Why We Believe in Total Depravity
A message preached by Rev Ivan Foster at a Sovereign Grace Advent Testimony meeting, London, May 24th, 2013.
“And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man,” Mark 7:20-23.
Rev Robert Ormerod dies in sad circumstances
“One day we will all see him again because we will all see him in heaven” – his son Timothy
Long-serving Free Presbyterian minister from Northern Ireland has died in an accident on the M6 in the north of England. The Rev Robert Ormerod, minister of Cloughmills Free Presbyterian Church, was driving between visits to family members in Birmingham and Coventry yesterday when he suddenly took ill.
Speaking on behalf of his devastated family, the Rev Ormerod’s son Timothy last night said they were all in complete shock. “He had a heart attack and died at the wheel while driving,” he said. “The biggest thing we can hold to is that he is in heaven, he’s a saved man, we can rest assured that whatever pain and suffering he had, there is none now because he is in heaven with Jesus. “And one day we will all see him again because we will all see him in heaven.”
The Rev Ormerod served as minister of Cloughmills Free Presbyterian Church for more than 30 years. He also served as the Convenor of Government and Morals Committee within the Free Presbyterian Church.
He is survived by his wife Julie, their sons Jonathan and Timothy, and daughters Naomi, Hannah and Danielle. All who knew and appreciated his labours as a minister and as the Convenor of Government and Morals Committee will miss his witness in the Presbytery and the wider church.
Rev. Foster’s radio broadcasts on Q101.2 FM Omagh during May.
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The Presbytery of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster reaffirms its position on Biblical separation
Calls for separation from apostasy and from those “brethren who maintain fellowship with those who deny the faith”.
Read the statement here.
Our glorious hope
by Alan Toms.
Believers are promised special strength for those days (known as the ‘Great Tribulation’ and also as ‘The Time of Jacob’s Trouble’, for Israel will suffer too). In fact, I believe it is when Israel’s suffering is at its height and Jerusalem is at the point of final destruction that the Lord will appear to deliver her and bring peace to the earth. This is not the ‘end of the world’ but the time when the Lord Jesus takes His place as King of the Jews and all nations for one thousand years. This is known as the Millennium. After this age the Judgment of the Great White Throne will take place and then the world as we know it will be destroyed.
Israel’s Messiah King
A study in Psalm 45. A message preached by Rev Ivan Foster at the Sovereign Grace Advent Testimony evening meeting in London, 23rd April, 2010. There is a natural sequence from the close of the previous Psalm 44 (see previous article) to the opening of this Psalm 45. Psalm 44 ends with Israel crying upon the Lord to arise to the aid of His people as they face destruction under Antichrist. “Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake,” Psalm 44:26. This Psalm 45 carries us even further into the future than did the previous. In this psalm the Saviour has come and it is no longer Antichrist who is reigning. Christ has taken unto Himself His great power and rules and reigns amongst the kingdoms of this world.
Israel’s time of trouble under Antichrist
A study in Psalm 44. This is a familiar psalm, the contents of which have provided much support and comfort to the people of God in this New Testament era as the Church of Christ has appropriated this psalm to itself. What truth there is in verses 1-8.
Democracy versus God
- Democracy may be defined as “popular government by the will of the people.”
- Given that the will of man is fallen and depraved as a result of Adam’s transgression, it will be easily seen that a clash with the mind and will of Jehovah is inevitable.
- The final conflict in this world will be between the will of the people and the will of God.
Today’s featured news stories
Old Bailey bomber Marian Price freed from jail
Tell us why Marian Price was released, demand unionists
Is game up for bid to block advisers bill?
Maze boss says he understands the site’s ‘sensitivities’
Special Adviser Bill: ‘Do not base legislation on victims’ feelings’
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SDLP leader denies party split over Special Advisers Bill
Sinn Fein: Staff may lose jobs through bill
UK security ‘linked garda to crime’
Security services ‘tried to frame a garda sergeant in bid to cover up British collusion’
Man faces soldier murder charge
Woolwich attack: Michael Adebowale charged with murder of soldier Lee Rigby
Scale of abuse in Magdalene laundries ‘will never be known unless State inquiry is extended’
Opponents of gay marriage like supporters of apartheid, says senior bishop
Floundering SDLP bows to pressure
Loyalist civil rights campaigners plan to protest at G8 summit
Complaint over ‘bias’ in tour of Maze prison
Catholic priest steps aside during investigation
SDLP unlikely to support Stormont ex-terrorists ban (Guess who they are running scared of???)
Former SDLP deputy leader Seamus Mallon warns his party against blocking SPAD bill
Seamus Mallon urges SDLP not to block victim bill
SDLP ‘will not block SPADs bill’
SDLP won’t block special advisors bill
SDLP won’t block bill on advisers
Christians’ cases rejected by court
Terror police called in after prison warden stabbed in attack ‘inspired by Woolwich murder’
Ulster Unionists call for councils to mark funeral of murdered soldier
Ninety-two per cent favour united Ireland in local ‘poll’ (In Crossmaglen !!!!)
Gay marriage part of wider attack on society – Ian Paisley
‘Not a single parking ticket’ issued in Coalisland (Surprise, surprise !!)
In London as in Boston, terrorist-killers were known to security services
Woolwich attack: Somalian terrorists warn Britain: ‘Your chickens are coming home to roost’
‘He is a hero’: Radical Muslim cleric who is banned from Britain applauds terror suspect’s ‘courage’
Woolwich attack: David Cameron wants to know ‘what went wrong’ in MI5
Paint attack at Belfast Islamic centre
New strategy for shared education unveiled by Stormont leaders
John F Kennedy was a fan of Hitler and Nazi Germany, diaries reveal
‘Miraculous’ escape of Rev Robert Ormerod’s sisters
Nigel Dodds hits out at Sinn Fein call for Hyde Park accused release
Attack on Woolwich soldier is ‘not like IRA’ terror threat
Woolwich attack: Killed man ‘was soldier’
Woolwich attack: terrorist proclaimed ‘an eye for an eye’ after attack
Full decommissioning ‘not certain’ – despite all the lying assurances given at the time!!!
Free Presbyterian minister dies in car accident
Rev Robert Ormerod killed in car crash on M6, England
Senior Free Presbyterian clergyman Rev Robert Ormerod dies in motorway collision
IRA victim’s anguish as SDLP shapes to veto advisers’ bill
Ann Travers fury as SDLP blocks terror aide ban
Presbyterian Church in Ireland & Church of Scotland relations strained by gay clerics
Ulster Unionist leader calls for ‘Bog Child’ to be removed from schools reading list
Politicians must decide on terror amnesty, insists DPP
Man arrested over 1982 IRA Hyde Park bomb
David Cameron pledge to Tories: No more divisive issues like gay marriage
Prisoner elite getting millions, says Attwood
Sinn Fein accused of hiding abortion talks at conference
I expect terror attacks during G8 summit, admits police chief
Thousands of British police sent to Northern Ireland amid fear of terror attack at G8 summit
Ban on political advisers with jail record set to fail – thanks to SDLP
SPAD bill: SDLP will try to block new special advisers legislation at Stormont
Labour saves David Cameron’s gay marriage bill
Ex-Church of England priest jailed for sex attacks
Next coronation to involve other faiths besides Christianity
Boris Johnson aides ‘misled’ court in sodomite bus poster row
Tory activists urge Cameron to drop gay marriage backing
MPs to debate gay marriage plans
David Cameron facing another defeat in the Commons over his plans to legalise gay marriage
More than 500 Muslim imams in landmark gay marriage protest
Church of Scotland General Assembly in sodomite ministers debate
G8 summit will put Northern Ireland under security lockdown
Headteachers want four-year-olds to be taught about dangers of porn
Cleric slams Peter Robinson’s ‘wicked misuse’ of prophet’s name
Paisley focuses on Jeremiah after Robinson quip
France gay marriage: President Hollande signs bill into law
Pakistani community must tackle grooming gangs, justice minister insists
Belfast republicans’ staged burglary lures police into armed ambush
Bomb found at Foxes Glen in west Belfast after attack
Further dissident republican violence is feared after bodybuilder shot in Dublin
Northern Ireland’s top policeman gives wake-up call on paramilitaries (Does he not shamefully appear to give justification for terror campaign!!??)
Pervert priest Father John McCullagh takes his abuse secrets to the grave
Archbishop of York to launch inquiry into Church sex abuse claims
Church to set up inquiry into claims of abuse by former dean of Manchester
Willie O’Dea: Jerry McCabe killing still haunts Sinn Fein
Westminster government ministers would back move to leave the European Union
EU referendum: cabinet crisis for David Cameron as ministers break ranks
Tory rebels want a referendum on gay marriage as 150 MPs threaten to wreck new law
Fr Conleth Byrne gets suspended sentence for £145,000 fraud
Details emerge of DUP MPs’ mortgage expenses
Obama to press for fresh impetus on ‘shared future’ during Belfast visit (Tell that to the Muslims engaged in terrorism in USA!)
Loyalist concern over secret parading talks organised by police !!!????
Sinn Fein members know who murdered my father, claims Irish prison officer’s son
Dutch media owner reveals youthful dalliance with IRA – (Soon saw them as gangsters, which undermines their justification of war against the protestant people)
Boston bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s secret Virginia burial upsets locals
Prison block and former Army barracks set aside for G8 protestors
Design row over Daniel Libeskind’s Maze peace-building centre in Northern Ireland – (Paralleling events here to Holocaust is wicked)
Family disappointment as police drop investigation into pensioner who starved to death
Happy 65th anniversary, Israel: From pioneers to the present day, remarkable pictures show the struggle and celebration of the Jewish homeland (Large file with a lot of pictures!)
DUP six repay £144k profits from second homes funded by taxpayer
Former Archbishop of York ‘did not report’ sexual abuse claims
Robinson & McGuinness plan to build “Utopia” !!!!
TUV responds to Joint First Ministers’ announcements
Online Petition to stop a “terrorist shrine” at the Maze Prison site is launched by Unionists
Family of murdered prison officer Brian Stack ‘now know who killed him’
Family claim to know killer’s name
UUP: If Executive won’t guard free speech, we will
Robinson and McGuinness to outline shared future plans
RC priest takes part in installation of woman minister is installed in local Presbyterian church
Integrated teaching ad slammed for requiring Catholic certificate (this is the real nature of the ‘Integrated Schools’ that DUP is promoting – they are at heart Romanist)
DUP flags move ‘a ploy to get care homes off the front page’
IRA man’s bid to overturn attempted murder conviction fails
WWII Irish ‘deserters’ to finally get pardons
PSNI chief ‘is a disgrace’ – DUP councillor Ruth Patterson
Former Tory chancellor Lord Lawson calls for UK to exit EU
Analysing the threat from Irish republican dissidents
Adams’ TV non-confession leaves us further from truth
SF and SDLP should pay to remove IRA signs: Ringland
Arnold Hatch dubs DUP ‘hypocrites’ over Dickson Plan
Irish PM Enda Kenny hits back at Catholic Church threat to excommunicate TDs who voted for abortion legislation – (Rome never excommunicated any IRA murderers!!)
Cardinal Sean Brady’s homily on truth was utter hypocrisy
Brian Shivers cleared of murdering two soldiers at Massereene barracks
Murdered soldier’s mother shocked by Massereene verdict
Northern peace process a stalemate between enemies who loathe each other
DUP respond to mounting Maze plan anger
Health minister Edwin Poots does U-turn on care homes
Irish Roman Catholic Bishops: Abortion plan unacceptable
Abortion legislation morally unacceptable – Cardinal Seán Brady
Nigel Evans: Deputy Speaker accused of rape was interviewed four years ago about ‘inappropriate sexual behaviour‘ (Cameron will yet learn that there is a price for defying God’s Law)
Deputy Commons speaker slams ‘false’ claims
Australian Catholic church child sex abuse inquiry begins
Christian-run NHS surgery criticised for refusing to prescribe morning-after pill
Anti-Semitism ‘on the rise’ across Europe
RTE’s O’Callaghan ‘not worried’ as Sinn Fein threatens legal bid
Time Adams gave us straight answer
Irish anti-abortion vigil at Knock draws thousands
Ford compares gay marriage debate to civil rights campaign (which was the forerunner of 30 years of IRA terrorism so watch out!!)
UUP leader Mike Nesbitt repeats call for health minister Edwin Poots to resign
Assembly ‘has power to create an Opposition’
Shivers not guilty of Massereene soldiers murders
Six Catholic and Protestant Tyrone schools may form new campus (DUP pushing ecumenical integrated education)
Call made for Poots to resign over care homes
Poots showed ‘abject lack of leadership’ – Northern Ireland’s Commissioner for Older people
Poots apologises to elderly ahead of summit with trust chiefs
Embattled boss of heavily criticised Norther Ireland health trust axed
Irish historical myths pose problem for unionists
Boston brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had planned 4 July attack, says official
Pakistan’s rulers accused of turning to underworld in battle to stay in power
The Somalian sex offender the UK can’t deport thanks to Strasbourg judges
Don’t ignore unionist anger on Maze, warns Orange Order
Eamon Delaney: Adams digs yet another hole for himself on ‘Prime Time’ TV
Report into Omagh bomb claims atrocity could have been prevented
Garda collusion probe poised to enter final stage
RUC memorial move sparks concern
Duke of Kent lays wreath honouring Easter Rising dead (!!??)
British Duke honours Irish rebels – Democratic Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson joins him on his visit
DUP abandons proposal for Union flag at Belfast City Hall Cenotaph
Stalled UDR ceremony go-ahead sparks row
No threat to anthem at NI international matches – DUP
Man facing charges linked to death Real IRA boss Alan Ryan disappears
Gerry Adams repeatedly denies knowledge of string of IRA murders
Fuel launderers along the border are “dumping the diesel where once they were dumping the bodies”
SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell ‘annoyed’ at cannabis factory in rented house
239 people arrested over flag protests
SDLP leader’s shock as cannabis factory discovered on his property
“Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills” says: teach about pornography in sex education lessons – (the depths to which the nation has sunk!)
Same-sex marriage rejected at Stormont
Same-sex marriage motion fails at Stormont
Street snapshot shows polarised views on gay marriage
Nationalist parties misjudge Catholic voters on sodomite marriage
Unionists betrayed by DUP U-turn over ‘shrine’
More than 10,000 violent crime cases escaped conviction in England and Wales last year – (Hence government claims of a ‘more peaceful’ society)