Andrew Ussher preaches on “following in the footsteps of the Saviour”. The life of Christ is the example (for people who are saved) of how to live on earth before their God. A challenging message highlighting three resources we need in living for God. Readings: 1 Pet 2:20-23, Heb 12:1-3. (Message preached at the Vancouver Thanksgiving Conference, 2018)

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James Logan grew up in a Christian family and knew the gospel from his earliest days, but he decided to try all the world had to offer him. Through the tragic death of a friend James was awakened to his need of salvation and went to hear Willie Fenton and Matthew McKillen preaching the gospel. Through “verse 3 of number 36” (“Adore Him, the glorious work is done”) James was saved by the grace of God at the age of 24 (Preached in Northern Ireland in 2022).

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Wilfred Glenn was a missionary from Northern Ireland who served the Lord in Brazil from 1970 to his unexpected sudden homecall to heaven in 1987. During his 17 years of labour in Brazil, Wilfred and his wife Kathleen left their mark on the work, in particular in a place called San Gabriel in the Rio Grande do Sul. Very small beginnings had been made in the work there, and our brother and his wife moved there to press on with the gospel. Hear the thrilling story of how an assembly was formed there in 1983 and a Gospel Hall was built. Readings: Rom 1:18, Gal 6:14 (Report given at the Belfast Easter conference in the 1980’s). (Photo: rural Brazil)

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The hymn “Fairest Lord Jesus” sung by young people from Roseisle Gospel Hall, Manitoba Canada.

Lyrics:

Fairest Lord Jesus, ruler of all nature

All fairest beauty, heavenly and earthly,

Beautiful Saviour! Lord of all the nations,

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David Gilliland preaches the gospel on the subject of “the atonement” – its meaning, cost, reception, effect and urgency of atonement. The blessings from Christ’s atonement are received not achieved: obtained not attained. Reading Rom 5:6-11 (Preached in Northern Ireland).

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Apologetics 101 – PART 5 of 5

Consciously or not, every human being has a worldview; it’s the way they view themselves, the world and all of reality. That worldview has consequences, for what a person believes determines how they live. So what is the correct worldview and how can it be verified? Michael Penfold tests 5 common worldviews against three questions: “Where do we come from?”, “What’s wrong with the world?”, and “How do we solve the problem?”. After demonstrating that atheism, Marxism, Islam and Buddhism all fail as coherent worldviews, he introduces biblical Christianity, which provides true answers to the big questions of life. He includes a biblical answer to the oft-raised objection: “If God is a God of love, why is there so much evil in the world”. (Presentation given in 2019 in the Town Hall, Limavady)

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Apologetics 101 – PART 4 of 5

In 1890, British Prime Minister, William Gladstone, wrote a book about the Bible entitled “The Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture”. Battering this rock over recent centuries has been Higher Criticism, one of the off-shoots of the Enlightenment. In an Enlightenment world, where the universe is a self-propelled machine, man is the measure of all things, and reason has replaced revelation, there is no room for miracles, nor for a book about miracles. How can we defend the idea that the Bible is the Word of God in such a world? Michael Penfold takes up this issue. He asks two preliminary questions: first, how do we know the Bible we have today is the same as was originally written; and second, is it trustworthy? He then addresses two critical topics: the Bible’s self-attestation and its self-authentication, giving 4 internal reasons why we can know the Bible is the Word of God. (Presentation given in 2019 in the Town Hall, Limavady)

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Apologetics 101 – PART 3 of 5

The foundation upon which the secular and naturalistic worldview of the mainstream media, the mainstream political parties and the academic establishment rests, is Darwinism. While the Enlightenment got rid of Scripture and turned theists into deists, it was Darwin who got rid of God and turned deists into atheists. Richard Dawkins has famously remarked that Darwin’s theory of evolution “made it possible to become an intellectually fulfilled atheist”. But what if evolution is a lie? What if design, not chance, is responsible for the complexity of life? In this wide-ranging presentation, Michael Penfold gives 4 reasons why Darwin’s theory of evolution simply cannot be true. He deals with the teleological argument for God; the input of Hume and Paley into the design debate; the half way house proposal of theistic evolution; the role of genetics; the problem of the fossil record; and the mind-blowing irreducible complexity of nature. References: Gen 1:11-13, 20-21, 25-28. (Presentation given in 2019 in the Town Hall, Limavady)

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Apologetics 101 – PART 2 of 5

The Bible doesn’t beat about the bush. Twice over it says “The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God’.” In this presentation, Michael Penfold expounds this biblical conclusion, as he examines the folly of a system of thought that posits “everything came from nothing by chance”. Rather than acknowledge the existence of God, atheism throws up endless arguments trying to get round the obvious. Why? Not because atheists cannot believe in God, but because they won’t. That’s the real issue: atheism is an intellectual smokescreen, designed to cover up humanity’s inner desire for autonomy from its Creator. Listen as the atheistic worldview is compared with the biblical one on the 4 basic questions of life: origin, meaning, morality and destiny. References: Gen 1:1, Psa 14:1, Rom 1:18-25, 28, 32. (Presentation given in 2019 in the Town Hall, Limavady)

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Apologetics 101 – PART 1 of 5 

Pilate’s question is still the most fundamental of all: “What is truth?”. In this audio presentation, follow the trail of truth from the pre-modern era, through the modern era to the post-modern era of today. Learn how truth was fractured during the Enlightenment through the radical ideas of Descartes, Locke, Hume and Kant. Trace the West’s 400 year descent into madness as it ‘progressed’ from rationalism, to empiricism, to agnosticism, to nihilism, to existentialism, to postmodernism and beyond; a philosophical journey reflected in the West’s art, music and architecture. Learn to discern the glaring contradictions in world’s major philosophies and discover what truth really is, and how you can know it. References: John 17:17, 18:37-38. (Presentation given in 2019 in the Town Hall, Limavady)

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