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Two reports in today’s ‘Belfast Newsletter’
These two reports which appear in today’s ‘Belfast Newsletter’ will be of interest to our readers. They were sent to me by a friend who often keeps me informed of such news items.
There is cause for great concern in both of these articles and also they should awaken believers to the direction the nation is moving in ever more rapidly.
The words of Bible prophecy are being fulfilled before our eyes.
“But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.,” Jude 1:17-21.
“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,” 2 Timothy 4:1-4.
But a glorious day is coming when the Lord will return to judge the mockers and deniers. A day of deliverance and conversion for Israel but also a day of mighty blessing for the nations of the earth.
“The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more,” Isaiah 2:1-4.
Such is the hope of the child of God, brightening these dark times which we know shall give way to the wonderful ‘Day of the Lord’! Click to read more…
Posted on 2022-11-30 a 4:37 pm
Mary Lou in a bit of a 'Pickle'!
The idiom I am using in the title of this article will be known to most. It refers to being in a similar situation as the items in a pickle jar, enduring the biting acetic acid of vinegar!
Mary Lou McDonald, the leader of Sinn Fein is currently in such an uncomfortable set of circumstances as the result of evidence given in the recent murder trial in Dublin of Gerard Hutch, 59, from the Paddocks in Clontarf, Dublin, who has pleaded not guilty to the murder of David Byrne in the city during a 2016 boxing weigh-in.
She strongly denies the substance of secretly-recorded conversations between Mr Hutch and former Sinn Féin councillor, Jonathan Dowdall.
Mr Hutch’s lawyer has objected to use of the tapes because eight of the 10 hours were recorded in Northern Ireland when police bugged Dowdall’s vehicle. Mr Hutch and Dowdall were driving to Strabane in County Tyrone when the recordings were made.
The recordings reveal that Hutch and Dowdall talked of how McDonald denied any links with those involved in the murder.
Here is what is published this morning in a report on the BBC news site of the recordings of the two men’s conversation.
We have copied the report in full below.
“Dowdall then criticised Mrs McDonald for not attending the funeral of Mr Hutch’s brother, Edward, who was killed days after the shooting of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel.
Dowdall said she should have attended the funeral and that she stayed away from it on purpose.
‘She didn’t attend the innocent man’s funeral. She was on the telly the night Neddy got shot and she branded everyone as scumbags, she said they’re all scumbags,’ he said.
‘She shoulda turned around and said, I know that deceased man and I know that family. It’d be different Gerard if she was a politician and it was not her area. You’s are in her area and she shoulda said that,’ he said.
‘But ya’s were good enough to use Gerard for votes, ya’s were good enough to use for money.’
Mr Hutch replied there wasn’t ‘one of them at’ the funeral.” Click to read more…
Posted on 2022-11-28 a 5:41 pm
The voice of deceivers heard in the land
“If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself,” 1 Timothy 6:3-5.
A controversy has broken out as a result of the evil ravings of one, Joshua Heath, a junior research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. Heath claimed in a sermon that Christ had a “simultaneously masculine and feminine body” during the Crucifixion. He was supported in his vile assertions by Michael Banner, dean and director of studies in theology at Trinity, who said Heath’s view was “legitimate”!
It is reported in the press that worshippers left the chapel on Sunday of last week weeping, with one shouting “heresy” at the dean. I have not reproduced the news reports in any great detail for what it was this evil man said in his sermon, which caused some understandably to weep, is so offensive to decency, I was unable to read very much of the report before I was forced to stop,
Sadly, I feel, that the same ‘weepers’ will likely be back at this ‘chapel of corruption’ next week again. It seems that all too many professing Christians put loyalty to their place of worship far above loyalty to God and His Word.
God’s command to those offended by the evil surmising of these agents of the devil is plain.
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty,” 2 Corinthians 6:14-18.
The basis of Joshua Heath’s view of Christ (he is one of the many ‘educated ejits’ masquerading as God’s servants today) was the ‘Renaissance and Medieval paintings of the crucifixion’. These vain imaginings of these artists, most of whom if not all were men of utterly corrupt character, depicting the crucifixion of the Saviour hundreds of years after the event, is the ‘Bible’ upon which Heath rests his ‘evil surmisings’!
To liken this process of reasoning unto basing your view of God upon the 19th century work of children’s fiction, ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’ or making the fairy tale, ‘Goldilocks and the three bears’, the foundation of your thesis on matters divine, would be to grossly understate the matter. Click to read more…
Posted on 2022-11-28 a 5:29 pm
Free Presbyterian Church trainee teachers graduation
The two videos were kindly forwarded on by a parent attending last night’s graduation ceremony in Bethany Free Presbyterian Church, for Free Presbyterian trainee teachers engaged in teaching in our schools. The training scheme has been ongoing since 1988. Our trainees train at the ‘coalface’, in the classroom. While undertaking these classroom duties they also pursue a extern degree course, so that at the end of their studies they fall behind none in the field of education.
Rev Brian McClung, Chairman of the Presbytery Education Board, led the meeting and Rev John Armstrong, the Moderator of the Presbytery, presented the diplomas.
A combined choir of pupils sang during the service.
We salute this year’s graduates, Miss Jemma Monteith, Miss Lydia Foster and Miss Elizabeth Edwards and pray the Lord’s blessing on them for their diligence.
Posted on 2022-11-26 a 7:51 pm
"Ban the Bible!"
The article below was kindly sent to me by a friend. Sadly, the article quotes a perversion of the Bible, the NIV! I do not necessarily endorse all that is written in this article but the core subject is to be noted by believers.
This development illustrates what Paul said just before his martyrdom.
“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,” 2 Timothy 4:1-5.
Please note the words: “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.” It is the itching ears of the pro-sodomite lobby which has brought about this statement by ‘the Crown Prosecution Service’. Doubtless the CPS has been infiltrated by sodomites and supporters of this wicked perversion and their presence is evidenced by these words.
It will not be long for ‘parts of the Bible’ to be up for banning to become ‘any of the Bible’ to be proscribed.
This, my friends is the advancing of the ‘latter-day’ apostasy. The ‘time’, spoken of by Paul, has come!
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils,” 1 Timothy 4:1.
The spirit of Ahab, the most evil of Israel’s kings, is abroad. Click to read more…
Posted on 2022-11-26 a 7:44 pm
Letter to the Editor, Belfast Newsletter: Secularisation in the nation
Sir,
Secularisation in the nation, as commented upon by some of your recent correspondents, is but one of the facets of the nation turning its back upon God and His Word. We need to realise that what has been noted is but one of the trees in the ‘forest’ of apostasy from God.
Furthermore, this evil development is well announced in God’s Word as being a feature of the last days. Such trends declare the departure from the God Who so wonderfully blessed and prospered our land in centuries past and is a fulfillment of the prophecies set forth in the Old and New Testament.
Paul declares clearly the ongoing assault upon the gospel by deceivers with its final climax in the days before the Saviour’s return, in such places as 2 Timothy 3:1-9. Peter does the same in his second epistle, chapter 2.
Above all, the Lord Jesus tells us of the times that are breaking out around us, in Matthew chapter 24, especially the verses 11-21. The secularisation we see going on around us is but one of the “signs of the times” for which the Saviour said we must watch, Matthew 25:13.
The reader of the Bible will not be surprised by these developments, though doubtless vexed and grieved that a nation so privileged as ours should act so foolishly.
But then it has happened before, as the history of the nation of Israel demonstrates. We should remember and learn from the price it paid for its folly.
Let all remember Paul’s words in Romans chapter 1 of the nations in former times.
“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them,” verses 28-32.
Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
Kilskeery, Co. Tyrone
Posted on 2022-11-23 a 10:02 pm
Protest letter to the ‘Belfast Telegraph’
I am sending this letter to the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ sadly, with the expectation it may well never appear.
Sincerely in Christ’s name,
Ivan Foster
Sir,
It brings lasting shame upon the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ that it should publish the wicked blasphemies of Gareth Hanna as are contained in his article ‘Street preachers’ Good News is nothing of the sort’, published in today’s edition.
The shame is increased in that he is likely paid by the newspaper to write such words in defiance of God’s truth.
Under the guise of criticising the follies of some ill-advised street preaching, he attacks the Word of God. The Lord Jesus Christ, said: “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him,” John 3:36.
Thus, He plainly states that the consequences of rejecting the Bible’s message is ‘abiding wrath’! The Gospel does indeed tell men, putting it in in simple terms, that they must ‘turn or burn’, something Hanna mocks and calls ‘toxic theology’! Click to read more…
Posted on 2022-11-18 a 7:24 pm
An approaching universal judgment of which the world knew nothing
“By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith,” Hebrews 11:7.
The Lord Jesus likened the circumstances that will mark the end of this age unto those that prevailed in the days of Noah, just before the destruction of mankind by a universal flood.
“But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be,” Matthew 24:37-39.
In Hebrews 11:7, there is mention of the ignorance of mankind regarding the approaching judgment. The sins that provoked the judgment of Noah’s day are the very sins which are prevailing today as, of course, is the ignorance of the harvest such sins will invariably reap.
“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them,” Genesis 6:5-7.
Mankind has become so inured and hardened to what is going on, there is little notice taken of the flood of iniquity inundating the nations. Terror, murder, torture and slaughter of the young and innocent, the aged and infirm, the acceptance of shameful immorality as the norm and the rank abandonment of God’s law and gospel. Those religious institutions which have a credal acknowledgement of God and His truth, have generally speaking, abandoned all pretence of believing and acting according to their own avowed confessions and creeds.
This is apostasy. Click to read more…
Posted on 2022-11-17 a 10:58 pm
200 pupils allege abuse by 77 priests
The report below comes from the “Irish News” of 14th November, 2022.
I can but imagine the heartache felt by many Roman Catholics as yet another exposure of the vile perversions that have been repeatedly revealed in the press over the last few decades, occurring yet again!
Bible believers have little understanding of the unscriptural reverence and awe in which priests are held by devoted Romanists. It is the equivalent of the devotion of the heathen idolators for their spiritual ‘gurus’!
Therefore, when such reports as these appear it shatters and destroys the faith of many in the system of religion in which they have been raised.
Sadly, it does not cause an intelligent consideration of their religious beliefs, which have failed them, in the light of God’s Word. If it did, then it would result in steps being taken similar to those taken by those Roman Catholics in Europe in the 16th century when the truth about their religion was presented to them.
Back then hundreds of thousands, peasants and princes, had their eyes opened and obeying the light which streamed from the Word of God, they repudiated the false claims of Rome, saw it as a system of antichristianity and forsook it and banded themselves together in accordance with the structures and ordinances set forth in the Bible. Sadly today, the general reaction by the many ‘scunnered’ by such reports is to turn against God and everything related to Him.
To escape the horror of the false religion they trusted, they mindlessly plunge into the dark sea of blaming God and spurning the truth of His mercy set forth in the Bible.! Click to read more…
Posted on 2022-11-15 a 12:23 am
‘Take them out and shoot them' - Irish State executions
Here is an article found on the RTE news site. The article is entitled: ‘Take them out and shoot them’ – Irish State executions.’
As most will know, ‘Raidió Teilifís Éireann’ is the national broadcaster of the Republic of Ireland. Ulster Protestants have no reason for loving this organisation since it has been the voice of a State which in one form or another and to one degree or another, throughout its existence has waged war on our Protestant heritage here in Northern Ireland.
It began broadcasting in 1926 from its Dublin base. It has been the voice of the Dublin governments and it has reiterated their claims of jurisdiction over all of Ireland, to the vexation of the British citizens of Northern Ireland.
I have often read the historical articles mounted on its site, ever bearing in mind the bias that they would naturally contain. I did so for I have a love of Irish history, indeed the people of Ireland, believing that the national religion of the Republic’s twenty six counties, Roman Catholicism, is a usurper of the truth of God which came to this island in the days, and before even that, of Patrick.
Without a shadow of doubt, the message of Patrick was essentially that of the apostles, with the exception of some errors, which were the beginnings of the darkness which resulted in the rise of Popery, which had crept into the faith and practice of 5th century Christianity.
I have given a full account of Patrick’s own testimony, or ‘Confession’, which may be seen in a series of articles under the title, ‘The Bible in Ireland’
Because of this, I read with interest the aforementioned RTE article of events in 1922 during the civil war which had resulted from the acceptance, in December 1921, of the terms of peace between the government of the United Kingdom and the Irish Republican Army, the IRA. The peace agreement was called ‘The Anglo-Irish Treaty’. Click to read more…
Posted on 2022-11-12 a 8:11 pm
Letter to Belfast Newsletter
This letter was submitted to the Editor of the ‘Belfast Newsletter’ back on 7th November.
It was in response to the outrageous statements of Mary Lou McDonald (“Mary Lou McDonald under fire from IRA victims’ relatives after claiming ‘no comparison’ between Provos and gangland violence”)
It has not been published and most likely will not as the news item referred to is somewhat dated as far as the media is concerned. I am therefore sharing it with you.
Sincerely in Christ’s name,
Ivan Foster.
Sir,
The reports in today’s press regarding the outrageous statements of Mary Lou McDonald brings some encouragement to those who grieve at the ‘elevating’ of this most unpleasant woman and her evil party, Sinn Fein, in the estimate of the Irish Republic’s electorate, according to recent polls.
To read of others, who see the utterly hypocritical views of this woman as she attempts to ‘sanitise’ the evil strategy of terrorism and murder that he party rode to power upon here in Northern Ireland, is most encouraging — late and all in the day as it may be!
This ‘harpy’ and her party, south and north, is but a front for the greatest band of criminals and miscreants that have blighted this island for many a long year!That she should be given credibility by any section of the population, will prove to be an inextinguishable and heinous stain upon the Irish Republic.
However, we take some comfort from the comments presently reported, though doubtless ‘political opportunism’ on the part of some of her political opponents plays a part in the condemnation!
May we see the pattern of God’s retribution that has ever followed hard upon the heels of those of her ilk, who have defied God and His Truth by boasting and calling ‘evil good’, develop and overwhelm this deluded woman and all who support her views. The pattern of divine retribution is wonderfully portrayed in the fate of Sennacherib king of Assyria, 2 Kings 19. So it has been with all such beings since the fall of Cain!
Let all read this chapter for instruction in how God deals with boasters and blasphemers!
Sincere regards,
Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
Kilskeery, Co. Tyrone.
Posted on 2022-11-11 a 8:16 pm
A day when reformation avails nothing!
“Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal,” 2 Kings 23:26.
There are many Christians who today believe that the consequences of the tide of iniquity that is swamping the nations can be averted if we seek for revival and reformation.
Such a notion flies in the face of the warnings and prophecies of God’s Word that clearly predicts that terrible times, ‘perilous times” (2 Timothy 3:1) will come upon the earth, particularly our part of it, at the end of this age. This truth is illustrated by the text which I read this morning as part of today’s scheduled daily readings, set forth in McCheyne’s Bible Reading Calendar.
Clearly it is taught in this text that:
I. THERE ARE TIMES WHEN NO DEGREE OF REFORMATION WILL AVERT JUDGMENT
“Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath . . .” In other words, despite what Josiah had accomplished in Judah by way of reforms, the judgment of God was not turned away from the kingdom.
1. It must be understood that the reforms of Josiah were likely unparalleled in the history of the kingdom. We have God’s Word for that. The whole chapter endorses this truth. The verse just prior to our text says: “And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.”
Yet such accomplishments did not deflect God from His purpose in Judgment. Click to read more…
Posted on 2022-11-10 a 7:22 pm
Mary Lou McDonald under fire
This report from today’s ‘Belfast telegraph’ brings some encouragement to those who grieve at the ‘elevating’ of Mary Lou McDonald and her evil party, Sinn Fein, in the estimate of the Irish Republics electorate, according to recent polls.
To read of others who see the utterly wicked, egotistical and hypocritical views of this woman as she attempts to ‘sanitise’ the evil strategy of terrorism and murder that he party rode to power upon here in Northern Ireland, is most encouraging — late and all in the day as it may be!
This woman and her party, south and north, is but a front for the greatest band of criminals and miscreants that have blighted this island for many a long year!
That she should be given credibility by any section of the population, will prove to be an inextinguishable and heinous stain upon the Irish Republic. Click to read more…
Posted on 2022-11-07 a 6:19 pm
Mary Lou McDonald ‘profoundly shocked’ at Dowdall’s criminal past
If ever there was a two-faced and duplicitous utterance it was that in the this headline in today’s ‘Belfast Telegraph’!
Mary Lou McDonald ‘profoundly shocked’ at Dowdall’s criminal past
The article continues:
“Mary Lou McDonald said that had she known about former Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall’s involvement in criminality, he would not have been “anywhere near” the party.Ms McDonald said she was “profoundly shocked” to learn of Dowdall’s role in gangland crime.Last month, Dowdall was sentenced to four years in prison for facilitating the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in 2016.Dowdall, who turned state witness in the Regency murder trial, was also convicted of interrogating, threatening and waterboarding a man in January 2015.”
When we remember that Sinn Fein is indissoluble linked to the Provisional IRA, that statement just about takes the proverbial ‘biscuit’!
Many prominent members of Sinn Fein were active self-confessed IRA terrorists. Martin McGuinness, Gerry Kelly, Bobby Sands, to name but a few.All of these men were involved in an organisation that was guilty of terrorist murder, bombing, armed robbery and various forms of intimidation!
Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall, just jailed in the Irish Republic and about whom Mary Lou McDonald puts on a show of ignorance, fitted in well with such a band of criminals. Such an astounding show of ‘sham shock’ is but one reason why Ulster Protestants must never believe the word of the charlatans and hoaxers who lead Sinn Fein!
Sincerely in Christ’s name,
Ivan Foster
Posted on 2022-11-05 a 10:58 pm
The end is nigh!
The newspaper report which follows was sent to me by a kind friend who seeks to keep me informed of such events, knowing that I like to comment upon them in the light of the Word of God.
I take my title from the of-derided slogan on a poster, carried by a dishevelled character which cartoonists have delighted to use of Bible-believing Christian. The warning of the words have been mockingly rejected and spurned but time will prove the mockers wrong. Paul employs these words in 1 Corinthians 15:24. “Then cometh the end.” And come it most certainly shall and its approach is heralded by events set out in the news report which follows.
The content of the article, apart from anything else, indicates the rising tide of apostasy within the Church of England. Where it goes, most if not all other denominations follow soon after.
The reason for that is simple. The mainline churches and by that I mean all churches with the exception of those who have publicly declared themselves to have separated from the modernistic and theologically liberal trends of today, chiefly manifested in the ‘Ecumenical Movement’, have all succumbed to the corruption of the ‘latter-day apostasy!
Of this apostasy Paul said: “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron,” 1 Timothy 4:1-2. That spoken of here by the apostle emerged on the religious scene at the beginning of the 20th century. Here is something of what the Encyclopaedia Britannica says on the subject. Click to read more…
Posted on 2022-11-05 a 10:48 pm
Beware: scammers are coming your way!!
All of us are aware of warnings from the police, the banks and various other agencies of the danger of ‘scams’, a dishonest attempt by a bogus business organisation to defraud us.
Well, today I am issuing a warning about a scam that will cost those deceived far more than their cash — I am warning about a ‘scam’, that if believed, will cost the victim their eternal soul!
Here is a photographic reproduction of an article from today’s “Irish News”.
Here is an advert showing the locations of the planned tour: Click to read more…
Posted on 2022-11-03 a 11:02 pm
RC bishop apologises after priest's controversial sermon
My attention was providentially drawn to an article which has appeared in today’s ‘Irish Examiner’, a newspaper produced in Cork in the Republic of Ireland.
It is rare for me to endorse what a priest of Rome may say but I do endorse what is recorded in this newspaper as a statement from a priest, one Seán Sheehy.
He said on the Sabbath past in his own mass-house that: “sexual sin was rampant, adding that sex between two men and two women was a sin.”
That statement is most certainly true.
I am sure in his celebrating of the blasphemy of the Mass (Article 31 of the Church of Ireland’s 39 Articles), the priest said many erroneous things. However, the statement of his that we have here quoted in the ‘Irish Examiner’ is absolutely true according to God’s holy Word, the Bible, by which all matters of religion are to be evaluated and judged.
Proof of its accuracy was seen in the display of some who walked out in protest!
However, the response of his bishop, Bishop Ray Browne of Kerry, to the statement of the priest was for him to apologise to the sodomite community attending the Mass and all their associates for what was said.
He denied that such a statement was ‘representative of Christianity’. He went on: “The views expressed do not represent the Christian position. The homily at a regular weekend parish Mass is not appropriate for such issues to be spoken of in such terms.” Click to read more…
Posted on 2022-11-01 a 4:26 pm
The Lord's response to the trespass of His people
“I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early,” Hosea 5:15.
No one can accuse the Lord of not warning his people clearly of the consequences of backsliding and heeding the errors of those who reject the truth of God.
In verse 11 of this chapter 5 of Hosea, the prophet says: “Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.” The ‘commandment’ referred to here is that of which the reprobate king, Jeroboam who ruled the ten northern tribes, called the kingdom of Israel, following the division which took place after the death of Solomon, introduced. He is frequently referred to as “Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin,” 1 Kings 14:16. What a dreadful epitaph to have inscribed by the Lord upon your gravestone!
The sin that he introduced was the worship of the golden calves. The commandment Jeroboam issued is recorded in 1 Kings 12:28-30. “Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.”
He instituted that which was contrary to God’s Word and promoted a great departure from the Lord in his kingdom. That departure, that apostasy, cost Israel dearly as our text states.
I. HOW SLOW MEN ARE TO REALISE THAT TO DEPART FROM THE WORD OF GOD RESULTS IN HIS WITHDRAWING OF HIS MERCY!
Man has ever believed that he can sin and never suffer any consequences. Click to read more…
Posted on 2022-11-01 a 4:17 pm
Reformation Sabbath: A most sacred knowledge to have
Here is a sermon preached Sunday afternoon, October 30, 2022, on Reformation Sabbath:
Read sermon notes here
View a video of this sermon here:
Posted on 2022-11-01 a 4:12 pm
Reformation Sabbath: A mountain-top Psalm
Here is a sermon preached Sunday morning, October 30, 2022, on Reformation Sabbath:
Read sermon notes here
View a video of this sermon here:
Posted on 2022-11-01 a 4:11 pm
(top row, left to right) Leona Harper, 14, Robert Garwe, 50, Shauna Flanagan Garwe, five, Jessica Gallagher, 24, and James O’Flaherty, 48, and (bottom row, left to right) Martina Martin, 49, Hugh Kelly, 59, Catherine O’Donnell, 39, her 13-year-old son James Monaghan, and Martin McGill, 49, the ten victims of explosion at Applegreen service station in the village of Creeslough in Co Donegal on Friday, 7th October.
