May 2021

Audio sermons and bulletins

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“The ‘Time’ Has Come” Bulletins

Thu May 13, 2021 - A Suspicious Conclusion About Ballymurphy Deaths  Tue May 11, 2021 - Further Evidence of the United Kingdom's Rejection of the Gospel of Christ  Wed May 5, 2021 - What is the future for the DUP?  Sat May 1, 2021 - Mrs Lindsay Robinson's blasphemy

See all the Bulletins in this series here.


KICS assembly talks. Current series: “KICS Studies in Jonah – The Inside Story of a ‘Down & Out'”


Featured sermon series: Studies in First Corinthians.

Part 27: Disorders at the Lord's Table, Pt2;  Part 28: Abuse of spiritual gifts;  Part 29: Benefits through Diversity, Pt1;  Part 30: Benefits through Diversity, Pt2;  Part 31: More excellent way, Pt1;  Part 32: More excellent way, Pt2;  Part 33: More excellent way, Pt 3;  Part 34: More excellent way, Pt 4;  Part 35: Inferiority of tongues;  Part 36: Superiority of preaching

See all messages in this series here.


Recently Preached Sermons

Creation's Birth Certificate
preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Sun May 30, 2021

70th Anniversary message at Prayer meeting
preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Wed Mar 17, 2021 audio and video available

The Testimony of Abraham
preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Fri Jan 22, 2021 at the January 22, 2021 meeting of the Sovereign Grace Advent Testimony (audio and video)

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Older Sermons Recently Added

Samson -- Shorn, Shackled, Sightless and Subjugated
preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Sun Aug 2, 1998

Testimony of Mr. Sammy Heenan
preached by Mr. Sammy Heenan on Sun Jan 27, 2019

Rev. Ivan Foster's Testimony
preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Wed Nov 1, 2000

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Watch Kilskeery Free Presbyterian services live online here


 

Rev. Ivan Foster: As long as unionists care chiefly about their salary, nothing will change

The following letter, which the editor sent in to The Belfast Newsletter on May 25th, the day the letter from Mr Ken McFarland was published, appeared in Saturday, May 29th’s edition.


Rev Ivan Foster: As long as unionists care chiefly about their salary, nothing will change

A letter from Rev Ivan Foster:

Saturday, 29th May 2021, 4:13 pm

In a letter to your newspaper, Mr Ken McFarland of Omagh (‘IRA funeral breach exposed lawless nature of republicans,’ May 25, see link below) asked: “How long are we expected to pander to the very people who brought the ‘conflict’ about in the first place, and how long is the Sinn Fein ‘tail’ going to be permitted to wag the policing and justice ‘dog’ in this country?”

The answer is simple!

Just as long as unionists keep electing representatives to Stormont whose chief interest is the salary and benefits they accrue from that position and who will not for one moment dare contemplate any challenging of the arrogance of Sinn Fein which might in any way jeopardise that salary and benefits!

If ‘huff and puff’ could save Ulster from SF tyranny, how peaceful this land would be.

Rev Ivan Foster, Kilskeery, Co Tyrone.

Posted on 2021-05-31 a 6:18 pm


You are Invited ...

‘CREATION’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE’ 

“‭In the beginning‭ God‭ created‭‭‭ the heaven‭ and‭ the earth,‭”

Genesis 1:1.

The title of a message Rev Ivan Foster will preach (DV) this Lord’s Day (May 30th) morning at 11.30am in Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church

ALL ARE WELCOME

Service will be broadcast on Facebook


Click here to read the sermon notes.

Posted on 2021-05-30 a 5:32 pm


Two troubling reports from the USA

The two reports below come from the USA. The first highlights that the ludicrous evil of ‘transgenderism’ is a world-wide, devil-inspired delusion with horrendous implications for those who believe the Bible and will not submit to the tide of oppressive measures brought against any who hold to God’s truth.

The second report also highlights an increasingly common form of anti-Christian persecution, this time within a school.

To mention the name of Christ and own His saving mercy is deemed an offensive act which must be hindered.

We have seen it reported as happening in workplaces and also on the streets of our cities where police, without real cause, have hindered open-air preaching, in some cases arresting, though not charging the preachers.

Dear Christian, this is like the first spits of rain before a torrential downpour!

Click to read more…

Posted on 2021-05-28 a 6:15 pm


Samson . . . shorn, shackled, sightless and subjugated

A warning and an appraisal of Ulster’s troubles from 23 years ago which is even more relevant today!

“Samson . . . shorn, shackled, sightless and subjugated or, Ulster Protestantism’s present plight illustrated”

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



Click here to view sermon notes.

Posted on 2021-05-26 a 5:05 pm


Letter: Media reports of Ballymurphy inquest have been stripped of the historical context...

Editor’s Note:

It is my desire, as much as in me lies, to keep Protestants informed of the truth in order to protect them from the propaganda and the lies flooding from a biased media.

This letter helps to set the events in Ballymurphy in 1971 in their context and for that reason I circulate it.

It is well worth a read.

I do not know the writer and only judge him on the basis of what is here written.

Sincerely,

Ivan Foster.


Media reports of Ballymurphy inquest have been stripped of the historical context, of near civil war in Northern Ireland

A letter from Dr William Beattie Smith:
Belfast Newsletter, Saturday, 22nd May 2021.

The Prime Minister Harold Wilson, seen here with Jim Callaghan in 1965, had wanted the Unionist MPs to abstain from voting with the Conservatives. Callaghan, who as Home Secretary from 1967 was responsible for NI, said once soldiers were on the streets, troublemakers would revive the republican narrative of British occupation

Over the past week I have seen much media coverage of the Ballymurphy inquest. My heart goes out to the families who lost loved ones, and I respect their determination in pursuing honest answers from the authorities.

It is disappointing that so many nationalist commentators have exploited the families’ tragedy to reinforce their narrative of Irish victimhood and British oppression. They get away with this because the coverage so often reports events stripped of their historical context.

Click to read more…

Posted on 2021-05-22 a 8:36 pm


Ben Habib: In a new low, Boris Johnson is claiming the Act of Union no longer exists

PM Boris Johnson

Politicians can be ruthless in pursuit of their personal agendas but what we heard in the Belfast High Court on Tuesday reached new lows.

“Whatever the outcome of the judicial review, we do now know the government of the United Kingdom, led by Boris Johnson, holds the people of Northern Ireland and our Union in contempt,” writes Ben Habib.

The article alleges that we are no longer British citizens as are the people of England, Scotland and Wales. The ‘1800 Act of Union’ no longer exists!

All this happened with the DUP MPs at Westminster watching!!

Please the read the article carefully.

Belfast Newsletter, Thursday, 20th May 2021

By Ben Habib

During the judicial review of the Northern Ireland Protocol, the government argued that British citizens in Northern Ireland are not equal to citizens in Great Britain.

Acting for the government, Tony McGleenan QC claimed that Article 6 of the Act of Union 1800 no longer applies. He claimed the government had repealed it to enable the Northern Ireland Protocol and its new Irish Sea border to be put in place. For those not familiar with Article 6, it is a crucial bit of constitutional legislation.

Click to read more…

Posted on 2021-05-20 a 7:51 pm


Can a Sodomite be 'Cured'??

Mr. Edwin Poots

Gay people ‘probably’ born that way and can’t be ‘cured’, says new DUP leader Poots.

See Belfast Telegraph article: Poots says gay people probably born that way

When you endeavour to be morally and politically ‘all things to all men’ in order to gain their support, you must invariably dismiss God’s truth and seriously trip yourself up!

It did not take too long for Mr Edwin Poots to land flat on his face as he sought to paint himself as ‘Mr. Politically Correct’!

Click to read more…

Posted on 2021-05-20 a 5:54 pm


“There are opportunities to make NI a great place”

Edwin Poots

“There are opportunities to make NI a great place” — Edwin Poots, newly elected leader of the DUP

The true and only recipe for greatness is set forth in God’s Word.

“Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great,” Psalm 18:35.

There are three cardinal factors set forth on the path to greatness.

1. Shielded by the Lord.
2. Strengthened by the Lord.
3. Saved by the Lord.

The word ‘gentle’ is a reference to the gentle, gracious dealings in mercy of God with David.

Click to read more…

Posted on 2021-05-18 a 6:55 pm


A Suspicious Conclusion into the Suspicious Deaths During an IRA Riot!

An examination of the recent ruling by Mrs Justice Keegan on the deaths in Ballymurphy in August 1971 as a result of a riot and firefight between the IRA and the Army.

Very few outside of Ulster and, sadly, all too many inside it, who have been brainwashed by an Irish Republican/Roman Catholic dominated media into believing their perverted distortions of truth and the rewriting of the history of the ‘Ulster Troubles’, swallow without any hesitation the story being put out about the shooting of civilians by the British Army back in the midst of a riot in the Roman Catholic Ballymurphy area of West Belfast in August 1971.



Anti-British propaganda has poured forth and has continued to pour forth, since the verdict of a court case examining the events was announced on 12th May 2021.

Here is a sample.

Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill tells the media that it is a ‘day of truth’ for the Ballymurphy families. The rulings, she says, have “laid-bare for all to see now that the British Forces murdered their family members, their innocent family members. . . . They’ve always known that, the Ballymurphy community have known that, the wider community has known that and now the whole world can see that is the case,” the Sinn Féin vice president continued.”

It is never ‘a day of truth’ when Michelle O’Neill opens her mouth. Out of it will come the biased utterances of one born and bred and suckled as an inveterate hater of all things British.

1. Firstly, let me ask, why were thousands gathered on the streets during this firefight initiated by the IRA?

They must have been either possessed of a stupid interest in the deadly exchanges and blindly unaware of the danger in which they placed themselves for the IRA was using the civilians as cover. The IRA knew who they were shooting at. Their targets all wore uniforms which clearly marked them. The Army did not have such information about their enemies. They were all wearing civilian clothing and mingling amongst civilians, such as the ‘stupid sightseers’!

Then there were those undoubtedly who were there to render what aid they could to the IRA. It was common for civilians to move in, under cover of giving aid to an IRA man shot in such a firefight, in order to strip the wounded or even dead terrorist of all weapons or any material such as a mask, which would give proof of his terrorist activity and thus justify his being targeted. As soon as that was done, up would go the cry: “He was only out buying a loaf of bread for his poor old granny, God love him!!”

They learned that tactic from their friends the Palestinians!

Click to read more…

Posted on 2021-05-13 a 7:29 pm


36 years ago, Sammy Heenan's father was murdered by PIRA

Sammy Heenan was a lad of 12 when the IRA came to the isolated family home in the Mourne Mountain area of Northern Ireland and murdered his widowed father and left his body for his young son to find.

Sammy is now a Christian and here tells the story on the anniversary of the murder.

Mr. Heenan wrote: “Sinn Fein are relentless in their propaganda as we recently witnessed with their recent terrorist glorification. This little homemade clip is designed to hopefully reach many on Twitter by reminding others of what the PIRA perpetrated against the innocent people of South Down.”

 
Here is some footage of the aftermath of the murder back on May 3, 1985.

 

Mr. Heenan gave his testimony in January 2019 at Ballygowan FPC.



Posted on 2021-05-04 a 7:01 pm


Mrs Lindsay Robinson's blasphemy

This is taken from an article from today’s ‘Belfast Newsletter’.

It is headed: DUP MP GAVIN ROBINSON’S WIFE HITS BACK AT INTERNAL PARTY CRITICS OF HER ANTI-GAY CONVERSION THERAPY CAMPAIGNING



The wife of a DUP MP has hit back at those within the party said to have questioned some of her recent comments urging a ban on gay conversion therapy.

The article contains a quote from Mrs Robinson, mounted on her ‘Twitter’ account, in which she was responding to a statement with which she did not agree from DUP MLA, Mr Thomas Buchanan.

She uttered what must be considered  a blasphemous expletive to express her disagreement.

“Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the wee donkey. I’m all out of words and almost everything else at this point.”

This is an outburst from one who has little regard for God and even less understanding of the sanctity of His truth.

Has she no knowledge of the third commandment which teaches: “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain,” Exodus 20:7?

She has either no knowledge of what it is the Lord requires of us regarding the use of His name or she wickedly cares little for what the Lord says!

This expletive is a familiar outburst from the lips of the Roman Catholic. Her adopting of such an evil expression  betrays a worldly mindset in utter opposition to that which is of the grace of God!

This is the sad and reprehensible depths to which the DUP has sunk in recent times.

I have sent off the following letter to the “Belfast Newsletter”. Click to read more…

Posted on 2021-05-01 a 1:28 am

April 2021

Audio sermons and bulletins

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The ‘Time’ Has Come Bulletins

Fri Apr 30, 2021 - Arlene Foster to Quit DUP  Wed Apr 28, 2021 - Where Now for the DUP?  Mon Apr 26, 2021 - Gospel preacher arrested in London  Sat Apr 24, 2021 - Two DUP political betrayals  Wed Apr 21, 2021 - Aftermath from the "Gay conversion ban"

See all the Bulletins in this series here.


KICS assembly talks. Current series: “KICS Studies in Jonah – The Inside Story of a ‘Down & Out'”


Featured sermon series: Studies in First Corinthians.

Part 19: Christian Liberty;  Part 20: Living of the gospel;  Part 21: Give none offence, Pt1;  Part 22: Give none offence, Pt2;  Part 23: Give none offence, Pt3;  Part 24: Order in worship, Pt1;  Part 25: Order in worship, Pt2;  Part 26: Disorders at the Lord's Table, Pt1

See all messages in this series here.


Recently Preached Sermons

70th Anniversary message at Prayer meeting
preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Wed Mar 17, 2021 audio and video available

The Testimony of Abraham
preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Fri Jan 22, 2021 at the January 22, 2021 meeting of the Sovereign Grace Advent Testimony (audio and video)

Where are we in God's Calendar? Pt 2
preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Sun Jan 3, 2021

View all recently preached sermons


Older Sermons Recently Added

Rev. Ivan Foster's Testimony
preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Wed Nov 1, 2000

The calamity of rejecting the Bible
preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Mon Apr 1, 2002

The power of the living Bible
preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Mon Mar 25, 2002

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Gospel preacher arrested in London



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Police roughly handle elderly gospel preacher who has not been charged with any crime!

Posted on 2021-04-28 a 6:27 pm


Joe McCann, IRA gunman, and his three months under the gospel

A recent news report: Former paratroopers deny 1972 murder of Official IRA man about the shooting of an IRA man, Joe McCann, brought back to my mind an article I wrote some five years ago. I have reproduced it below.

It serves to remind us that it is the Christian’s duty to speak a word for Christ whenever we can “for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth,” Proverbs 27:1.

Joe McCann, IRA gunman, and his three months under the gospel

Posted on 2021-04-27 a 1:03 am


Letter to the editor of The Belfast Newsletter published but edited

I have sent out this reply to a letter which has appeared in the Belfast Newsletter of 19th April 2021.

I am grateful to one of our readers who drew my attention to it a few minutes ago as I had not read it. For your information the newspaper letter read as follows:

Many unionists complain about Stormont, without offering a detailed workable alternative. The Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd) writes that unionist leaders were foolish and blinded for political power when they entered into a ‘power sharing’ coalition with SF/IRA and its nationalist allies.
Bearing in mind that political unionism no longer holds a majority in Stormont, I would like to ask Rev Foster what the workable alternative was that excluded Sinn Fein/IRA and its nationalist allies and voters?

Please pray that the Bible reference in my reply may have an impact on the hearts of some. Read more

Posted on 2021-04-25 a 10:49 pm


Full page advert in the “Belfast Newsletter” of Saturday, 24th April 2021.

Posted on 2021-04-24 a 10:47 pm


The time has come

Events in Ulster yesterday surrounding the debate on ‘Conversion Therapy’ in the Stormont Assembly, were most distressing for a true child of God. I felt myself almost overwhelmed as I read the news reports of the debate and the accompanying interviews and statements by so-called religious leaders.

This morning I read several portions of God’s Word including 2 Timothy chapter 4. At the beginning of that chapter I read the following verses.

“I charge [thee] therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry,” 2Timothy 4:1-5.

Three things were impressed upon my heart.

1. It was the duty of a minister to go on contending with the wickedness of the day, no matter how distressing and overwhelming it appears to be!

2. I must do my best, despite advancing years, to meet that obligation.

3. It occurred to me that I could produce an audio response to the ongoing attacks of the devil. That would ease the problems with mounting written articles on my site and likely make it easier for our supporters since they can listen while doing other things which they could not do if attempting to take in a written article.

Out of these considerations has come a decision to produce audio reports which I can circulate by email in the manner by which I send out sermons and school assembly talks.

I am going to name the reports – THE ‘TIME’ HAS COME. You can see that it springs from Paul’s words: ‘the time will come’, in verse 3. What he said would come has now undoubtedly come!

I trust that this little venture will prove a blessing to you all and also make it easy for you to pass on to others the Bible’s response to the abounding errors of today.

Here is the first installment of the new bulletins:



Click here to read the bulletin notes.

Posted on 2021-04-21 a 10:45 pm


Gay conversion ban

I have hastened to write this article in response to the report of today’s debate in Stormont on the subject of ‘Conversion Therapy’. The position taken by the Free Presbyterian Church on this issue was set forth in an email circulated before the debate.

“At stake is the basic teaching on conversion to Christ. The motion before the Assembly does not define what conversion therapy is. The term conversion therapy is left deliberately broad by LGBT activists. There could be a move to count praying with someone who has asked for prayer on these matters as “conversion therapy”

The BBC report of the debate is most disturbing for it is clear that there is error both on the side of those opposing “conversion therapy”. and the DUP who is supposed to be defending gospel liberty.

As I say at the end of the article: “What darkness has descended upon our Province, once seen as a bastion of gospel truth. It is that no more!”
Please pray that this article will be read and do what you can to circulate it abroad. Read more

Posted on 2021-04-20 a 10:44 pm


MLA Jim Allister speaking against 'Gay Conversion' ban

Mr Jim Allister QC, MLA, (leader of the Traditional Unionist Voice party) speaking during the debate in the Stormont Assembly, Belfast on 20th April, where he opposed a motion to ‘Ban Conversion Therapy – in all its forms’, proposed by members of the Ulster Unionist Party. It was passed with the support of Sinn Fein/IRA and other Nationalists members.

There is a supportive intervention by Mr Jim Wells MLA.

The terms of this motion must be seen to include a call for a ban on the preaching of the gospel in its fulness!

Posted on 2021-04-20 a 3:38 pm


An ‘educated eejit’

Were the renowned evangelist, W P Nicholson, still alive I have no doubt he would have applied the epithet he so often used of those he upbraided for their modernistic attacks upon the Word of God with their ‘so-called’ advanced scientific knowledge and views, against Sir David Attenborough.

I cerainly will use that same nickname of the well known and much admired English broadcaster and natural historian. His television programmes are exceedingly interesting though blighted and spoiled by his oft-stated and laughable atheistic and evolutionary views.

The BBC has announced a new documentary by him. The announcement has the headline: Sir David Attenborough’s New Doc: ‘Humans Are Intruders’. Read more

Posted on 2021-04-19 a 10:42 pm


Direct action

By George H Fromow, The first Secretary of the Sovereign Grace Advent testimony. (This article is taken from Watching and Waiting, October, 1919 and reprinted in the January-March 2019 edition).

I’m reprinting this article (written in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, the Second World War and the resultant chaos amongst the nations) for it deals with the issue of governmental authority and the Christian’s response.

This is a topic under discussion today in the wake of the Covid Restrictions. Some ill-informed Christian ministers and pastors say these restrictions are to be rejected and resisted by believers. They declare such a restriction is an attack upon gospel freedom and the right to worship when in truth it is no such thing.

The restrictions do not target Christians specifically but all gatherings which lead to the spread of the Covid-19 virus. It is hardly an attack upon Christian liberty to close pubs, dance halls and cinemas in a bid to hinder the spread of the virus!

In truth, the innovations of online videoing of church services has proved to be an means of reaching even more hearers than was the case before the restrictions. Such is the wise and merciful Providence of God. Read more

Posted on 2021-04-17 a 10:41 pm


Reply to letter in the 'Belfast Newsletter'

On Monday, April 12th, I sent the following letter to the Editor of the ‘Belfast Newsletter.’

It has now appeared in today’s (April 16th) edition.

Mr Editor,

May I offer one comment on the letter from Mr Tom Ekin – “We still support politicians whose man (sic) achievements are sectarianism and failure to progress.”

He asks – “Why do we not elect politicians who will put the constitutional position on the back burner until we get Northern Ireland to being a better run place, with better education, better welfare, better jobs for more people, and less criminality?”

That will sound so winsome and politically appealing to some! But it is most foolish. It reminds me of the little boy who recently lost his finger as a result of being allowed to stroke a lovely wee monkey in a zoo! If we forget the true nature of Sinn Fein/IRA then we stand to lose more than a finger!

What Mr Ekin suggests is like asking the captain of a ship in the midst of a sea battle to cease responding to the attacks of enemy vessels while he attends to the problems that the enemy attacks have created on his vessel?

Oftentimes ships are so damaged by enemy attacks that they must withdraw from the battle scene but as they do so they CONTINUE to mount what defence they can in response to the continued attacks of the enemy, for those assaults have not ended.

I fear such sentiments indicate a total lack of understanding just what the enemies of Ulster’s constitutional existence are seeking to do.
There is not a contest between two political ideologies taking place in Ulster! No, Sinn Fein/IRA and its nationalist allies are seeking the DESTRUCTION of Northern Ireland, not a change in the social policies which are in force within it.

Hitler was not seeking social change in the United Kingdom by his bombing of it but rather its destruction and absorption in to his ‘Nazi Empire’!

Sinn Fein/IRA have a similar objective regarding Northern Ireland. How foolish and blinded by a desire for political power were our Unionist leaders when they entered into a ‘power-sharing’ coalition with those bent on the destruction of Northern Ireland!

Let us never forget the true nature of what is taking place in our land!

Sincerely,

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)

Posted on 2021-04-16 a 10:40 pm


Our Sincere Sympathies

As loyal Ulster citizens, we offer our sincere sympathy to Her Majesty the Queen and to the Royal Household on the death of His Royal Highness, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Posted on 2021-04-09 a 8:04 pm


Men (and women) without the Bible have no answer to life’s perplexities!

A news site reported on April 5th that: “During Monday morning’s Good Morning Britain, host Kate Garraway spoke with Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin about the pandemic and questioned why a God could even allow it to happen in the first place. “How could a God allow this to happen to the world, have you had that?” Kate asked the Bishop when discussing the questions she may have faced over the past year.

Bishop Hudson-Wilkin replied: “That’s a tough one and we hear it all the time when there’s a natural disaster or when someone has done something terrible.

“The feedback has always been ‘If God is really there, why did he allow…?’

“And, when we say that we actually forget that we have the freedom.”

And there you have it! That was the answer of this female masquerading as a bishop in an office that the Word of God states should not be occupied by a woman! Read more

Posted on 2021-04-06 a 10:38 pm


Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Jackie Neville On their 60th Wedding Anniversary this Lord’s Day.

Our brother and sister in Christ are founder members of Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church. Brother Jackie is a long serving elder and both have been dear friends of the Editor, his wife Ann and the family for almost half a century.

“Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds,” Psalm 36:5.

Posted on 2021-04-05 a 10:37 pm


Owen Polley: It is no surprise that the funeral of the IRA thug Bobby Storey escaped even a caution

On Tuesday, the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) announced that it will not prosecute republicans for breaches of coronavirus rules at the funeral of the IRA thug, Bobby Storey.

By Owen Polley, Belfast Newsletter Thursday, 1st April 2021, 12:57 pm

Is there anybody in Northern Ireland who is surprised by this decision?

In the immediate aftermath of the funeral, I wrote in this newspaper that “there is one rule in Northern Ireland for republicans and one for everybody else”. Read more

Posted on 2021-04-04 a 10:35 pm


An ‘evangellyfish’ indeed

Dr Hamilton is fondly and mistakenly considered by many ‘evangelicals’ to be an ‘evangelical’!

In truth, he is what used to be referred to amongst us as an ‘evangellyfish’!

The ‘evangelicalness’ of him and his ilk can be gauged by the fact that he is happy to stay in an apostate church which embraces, to a very large degree, every spiritual and moral perversion abroad today!

Here we see him rejoicing over a letter from one whose predecessors were known as ‘antichrists’ for hundreds of years by his church, the Presbyterian Church in Ireland! That ended in 1988 when the PCI removed from the ‘Westminster Confession of Faith’ the Biblical definition of the true character of pope and popery. Read more

Posted on 2021-04-03 a 10:33 pm


The Christian, public worship and government health orders

An article by Rev. Andy Foster, Penticton Free Presbyterian Church

The Covid-19 crisis that has shaken the world for many months now has had a profound impact on the life of the Church of Christ. Christians have wrestled particularly with the restrictions that government authorities at various levels in society have placed upon their public assemblies for worship.

The interface between political and spiritual affairs is particularly controversial. However, the child of God must learn to distinguish between a Biblical, spiritual response and a political reaction to these things. The Christian will find that there are legislative issues they can oppose from a political perspective but must submit to for spiritual reasons. It is easy to confuse these two reactions. I fear that many have adopted a political position with regard to the government’s public health orders but have presented it as being a spiritual response. I am concerned that many Christians who defy their government’s health orders do so out of a carnal rebellious spirit that simply indicates they resent being told what to do. Read more

Posted on 2021-04-02 a 10:31 pm


Three stops on the Saviour’s path to his atoning death

“When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. . . . . . And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha . . . . Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand,” John 19:13, 17, 41-42.

When I read this chapter a few days ago, I was carried back to my first year as a Christian. I sat in old Ravenhill Free Presbyterian Church in a meeting at which the late Pastor Willie Mullan was preaching. He took us to this chapter and dealt with its contents in a most innovative and thrilling manner. I have never forgotten the gist of what he said.

It came back to me as I read the chapter and I happily put down these thoughts, which doubtlessly owe a lot to what I heard back then, some 57 years ago! Read more

Posted on 2021-04-01 a 10:28 pm


New Publications Available

New Publications from Sovereign Grace Advent Testimony

1. Where are we in God’s calendar?’

The summary of two messages preached in Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church on January 3rd, 2021, by Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)

Price 20 p

2. ‘Where is Europe heading’

by Rev David McMillan, minister of Armagh Free Presbyterian Church.

Price £1.50 p

Copies of both may be had from Mr Stephen Toms, 1 Donald Way, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 9JB

Copies of ‘Where are we in God’s calendar?’ may also be had from Rev Ivan Foster.

Posted on 2021-04-01 a 5:00 am

March 2021

Audio sermons

Click here to listen to all the sermons on this website!


KICS assembly talks. Current series: “KICS Lockdown 2021 Talks”


Featured sermon series: Studies in First Corinthians.

Part 11: Nature of the Christian ministry, Pt2;  Part 12: Duty of disciplining sin;  Part 13: Consequences of ignorance, Pt1;  Part 14: Consequences of ignorance, Pt2;  Part 15: Christian marriage, Pt1;  Part 16: Christian marriage, Pt2;  Part 17: Time takes second place, Pt1;  Part 18: Time takes second place, Pt2

See all messages in this series here.


Recently Preached Sermons

70th Anniversary message at Prayer meeting
preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Wed Mar 17, 2021 audio and video available

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70th Anniversary of the founding of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster



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Polishing brass on a sinking ship

Two headlines in local newspapers today brought to my mind a wonderful sermon title used by an old-time preacher. It was Dr J R Rice I believe, though I could be wrong! The title was ‘Polishing brass on a sinking ship.’

I believe that is just what the DUP is engaged in at present for Stormont and more regretfully, Northern Ireland, is sinking! Read more


Biden Blames The Brits!!

Joe Biden, that superannuated buffoon of Irish lineage, whose election as President of the United States loudly declares the moral waning of that land, has opened his stupid mouth again to give proof of his bigoted ignorance!

Some of his comments, made at his first press conference since his inauguration back in January (it does take him awhile to get ready to speak), have been reported in the press under the headline: “US President Joe Biden has blamed ‘the Brits’ for leaving his great grandfather with no other option but to leave Ireland.”

Just who he means by ‘Brits’ it would be hard to say. Did he mean the British government or was he referring to the Protestant people of Ireland for that is the term long used of them by Sinn Fein/IRA and their fellows? But if he was referring to that which was the cause of his great grandfather’s emigration to the USA, then really he is speaking of the ‘potato blight’!

The repeated failure of the potato crop brought famine to Ireland and many, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, left for America because of that. Read more


The thinking and logic of the Christian who justifies taking a covid vaccine developed using cells from an aborted baby!

“Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation. And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not,” John 11:47-50.

I read these verses today as part of my daily reading – (I follow the Robert Murray McCheyne Bible reading calendar). As I read them I heard echoes of the logic I have observed in the arguments put forth by Christians who wrongly justify the receiving of Covid vaccines which were developed through the use of cells from an aborted baby back in the 1970s.

I know that many have decided that the cells used, originating from an abortion some 50 years ago, have because of the passage of time, ceased to really have any relationship with that murdered unborn baby.

Just a few days ago I discovered the truth about this in a response to a question that I had posed to one qualified to answer my question. My question was: Is the DNA of the aborted baby and the DNA of the cells used in the production of the most common Covid vaccines presently on offer by our NHS, one and the same? Read more


Westminster decides to have the NI Secretary of State direct the N.I. Minister of Health to commission unlimited abortion services

A crisis is looming which will test the mettle of every professing Christian in Stormont.

The Westminster government is taking on the role of a dictator and emulating China in its imposing of immoral laws upon us here in what to many is an unlawful action.

Abortion: DUP criticises Westminster intervention

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister

“The intended and baleful intervention by the Secretary of State in the supposed devolved matter of abortion is significant in at least three regards.

1. It, as with the original legislative intervention in 2019, shows contemptuous disregard for what is deemed a devolved issue, which is all the more acute coming as it does within days of the Assembly voting to diminish one of the imposed grounds for abortion.

2. It stands in sharp contrast with the willingness of HMG to surrender key control over Northern Ireland to a foreign power when it came to ceding NI to the EU under the iniquitous Protocol.

3. It will raise for many the fundamental question of what value is there now in devolution if Westminster can denude it of control in the one area that justified for some paying the price of Sinn Fein rule in a flawed system of supposed local power.

“If we can be subject to Direct Rule when it suits on the moral issues which matter to many, then, this highly retrograde step does indeed throw up searching questions as to what devolution is contributing, especially when it comes at the price of Sinn Fein rule on everything else?”

Rev. Foster’s letter to NI Secretary of State regarding Westminster’s plan to impose unlimited abortion on Northern Ireland

Dear Sir,

Doubtless others will take up the issue of the lawfulness or otherwise of you acting as Westminster would have you act on this matter.

I wish to state that which is much more clearly defined than man’s laws on this subject. I refer to what the Lord says about abortion. Aborting of the unborn is murder in God’s eyes. Read more

Contact the Secretary of State here.


Should Christians accept vaccines which used fetal cell lines?

The video is very informative in many ways and we commend it to our readers. I know nothing of the individuals taking part other than the information given and I therefore do not offer a wholesale endorsement of them.

One participant, Dave Brennan opposes the use of vaccines manufactured/tested by the use of cell-lines and I believe that his arguments are very sound.

The other participant, Professor John Wyatt, who is a professing Christian but who believes that it is morally acceptable to take the vaccine, irrespective of the fact that it was developed from the cells of an aborted baby.

I find his arguments morally flawed.

Basically he says that for the greater good it is acceptable to do wrong! Old Dr Bob Jones, founder of Bob Jones University, once said: “It is never right to do wrong to do right!!”

If his view is acceptable, it was wrong of the martyrs to have chosen death rather than compromise with evil. Furthermore, Peter was correct when he chided with the Lord for going up to Jerusalem where the Saviour had said “he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day,” Matthew 16:21.

Better it would have been, Peter was saying, if Christ should avoid death and continue to do good!

However, death was the Father’s will for Christ.

Professor Wyatt used as support for his position the fact that Christ went to the home of Zacchaeus, a man who was a collaborator with the oppressive Roman Empire, an extortioner and thief, and partook of his food!

This is a very sad show of ignorance of God’s Word. The gospel record shows us that Zacchaeus was a ‘saved’ man when Christ went into his home and also, he had repented of his corrupt ways and promised to repay monies unlawfully obtained. “And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house. And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully. And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner. And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost,” Luke 19:5-10.

I feel the video, despite its ‘wordiness’, something inevitable in debate, sets forth the issues clearly.


Again no refutal of our claim about the Covid vaccine

I return to a topic that I have written about many times of late. It is my response to a prominent article in one of the main daily newspapers in the UK. The whole response of those in authority has been less than honest! They have resorted to evasiveness and prevarication. That is indication enough of the validity of our objections if the evidence we have already presented was deemed insufficient! In his article, this ‘doctor’ deals with what he terms the ‘vaccine myths’. Below is an extract in which he gives the list of myths he deals with.

Why I went a bit wild after my Covid jab: Dr. Michael Mosley says he forgot the rules in his excitement… but whatever you do, don’t be put off by the vaccine myths – they’re not true

By Dr Michael Mosley for the Daily Mail

❝For the 20 per cent in the UK who aren’t sure, here are some of the common myths I’ve come across — and why I think you shouldn’t be worried . . .

Myth 1: The vaccine will give you Covid.

Myth 2: The vaccine will alter your DNA.

Myth 3: The vaccine will make you sterile.

Myth 4: Covid-19 is no big deal for the young.

Myth 5: The jabs were developed too quickly.❞

This ‘expert’ makes no mention of the objection that many, like myself, have raised against the most common vaccines, presently proffered by the NHS — that they were developed from or tested by, or both, with the use of foetal material! That view has been blithely ‘classified’ as a myth but I have yet to see any denial that what is said about the use of foetal material is true! This ‘speaking out of the side of the mouth’ is to be utterly denounced and makes one deeply suspicious of the whole government immunisation programme! As already stated, the response is riddled with prevarication and evasiveness!


The voice of the devil heard in Westminster

“Act now on LGBT+ conversion therapy, ministers urged”Thus reads a BBC News headline and so another chapter in the degradation of the United Kingdom and its rejection of God’s Word advances!

In the light of Mark 3:14-15, which reads: “And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, and to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils,” I believe that the Lord Jesus would still have His servants oppose the devil as much as in them lies. For that reason we pen this article.

What is being campaigned for by the enemies of the gospel in the LGBT camp, has rightly been opposed by Rev Gordon Dane. In a statement he issued as Convenor of the Government and Morals Committee of the Free Presbyterian Presbytery, he said: “There are many questionable things that have gone under the banner of “conversion therapy” but what should concern us is that this debate is probably going to be used as a vehicle to attempt to ban the legitimate preaching of the gospel and the call that men repent and be converted. There could be a move to count praying with someone who has asked for prayer on these matters as “conversion therapy”. It is certainly the agenda of many in the LGBT lobby to confuse Christian conversion with “conversion therapy””. Read more


Someone is telling lies!!

Leo Varadkar left red faced after wrongly claiming Sinn Fein has no Protestant TDs

The colour of Leo Varadkar’s face is of no concern of mine but in actual fact he was correct in what he said, even though he was contradicted by a professedly ‘Protestant’ Sinn Feiner, Violet-Anne Wynne.

The Belfast Newsletter article states that Varadkar said of Sinn Fein: “They are sectarian, still very anti-British and they have no Protestant TDs, MLAs and Senators,” he added.

Sinn Fein TD and Protestant, Violet-Anne Wynne, responded immediately. Read more


Loudly saying it . . . and later meekly being snivelingly sorry!!

There have been a number of news items featuring what are termed ‘prominent’ people, who have stated something they profess to believe to be true and then when challenged on social media, apologise most profusely, giving the impression that they never really believed what it was they said and are most sorry for ever saying it!

I think of the Ballymena councillor whose comments were thus headlined in a newspaper last year. “Coronavirus is God’s judgement for legalising abortion and same-sex marriage, DUP councillor claims.” Almost in the next breath he seems to have changed his mind for the matter was very soon given a new headline! “DUP councillor sorry after saying coronavirus pandemic on (sic) ‘God’s judgment’ for legalising abortion.” Read more


The First Word After A Long Silence

I am sending out this article on this the first day back for Free Presbyterians from a Covid lockdown which started back on 10th January. See Newsletter report.

In Kilskeery, we had a very good morning meeting with Mr Samuel Fitton, a second-year Theological student, preaching on the text, Judges 21:25, “In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”

This article is the result of my wife and I considering and talking yesterday morning about the restart of the services.

I trust that it is a benefit and blessing to you all. Read more


How Long Until They Ban The Bible??

The following is an extract from an article which appeared in yesterday’s ‘Daily Mail’. I felt that I had to comment on it because the publicity given to this Jewish mother’s complaint is an indication of the gross ignorance of the Bible that there is in this so-called ‘Christian land’!

A generation ago there would not have been given such prominence to such a foolish allegation as that made by this lady and her friends and supporters, nor would the stupid statements, made by the author of the articles the lady is railing against, have been given space in a newspaper.

Of course the Jewish nation is guilty of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ!

That is not an anti-Semitic statement but a doctrine of the Bible, the inspirited Word of God.

The guilt of the Jewish people is a fact declared by Heaven and the consequences of it divinely manifested throughout the intervening years! Read more


Feotal material is used in vaccine production!!

Below is a statement, issued in the USA by Roman Catholic clerics in St. Louis and New Orleans which is of great interest to all concerned about the nature of the vaccines commonly offered by the NHS.

It deals with the latest vaccine that has become available from the company, ‘Johnson & Johnson’.

The statement contains a quote from that company, and it reads: ”While not disputing the church officials’ contention that an abortion-derived cell line is used in the production, Johnson & Johnson issued a statement Tuesday stressing that there is no fetal tissue in its vaccine.”

That final phrase, ”there is no fetal tissue in its vaccine”, is often stated by those who seek to refute our position on this matter. At NO TIME have I stated that foetal material is CONTAINED in the final product.

This is mere deviousness on their part as an attempt to mislead the public and appear to contradict what I and others are alleging! Read more


Coronavirus: False vaccine claims debunked

I sent a link to the above BBC news article to a local newspaper Editor who has apparently avoided printing any of my comments which allege that the abortion of babies is endorsed and sanctioned by the manufacturers of the most common of the Coronavirus vaccines presently offered by the NHS.

The BBC article is supposed to ‘debunk’ the reasons why some, especially Bible Christians, reject the vaccine BUT it in fact confirms what we have been saying for quite some time.

The BBC says that foetal material was used in the manufacture/testing of vaccines but nothing of that material is contained in the final product, though it does surround the admission with somewhat mystifying ‘gobbledygook’!!

However, the central acknowledgement of the use of foetal material  is exactly what we have repeatedly said on The Burning Bush website!!

The removing all elements of foetal material from the final product does not absolve or remit the pharmaceutical companies from the awful crime of being involved in that morally dreadful process whereby the abortion of the unborn is sanitised and legitimised and made to appear as an acceptable means of benefitting mankind.

I will stress again that we are not against the use of vaccines which are ethically produced nor do we agree with the foolish notions of some who allege that micro-chips etc are in the vaccines. Those who do are mere ‘loonies’ belonging to that growing ‘conspiracy theory’ fatuous bunch led by the likes of Piers Corbyn and David Icke.

We protest against the slaughter of the ‘unborn’ which is carried out now by governments world-wide and that for the feeblest of reasons put forth by a society which considers the merest excuse sufficient grounds for the murder of an unborn child.

We cannot procure our own physical wellbeing by murder. Such will endanger our spiritual wellbeing and ensure our condemnation!


The Dup — Slow Learners!

I send out this BBC report as evidence of how slow the DUP is to learn the lesson that when Dr Ian Paisley and Peter Robinson led them into power-sharing with Sinn Fein/IRA back in 2007, they entered self-imposed submission and subjection to the political purposes of violent Irish Republicanism!

Time and again we all have witnessed the humiliation and thwarting of the DUP’s feeble attempts to wriggle out from this bondage. All have ended in failure.

Mr Lyons was not in the 2007 Assembly but he is learning the limits of the ‘freedom’ he has under power-sharing with the traditional enemies of Ulster. “Slow learners” is perhaps too polite a title to place upon the DUPers!!

The latest debacle over the Larne port (report below) and the pathetic attempt by the DUP to appear to be doing something about the situation whereby Northern Ireland is effectively excluded from the rest of the UK as a result of their half-witted co-operation with Boris Johnson in the erecting of the ‘NI Protocol’.

Such follies will achieve nothing. Rather it only gives Sinn Fein/IRA yet another opportunity to humiliate, chastise and expose them as incompetent clowns!! Read more


How I Found Peace in Israel

by Antony Simon

I was born in Manchester (England) of Jewish parents and so attended Jewish schools where I learned about God from an early age. I was taught that He was omnipresent (everywhere). Jonah thought he could escape from God but found that it was impossible. The Psalmist says, ‘If I ascend into heaven, Thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, Thou art there’ (Psalm 139:8). God is also holy and He hates sin, but I did not know this.

We celebrated all the festivals, such as Passover, the Day of Atonement, etc. We were going along with everything but the question I repeatedly asked myself was ‘Where is God?’ God says ‘Forasmuch as this people draw near with their mouth, and with their lips do honour Me, but have removed their heart far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the precept of men’ (Isaiah 29: 13).  Read more


The Penultimate Judgment

“And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt,“ Exodus 10:21

I read this verse in my reading on Saturday morning past. I follow ‘Robert Murray M‘Cheyne’s Bible Reading Calendar’.

As I read it, certain matters were immediately suggested to me. As with all Holy Scripture, there is prophetic teaching to be observed. The verse is set in the midst of that time when the terrible period of Israel’s trial under the cruelty of Pharaoh is coming to an end. God is intervening in answer to the cries of His people as Exodus 2:23-25 tells us. “And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.” Read more