, especially by those who were not yet born when the controversy of 2007 and ‘power-sharing with Sinn Fein/IRA’ brought such confusion into the Free Presbyterian Church.

I hope then to periodically mount again, in many instances, the ‘blowing of an alarm’.

Here then is the first of these sermons.

“O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself,” Hosea 13:9.  (Preached on August 5th, 2007)

Sincerely in Christ’s name,

Ivan Foster

Posted on 2025-07-08 a 6:00 am

(The ‘Belfast Newsletter’ Editor has requested a shorter version of the following letter which I submitted on July 4th. In the interest of getting out the truth, I have complied with his request and I trust that it will be published soon. IF)

See the bottom of this post for images of the printed version.

Sir,

A great deal of ‘pernicious drivel’ has appeared in your newspaper ‘letters’ column concerning what is wrong religiously here in Northern Ireland.

There is a common theme in these letters: ‘Abandon the Biblical beliefs of the past and go with what the ‘modernists and liberals’ say is good.’

That is seen as the ‘cure-all’ for Ulster’s woes.

Sadly, nothing could be further from the truth!

That which God was pleased to bless in the past, with repeated seasons of revival blessing and thousands of conversions to personal faith in Christ and the enjoyment of peace with God, is what may be found in the ‘Old Confessions’ of the three main denominations and which has been repudiated by those denominations.

Therein lies the cause of our troubles!

A study of the Bible, particularly the Book of Judges, will show that what we have experienced, and will continue to experience, stems from a rejection of the truth of God, set forth in Holy Scripture.

‘Ecumenism’, man’s invented religion, has demanded the abandonment of the cardinal doctrines of the Word of God. That demand has been acceded to by the three main churches.

I hope your readers will consider these quotations from the historic doctrinal statements of the main churches, doctrines which God was pleased to endorse and prosper those who preached them!

39 Articles of Religion of the Church of Ireland.

Article 31.

‘Of the one Oblation of Christ finished upon the Cross.’

The Offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone.

Wherefore the sacrifices of Masses, in the which it was commonly said, that the Priest did offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, were blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-07-04 a 4:51 pm

This shameful and deplorable headline has featured in a number of news websites and it has constrained me to send out this condemnation.

Lily Allen, 40, shocks fans as she claims she ‘can’t remember’ how many abortions she’s had: ‘Maybe four or five’

This is the woman who without guilt or embarrassment acknowledges that ‘Abortions I’ve had a few… but then again… I can’t remember exactly how many.’

She has murdered 4 or 5 unborn babies by abortion but blithely states that she cannot really remember how any unborn babies she ended the lives of!

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It is a clear testimony of the level to which human beings will sink when no longer challenged and directed by the Word of God and made to realise just what sin is!

It is also shocking reminder of the dreadful truth that it is perfectly ‘legal’ to ‘do away’ with the unborn in our land!

The truth of God on murder has been thrown overboard and the depraved views of the ungodly enthroned as the law of the land.

It has to be said that we are ripe for judgment and virtually all pulpits are silent in the face of this satanic onslaught.

A WORD FOR LILY ALLEN

Let me plainly say to Lily Allen that there is a coming day when the Judge of All the Earth will cure her poor memory and face her up with her crimes.

Furthermore, I believe it possible she will encounter in some way the little ones she so casually disposed of since I am of the opinion that children who died before the years of understanding go to heaven, redeemed by the blood of Christ.

But even to such as Lily Allen there is offered a way of escape, even  by the pardon for sin, purchased by Christ at Calvary, and set forth in the gospel of the Lord Jesus.

But there is no escape for those who reject its offer of mercy and salvation.

“How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him,” Hebrews 2:3.

Rev Ivan Foster  (Rtd)
3rd July 2025

Posted on 2025-07-04 a 4:41 pm

We thus introduced our first study of these two chapters:—

‘These two chapters are very relevant for Christians today, for they refer to many of the things that will take place in the last days of this age. Yes, the visions of Daniel recorded here begin with references to times, many centuries ago but it also deals with the last event of this age and the first of the new age, the Millennial Age!

“I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed,” Daniel 7:13-14.

I might suggest that the words of the Saviour in Matthew 24 imply that He expects His people to be familiar with the prophecies of Daniel.

“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:)” Matthew 24:15.

It is very evident that prophecy was given to us as a means of warning and instruction, especially for the latter days. How we should study the prophecies of the last times as they dawn upon us!’

We now come to part 2 of our study.

I. PROPHECY FEATURES EVENTS INVOLVING PEOPLE AND NATIONS IN ONE PARTICULAR REGION OF THE EARTH.

“Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another,” 7:2-3.The ‘great sea’ is the Mediterranean Sea. It is well known what the word ‘Mediterranean’ means. It is derived from Latin and means ‘in the middle of the earth’.

It is the Sea at the centre of the region of the earth that chiefly features in the Bible and in which the central acts of the   eternal purpose of God amongst men are carried out. Nations not immediately linked geographically to the ‘Great Sea’ , such as Babylon, feature in prophecy because of their dealings with Israel, which lies on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-07-03 a 6:00 am

The BBC Northern Ireland news website reported on the ‘performance’ of the Belfast rap (??) group ‘Kneecap’ at the Glastonbury ‘music’ gathering in Somerset, England.

The report reads:

“Belfast rap group Kneecap filled Glastonbury’s West Holts stage for a highly-charged performance that hit back at Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer with expletive-laden chants.

The Irish-language band have been in the headlines after rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, who performs under the name Mo Chara, was charged with a terrorism offence for allegedly displaying the flag of proscribed terrorist organisation Hezbollah at a gig last year. He has denied the charge.

Last week, Sir Keir said Kneecap’s appearance at the festival was ‘not appropriate’.

On stage, the band thanked Glastonbury for keeping them on the bill and told the crowd the ‘prime minister of your country, not mine, said he didn’t want us to play’.

Mr Ó hAnnaidh is on bail after a court hearing in London two weeks ago.

Towards the start of their set, the rapper – who was wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh – held his arms out to the crowd and announced, ‘Glastonbury, I am a free man!’

His bandmate Naoise Ó Cairealláin, who performs under the name Móglaí Bap, called the case “a trumped up terrorism charge”, adding that it was “not the first time there was a miscarriage of justice for an Irish person in the British justice system.”

He then implored fans to turn up to support Mr Ó hAnnaidh at his next court appearance at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in August.

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The event is an example of how the hierarchy of the British political system can be mocked in their heartland by those who ‘perform’  under the stage name of ‘Kneecap’, named after an IRA method of punishment meted out to those who break ranks with its murder campaign or are deemed to have in any way disparaged any of its leaders, they who should ever be ‘worshipped’ as heroes! The members of this ‘group’ also endorse Hamas and Hezbollah and, according to Piers Morgan, urge their fans to murder MPs! Click to read more…

Posted on 2025-07-01 a 6:00 am