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News Review, 26th October 2018.

“The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth, Genesis 6:11-13.

(Irish Prime Minister) Varadkar acts as if Brexit, not terrorists, will be to blame for violence

Victims of IRA accuse Taoiseach of hyping up hard border violence fears

Two decades after signing of Agreement, politicians on all sides need to be much more careful with their words

Former Irish President backs Varadkar’s warning on border violence 

If Brexit would be to blame for any future violence then presumably the IRA was not to blame for violence in the past!!!”

Read more…

News review for week ending Friday 19th October 2018.

“Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea,” Micah 7:18-19.

MLAs paid £275k for travel to Stormont since suspension

Payment of £275k to MLAs for travel to Stormont branded ‘extravagant’

“The Stormont Assembly has not convened since January 2017. One wonders if it was functioning could we afford to pay the travel expenses of these people!!”

The coming days are critical for NI’s status within UK

Former Northern Ireland Secretary warns ‘Irish border must not block Brexit’

DUP predicts ‘developments’ in Government’s Brexit position over weekend

BREXIT BETRAYAL: Britain to hand billions to Brussels under May’s customs union plot

Brexiteer Bridgen predicts May could be ousted NEXT WEEK amid Chequers customs union row

Arlene Foster warns Theresa May over ‘dodgy’ Brexit deal

More news stories from this past week…

News review for week ending Friday 12th October 2018.

“When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:  but thou, LORD, art most high for evermore,” Psalm 92:7-8.

‘Gay cake’ row: Supreme Court rules in favour of Ashers

Supreme court victory for Christian bakers in ‘gay cake case’

Christian bakers ‘delighted and relieved’ at court victory in ‘gay cake’ case

Christian bakers who refused to make wedding cake for gay couple win Supreme Court appeal

Ashers judgement: Protestant churches unite to hail protection for Christians

Read the rest of this week’s news review…

News review for week ending Friday 5th October 2018

“For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist,” 2 John 1:7.

Powerful DUP figure admits party broke the law while in Stormon

RHI Inquiry: Evidence U-turn on ‘hierarchy’ from DUP Spad Timothy Johnston

RHI Inquiry: Sinn Fein side-stepped law on Spads – and mandarins let them, says Johnston

Jonathan Bell was a minister who was viewed by party colleagues as being “superficial”

Stormont Ministers misled the House – Jim Allister, TUV leader.

If Arlene Foster doesn’t survive RHI, who would replace her as DUP leader?

Experts ‘knew green scheme was flawed’- RHI inquiry

Read more of this week’s news review….

The glory days of Ian Paisley

Four years have passed since the death of Dr. Paisley and we are remounting an article that reminisces on the days of blessing in his ministry.

What a man of God dear Dr Paisley was in those days, which I consider his heyday, the zenith of his pulpit ministry. How faithfully he warned the people of God in Ulster and also in the United Kingdom and further afield, regarding the gathering clouds of ignorance which were the direct result of the apostasy in the so-called Protestant pulpits. The main ‘Protestant’ denominations in Ulster had, through their links with the ecumenical movement and involvement with the World Council of Churches, imbibed the modernistic notions and the unity with Rome delusions, propagated by the false prophets of 20th century ‘Christianity’! Read more…

News review for week ending Friday 28th September 2018

“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death,” Revelation 21:8.

Archaeologists to unearth Siege of Derry secrets

“Protestants should do a little digging into their history. Were they to, they would be less inclined to listen to the Ecumenists  and such detractors of what Protestantism has done for our land and reject their singing of the praises of popery!!”

UKIP leader Gerard Batten links sexual grooming of girls to Islam

Michael Portillo warns May must FORGET her plan and accept one of THESE two options

Don’t be bullied by Brussels into a compromise on the border, DUP’s Dodds urges Prime Minister

Theresa May’s FINEST HOUR: Furious PM goes to war with EU for ‘making a mockery’ of UK

‘Steely resolve at the 11th hour’ Rees-Mogg praises PM for standing up to EU BULLIES

Journalist’s tweet that British ‘don’t give a monkey’s’ about Northern Ireland riles MEP Nicholson

PM ‘will never agree’ to NI customs border

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FIVE QUESTIONS WHICH SETTLE THE ‘SEPARATION’ DEBATE!

The Christian who believes in and practises ‘Biblical separation’ from those who reject the teaching of the Bible and those Christians who maintain fellowship with such rejectors, are labelled unloving, lacking in ‘Christian charity’ by their opponents!

But, as it was with Paul who likewise suffered such abuse from those whose wrongs and sins he rebuked, it is not the ‘separatist’ who lacks love but those who refuse to separate from evil.

Paul says to those who opposed him in Corinth, “O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels,” 2 Corinthians 6:11-12.

There was no ‘narrowness’ in Paul’s love for them but there was a definite ‘straightening’ of their hearts toward him. Read more…

News review for week ending Friday 21st September 2018.

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation,” 2 Peter 3:3-4.

Michael Gove apologises for attending Ian Paisley dinner

MI6 believed former Labour leader Foot ‘was KGB agent’

Soviet Union PAID Michael Foot forcing him to reveal KGB links to Queen

“They sure must have been short of spies!!!”

UUP leader: The plans to deal with the past appease the IRA and will be used to paint the security forces as villains

SF’s paper says IRA ‘stood their ground’ in Ballymurphy Massacre

“Thus contradicting their propaganda from the past!!!”

The God conclusion: leading mathematician John Lennox takes on atheism

“This is an interesting story for Ulster readers, many of us having little knowledge of this man!!”

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THE WORSHIP OF MOLECH

A picture of the State Education system!

“And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD,” Leviticus 18:21.

What I am about to say in this article will, I fear, annoy and anger some!

Those who feel displeased at what I say, may I just remind them all that the Lord Jesus in His first sermon recorded by Luke, so irked all of His hearers that they tried to murder Him! “And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. But he passing through the midst of them went his way,” Luke 4:28-30. I am sure that I will not vex all who read this article but I am anxious to appeal to those who may be upset that they evaluate just what it that I have said that annoys them! Read more…

“PERJURING PRELATES”

A message preached by Rev. Foster on September 5th, 1993.

Why there is a reluctance by many Church of Ireland clerics to affirm their belief in Article 31 of the 39 Articles of Religion.

“Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty,” Judges 5:23

The 39 Articles of Religion form the doctrinal basis of Anglicanism. They were first compiled in 1562, finally replacing the Articles compiled in the reign of Henry VIII. Henry’s Articles grew out of the confusion of doctrine that was being preached in the land at that time of reformation and upheaval. Henry sent a circular to all the bishops on 12th July 1536, forbidding all preaching until Michaelmas (September 29th) by which time articles of religion would be set down as a doctrinal guideline. The king himself drew up the articles which were duly agreed by both houses of the Anglican Convocation. They were anything but Biblical and were filled with popish superstition. Baptismal regeneration, transubstantiation, purgatory, prayers to saints, holy water, the sign of the cross, kissing the cross and images as part of worship were all sanctioned by Henry’s Articles. In 1552, Archbishop Cranmer and Bishop Ridley compiled 42 articles which, after an examination by bishops and learned men, were reviewed by Cranmer and Ridley and ratified by King Edward VII. These articles became the basis of the present 39 Articles. Read more and listen...

News review for week ending Friday 14th September, 2018

“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them,” Isaiah 8:20.

Fresh call for smacking to be outlawed in the home

(Scotland’s First Minister) Sturgeon backs ban on parents smacking children

“Hardly surprising since every other ‘anti-Bible’ policy has been embraced by our nation in its downward plunge!!”

PSNI raid an ‘attempt to intimidate journalists’

“It would be wise to withhold comments until it is seen whether or not the journalists are found guilty of the theft of documents!!”

BBC admits ‘we get climate change coverage wrong too often’

“Indeed!!!”

PM retains confidence in Karen Bradley despite lack of NI electoral knowledge

Prime Minister retains confidence in Karen Bradley despite lack of Northern Ireland electoral knowledge

“There are very few who would consider her any wiser now!!!”

Read more of this week’s news review…

“WAR DECLARED!!”

“And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment,” John 16:8.

Mr Ronnie McLean, when preaching from Acts 1:8 on the subject of ‘The Infilling of the Holy Spirit’ in Kilskeery on the Lord’s Day morning, 9th September, in his introduction to his subject, referred to John 16:8.

As I looked it up I was struck by what is a declaration of war by the Holy Ghost against the spirit and ethos of this world in which we live.

Holy Ghost holiness is the very opposite to all that is in the world. This idea is totally alien to all those today who claim to enjoy the fulness of the Holy Spirit’s power and grace, but whose way of life is very evidently not opposed to the ways of the world!

The ‘worship’ services, the mode of dress, the general appearance and behaviour of the modern ‘Pentecostalist’ are utterly worldly. Far from a spirit of reverential fear of God in their services there is the air of a circus, a centre for worldly entertainment. This they decidedly promote. It is not something into which they have carelessly declined but rather pointedly advance and nurture! The ‘minister’ is attired in the most casual of clothing – usually jeans and an open neck shirt! There is little order observed during the ‘service’, with people going and coming and drinking coffee etc!

This they would have us know is “Holy Spirit Christianity”!! Read more…

News review for week ending Friday 7th September 2018

Loughinisland: Journalists arrested over documents investigation

Journalists connected to Loughinisland Massacre documentary arrested – confidential documents allegedly stolen from Police Ombudsman office

Loughinisland: Arrest of journalists is ‘attack on press’

Journalists held in Loughinisland ‘theft’ probe released

Legacy Scandal: ‘Republicans relentlessly blacken security forces to re-write history,’ says Orange chief

We won’t forget our murdered members or loved ones

Victims of terrorism are facing a trap in legacy proposals, says lawyer

Read the rest of this week’s news review here.

 News review for week ending Friday 31st August, 2018.

“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many,” Matthew 24:4-5.

Pope keeps silent on abuse claim letter at end of Irish visit

Pope silent on claims he covered up sexual misconduct by US cardinal following Irish visit

Pope will not say ‘a single word’ on cover-up claims

Former Vatican official: ‘Pope knew about abuse allegations and must RESIGN’

Pope on claims he covered up sexual abuse allegations: ‘I won’t say a word about it’

Call for Pope Francis to resign after new sexual abuse claims

Evangelical Alliance leader Peter Lynas and Maghaberry Elim’s Robbie Butler consort with Popery

Read more here (Link to the Protestant Revival website)

News review for week ending Friday 24th August, 2018

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,” 2 Peter 3:3.

DUP not attending Dublin Castle Pope address

Arlene Foster to miss date with Pope in Dublin

Arlene Foster turns down invitation from Irish Government to Pope’s visit

Arlene Foster ‘regretfully’ declines invitation to Pope’s speech in Dublin Castle

‘In a statement, the DUP said Mrs Foster appreciates the invitation but regretfully will be away with her family at that time.’

Are we to understand that had she not been on holiday, she would have ‘happily’ (the opposite of regretfully) attended?

If this is not the case, why did she ‘regret’ being unable to attend? Why did she not plainly say that she would not attend any gathering honouring the head of the organisation, the chief ordinance of which is spoken of as ‘a blasphemous fable and a dangerous deceit’ by her own Church of Ireland historic standards?”

Read more of the weekly news review…

“The DUP has missed an opportunity by not meeting Pope Francis on his Irish visit this weekend.”

So ran the headline of an article in the Belfast Newsletter of Saturday 25th August, the day the pope landed in Dublin. It was written by Ben Lowry, the deputy editor of the newspaper.

In the article he states two reasons for the opinion set forth in the headline.

1. ‘As Christianity in the West slowly but relentlessly declines, some aggressive secular values are prevailing. The speed with which social policies have changed on issues such as same-sex marriage and abortion, and the almost hysterical way in which traditionalists are harangued on those topics, means that Christians at times seem almost to have been browbeaten into not really stating what they think on such important matters. Read more…

The Lessons of the Omagh bomb

I was reminded of this message with the recent publicity surrounding the 20th anniversary of this dastardly act by dissident IRA terrorists.

Shamefully, no one has ever been convicted of the crime even though it appears to be well known who is guilty!

The message was prepared in the morning prayer meeting just before the morning service so you will have to forgive its short-comings!

Click here to listen and to read a statement issued at the time by the Free Presbyterian ministers in the area.

The following article was published in the Burning Bush at the time.

Irish Republicans Murder 28 in Omagh

The full horror of the IRA’s 30 years of murder by bomb and bullet, almost exclusively directed against the Protestant people in Northern Ireland, has been brought home to the Roman Catholic nationalist community by the horrific bombing in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, on Saturday 15th August. Read more…

Groomsport Presbyterian Church celebrates same-sex marriage of former trainee ‘minister’

(Source: Protestant Revival website) …it has recently come to our attention that Groomsport Presbyterian Church, near Bangor in County Down, has offered its support to same-sex ‘marriage’ by cheerily celebrating the recent ‘wedding’ between a former intern ‘minister’ in the congregation and her ‘girlfriend’.

In their church magazine, known as ‘Eagle Wing’, it is proudly boasted of ‘Rev’ Jennifer Barchi’s ‘marriage’ to her ‘girlfriend’. Read more…

Ecumenical charismaniacs looking to Rome for revival at Nutts Corner

(Source: Protestant Revival website) The ongoing charismatic efforts to degrade the spiritual landscape in Ulster continues apace, and they will focus their efforts next month on an ecumenical prayer initiative called ‘Healing The Land’.

Indeed, the event, scheduled for Saturday, 8th September at Nutts Corner, is being marketed as for Protestant, Catholic and those of no denomination – an ecumenist’s dream.

Perhaps Nutts Corner is a very apt venue for an easy-believist event, not just because of its name but for its reputation as a place to purchase something cheaply. Read more…

Presbytery Statement re Presbyterians attending the Papal Visit

Love for the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and concern for the eternal souls of men will prevent any Bible believer from union or communion with a Roman Catholic Church that remains as contrary to Holy Scripture today as it ever has been.

• As long as it proclaims its leader as the supreme head of the church on earth,
• denigrates the work that Christ completed on Calvary by the pretentious teachings central to its mass,
• refuses the scriptural way of salvation that justification is by faith alone in Christ alone,
• fleeces its adherents by means of an imaginary purgatory,
• and offers indulgences with as much aplomb as Tetzel managed in Martin Luther’s day,

no true Christian should engage in fellowship with this system, never mind travel to welcome its Pope. Read more…

News review for week ending Friday August 17th.

“The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted,” Psalm 12:8.

Sinn Fein stop and search claims ‘nonsense’, says ex-RUC man

“Which of their claims were ever anything other than ’nonsense’??!!”

Irish unity would bring thousands of job cuts: DUP’s Hamilton

“I have often said that, if it were God’s mercy (and it was) that spared the 6 counties of the north east of Ireland from ‘Home Rule’ in June 1921, then it must be God’s judgment that delivers us under the rule of Dublin!”

William Frazer thanks everyone for support after father’s IRA murder mocked on republican bonfire

Willie Frazer hails support of nationalists over placard

“There is no limit to Irish Republicans’ depraved cruelty!!!”

Omagh bomb took my sight at 15, but I’m a mum with a family now… I can’t let myself be consumed by anger

Read the rest of the week’s news review here.

A Tribute to Mrs Anne Ferguson

Given by Rev Ivan Foster at her funeral service in Lurgan Free Presbyterian Church, August 14th, 2018, when some 600 people gathered to sympathise with and support Rev Gordon Ferguson and his family in their bereavement.

I am not a member of Anne Ferguson’s family. However, we were both members of a family God gathered unto Himself in a time of rich blessing in the mid-60s down in Co. Fermanagh.

Anne was saved on 27th April 1969. That Sabbath evening was my first in the Lisbellaw pulpit following a month-long prison term in Crumlin Road jail. Read more…

Listen to the entire funeral service here.

Our unassailable God

“There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD,” Proverbs 21:30.

The day following the sodomite “Gay Pride” parade in Belfast, (Saturday, 4th August) I went to God’s house much cast down by the news reports of the support given to that evil demonstration! In a land so blessed by God over the last 500 years and more, to hear of children and babes in arms in their hundreds being brought along to such an event and being used to ‘sanitise’ this defiance of the laws of God and of nature, was most distressing.

It was in such a state of mind I went to God’s house. But it was there that God had a word for my soul! Read more…

News review Friday August 10th

“For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. 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. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them,” Acts 20:27-30.

Peter Robinson: ‘Some refuse to talk about the elephant in the room… but it is positioning itself to squat upon their laps’

DUP row deepens as Robinson says ‘battle for the union is on’

DUP: Arlene Foster saw Peter Robinson border poll article before it was published

Robinson’s views on future border poll are spot on, insists DUP chief Foster

Read the rest of the week’s news review here.

News review Friday August 3rd

“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.

Probe over donations to terror-linked group

Government demands answers after one of Britain’s biggest charities gives £275,000 to Irish republican group linked to banned terrorist organisation

Watchdog demands answers over claims charity gave £275k donations to INLA linked group

Human trafficking: 150 child slave victims identified (in Wales)

The trade of Antichrist’s commercial kingdom: “And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: the merchandise of . . . . . wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men,” Revelation 18:11, 13.

Read the rest of the week’s news review here.