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

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.

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.”

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.

The ecumenical festival that is the Women’s World Day of Prayer

Northern Ireland was infested yesterday (Friday, 2 March) with ecumenical celebrants in the Women’s World Day of Prayer.

We are aware of no fewer than 38 such meetings throughout the country, though some of them appear to have been cancelled / postponed due to the weather.

Described as an international ecumenical Christian laywomen’s initiative, female members of the various mainstream Protestant churches and Roman Catholic Church gather to pray.

For what is not entirely certain, though ecumenical meetings often tend to happen for their own sake.

To whom is another good question, given that Rome teaches of prayer to saints and Mary, while the Bible says that prayer is to God through our Lord Jesus Christ alone.

1 Timothy 2:5 says: “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”

A significant number of the meetings listed on the Women’s World Day of Prayer took place in the Belfast area, though every county in Northern Ireland played host to at least one of these gatherings. Most of the meetings took place in Protestant churches, but a sprinkling were held in Roman Catholic churches.

A couple of the churches which played host to meetings are of particular interest.

First among these is Fortwilliam and Macrory Presbyterian Church, based in north Belfast. It is the old stomping ground of ‘Rev’ Lesley Carroll (1 Timothy 2:12), whom we have mentioned previously, having led an ecumenical meeting in a Roman Catholic Church in County Tyrone during which she expressed her hope that ecumenism would be rejuvenated.

Another noteworthy meeting was in County Fermanagh, in Inishmacsaint Parish Church. This rather obscure parish is the domain of Canon David Skuce, who was the guest speaker at Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church in Monea, County Fermanagh, in a service during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

From a brief scan of the internet, we have also noticed invitations to some of these meetings in the online Catholic Church parish bulletins.

These include the Drumcree Parish Bulletin in Portadown, County Armagh, where parishioners are invited to attend the Women’s World Day of Prayer in Armagh Road Presbyterian Church in the town.

This can be of little surprise given the notoriety of that church’s ‘minister’, a ‘Rev’ Christine Bradley. We have already provided the Scripture which demonstrates she is incapable in God’s eyes of holding the position she claims, but she also has rather questionable views on same sex marriage, having expressed her pleasure at the result of a referendum in the Republic of Ireland in 2015 which legalised that practice which is absolutely contrary to God’s Word

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

Romans 1:22-27 says: “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 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.”

Genesis 2:24 says: “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”

Another such example is in the Bangor Parish Bulletin, which advertises Women’s World Day of Prayer meetings in Shore Street Presbyterian Church in Donaghadee, County Down and in nearby Groomsport Parish Church of Ireland.

Ecumenism is going on all around us and is happening on such a regular basis and Bible believing Christians need to stand up against this dreadful compromise with the darkness of Rome.

Below we have listed every ecumenical Women’s World Day of Prayer meeting we are aware of. If someone you know is involved with any of the churches listed below, please share this with them to warn them of the dangerous game their spiritual leaders are playing and if you are involved with any of these churches yourself, then challenge your minister as to why they are involving themselves and their churches in this spiritual degradation.

2 Corinthians 6:17: “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing ; and I will receive you,”

Northern Ireland’s ecumenical hall of shame:

Co Antrim
1st Ballyeaston Presbyterian Church, Ballyclare
Whitehead Presbyterian Church
May Street Presbyterian Church, Belfast
Dundonald Methodist Church
Belvoir Church of Ireland, Belfast
St Comgall’s Church of Ireland, Belfast
Glengormley Methodist Church
Lowe Memorial, Belfast
St Mary’s on the Hill, Carnmoney
Donegall Road Methodist, Belfast
St Mark’s Ballysillan, Belfast
Skainos Centre East Belfast Mission
Bloomfield Presbyterian Church, Belfast
St Anthony’s Catholic Church, Woodstock Road, Belfast
Cooke Centenary Presbyterian Church, Belfast
Fortwilliam and Macrory Presbyterian Church, Belfast
Templepatrick Presbyterian Church
Cairncastle Presbyterian Church, Larne
St Patrick’s Church of Ireland, Glenarm
Church of Our Lady and St Patrick, Ballymoney
St John’s Church of Ireland, Newtownabbey

Co Armagh
Armagh Road Presbyterian Church, Portadown
St John’s Parish Church, Moira
Tandragee Methodist Church

Co Down
Carryduff Presbyterian Church
High Street Presbyterian, Holywood
St John’s Parish Church, Newcastle
St John the Evangelist Church of Ireland, Killyleagh
Downpatrick Presbyterian Church
Kilmore Parish Church, Crossgar
Shore Street Presbyterian Church, Donaghadee
Groomsport Parish Church of Ireland

Co Fermanagh
Inishmacsaint Parish Church, Derrygonnelly
Letterbreen Methodist Church

Co Londonderry
St Patrick’s Church of Ireland, Coleraine

Co Tyrone
St John’s Church of Ireland, Fivemiletown
St George’s Crilly, Aughnacloy
St Elizabeth’s Church of Ireland, Moygashel

St Anne’s Cathedral continues efforts to undo Reformation with Jesuit celebration

“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” Ephesians 5:11.

The hub of ecumenical folly that is Belfast’s St Anne’s Cathedral is getting set to invite a Jesuit priest into its midst next week.

That’s correct, a Jesuit priest, that unholy order which led the charge of the Counter Reformation, the efforts to snuff out the glorious light of the gospel so wonderfully unveiled through Martin Luther and others 500 years ago.

The Counter Reformation was led by the notorious Ignatius of Loyola and guess what – the prayer service this Jesuit priest will lead will be focused on the “Ignatian Tradition”, so says the Belfast Telegraph.

The Ignatian Tradition is a most dreadful and unbiblical tradition and it is a shame and disgrace that St Anne’s would welcome a propagator of its lies and deceit into its arms. Those in charge there have emphatically and decidedly ignored the call to reprove the “unfruitful works of darkness” that Jesuitry undoubtedly is.

Of course, it should be no surprise to Christians that St Anne’s would welcome such a character’s doctrine into its building.

In September 2016, St Anne’s appointed a Roman Catholic priest as an ‘ecumenical canon’ and just last autumn the cathedral played host to a ‘pet blessing’ service, showing St Anne’s doesn’t actually know what it believes.

The cathedral also is inextricably linked with the Corrymeela Community, which is a sort of ecumenical nirvana, full of airy fairy quasi Christianity which pats itself on the back for being so accepting of all faiths.

The Corrymeela Community is in fact jointly hosting the event with St Anne’s Cathedral, which is taking place as part of a series of prayer services during Lent.

First up is this Papist propaganda on Friday, 23 February, led by the province coordinator of ecumenism, ‘Father’ Tom Leyden.

After that follows a female Presbyterian ‘minister’, the ‘Rev’ Cheryl Meban (1 Timothy 2:12), who is in turn followed by Padraig O Tuama, the leader of the Corrymeela Community.

Two misguided Church of Ireland clerics, the Dean’s Vicar at St Anne’s, Canon Mark Niblock and the Dean of Armagh, Very Rev Gregory Dunstan, will bring this whole exercise in religious futility and compromise to a close.

So there are utterly inappropriate speakers galore on offer, but surely the worst has to be this exhibition of Jesuitry, the very antithesis and definition of opposition to and hatred of Bible believing Protestantism.

Ignatius of Loyola was “the principal founder and first Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), a religious Order of the Catholic Church professing direct service to the Pope in terms of mission”.

So this service in St Anne’s Church of Ireland Cathedral, a supposedly God honouring church wedded to Protestant Christian principles, is going to boast a message straight from the Pope himself, “that man of sin, and son of perdition”.

Galatians 1:6-9 takes a very dim view of lies in the name of God, which is all the Roman Catholic Church can deliver. Rome has successfully carried many in so-called Protestant churches away from the truth of the gospel.

Those verses read: “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.”

God has pronounced his curse on the propagators of error and those involved with St Anne’s Cathedral, sold out to ecumenism, need to take very careful note.

The phrase “let him be accursed” is interesting, as it is a term appropriated by the Roman Catholic Church on its own pronouncements within the Council of Trent. Anyone who dares challenge the lie that the bread and wine doled out during the blasphemous Mass actually turns into the body and blood of Christ has this said of them: “Let him be anathema (or cursed)”.

They say the same for those who rightly state that we are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone (Ephesians 2:8-9).

The Jesuits were key figures in the persecution and murder of untold millions of Protestants (along with Muslims and Jews) during the centuries long ‘Inquisition’ it led throughout Europe.

Famous for its use of torture to elicit confessions from accused ‘heretics’, the Inquisition was an evil process led by an evil organisation.

Why would the Church of Ireland invite anyone representing the ‘Ignatian Tradition’ into its arms?

Bertrand Russell, a Noble Prize winning author and historian, in his ‘A History of Western Philosophy’, noted that “Protestant success, at first amazingly rapid, was checked mainly as a result of Loyola’s creation of the Jesuit order.”

So the group that put the brakes on precious, never-dying souls being saved is welcomed with open arms into a church supposed to stand up for the Protestant faith, which is true Biblical Christianity.

It is utter madness.

For anyone still involved with these ecumenical churches, we implore you to “come out from among them and be ye separate” (2 Corinthians 6:17).

A question asked by Elijah on Mount Carmel remains completely relevant today.

1 Kings 18:21: “And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.”

The implication was clear; deep down the children of Israel knew the Lord was God, but they were following a false religion. Now is the time to break with these ecumenical false prophets and ecclesiastical deceivers.

Dear reader, please abandon these false teachers and if you are not saved, “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31).

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.”

Pope here please – Presbyterian Moderator elect Rev Charles McMullen eager to sup with Satan’s servant

It didn’t take long for the latest choice for Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland to rush into the arms of Rome.

In his first interview after being chosen to take up the role in June, Rev Charles McMullen, minister for the past 19 years in Bangor West Presbyterian Church, was quick to say he would “relish” the opportunity to meet the Pope.

This is the same man who, at his ordination, signed the Westminster Confession of Faith which describes the Pope as “that Antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalts himself, in the church, against Christ and all that is called God”.

However, he has disregarded this vow quite spectacularly and, going even further than saying he would accept an invitation to meet the Pope when he comes to Ireland, and probably Northern Ireland too, in August, he has practically invited himself along to kiss ‘Papa’s’ feet.

“We don’t know for certain if the Pope is coming and if he is there would need to be some invitation extended to us,” gushed Rev McMullen.

“If an invitation was extended, our two churches would work out the basis on which that meeting would occur.

“As far as I am concerned, I would relish the opportunity to meet the Pope.

“I would hope that by meeting the Pope, it would be a small contribution on my part.”

I wonder what Rev McMullen thinks he is contributing to?

What he is contributing to is the lie that the Roman Catholic Church is a Christian church, rather than a pagan corruption.

What he is contributing to is the further degradation of the Presbyterian denomination which has been so sullied in the past 100 years.

What he is contributing to is the potential influencing of ordinary Presbyterian churchgoers into thinking the Papacy is an acceptable organisation with which to be involved.

What he is contributing to, most vitally, is the justifying of the corruption of the simple gospel of Christ. Rome says salvation is by works, the Bible says salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. Ephesians 2:8-9 says: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”

The Roman Catholic Church knows only how to send people to hell with its tyrannical system of works.

As an ordained minister, Rev McMullen has a solemn duty as a watchman. God takes a very dim view of watchmen who fail to fulfil their role. In Isaiah 56:10-11, it says: “His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.”

God has called for dogs that bark, not nice little lap dogs metaphorically licking the face of “that man of sin, and son of perdition”.

Perhaps Rev McMullen will surprise us all by verbally mauling the man who blasphemes all three persons of the Godhead.

Perhaps Rev McMullen will tell “that Antichrist” that he stands by what he signed up to in the Westminster Confession of Faith when he began to earn a living from the ministry.

Perhaps Rev McMullen will tell the man “that exalts himself… against Christ and all that is called God” that he is a hell bound sinner in need of God’s salvation (Romans 3:23 – “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”).

We’ll not hold our breath…

A prayer for Christians to unite around: ‘No peace with Rome’

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity took up a significant part of ecclesiastical efforts in the mainstream churches of Northern Ireland in the latter stages of January.

Worshippers of various different hues shared in services with the stated aim of promoting unity between those carrying the banner of ‘Christian’.

One might respond to that: ‘Sure, isn’t that great? Would you not want everyone to be united?’ However, these ecumenical meetings are contrary to God’s Word and are rendered as such, in fact, to be anti-Christian.

Services were held in Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Church of Ireland and other churches throughout Ulster.

The theme of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity was “That all may be free”, however, the ecumenists leading these meetings are preaching “another gospel”, and not seeking the Word of God, with the effect of trapping worshippers in the bondage of idolatry. Jesus said in John 8:31-32: “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

There is no truth in the “another gospel” of ecumenism.

Given it was a week of prayer, it is surely a valid question to ask to whom were these people praying. The Bible states in 1 Timothy 2:5: “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” However, the Roman Catholic Church teaches of prayer to Mary and to saints. So a Roman Catholic beside a Protestant in the meeting could be praying to different beings. What confusion!

We will briefly give a rundown of some of the meetings and their principal speakers held across this province during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity:

Armagh Church of Ireland Cathedral – Roman Catholic ‘Father’ Kieran McDermott, administrator of St Mary’s Pro Cathedral, Dublin was the speaker.

Shankill Parish Church, Lurgan (Church of Ireland) – Roman Catholic Church layman and former British Ambassador to the Vatican, Francis Campbell.

St Patrick’s RC Chapel, Donaghmore – ‘Rev’ Lesley Carroll, ‘minister’ of Fortwilliam and Macrory Presbyterian Church.

Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church, Monea (County Fermanagh) – Hosted by ‘Father’ Jimmy McPhillips, guest speaker was Canon David Skuce, Inishmacsaint Parish Church (CoI) and the Bible reading was by Rev Sampson Ajuka, Devenish and Boho Parish Church (CoI).

We know of several others held in various other places throughout the country, including Limavady, Moneyreagh and others, but trust this gives a flavour of what we’re talking about, while also demonstrating how widespread this is.

So-called Protestant churches are selling themselves to Rome, rushing into her arms. One has to wonder why this is?

Part of the reason in ‘peace process’ Northern Ireland is surely a desire to be considered cross-community friendly (ie Protestants and Catholics getting on with each other). Surely the kindest thing we can do with our Roman Catholic neighbours is show them the errors of their church and outline the glory of salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.

It must also be feared a crucial reason is these people don’t know their Bible.

As is always important, the question must be asked: “What saith the scripture?” (Romans 4:3).

The Bible says in Ephesians 5:11: “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”

We are further instructed in the book of Jude verse 3 that we “should earnestly contend for the faith”.

Does cosying up with the church of Rome, with its tyrannical gospel of works, exaltation of the Pope, worship of Mary, blasphemy of the Mass, fictitious creation of Purgatory and its deceits and superstitions of relics and idols, count as “earnestly contending for the faith” or is it rather having “fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness”?

We trust it is clear as to which it is.

As for the individual so-called Protestant clergy and churches involved in the services above, it is clear they have disregarded their ordination oaths and the principles to which they signed up when they begin their vocation.

Perhaps of particular interest is the ‘Rev’ Dr Lesley Carroll, a Presbyterian clergy woman (a contradiction in terms, of course). She is holding a position to which she is not entitled for starters (1 Timothy 2:12) but is also an advocate of liberalising abortion law. Abortion is a euphemism for the massacre of the unborn, but this clergy woman wants an “emphasis on choice” for expectant mothers.

Presbyterian ministers, when ordained, are required to sign the Westminster Confession of Faith. In paragraph 25, chapter 6. It states: “There is no other head of the church but the Lord Jesus Christ; nor can the Pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalts himself, in the church, against Christ and all that is called God.”

Similarly, the ’39 Articles’ are the governing precepts of the Anglican movement (which includes the Church of Ireland). The 31st of these makes clear its view of the Roman Catholic Church and makes it all the more inexplicable why such close links are forged between the two.

Article 31 states: “The Offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone.

“Wherefore the sacrifices of Masses, in the which it was commonly said, that the Priest did offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, were blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits.”

It is our desire that anyone reading this associated with those churches challenge those in leadership and force them to articulate their view clearly and definitively, and ultimately to follow the advice of 2 Corinthians 6:17 to “come out from among them and be ye separate… and touch not the unclean thing”.

Also, if you are associated with any other denomination and hear no voice of condemnation, then lift up your own voice and make sure it is heard loud and clear:

“There can be no peace with Rome until Rome makes peace with God.”

About this blog

Just a brief opening post to get our blog up and running and give you a better idea of what we’re all about.

‘Protestant Revival’ is primarily an organ by which we strive to take a stand against the deepening apostasy, nefarious works of ecumenism and general attacks on Biblical Protestantism, which is true Christianity, in our land.

Located in Northern Ireland, we have a burden for the spreading of the true gospel of Christ and a disdain for the preaching of “any other gospel” (Galatians 1:8).

We long to see Ulster and indeed the United Kingdom restored to the days when God was revered in our land and when the laws of our land fitted in much more closely with God’s law.

We long for the day when humble, penitent, broken souls are coming to Christ in their droves for salvation, which is through our Lord and no other (Acts 4:12).

We long for the day when ecumenists and apostates are ejected from the pulpits they are corrupting up and down this land.

We long for the day when the darkness of Romanism is eliminated from our land and replaced with the glorious light of the gospel.

We long for the day when our leaders put God and not political expedience or material gain at the forefront of their policies.

We long for the day when professing Christians separate themselves from churches which fail to preach the full counsel of God and “come out from among them” (2 Corinthians 6:17).

We long for the day when professing Christians are filled with zeal, a burden for souls and a desire to see God’s name glorified and magnified.

In short, we long for revival.