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“And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing,” 2 Samuel 15:11.

There is likely a link between the sad events of 2 Samuel 15 and the experiences over which David mourns in another of my Bible readings this morning, Psalm 69. It is widely believed that Psalm 69 refers to the grief and suffering caused to David by Absalom’s rebellion.

I must acknowledge that I find daily in God’s Word that which strengthens me in the midst of the present controversy I have with some foolish men within our denomination with regards their forsaking of the “old Paths” unto which the Lord led our founding fathers in 1951.

I wish to examine the actions of these men, mentioned in our text, who in their “simplicity” and ignorance were caught up in Absalom’s wicked rebellion.

The word “simplicity” means ‘integrity’. They were acting in innocence and ignorance but sadly, they were engaged in something very wrong.

I believe that these words have an application to the circumstances that have arisen within the Free Presbyterian Church.

Please read Part 1 before reading this article.

I. INNOCENT AS THEY MAY HAVE BEEN, THEIR ACTIONS INFLUENCED OTHERS TO ENGAGE IN THE REBELLION AGAINST GOD’S ANOINTED KING!”

“And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom,” verse 12.

1. Yes, they were innocent at the beginning but surely that innocence soon evaporated as the rebellion progressed! They may have started in innocence but if they continued on then they became culpable of aiding a rebellion against David, God’s king. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-09-30 a 6:00 am

I have just emailed this letter to the Belfast Newsletter, though since it has not published my last two letters, I have little expectancy of this appearing.

Like so many former ‘loyalist’ outlets, it has come under ’new management’!

Sincerely in Christ’s name,

Ivan Foster.

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DRUMCREE

The latest Drumcree shambles has highlighted that which is already well known to many Protestants but which the ‘ecumenically minded’ wish to continue to conceal!

* Sinn Fein and those who support that political party consider themselves superior to the law of the land. Only that which they agree with is legal as far as they are concerned. They demonstrated that not only in Drumcree of late but for some forty years have declared murder and terror legal and those engaged in such as honourable and worthy of the highest praise.

* Garvaghy Road was not always ‘mainly nationalist’ as it is now described. That is a but a relatively recent occurrence.

But since becoming such, it is clear that any emblem or any person deemed to be linked to ‘Protestantism’ is neither welcome to use the road, or at least in safety!

There can be no clearer demonstration of the underlying desire of Irish republicanism than this – the removal of the Protestant people from the island of Ireland, bit by bit.

In truth, there are very few ‘bits’ left to be purged by terror and murder and anarchy.

* The total dominance of the Police Service of Northern Ireland by Irish republicanism. This may also be said about the powers that be in London, for undoubtedly the Chief Constable is under instructions not to ‘upset’ Sinn Fein by applying the judgment of the High Court and allowing a handful of Orange men to walk down a public road as they are legally entitled to.

I recall some years ago, a member of the RUC telling a news reporter, in the wake of the then ‘latest’ police reforms, that the Chief Constable would be issuing them with carpet slippers soon as boots would be deemed too aggressive!

There were ‘carpet slippers’ aplenty on Garvaghy Road at the weekend!

The DUP is showing its reluctance to tackle Sinn Fein head on for, after all, they allowed the republicans into power, by the wicked ‘power-sharing deal’ of 2007, in order that they obtain the glory of holding the ‘first ministers’ post’!

Today we are reaping the consequences of that that folly and the foolishness of supporting the DUP in that which proved a treacherous and disastrous decision!

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
28th September 2026

Posted on 2026-09-28 a 6:36 pm

Rev. Ivan Foster reprised his series from 2000 on bringing King David back after the rebellion of Absalom, and how it shows us the required method of revival. This three part series was preached at special meetings in Mourne FPC.

THE CONCERN FOR THE KING’S RETURN

There was only a short period between the beginning of Absalom’s scheming (15:1) and the recognising by the people that they had made a mistake. Pleasures of sin are only for a season! Heb 11:25.At first things had gone well for the rebellion. “And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom,” 15:12. But “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.

This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD,” Isa 54:17.

View a video of this sermon here:

 

I. THE PEOPLE BECOME AGITATED 

“All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel,” v 9.The word ‘strife’. First use – Genesis 6:3. It was a spiritual troubling.There arose a ‘hunger’ for the king to be brought back! Matt 5:6.This disturbing came from the Lord, Eze 37:7.The devil would have people to sleep and slumber but the Lord seeks to awaken, Rev 3:20.

II. MEMORIES OF PAST MERCIES TROUBLED THEM

“The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines,” verse 9. So it was with the Prodigal. “How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!”

1. Absalom made them discontent under David. 15:3-5. Just like false prophets in Jeremiah’s day. Jer 15:17. Ecumenism has sought to have us forget the benefits of the Gospel, the Bible, the Sabbath and the Reformation. Power-sharing would have us forget the murderous wickedness of SF/IRA!! Now we are to forget the distinctions God has ordained between men and women!

What folly that has wrought!

2. Now, I believe that the Holy Spirit was making them discontent with their folly as they begin to remember. Ps 137:1-4. It is the minister’s duty to remind the people of the mercies and blessings of the past!

3. That is what provokes memories. 2 Peter 3:1; Psalm 103:1-5.

III. THEY WERE AWARE THAT THE KING HAD TO BE ‘BROUGHT BACK’

He was not going to return of himself. He had to be ‘fetched’! It is the same word used of the ‘returning’ of the waters after the flood! Something only the Lord could do! The desire for a return of David was of the Lord, wrought in the hearts of the people. That is what is needed today!“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me,” Rev 3:20.We must open the door but the Saviour comes in of Himself.Revival and reformation is a work of God.“Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?” Psalm 85:6. We cannot do this work. But we can and MUST ask for the actual accomplishment of what it is we seek.

Posted on 2026-09-28 a 6:00 am

I received an email just this evening, just an hour ago to be exact, with these photos, copied from FaceBook with a comment:

It has been very discouraging for us to see the downward spiral of the FPC, considering one of the main reasons we moved to Ulster was to be in a strong separatist church. 

As I commented in response to the email: ‘This is what wearing the harness of the Orange Order brings about!’

The Orange Order demands of its members that they follow its rules, irrespective of God’s Word.

Solemn Oath

Graham Middleton took an oath at his ordination to carry out the following undertakings:

Will you maintain at all cost to personal reputation and vain worldly popularity the distinctives of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster and the three fundamentals of the faith as set out by Dr. Henry Cooke:

a. The Trinity.
b. The Vicarious atonement of Christ.
c. The necessity of the work of the Spirit to originate faith and repentance in the heart of man?

Will you maintain with all the strength God shall give you the position on Biblical separation from apostasy as taken by the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster in 1951 at the time of its secession from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland?

As God helps you will you expose and resist the continued apostasy from Christ manifested within Irish Presbyterianism, Methodism, Episcopalianism and other visible church bodies; exhorting God’s people to obey the teaching and commandment of 1 Timothy 6: 3-5?

To engage with members of an ecumenically controlled organisation like the Orange Order and to fellowship with a member of the apostate Church of Ireland is surely in total repudiation of the undertakings he swore to carry out at his ordination!

Here is the Episcopalian minister Revd Wayne Hawthorne in company with the woman who was ‘ordained’ alongside him.

He thus endorses by his membership of the Church of Ireland its most wicked apostasy and rejection of God’s Word and also the unscriptural ‘ordination’ of women!

The photos have every likeness to a ‘popish’ event!

The Bible says:

“A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife,” 1 Timothy 3:2.

“ . . . ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, ,” Titus 1:5-6

I can well understand that these photos will vex and disappoint many faithful Free Presbyterians who will immediately see the compromise and the disobedience of God’s Word that is entailed in these photos.

One minister with whom I shared the email said:

‘IT JUST GETS WORSE’

And so it does when one who in the past raised his voice against compromise within the Free Presbyterian Church is now seen to have joined with that compromise.

I read just this morning, not realising that I would see a modern day example of what it was I read before the evening was out:

“But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation (hypocrisy, stage acting)” Galatians 2:11-13.

Just what is gained by a minister who deserts the cause of God that he was ordained to preach and protect, and join with the enemies of the gospel?

I am sure many in the Free Presbyterian Church know exactly how Paul felt at the shameful folly of Barnabas!

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
26th September 2026

Posted on 2026-09-26 a 10:44 pm

(Preached by Rev. Ivan Foster (Rtd) at the SGAT meeting, Lisburn – 24th September 2026)

It was back in May of last year that I spoke on Matthew chapter 24. Then I did point out that chapter 25 is the continuation of what is often called the Saviour’s ‘Olivet Discourse’ in chapter 24.

The very first word of chapter 25 ties in with what had preceded it.

It follows on with what the Saviour had said in chapter 24, where He gives us a view of Jerusalem.

“Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto . . .” The Saviour is giving us a picture of the circumstances that will prevail amongst professing believers at the time when the events He had outlined in verses 14-43 of chapter 24 were taking place.

From there to the end of chapter 24 and on into chapter 25, He sets forth the prevailing condition of the “the kingdom of heaven” at the time just before His return in power and great glory.

Watch a video of this sermon below:

 

As we begin our study of chapter 25, please observe:

I.  A SLEEPING IN INDIFFERENCE

“While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept,” Matthew 25:5.

1. This indifference was seen among all that professed faith in Christ.  “They all slumbered and slept”.

The ‘all’ included those who were mere ‘professors’ and not true ‘possessors’ of the grace of God. Note that it is a time when 50% of professing Christians are not genuinely saved.

That would surely indicate that the pulpits were failing to separate the ‘sheep from the goats’!

It also suggests that standards were so slack that there was no challenge presented to the ‘foolish’ professors.

Today

I have to say that such is the spirit abroad today! A person professing to be a Christian is currently permitted to virtually go unchallenged when their words and actions are NOT what, but a short time ago, was the required behaviour of a Christian.

What would have had a person challenged and disciplined is today tolerated and ignored by those whose duty it is to preserve the Bible’s standards of conduct amongst the flock of God!

2. The indifference had them set aside their duty, which was, to go forth to meet the Bridegroom. They should have been holding up lamps as a token of their readiness to meet the Bridegroom, the Lord Jesus, coming to claim His Bride. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-09-25 a 9:05 pm

“For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works,”  2 Corinthians 11:13-15.

Boyzone’s Shane Lynch and Phats and Small singer Ben Ofoedu to open up on their faith in Northern Ireland church tour

According to the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ of  ‘24 Sep 2026’, these two examples of what passes for ‘Christianity’ are due soon in Northern Ireland.

The duo will speak to flocks (of goats- Editor) across the country — including in Ballymena, Belfast and Newcastle next month — at what has been billed as Testimony Night.

One of the duo is reported as saying :

“I would definitely say it’d be sharing what we call our testimonies, sharing what faith has done for us, what we believe and stuff like that.”

“I would say that the Bible Belt of the UK is Belfast, and Belfast also reminds me a lot of Nashville, and me and Shane would love to have some involvement in turning Belfast into a kind of Nashville where a lot of gospel singer-songwriters will come over, record, play in the local bars and build up a real community there.”

“I really see that as a plan for Belfast in the next coming 20 years, because there’s something so spiritual about it, such lovely people and the bars (Emphasis mine – Editor) are up for a bit of guitar and singing and that kind of thing.”

“I think the world really needs it, just that feelgood, upbeat music (which some in the Free Presbyterian Church would embrace!!-Editor). Just as there’s a massive resurgence in music that’s not so positive as well, it’s nice that there’s a positive side of music and I think that could really happen.”

“You know, there’s massive concerts and there are loads of kids and 18 and 17-year-olds going to these massive festivals and they’re starting to get the size of your Glastonburys and things like that — 30,000, 40,000, 100,000 — and it’s such a beautiful way for those young kids to spend the evening in a really positive environment (surrounded by drugs etc! – Editor).”

Before that Ben will be performing at The Golden Dance Awards on Saturday night at The Culloden Hotel alongside Bradley McIntosh from S Club 7. The event, which is now in its third year, celebrates the dance community across Northern Ireland.”

Such an event is on par with their ‘religious gatherings’.

Whether they know it or not, these men are the modern day equivalents of those Paul refers to in our text. They are the devil’s “ministers . . . transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.”

Doubtless, many will flock to hear them and swallow all the ysay.

I did notice that the word ‘Bible’ appeared twice in the article but not ONE QUOTE from it!

Paul’s explanation of his witness is very different!

“Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us,” 2 Corinthians 4:1-7.

Remember what is the ‘proof’ of a true conversion as set down by the Lord.

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17.

CHRISTIAN, BEWARE OF ‘SHAM’ CHRISTIANS!

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
24th September 2026

Posted on 2026-09-24 a 9:43 pm

This morning I read 2 Samuel 19 and I was reminded of a series of messages I preached on David’s return ‘home’ after Absalom’s rebellion.

Here is a recording of a message I preached in Kilkeel. It is very relevant to today’s circumstances that have overtaken the Free Presbyterian Church, even more so that it was when I preached from the passage back seven or eight years ago.

Ivan Foster

View a video of this sermon here:

 

BRINGING THE KING BACK

(Preached in Mourne Free Presbyterian Church – 2019)

The topics we hope to look at over the next three nights.

* The Conditions resulting in the king’s removal.

* The Concern for the king’s return.

* The Circumstances of his restoration.

A very good definition of what true revival is ‘Doing things amongst God’s people as they were ordained to be done.’

Jeremiah declared God’s will to backslidden Judah: “Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls,” Jeremiah 6:16.

How often the Lord’s people have had to ‘seek to return to the old paths’? Wandering is endemic amongst sheep and it is certainly so amongst the ‘sheep of the Lord’. Isaiah 53:6.The division that had arisen between David and his people pictures for us just what ‘backsliding from the Lord’ entails and results in. There is also a picture of the procedures that need to be adopted if we are to see the King restored amongst us today.We must begin by considering what it was caused King David’s removal. This is what overtakes a backsliding people, Hosea 5:5-6, 15. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-09-23 a 6:08 pm

Posted on 2026-09-22 a 4:45 pm

A BBC national headline in its website on Friday 18th September read:

‘I’m telling the truth’: Earl Spencer defends Diana book claims about Charles in BBC interview

I know whom I believe and it is not the adulterous King Charles!

Who can believe any man who mumbled a response in his ‘plummy’ voice when asked on the day of his engagement to Princess Diana if they were in love?

The interview is reported in these words :

An interviewer asked, “And are you in love?”

Diana’s Reply: “Of course.”

Charles’s Reply: “Whatever ‘in love’ means.”

I believe that it was well known in press circles that the young Diana was simply picked as a ‘broodmare’ by the Royal household to merely produce an heir!

She was explicitly described as a ‘broodmare’ by sections of the British press, and it is reported that she herself adopted the term when describing how she felt viewed by the Royal Family and the media. Diana used the term to describe how she felt the Royal Family and Prince Charles viewed her—solely as a functional means to secure the royal succession. She made the comment during secret audio recordings she made for biographer Andrew Morton. These tapes were recorded between May 1991 and February 1992 at Kensington Palace. In the transcripts, she noted that after fulfilling her ‘duty’ by giving birth to an heir and a spare (Prince William in 1982 and Prince Harry in 1984), she felt abruptly cast aside.

Prince Charles was asked by the officiating cleric:

‘Charles Philip Arthur George, wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God’s ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honor, and keep her, in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?’

He answered: I will.’

His promise at his wedding to Diana was this: 

‘I, Charles Philip Arthur George, take thee, Diana Frances, to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part, according to God’s holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.’

It was not long after the wedding that he resumed his adulterous liaison with the woman with whom he had been carrying on an immoral relationship for years, Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles.

Any man who can stand before the nation, the dignitaries of the ‘Church’ he now ridiculously claims to be the ‘Head’ of, and above all, claim to swear in the presence of God to Princess Diana, ‘I plight thee my troth’ or ‘I pledge to you my faithfulness and truth’, with no intention of remaining faithful to her, is not to be believed.

In truth, in keeping with the sinful traditions of the Royal household and of the irreligious times in which we live, we have a ‘King’ who is an adulterer married to an adulteress and whose word cannot be believed!

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
21st September 2026

Posted on 2026-09-21 a 2:01 pm

“‭And with Absalom‭ went‭‭ two hundred‭ men‭ out of Jerusalem‭, ‭that were‭ called‭‭; and they went‭‭ in their simplicity‭, and they knew‭‭ not any thing‭,‭” 2 Samuel 15:11.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

There is likely a link between the sad events of 2 Samuel 15 and the experiences over which David mourns in another of my Bible readings this morning, Psalm 69. It is widely believed that Psalm 69 refers to the grief and suffering caused to David by Absalom’s rebellion.

Here is Dr John Gill’s comments on the verse which I wish to draw your attention to.

‘‭Ver. 11. ‭And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, [that‭ ‭were] called‭, &c.] Invited by him to go with him and partake of his peace offerings, as the payment of his vow in Hebron; part of which was made a feast of for his friends, whomsoever he should think fit to invite, as he did to the number of two hundred, and for the entertainment of whom a large provision ought to be made; the Jews ‭{h}‭ have a tradition, that he had leave of his father only to invite two to go with him, and that he asked two more unknown to the first, and so on, two after two, until they amounted to two hundred:‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ ‭‭and they went in their simplicity‭; to partake of the feast of the peace offerings, to which they were invited; being quite harmless and upright in their intentions, having no thought of disloyalty and rebellion in their breasts:‬‬‬ ‭‭and they knew not anything‭; of an intended conspiracy; howbeit, doubtless many of them were drawn into it when got thither; and as these may be supposed to be some of the principal men of Jerusalem, it was a great weakening of David’s interest, and laid a considerable foundation for Absalom to begin upon.‬‬‬’

Observations

I quote Dr Gill as a means of showing support for my own observations on this verse, read this morning (Saturday 19th) as the first chapter of my daily Bible reading.

I must acknowledge that I find daily in God’s Word that which strengthens me in the midst of the present controversy I have with some foolish men within our denomination with regards their forsaking of the “old Paths” into which the Lord led our founding fathers in 1951.

In this chapter we have related to us the events that indicate that Israel was on the verge of a very sad and bitter catastrophe, born out of David’s failure to rightly deal with the sin of a son he loved. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-09-21 a 6:00 am

Posted on 2026-09-20 a 10:53 pm

“Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you,” 2 Corinthians 7:2-3.

While few could match the passion and degree of love that Paul had for his Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, or the people of God and the cause of the Gospel, nevertheless at least a measure of his love should be in every Christian heart.

I believe I can echo, albeit faintly, this explanation he sends to the believers in Corinth, of the tenor of his letters to the church and the condemnations and rebukes they contained.

In his closing letter to Timothy, Paul left these words for every preacher to observe and practice.

“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,” 2 Timothy 4:1-2.

Thee can be no preaching of the Word of God without, reproving, rebuking, exhorting with all longsuffering and doctrine! Love cannot remain silent in the face of error and wrong-doing.

Such was the ministry Dr Ian Paisley in his heyday. Such is what I imbibed, at least to some degree, under his tuition.

These are the days spoken of by Paul when “perilous times shall come” (2 Timothy 3:1) and in the face of such departure and apostasy many professing Christians, even those who profess to be God’s servants, “will not endure sound doctrine”, (2 Timothy 4:3).

At least something of this spirit is very evident within the Free Presbyterian Church today. What the Lord led our forefathers out of the apostate Presbyterian Church in Ireland to preach and uphold – SEPARATION from the apostasy – is no longer fully and faithfully practised by all Free Presbyterians.

Even ministers and elders are seen to be guilty of forsaking this truth. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-09-19 a 6:00 am

Eóin Tennyson, of the Alliance Party, who is a self confessed sodomite since he was 19 (Wikipedia),  has introduced a Bill in the Stormont Assembly, that has been described by lawyers as presenting ‘a real threat to freedom’.

The Bill is intended to outlaw ‘Conversion Therapy’, a process embraced by new-evangelicals as their answer to the moral perversion of sodomy and its related practices.

‘Conversion Therapy’ is a sham and a fraud and it is but the invention of those who have but a ‘nodding acquaintance’ with Word of God and who really wish to rewrite the Bible to accommodate their modernistic notions!

Unionists are sallying forth to speak against the Bill, and in so doing, appear to be defending ‘Conversion Therapy’.

It is never right to ever give any credence to that which is wrong in order to oppose a greater wrong!

Conversion

What is lost sight of in the welter of words in Stormont is that Tennyson and his supporters are really aiming at the doctrine of God’s Word which Christians call ‘Conversion’. The word refers to a ‘turning from sin to the worship and obedience of the true God’. It is that which the Christians in Thessalonica experienced.

“For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing. For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come,” 1 Thessalonians 1:8-10.

Abomination.

God’s Word declares the lifestyle of Eóin Tennyson to be an abomination.

“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination,” Leviticus 18:22.

“And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel,” 1 Kings 14:24.

Those who persist in this perverted lifestyle are given up of God. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-09-18 a 6:00 am

An article headlined:—

Ken Funston: The endemic hatred of Jewish people – where will it end?

appeared in the ‘Belfast Newsletter’ of 4th September, some time ago now.

In a foot note to the article we are told this regarding the writer — ‘Ken Funston gained his PhD from Ulster University in 2020, and recently co-authored, with Cillian McGrattan, The Northern Ireland Conflict on the Margins of History: Protestant Memory on the Border.’

Dr Funston shows his learning by referring to the hatred of Jews — antisemitism — in history right up to the present time. He sets the present conflict in the Middle East in its proper context by referring to ‘the murderous mullahs of Iran and their Hamas and Hezbollah cohorts.’ He also highlights the cowardly contrivance of public figures to stay on the ‘safe’ side of such antisemitism by saying nothing critical of their wickedness or by openly siding with them!

A more important question to be asked, than the one that makes up the title of the article, is: ‘The endemic hatred of Jewish people – WHEN did it begin?’

However, it is clear that this hatred of the Jew is not a new phenomenon when he states, ‘The hatred of Jews – antisemitism – it can actually be traced as far back as ancient Greece’. However, it is also clear that he did not consult the Bible on this subject! It is the key to understanding antisemitism.

The hatred of the Jew dates back much further than the Grecian period.

I. THE HATRED OF THE JEW STEMS FROM WHO THEY ARE!

We read this back in the days when the offspring of Jacob had just become the nation of Israel: “Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people,” Exodus 19:5.

That promise was given repeatedly to Israel. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-09-17 a 6:00 am

This letter of support for Rev Abernethy’s response to Paul Given’s announcement has just been submitted to the ‘Belfast Newsletter’.

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Sir,

I write in support of Rev Darryl Abernethy’s response to Education Minister, Paul Given’s, latest announcement, reported in your article — Uniform change for girls ‘attack on the independence of Christian school’.

As a professing Christian, Mr Given should be guided by the ‘only rule of faith and practice’ for the Christian, the Word of God.

Instead, Mr Given tells us he was guided by the opinions of wee lassies!

The actions of Mr Given are all too common amongst professing Christians. The Word of God is set aside when its teaching contradicts the desire of the foolish to be “conformed to this world”, something forbidden of God.

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God,” Romans 12:1-2.

It is the Word of God that will be heeded in Free Presbyterian Christian schools and not the folly of a man who seeks ‘first’ his re-election!

Regards,

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
Kilskeery, Co Tyrone

Posted on 2026-09-13 a 10:08 pm

This weekend the Annual Kilskeery Sovereign Grace Advent testimony Conference was held at Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church.

The general topic was “BEHOLD THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH.”

Rev. Ivan Foster (Rtd) preached the Sabbath morning, September 13th service on the subject “The Proximity Of His Return.”

Read sermon notes here

 

View a video of this sermon below:

Posted on 2026-09-13 a 9:59 pm

Whatever may be said about the immigrants flooding into main land Britain, they are ILLEGAL! They are invaders who mainly are not seeking refuge from persecution but access to the economic and welfare benefits which are unbelievably heaped upon them on their arrival.

Myth!

I do not believe that history provides an act so utterly lunatic!

Yes, during the Trojan war, the city of Troy was successfully invaded by the Greeks. But they were concealed in a wooden horse and, above all, that event is mythical!

What is happening at present is beyond a myth. In truth you could not make it up that a national government would act as  stupidly as the present Labour and the previous Conservative  governments have done in response to the criminal activities of those ferrying across the illegal immigrants and charging huge fees for doing so!

Alongside the brainlessness of the London government has been the duplicitous and double-dealing French government. At best, in the response to the promised payment of some £662 million over three years, under a border security deal signed in April 2026, the French authorities have seen to it that nobody drowns getting to the rubber boats as they start across the Channel!

Rewarding the French mendacity is but another example of the utter inanity that controls Westminster!

We are told by the ‘dummies’ who herald and defend what is taking place, that these invaders are poor souls in need of help. Many of them are, and I am sure that a dose of the ‘birch’ would greatly help to straighten them out! Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-09-12 a 6:00 am

“‭If‭ in‭ this‭ life‭ only‭ we have hope‭‭‭‭ in‭ Christ‭, we are‭‭ of all‭ men‭ most miserable‭.‭ ‭But‭ now‭ is‭‭ Christ‭ risen‭‭ from‭ the dead‭, ‭and‭ become‭‭ the firstfruits‭ of them that slept‭‭,‭” ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬1 Corinthians 15:19-20.

These verses formed part of my daily Bible reading today,  Thursday 10th September. They show the folly of those who denied that there was a resurrection!

In the margin of my Bible, beside verse 12 of this chapter, I  wrote these words quite some time ago: ‘Another error in the church at Corinth’ for it states there: “‭Now‭ if‭ Christ‭ be preached‭‭ that‭ he rose‭‭ from‭ the dead‭, how‭ say‭‭ some‭ among‭ you‭ that‭ there is‭‭ no‭ resurrection‭ of the dead‭?‭”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

There were many errors circulating in that church both in the form of erroneous doctrines taught and believed by some and practices which were altogether improper and unholy and condemned by Paul.

There was division and infighting (1:10-13); there was the highly improper relationship between a man and his step-mother, which even the heathen would find abhorrent (5:1-7); there was a bringing of members to court by other members over issues that should have been settled by the elders (6:1-7) ; there was gross misuse of the sacrament of the Lord’s Table, even drunkenness (11:20-22)  — and here in Chapter 15, there is another instance of a departure from the Word of God, a most serious one indeed for it appears that some asserted ‭‭‭‭‭‭ “that‭ there is‭‭ no‭ resurrection‭ of the dead‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬”.

It must be noted in the light of these evils found amongst the Corinthian Christians that:

I. THE HOLY GHOST STILL CALLS THEM  ‘THE CHURCH OF GOD WHICH IS AT CORINTH’!

“‭Unto the church‭ of God‭ which‭ is‭‭ at‭ Corinth‭, to them that are sanctified‭‭ in‭ Christ‭ Jesus‭, called‭ ‭to be‭ saints‭, with‭ all‭ that in‭ every‭ place‭ call upon‭‭ the name‭ of Jesus‭ Christ‭ our‭ Lord‭, both‭ theirs‭ and‭ ours‭,‭” 1 Corinthians 1:2.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

I dare say that such was the spiritual state of the Corinthian church — and I have listed only some of the errors Paul deals with in his epistles to the church — that there are many amongst us that would call for separation from that body! Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-09-11 a 12:40 pm

“‭Thou shalt have no other‭ gods‭ before me‭, ‭” Exodus 20:3.‬‬‬‬‬

This is the ‘First Commandment’! It simply means, as Dr John Gill explains: ‘There is but one only living and true God, the former and maker of all things, who only is to be had, owned, acknowledged, served, and worshipped as such; all others have only the name, and are not by nature gods; they are other gods than the true God is; they are not real, but fictitious deities; they are other or strange gods to the worshippers of them, that cry unto them, for they do not answer.’

Of course, ‘other gods’ do not necessarily come in the form of brasen or wooden images. They can take on various forms — objects that we love and consider highly and put before the person of the true God.

They can be objects to which we look with affection and interest, above that with which we view the Lord.

When there is a choice to be made between obeying God’s Word and walking in submission to it or following the inclinations of our heart regarding an event, a person or a desire within us, then, if we forgo obedience to God’s Word in order to pursue that other path, we have in our life that which truly is ‘another god’!

There are many Christians who have erected a ‘shrine’ to another god and bow before that ‘shrine’ rather than obey God’s Word. This situation can very easily occur and is all too common in this cold and backslidden time!

When I first began attending the Free Presbyterian Church, the ‘atmosphere’ was filled with a consciousness of the necessity of having to:

‘Go through with God,

Our vows to pay.

Our all upon the altar lay.

The Holy Ghost will do the rest,

And bring to thee God’s very best.’

How often is that hymn sung now? Just how many have even heard of it?

Sixty-two years ago it echoed constantly within the walls of Free Presbyterianism.

The surrendered life was a constant theme of Dr Ian Paisley, under whose ministry I spent the first ten months of my Christian life before I became engaged in preaching each Sabbath as a student for the ministry.

Holiness

Holiness of life was constantly striven for. Oh sadly, there was not the success there ought to have been, but the desire and the effort was being made and encouraged from the pulpit and by the example of others.

How precious to me are the faces of those whose lives and prayers helped and guided a new convert! I still hold them in my memories of my days in ‘Old Ravenhill’!

There are still godly men and women within our ranks but I do not think that they are regarded as they should by many!

Their witness and views are counted ‘old fashioned’ and indeed, irksome and vexing. The sooner they be gone from our midst the better! Such is the sadly sinful attitude of some toward them!

This too would have been the way of thinking of many in the days of the prophets, who were called upon by the Lord to denounce the erecting and honouring of ‘other gods’.

First chapter

In my first Bible reading today (3.9.26), I read of David doubting and setting aside the promise of God to make him king, and instead adopting a lifestyle of self- enrichment and deceit! Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-09-10 a 4:04 am

Posted on 2026-09-07 a 6:06 pm

“Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?”

This decision was made just three days after the book was received by the author from the printer.

It is difficult to see how the members of Presbytery who made this decision on Friday evening, could have had a chance to fully examine what the book contained.

I suggest that the contents of it could only have been declared ‘wrong’ on the basis of a denial by those named within it.

That being the procedure adopted it means that we can shut the courts and sack the judges, for all that is needed is a denial from anyone charged with wrongdoing and the case is closed!

Is there not something of the ‘spirit’ that was at work amongst the enemies of the Lord Jesus, and which Nicodemus was moved to object to, at work today?

“Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.

Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.

Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,) Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?” John 7:45-51.

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)

7th September 2026

Posted on 2026-09-07 a 1:03 pm

The Glory of God departing from the temple – Eze 9-10, preached by Rev Ivan Foster on Friday, March 24, 2017.

A message in a series of monthly studies of the book of Ezekiel organised by The Sovereign Grace Advent testimony in London.

This book is largely about the glory of God. 1:28, 3:23, 8:4, 9:3, 10:4, 18-19, 11:22-23. It seems to me that as Moses was equipped for the task God had called him to by his seeing of God’s glory (Exodus 33:18-23) so it was with Ezekiel, Ezekiel 1:28.

Closely associated with the events of these two chapters are the events in chapter 8. We must take note of those events. There God begins to reveal to the prophet the awful hidden apostasy in the land.

Today, we need men whose eyes God has opened to the apostasy amongst us and whose mouths are opening in faithful warnings.

Posted on 2026-09-06 a 1:27 pm

“Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long?” Lamentations 2:20.

I frequently marvel and tremble at the disregard, the indifference, that all too many ministers and elders show with regards the consequence of casually setting aside the eternal Word of God.

The most indifferent and blasé reading of God’s Word will nevertheless bring before us the most terrible warnings that  the Lord God issues regarding the ramifications of ignoring and disobeying His commands.

In the ‘Lamentations of Jeremiah’, recorded after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 588 BC, there is contained the most heart-rending depictions of the consequences of Judah’s failings to heed the warning of the ‘Weeping Prophet’ which were commanded of God to be preached over a period of some 41 years, according to James Ussher’s chronology.

During that time, the people showed their dismissive disregard for the Word of God by repeatedly abusing and ill-treating the messenger of God, the prophet Jeremiah.

Commanded

In the year 609 BC, the prophet was commanded of the Lord to:—

“Stand in the court of the LORD’S house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD’S house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word: if so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings. And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, to hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened; then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD. Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die. Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant?

And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD. When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king’s house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD’S house. ¨s and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears. Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard. Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you. As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you. But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears,” Jeremiah 26:2-15.

What words are these?

When I read these words I noted :—

1. The people were led by blinded and ignorant priests to reject the Word of God. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-09-05 a 6:00 am

It was with sorrow mingled with joy, that I received the following news.

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BRECKBILL BIBLE COLLEGE

It is with sadness and rejoicing that we announce the homegoing of Dr. Ronald Cooke (1933-2026), President of our college and a faithful servant of Christ.

His passing, though he had been ill, came sooner than many of us expected. Yet even in announcing his death, there is something we must remember about the man himself: Dr. Cooke did not want attention drawn to himself.

He was very intentional about this.

When teaching his students, Dr. Cooke would tell of the Scottish missionary who had gone to the New Hebrides to preach the Gospel. When people gathered around him, they wanted to hear his stories—his adventures, his dangers, his experiences, and all that he had seen and accomplished on the mission field.

But the missionary did not tell them about himself.

He preached Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Click to read more…

Posted on 2026-09-03 a 6:59 pm

A new publication by Rev Alan Dunlop in which he gives his analysis of recent events within the Free Presbyterian Church.

Price – £5 including postage.

Obtainable from:—

Rev Alan Dunlop,
25 Esky Road,
Derrytrasna,
Craigavon, BT66 6PA.

(dsclevel1@hotmail.com)

Posted on 2026-09-03 a 6:47 pm

Copies may be obtained from:—

Rev David Linden,
35 Glenwood,
Ahoghill,
Ballymena,
Co. Antrim,

BT42 1GW 

The price is  £5, includes postage.

Posted on 2026-09-03 a 1:26 am

The publication comprises the sermon notes of five messages preached recently in Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church at two Lord’s Day Services and a prayer meeting.

(July 19th, 29th & August 2nd)

(The videos of the messages are available on ‘The Burning Bush’ website)

The purpose of the messages was to show that the age in which the Saviour ministered at His first advent was very like the days in which we live. Therefore our hoping that He will move again in revival power amidst His people, in a time of great apostasy, is not a vain hope.

We would be happy to supply one free copy per person until the supply runs out.

Click here to download a PDF copy of this book.

Posted on 2026-09-01 a 11:44 pm

“‭Take heed‭‭ therefore‭ unto yourselves‭, and‭ to all‭ the flock‭, over‭ the which‭ the Holy‭ Ghost‭ hath made‭‭ you‭ overseers‭, to feed‭‭ the church‭ of God‭, which‭ he hath purchased‭‭ with‭ his own‭ blood‭,” Acts 20:28.

If there was a need for such a warning to elders in the days of apostolic blessing, how much more it is needed in these days of world-wide repudiation of the truth of the Gospel and the increasing tide of Satanic deception?

This is a sermon preached on January 1st, 1984 by Rev. Ivan Foster at Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church.

Posted on 2026-09-01 a 6:00 am