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Self deliverance or self destruction

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


Letter to the Belfast Newsletter

(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)

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


Shameful and deplorable headline

Lily Allen

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!


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


Some thoughts on Daniel chapters 7 and 8, Pt 2

Daniel Interpreting Nebuchadnezzar’s First Dream, Mattia Preti

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 chickens are coming home to roost!

Photo by Ben Moreland on Unsplash

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.


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