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Presbyterian Moderator congratulates abortion and sodomite marriage supporter on becoming Irish prime minister

Leaders of the mainstream churches in Ireland, on either side of the border, love to try to give themselves some feeling of relevance and gravitas by making statements in relation to the political affairs in their jurisdiction.

Quite often we will see the miserable sight of the leaders of the Church of Ireland, Presbyterian, Methodist and Romanist churches standing together with their solemn faces (for effect), speaking about how they have just blethered on in the ear of some disinterested, minor government figure about how they hope everyone is nice to eachother and invites their political enemies round for a cup of tea.

Northern Ireland is still subjected to this self-indulgent, meaningless nonsense and deep down all four churches’ leaders must have loved the numerous opportunities they had to do just that while power-sharing in Northern Ireland had collapsed.

They stated how they wanted the Executive back up and running and for us to put aside our differences, a euphemistic way of saying we should all dance to the tune of the murderers and murderer sympathisers and supporters of Sinn Fein so they can continue to let us all play happy families to keep the ecumenical show on the road.

Sometimes we even had the bonus of a fifth religious compromiser when the President of the Irish Council of Churches, currently Rev Ivan Patterson and previously Rev Brian Anderson, would join in for the day’s outing.

And in that true irrelevant and self-important spirit we have the current Presbyterian Moderator, the Right Reverend Dr David Bruce, jumping in to send his congratulations to Micheál Martin on becoming the new Taoiseach, or prime minister of the Republic of Ireland.

Given the Presbyterian Church is an all-island church, it is perfectly reasonable for Rev David Buce to be making a comment.

However, it is truly remarkable that a man who would claim to be a servant of God and presumably trying to please Him, would congratulate a man on becoming the most senior political figure in the country who is in support of abortion and sodomite marriage.

These are two grave sins which are utterly at odds with any form of true Christianity, so why would congratulations be extended to a man who most assuredly will not move to cease baby murder or the desecration of the marriage bond instituted by God?

Indeed, in the statement issued by Rev David Bruce, he makes absolutely no mention of these two vital issues, and surely they are even more relevant as it has just been revealed that in the first year of legalised abortion in the Republic of Ireland there had been 6,666 (and we all know what the number 6 represents in God’s Word) babies done to death.

Instead, this latest piffling pastor bleats on about Brexit and coronavirus, as if this new prime minister has any power to truly affect either of these issues.

We will remind Rev David Bruce and, indeed Micheál Martin, a man of a Romanist background, what the Bible has to say on both sodomy and the value of the baby in the womb.

Firstly, we will point out the Biblical view on abortion.

Psalm 139:13-16 is a famous passage which stresses how God keeps a record of even a tiny baby whose body has not yet formed in their mother’s womb.

It says: “For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.”

God sees fit to record the particulars of the unborn, yet Micheál Martin sees fit to back legislation which makes the organised slaughter of the unborn legal and Rev David Bruce sees fit to not trouble him by challenging him on this appalling situation.

With regards the issue of sodomy, we have dealt with this topic on so many occasions that surely none can be left in any doubt as to what the Bible says about this sin which drew the particular wrath of God.

Only those who deliberately wish to ignore God’s Word on this matter, for whatever reason, can continue to quibble on this.

We will once again reproduce here just a small number of the passages which make the Scriptural view on this matter very clear.

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

Romans 1:26-27: “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.”

1 Corinthians 6:9-10: “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”

This is crystal clear stuff, yet so many who purport to be Christians and, worse again, Christian leaders, either ignore, disregard or downright deny this simple truth.

Micheál Martin does not, to the best of our knowledge, claim to be a Christian, but Rev David Bruce certainly does and he shouldn’t be congratulating a man who supports things which are so clearly repugnant to the Word of God.

He may well be opposed to abortion, he might even be opposed to sodomite marriage, but if he doesn’t do anything to challenge political leaders on their support for such sins, he is of little use.

Like so many of his peers, he is a dog which refuses to bark.

Isaiah 56:10: “His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.”

Let us all pray that God will raise up a generation of preachers who know how to bark, rather than slumbering while the world around us is descending ever closer to the pit.

And let us remind those we know or come in contact with of the blessed hope which is in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Romans 10:13: “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

1 John 1:9: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Former Presbyterian elder Lord Alderdice votes for baby murder as NINETEEN Anglican bishops sit on their hands

Psalm 139:13-16: “For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.”

Another sad chapter in the history of Northern Ireland was written this past week as ungodly abortion legislation, foisted on the people of this country against their will, was further rubber stamped by God-defying Parliamentarians at Westminster.

Sizeable majorities in both Houses of Westminster, the Commons and the Lords, voted to confirm that babies can be murdered indiscriminately in their mother’s womb up to 24 weeks of gestation.

Babies can be destroyed because of any perceived physical difficulty they may have right up to birth, including Down’s Syndrome or something as minor and easily corrected as a cleft lip, and there is no legal protection against sex-selective abortion.

Whatever way you look at it, this is a truly ghastly situation and it is hard to fathom how so many can be filled with such cruelty and inhumanity as to put their name in support of the slaughter of the unborn.

It is bad enough when those who make no claim whatsoever to any form of Christianity vote for such a wicked law, but to see those who would claim to be Christians voting in favour of it, or sitting back and failing to vote on what is literally a matter of life and death, is utterly sickening.

Yet that is exactly what former Alliance Party leader and former Presbyterian elder Lord Alderdice has done as he put his ‘aye’ to the legislation backing the indiscriminate slaughter of the children of Northern Ireland who have been considered unworthy of life by their mother.

That’s right, a man who would claim to be a Christian, voted for children to be done away with up to 24 weeks in the womb, a timeframe further on in pregnancy than many children have been reported to have survived extremely premature birth.

Lord Alderdice has also, by voting the way he has, indicated his support for murdering a child simply because they have Down’s Syndrome or even a cleft lip and has pledged his name to legislation which makes no provision to prevent sex-selective abortion.

Isn’t it utterly reprehensible?

No doubt everyone reading this will know someone with Down’s Syndrome and many of us will love someone dearly with Down’s Syndrome or some other condition which apparently makes them less worthy of life.

What do you make of a so-called Christian expressing his support for the doing away with the life of someone with this condition? What is it that makes someone with Down’s Syndrome less worthy of life in his eyes?

A young woman called Heidi Crowter has been a passionate spokesperson for those with Down’s Syndrome. She, herself, has Down’s Syndrome – how does Lord Alderdice think it makes her, and so many more like her, feel to be told her life is worth less than others? It is a vile notion.

Of course, vile notions and Lord Alderdice are not entirely divorced one from another as he supports another such vileness – that God cursed notion of homosexuality.

Indeed, it was the Presbyterian Church taking tepid actions against the facilitating of sodomy within the denomination that brought Lord Alderdice out of the woodwork and briefly back into the limelight two years ago.

The Presbyterian Church in Ireland voted, at the 2018 General Assembly, to restrict those in open same-sex relationships from full communicant membership and banned the baptism of children in the care of a same-sex couple.

Such very proper moves were all too much for the likes of Lord Alderdice, who resigned as an elder in the Presbyterian Church within a very short time of the decisions being ratified.

Never worry what the Bible has to say on the matter, Lord Alderdice’s thoughts and feelings on the matter trumped God’s inspired Word.

Some of the passages presumably redacted from Lord Alderdice’s Bible include:

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

Romans 1:24-27: “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.”

Matthew 19:4-6: “And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

1 Timothy 1:9-10: “Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine”.

Jude v 7: “Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”

That is just a few of the verses which give us a very clear steer on the matter of homosexuality and that is before we even point out that nowhere in Scripture is it even considered a possibility that a same-sex relationship was proper.

At this rate, Lord Alderdice’s Bible would have more redacted passages than a Communist government document.

His former party colleague, Alliance MP for North Down, Stephen Farry also voted in favour of baby murder when the Bill passed to the House of Commons a couple of days later for final ratification.

What do the 18,358 individuals who voted for Stephen Farry last December think of their decision now? Did they realise when they cast their vote for him that he would make his mark by adding his support to the murder of children in this country?

In addition to the despicable actions of Lord Alderdice and Stephen Farry, it is also clear that the former most senior clergyman in the Church of Ireland failed to take a stand on abortion when it came to the vote in the Lords on Monday past, 15 June.

Lord Eames (pictured, above), the former Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, has been a member of the House of Lords since 1995.

As a former very senior clergyman, one would have hoped he might be keen to take a stand against such a despicable sinful law, but, such hopes were to be dashed.

It is rather bizarre as last year he was credited with co-writing a letter opposing moves by Westminster to legalise abortion in Northern Ireland.

Lord Eames managed to find the time to vote on other matters last Monday, including voting in favour of the “Extradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [HL] – Third Reading — Amendment 2” and “Amendment 3”, whatever they were about, according to the website, ‘They Work For You’ (which you can see for yourself by clicking here), but was apparently unable to spare a few minutes to stand up for the lives of the unborn.

How that came to happen we do not know, though we are more than happy for him to contact us or issue a public statement to clarify how this came to be the case.

After all, what use is a clergyman who fails to take a stand for that which is right?

Such actions, or indeed, inactions, are akin to the “dumb dog” condemned in the prophecy of Isaiah.

We read in Isaiah 56:10: “His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.”

Lord Eames’ vote would not have been decisive, but it is incomprehensible how he did not consider it a vitally important matter to ensure his vote was counted in the tallies opposing the planned murder of defenceless babies.

And the same can be said for 18 of the (currently 25, normally 26) so-called Lords Spiritual, Church of England bishops who sit in the House of Lords, who failed to bother to cast their vote last Monday either.

This ignoble hall of shame is occupied by Bishops David Urquhart (Birmingham), Vivienne Faull (Bristol), Stephen Cottrell (Chelmsford), Martin Warner (Chichester), Elizabeth Lane (Derby), Stephen Conway (Ely), Rachel Treweek (Gloucester), Nicholas Baines (Leeds), Christopher Lowson (Lincoln), Sarah Mullally (London, pictured, below), Christine Hardman (Newcastle), Steven Croft (Oxford), Christopher Foster (Portsmouth), James Langstaff (Rochester), Nicholas Holtam (Salisbury), Christopher Chessun (Southwark), Alan Smith (St Albans) and John Inge (Worcester).

Voting can be carried out remotely now as part of efforts to curb travel and stem the spread of coronavirus, so these bishops couldn’t even bother themselves to click a button on their computer to voice their opposition to the murder of children.

Seven bishops did vote against this wicked piece of legislation and among them was the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. We have previously criticised him, quite, properly, for his outrageous apostasy, but praise him for at least publicly expressing his opposition to this legislation.

The other six Lords Spiritual to vote against the murder of the unborn were Julian Henderson (Blackburn), James Newcome (Carlisle), Christopher Cocksworth (Coventry), Paul Butler (Durham), Donald Allister (Peterborough) and Timothy Dakin (Winchester). We commend them all for at least taking this stand for this most basic level of decency.

The matter of abortion regulations in Northern Ireland now moves to the Assembly in Belfast and let us not give up the fight.

It is indescribably wicked that children can be done away with at the drop of a hat and we must stand against such vileness.

We fear for the judgment which will come upon this land for the slaughter of the innocent and defenceless.

We need only look at the punishment meted out by God on the land of Judah for the sin of Manasseh in shedding much innocent blood, including the ritual sacrificing of children to the pagan God, Molech.

2 Kings 21:1-2,6,12,16: “Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hephzi-bah. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.”

2 Kings 24:1-4: “In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servants the prophets. Surely at the commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did; And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the Lord would not pardon.”

The Lord “would not pardon” the shedding of innocent blood brought about by Manasseh.

How can we expect God’s blessing to be poured out on our land if we have clinics set up especially to murder the unborn?

Let us do all we legally can to prevent such devilish procedures taking place in our land.

21 October 2019 – a day of mourning in Ulster as abortion and sodomite marriage is foisted upon us

It is with unspeakable sorrow and grief of heart that we write this post.

In Northern Ireland, a land so gloriously blessed by God in times past, it is now legal to murder unborn infants, ripping them forcibly from the womb of their mother who has decided she simply doesn’t want them.

In Northern Ireland, a land so gloriously blessed by God in times past, it is now legal for two sodomites, whose relationship is deemed an “abomination” by God, to marry one another.

What a dreadful, sad set of circumstances we find ourselves in in this country, which has stood apart for so many years from these two grave wickednesses which have consumed so much of the so-called ‘developed world’.

This wickedness has been forced upon us by evil men and women in the corridors of power at Westminster, led by the likes of Labour MPs Stella Creasy (or Stella Greasy!) and Conor McGinn, who introduced these motions which have now become law.

The utter overthrowing of God’s Law in our land can be seen in these dreadfully sad new laws of men and women.

A last minute effort by the DUP and some others, notably some Ulster Unionists, including, to give him his dues, Maghaberry Elim deacon Robbie Butler, whom we have previously and justly criticised for his Popish compromise, and the TUV’s Jim Allister, to block abortion legislation fell by the wayside.

Sinn Fein refused to turn up to the Stormont sitting brought about by the parties and individuals named above, though it can hardly be a surprise they made no effort to block the murder of the unborn when they to this day act as principal cheerleaders for the sectarian murder campaign of the IRA. Many of their most senior members are convicted terrorists.

Also absent were the quasi-Communist People Before Profit, the Green Party, who are pro-abortion and the ecumenical party known as the Alliance Party.

Many of their senior members, including East Antrim MLA Stewart Dickson and party leader, Naomi Long, claim to be Christian yet are happy to see abortion and sodomite marriage legislation come into being in Northern Ireland, or at least didn’t bother to turn up at Stormont to try to stop it.

Indeed, the Irish News reported earlier this week that Naomi Long had “appeared to offer her support for a 24-week limit for abortions in line with Britain”.

She praised one of her party’s councillors, open sodomite Eoin Tennyson, after he stated his support for abortion up to 24 weeks. The Irish News stated she “could not be contacted for further comment” when they made efforts to reach her, which is bizarre, given she seems to live on Twitter.

As it was, they didn’t necessarily need to turn up for abortion legislation to have been blocked, but DUP efforts were stymied by incumbent Speaker, and elected DUP MLA, Robin Newton, who refused to allow business to proceed to discussing a Bill introduced by the DUP to block abortion.

This, he stated, was because a new Speaker needed to be elected on a cross-community basis, rejecting numerous efforts by DUP leader Arlene Foster and others to get the Bill through.

She and her party said they had legal advice from the Attorney General saying they could suspend Assembly rules to get the legislation through, but Robin Newton rejected this and at that point the efforts to block baby murder were doomed to fail.

Atheist political commentator Alex Kane praised Newton for sticking to his guns despite the pressure applied to him, but Robin Newton (pictured, above) is worthy only of condemnation for not using any legal means in his remit to block the murder of unborn children.

How sad a DUP MLA put the final nail in the coffin, as it were, of any efforts to prevent the unrestricted destruction of children up to 28 weeks in the womb.

A glaring omission, of course, can be seen in all this as not one voice seemed to be raised against the introduction of sodomite marriage.

Perhaps the DUP didn’t make any efforts at the Assembly as they, probably correctly, knew there was no chance of getting the necessary support to block it, but political pragmatism is no substitute for obedience to God and His Word.

The whole sorry mess does not reflect well on anyone involved and it is yet further sad evidence of the general departure from God in our land.

While we rightly bemoan the sinful laws being imposed upon us and the sinful views espoused by so many in our land, all we as Christians must reflect on ourselves in this matter.

Have we done our utmost to share the gospel to make the lost wise unto salvation?

Have we spoken a word for the Lord with those we come into contact with or carried out outreach to try to see people coming to saving faith in Christ?

Have we, as Christians, grown cold or slothful when the fields around us are white unto harvest?

How can we expect the lost to necessarily hold to our Biblical views?

Let us even see this as a catalyst to draw closer to God and strive to live a more Christ-like life and be more fervent in our evangelism and our outreach.

Let us repent of our sins and earnestly seek God’s face that he would revive our land and do a mighty work in Ulster to once again make it a bastion of Biblical Christianity.

2 Chronicles 7:14: “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

Harbour Faith Community hosts pro-abortion activist

How beautiful are the words above, penned by King David around 3,000 years ago.

How beautifully does David, under God’s inspiration, articulate the special care and note God takes of each and every one of us from the moment we are conceived in the womb.

While “yet being unperfect”, ie the body as yet not fully developed in the womb, God had already shown His care for the unborn child.

So important is the unborn child in the womb that all David’s “members were written” down by God, “which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them”.

This refers to the gradual growth and progression of the baby in the womb and clearly states how precious human life, even its earliest stages, is in the sight of God.

Having this knowledge and revelation from God, it makes it all the more sickening to see the campaign to murder the unborn indiscriminately come so close to having its way in Northern Ireland.

Come 21 October, unless God steps in to the affairs of men to prevent this happening, the process will begin to legalise infanticide, commonly euphemistically described as abortion, in our land.

There has been significant uproar caused by this in our land, with many of various denominations and faiths publicly and volubly expressing their anger and distress at such a vile proposal.

Many churches and church leaders have stated their opposition to such wickedness, and that is absolutely to their credit.

Indeed, it is inconceivable how anyone who claims to be a Christian could possibly seek to excuse the murder of the unborn or seek to equivocate or quibble over whether abortion is, in fact, permissible.

However, that is exactly what happened on Thursday night past, 19 September, and indeed will be done once more next Thursday night, 26 September.

The Harbour Faith Community, based in Carrickfergus and led by Steve Ames (pictured, top), held an event entitled ‘Faith and Choice – Conversations with Kellie Turtle’.

The promotional post on Harbour Faith Community’s facebook page states that they will “welcome Kellie Turtle, who is an activist with Alliance for Choice. She will share some of her journey as a person of faith who also has experience of accessing an abortion in England”.

It further said that she would “explore some of the myths and realities of what it means to end a pregnancy”.

Apparently the purpose of such an event is because “thoughtful conversations around issues such as abortion, reproductive rights and choice are virtually non-existent In churches and faith groups”.

“Thoughtful conversations”, of course, is a self-serving, self-indulgent euphemism for disgracefully trying to apologise and excuse the murder of the unborn, the forcible extraction of a helpless baby from the safety and comfort of its mother’s womb, the literal binning of a tiny little human being.

A quick scan of Kellie Turtle’s facebook page shows she is highly unlikely to engage in anything resembling a “thoughtful conversation”, as she is vehemently campaigning for the “right” for mothers to dispense with their own children.

Take this “thoughtful” post on her facebook page where she strongly encourages, shall we say, all her facebook friends to attend a pro-abortion march in Belfast, which took place on 7 September.

Introducing her comments, she says that only one individual has no excuse not to follow her command to attend the pro-infanticide procession.

As for the rest, she says “everyone else better be there or you’ll be cursed by the gods to never be free to choose anything ever again”.

The irony presumably is lost on this holder of “thoughtful conversations”.

Whilst advocating what she terms “choice”, she is seeking to remove the choice from everyone else she knows to attend a march in support of baby murder.

Indeed the poster on her facebook page promoting the march says “we won’t stop until abortion access is free, safe, legal and local”.

That sounds very nuanced and thoughtful, doesn’t it?

Of course, by safe, she means there ought to be no adverse health ramifications for the woman choosing to destroy her own flesh and blood. There is no concern for the safety of the child, else the woman seeking the murder of her child wouldn’t be looking such a despicable act to be carried out.

Even more grimly ironic from her facebook page is a post where she rages against “anti-vaxxers” (parents who oppose giving their children vaccinations). We have no interest in entering that debate, but Kellie Turtle tells those reading her post: “Don’t be part of putting their lives in danger”.

This is symptomatic of the bizarre mental jump that abortion supporters seem to be able to make – killing a baby in the womb is totally fine but once the baby is born it seems to magically become a human in that instant.

And for Harbour Faith Community to be giving such a wicked notion a vehicle just serves to show even more fully how utterly anti-Christian this supposedly Christian gathering is.

The outrageously ungodly nature of Harbour Faith Community has been clearly highlighted on this page before.

This includes its proud declaration of support for sodomy as well as the despicable comments made by its leader, Steve Ames, that the gospel of Jesus Christ is “not that different from a standard protection racket”.

And now they are seeking to introduce the notion that abortion is not so bad as other churches say it is.

It is not up to us to decide if a baby gets to live, either inside or outside the womb.

Deuteronomy 32:39: “See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.”

1 Samuel 2:6: “The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.”

God is sovereign and we ought not to interfere with the lives of the helpless and harmless to end them simply because the mother has decided, for whatever reason, they don’t want the child.

The sixth commandment makes it pretty clear for us.

Exodus 20:13 says: “Thou shalt not kill.”

It doesn’t say “thou shalt not kill unless you unexpectedly fall pregnant”.

It doesn’t say “thou shalt not kill unless your baby is a boy and you would prefer a girl”.

It simply states, “thou shalt not kill”.

Yet what Harbour Faith Community is doing is grotesquely striving to muddy the water around an issue which so obviously is clear cut.

Of course, Harbour Faith Community will say we are demonstrating another example of what they term the “virtually non-existent thoughtful conversations” on the matter among many professing Christians.

We couldn’t care less that they think this.

It is crystal clear that it is wrong to destroy children.

Jesus said to “suffer the little children to come unto me”, He had a special care for children.

Let us have that same care and let us not allow ourselves to be swayed from the Biblical view that to slay the innocent is to do a grave wrong, something God will look upon most unfavourably.

2 Kings 24:3-4: “Surely at the commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did; And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the Lord would not pardon.”

God would not pardon the shedding of innocent blood and brought the enemies of Israel in upon them to conquer and destroy them.

What fate awaits a land which makes legal the slaughter of the innocent, worse still for a supposed church which supports it?

Prayer and repentance the answer to grievous sins MPs trying to inflict on Ulster

Isaiah 10:1: “Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed”.

What could be more unrighteous and grievous than the slaughter of unborn children?

What could be more unrighteous and grievous than the glorification of that which God has called an “abomination” and which brought down His fierce judgement on Sodom and Gomorrah?

Yet this is the grave and perilous situation which Northern Ireland is faced with today as politicians at Westminster seek to enforce godless policies of abortion and same-sex marriage on our country.

Northern Ireland has for so long stood out as a beacon for Christianity and indeed Ulster is virtually the last place in the world where any semblance of true Protestantism remains, which is a major factor in why it has been subject to such gross attacks as this Bill making its way through the Houses of Parliament.

The relevant amendments to the Northern Ireland Bill legislating for sodomite ‘marriage’ and baby murder were tabled by Labour MPs Conor McGinn (pictured, below) and Stella Creasy (or Greasy, perhaps, pictured, top) respectively.

Stella Greasy, who would outrageously claim to be a Christian, has previously attracted our attention on this page in her despicable campaign to legalise baby murder in Northern Ireland, which you can read about by clicking here.

While so much of the western world has utterly caved into sodomy and championed the massacre of the unborn (8 million and counting in the UK alone in the past 50 years), Northern Ireland has, by the grace and mercy of God, been a place apart.

However, the position of such vile sins being illegal in our land is under the most obvious and immediate threat it has yet been subjected to.

Indeed, we can see the restraining hand of God being taken away as Northern Ireland sinks deeper into sin and further away from Him.

This is a national problem and one which should vex and trouble true Christians and be a motivation to earnest, heartfelt prayer to God for forgiveness and for mercy.

The words of James 5:13 are very relevant in the scenario in which we find ourselves in this land.

It says: “Is any among you afflicted? let him pray.”

Our land is coming under great affliction and in such circumstances we are called to pray.

The example set by Ezra is most certainly one worth following.

When told of the returning captives’ sinfulness in failing to separate from the ungodly, a grave sin which was being practised and led by the leaders of the people, Ezra was grieved and then sought the Lord earnestly.

Ezra owned the sin which he was not even a partaker of and sought God for forgiveness.

Ezra 9:3, 5-6: “And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied. And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God, And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.”

Ezra spent hours simply in mourning and astonishment before crying to the Lord, speaking of “our iniquities” and “our trespass”.

We as Christians and as a country need to seek God’s face, own our own inadequacies and pray for God’s mercy on our nation.

If such a situation as the one facing our land now does not motivate us to prayer, then what will?

While we all ought to follow the example of Ezra, it is also clear that Northern Ireland’s present situation is the result of generations of apostasy.

And much of the blame for that must lie with ministers who either refuse to or fail to preach the gospel.

CH Spurgeon famously said that Germany was “made unbelieving by her preachers” and their ‘Higher Criticism’, a Scripture denying practice employed by many of that nation’s ministers in the 19th Century.

And it is clear that the longer time goes by wherein the main denominations in Ulster continue to fail to proclaim the truth of the gospel and, in many cases, outright deny and reject it, the further the people go from God.

The Presbyterian Church, Church of Ireland and Methodist Church in many places have ceased to preach the need for repentance over sin and of crying to God for salvation.

They have ceased to teach the necessity of a sanctified life and a separated life, be that in our day to day life or our religious life.

Even on this page we have highlighted many ministers who repudiate the Word of God by their actions and declarations.

And it has led to a sad situation where in Ulster many have turned their back on Christ or, bored of the old dead churches and having itching ears, have turned to the modern entertainment of many charismatic “fellowship” type churches, with their empty theology and worship bands pounding out repetitive, empty songs.

This is even as it was in the days of many of the prophets recorded in the Old Testament

Isaiah 3:12 says: “O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.”

A faithful preacher is one which will follow the example laid forth by God in Ezekiel 33:7-9.

Those verses read: “So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.”

How many ministers in this land are speaking out vehemently against abortion or same-sex ‘marriage’?

There will be some speaking out in some way against abortion but many fewer speaking out against same-sex ‘marriage’.

Many ministers today seem to think it impolite to condemn sin, believing, erroneously, that to speak out is to be unlike Christ.

This is forgetting Christ’s very blunt comments in relation to the Pharisees, calling them “hypocrites” and a “generation of vipers”.

And it is to forget even some of the opening words of Isaiah’s prophecy, speaking as God directed him.

He said in Isaiah 1:10: “Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.”

Isaiah was fearsome in his denunciation of the sinfulness of his own people and it is the responsibility of all ministers to be the same.

May even this fearful situation facing Ulster be used by Almighty God to bring His children in Ulster to his feet, pleading for mercy for their land and may it even be used to cause false teachers to be rejected and embolden and motivate true ministers of the gospel to speak out fiercely and uncompromisingly against such repugnant sin being brought into being and celebrated in our land.

James 5:16: “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”

Silent Pope abandons unborn to their death as Roman Catholic Ireland legalises baby murder

Shamefully, the people of supposedly Roman Catholic Ireland have voted to allow the murder of unborn children.

And, even more shamefully, the leader of the Roman Catholic system, Pope Francis (pictured, below), has kept out of the debate and failed to issue advice to Roman Catholics as to how they should vote.

Indeed, there hasn’t been a firm line taken or direct guidance issued by the Roman Catholic Church advising the people to vote against a decision to repeal the eighth amendment of the Republic of Ireland’s constitution, which kept strict controls on abortion.

The resounding majority of voters (about two thirds) chose to facilitate the murder of unborn children and it is anticipated the Irish government will choose to implement a policy whereby any child can be murdered, though they prefer the softer terms ‘abortion’ or ‘termination’, in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.

While Pope Francis plans to visit Ireland this August, he didn’t see fit to visit in the run-up to the abortion referendum in an effort to protect the sanctity of life in what was once a stronghold of Roman Catholic dogma.

For a man keen to hear the sound of his own voice, Pope Francis was notably quiet in the aftermath of the distressing and disgraceful result, as the left wing British newspaper, ‘The Guardian’, pointed out.

It said: “Pope Francis remained silent on the referendum in his Sunday morning address in St Peter’s Square in Rome. The Papal Twitter feed also failed to publish any reaction to the result, and his spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment from the Guardian.”

Not only did the Pope fail to volunteer his opinion, he refused to give it when asked. That’s some supposed spiritual leader!

Rome’s position has been seriously weakened over the past two decades as the sickening stories emerged of clerical abuse so widespread it couldn’t be covered up any longer.

And that was noted as a contributing factor to the Roman Catholic Church playing a low key role throughout the campaign in an article published by ‘The Spectator’.

It said: “What’s notable about the campaign is it’s an almost entirely secular debate. The Catholic Church is absent from the fight to an extent that would have been hard to imagine in 1983, though it has made clear its support for keeping the amendment.

“And that’s reflective of the condition of the church in the wake of successive abuse scandals. ‘The Church has a chastened position in Irish society’, says ‘Father’ Patrick Claffey, who has a central Dublin parish.”

We note, as did that article we have just quoted, that the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, to a significant extent, backed the retention of the eighth amendment, but there were few public pronouncements and the total silence of the leader of their church, the Pope.

Now of course we, as Protestants, reject the Pope utterly for his manifold blasphemies and are not saddened to see the vice-like grip of the Roman Catholic Church loosened in the Republic of Ireland, but we are saddened to see Roman Catholics in that country heading off in another wrong direction, and that is secularism.

This is truly a day, like in Judges 17:6 where “every man did that which was right in his own eyes”.

And this is that same spirit of rebellion against the restraints God puts in place for our own good that we can see in the ‘our bodies, our choice’ mantra being screamed by the proponents of convenient baby disposal, or the disposal of inconvenient babies.

We will remind readers of what the Bible has to say about the unborn baby.

We are “fearfully and wonderfully made”, part of God’s creation, and it is not our right to decide which child should live and which should die. And while we were yet “unperfect”, or not fully developed in the womb, God already knew everything about us and placed such value on us that He recorded all our members in His book.

Children are a gift from God. Psalm 127:3 tells us: “Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.”

However, women are celebrating in the streets of Ireland being able to rip out “the fruit of the womb”.

It is horrendous that people were jumping up and down with glee when the result was announced – it was adding insult to injury to act in such a despicable, brazen manner.

Those cheerleaders of the slaughter of the unborn are like the children of Israel upon whom God pronounced His judgment in Jeremiah 2:34: “Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.”

God didn’t have to look behind closed doors to see the innocent blood dripping from the children of Israel, and it is the same today as the most vile of acts, directly contradicting the sixth commandment – “Thou shalt not kill”, is openly lauded and supported.

The march of sin never seeks to let up or take a break, it is in a mode of constant attack.

This following verse is referring to the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, but it can be applied to those who would seek to spread further the massacre of unborn babies and, within minutes of the result being announced last Saturday evening, they had already turned their attentions to Northern Ireland.

Habakkuk 2:5 says: “Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people”.

These are proud people, neither do they keep at home, but seek to disseminate their murderous message further and they “enlarge their desire as hell, and cannot be satisfied”. Babies are to be murdered on demand on roughly three quarters of the island of Ireland, but that is not enough.

Please pray, dear reader, that it will remain the situation that in Northern Ireland abortion is not freely accessible and please pray that God will turn in the hearts of our political leaders in Westminster and that He might even do likewise with the would-be authorisers of murder in Dublin.

Job 33:4: “The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.”

Baby murder on the rise in Northern Ireland – thanks to abortion fanatics like Stella Creasy (Greasy!) MP

The butchery of babies by abortion supporters is increasing in Northern Ireland, unborn baby murder providers have told the BBC.

The provision by the UK government of free access to abortions on the mainland by expectant mothers in Northern Ireland has led to a 14% increase on the previous 12 months.

That equates to an extra 70 defenceless unborn humans being done away with to satisfy the utterly repugnant self-prescribed ‘right’ to end a child’s life, if a mother so desires.

In England, between July 2017 and February 2018, 553 women from Northern Ireland travelled over for an abortion, provided for free on the NHS (National Health Service).

It outstrips the 483 who had private abortions, over a similar period in 2016.

Despite what the abortionists might like to think, it is not our right to take away life, it is God’s.

There are so many verses in the Bible to stress this point that God is the giver and taker of life and we have selected just three to demonstrate this.

2 Kings 5:7: “And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.”

Job 33:4: “The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.”

Nehemiah 9:6: “Thou, even thou, art Lord alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.”

The Bible also clearly tells us the value God puts on the unborn child.

God sees unborn babies when they are “yet unperfect”, or when the unborn baby’s body is not yet fully formed in the womb, and He cares so much that in His book all our “members were written”. God has recorded the details of every baby before they are even born and yet abortionists seek to take the place of God by deciding if a baby has a right to life.

Leading the parliamentary charge in England to make it easier for would-be mothers in Northern Ireland to dispose of their unwanted children was Labour MP Stella Creasy (pictured), though perhaps Stella Greasy would be a better name, given her slimy antics at Westminster in undermining our own form of government in Northern Ireland, regardless of its own continuing difficulties.

Not content with making it easier for women to access abortions in England, Stella Greasy now wants full access to abortion in any circumstance in Northern Ireland. This demonstrates the pervasive nature of sin, and how it never says “enough”, it must always continue its descent.

We could take King Saul as an example of this. After a promising start as king, he then sinned against God by his impatience and impertinence in offering a sacrifice to God when it was not his place to do so. He continued his downward spiral when he became jealous of David and the blessing God had placed upon him, striving to take his life. He then consulted a witch to try to summon up the spirit of Samuel, despite God’s clear instruction to stay clear of such evil, before eventually being defeated by the Philistines and taking his own life.

Saul would have never thought when he disobeyed God’s divine orders regarding the sacrifice that he would sink to such depths, yet he did.

Sin begets sin and we are told in James 1:15: “Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”

Absolutely incredibly, if one were to search a website called ‘Christians on the left’, one would find Stella Greasy listed as one such ‘Christian’.

How could anyone have the downright cheek to call themselves a Christian and yet advocate and indeed give themselves over to ensuring more babies are murdered and with less inconvenience to their mothers? It truly beggars belief.

1 John 1:6 says: “If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:”

Around every three minutes an unborn baby is murdered in the United Kingdom and somehow we have the audacity to consider the UK a civilised society?

This land is filled with the blood of innocent children, with some 8 MILLION lives done away with in the 50 years since abortion on demand was legalised in England, Scotland and Wales.

Manasseh was a notoriously evil king of Judah in the latter time of that kingdom. His legacy is recorded for us in 2 Kings 21:16, where it says: “Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.”

The punishment of the land for this dreadful sin is recorded in 2 Kings 24:1-4: “In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord , which he spake by his servants the prophets. Surely at the commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did; And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the Lord would not pardon.”

Even though Manasseh at last saw the evil of his ways and repented (2 Chronicles 33:12-16), the land of Judah, because of the amount of innocent blood that was shed, came under terrible judgement for this sin that God would not pardon. It is certain that Manasseh was not responsible for the deaths of eight million innocents, so how much more judgement is being stacked up for the United Kingdom?

As in the days of Jeremiah, this murder of the innocents is not done secretly or shamefacedly, but openly, boastfully, brazenly and in the name of “progress”.

Jeremiah 2:32, 34 says: “Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.”

Dear Christian, please pray for the United Kingdom that God would turn the hearts and minds of the lawmakers against this act of wanton destruction and that God would once more be given His due place in the affairs of our land.