Andrew Simpson

06: No Repentance, No Reply sermonaudio.com/sermons/218264… @SermonAudio

@CatholicArena No, because that would not be historically correct.

Do English schoolchildren learn that their country deliberately starved millions of Irish people to death in the 1840s by stealing their food?

@JoshuaBarzon Love it. I preach from it every week!

What are your thoughts about the KJV? (King James Version Bible)

Real Ulster views on people down south in the Irish Republic in 1965 RTE Television Ireland

Born in Private Prayer sermonaudio.com/sermons/425261…

@Pontifex William Tyndale would like a word...

The Catholic Church has consistently taught that each human life, from the moment of conception until natural death, is sacred and deserves to be protected. Indeed, the right to life is the very foundation of every other human right. For this reason, only when a society safeguards the sanctity of human life will it flourish and prosper.

Credobaptist here... this guy (no offense) clearly doesn't understand infant baptism, and this type of argumentation will produce 100 infant Baptists.

@jaredksparks Is it also mandatory that he have children?

Paul was not an Elder: 1 Tim. 3 and Titus 1 require an Elder to be married with children: 1. Husband of one wife. 2. Leading his own household well. 3. Keeping his children in submission/Believing Children Objection “But Paul was single with no children so single men with no children can be elders.” Answer Paul was not an elder. He never calls himself one. He was an Apostle not an elder. If you think it's okay for a single man to be an elder, don't appeal to Paul.

@rickbrennanjr @HoldenCCole I look forward to listening. Keep on reaching the mission field of Catholicism. I grew up in N.Ireland and saw first hand the superstition and darkness imposed by Rome.

@NorthBCPastor @HoldenCCole Not yet. I’m going to be starting a YouTube channel, God willing, this summer. I’ll post on X when we get up and running. Thanks for the encouragement.

Weak Catholics become Protestants. Strong Protestants become Catholic.

@rickbrennanjr @HoldenCCole Hey @rickbrennanjr is there somewhere I can listen to your testimony?

I understand that there is common Catholic trope that says: Weak Catholics become Protestants. Strong Protestants become Catholic. Why did I leave? I was not casually exposed to Roman Catholicism as a child; I was thoroughly formed by it. I was catechized for eight years by the Sisters of Charity, trained to know and recite the Baltimore Catechism, served as an altar boy, and then studied theology for four years in a Jesuit high school. Alongside that formal instruction, I pursued additional study on my own because I was seriously considering the priesthood. By any objective standard, that represents a high level of theological formation for a Roman Catholic teenager. By the time I was eighteen, I did not merely identify as Catholic; I understood the system, its categories, and its claims. Yet beneath that formation, there was a persistent uneasiness I could not resolve. At the center of that uneasiness was the question of assurance. The sacramental system promised grace, but I never felt secure in my standing before God. I knew that if I were to die having committed a mortal sin—even something like intentionally missing Mass—I stood in danger of eternal judgment. That awareness shaped how I thought about God. I was taught that God is loving and that Christ died for us, but functionally I lived as though acceptance depended on my ability to remain in a state of grace. My understanding of purgatory intensified this struggle. In reading Catholic devotional literature, I encountered descriptions of purgatory as a place of intense suffering, sometimes described as more severe than any earthly fire. The implication was clear: even if I died within the Church, I would still need to undergo prolonged purification before I could be fit for the presence of God. That left me with a troubling conclusion: Christ’s work, while necessary, did not seem sufficient to bring me fully into peace with God. While I understood the theology said Christ’s work was finished, I never experienced the peace that should follow from that truth, because there always remained the expectation of further purification before I could stand fully accepted before God. At the same time, I began reading Scripture more seriously, often in informal Bible studies. What struck me was not what I found, but what I did not find. I did not see a clear biblical foundation for purgatory or for the idea that my sins must be further purged through post-mortem suffering. Instead, I encountered repeated emphasis on grace, on the sufficiency of Christ, and on the possibility of real peace with God in the present (Rom 5:1). Yet my lived experience told a different story. The only moments of relief I knew came immediately after confession and penance, and even that peace was temporary. The cycle would begin again: examining my conscience, trying to recall every sin, striving to avoid even inward thoughts I knew were wrong. Outwardly, I was what most would call a “good kid,” but inwardly I was caught in a cycle I could not break. Compounding this was the exclusivity of the system itself. I was taught that salvation was found only within the Roman Catholic Church, and that even attending a Protestant service or Bible study could place my soul in jeopardy. As I studied Scripture, those claims of institutional exclusivity became increasingly difficult to reconcile with what I was reading. The turning point came through something deeply personal. After more than twenty years of marriage and five children, my father obtained an annulment—over the objections of my mother, who had been a faithful wife. I struggled to understand how a sacramental marriage could be declared null after two decades. The explanation was technical and grounded in canon law, but the practical reality was hard to ignore. My father had the knowledge, the connections, and the standing within the Church to make his case successfully. That moment forced me to ask a hard question: if a sacramental marriage could be declared never to have existed after twenty years, what did that say about the system itself and its claims to authority? Taken together, these experiences—my struggle for assurance, my growing conviction about the sufficiency of Christ in Scripture, my questions about purgatory and authority, and the personal crisis within my own family—pushed me to reconsider everything. Over time, I came to rest not in a system, but in Christ himself, trusting that his righteousness is sufficient, and that peace with God is grounded in his finished work rather than my ability to maintain it. But the real question for my Catholic friends on X is not what I understood at eighteen. The real question is this: after four years of formal seminary training—devoted to studying Scripture, theology, and church history at the graduate level—why do I remain Protestant? That question deserves an answer every bit as serious as the stories of those who have gone the other direction after their Protestant seminary experience.

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They won't use the proper terminology but there was an ethnic cleansing in the South.

The great Ian Paisley

@trad_west_ Now do "Trad" Francis lol

>Pope Saint John Paul II >Survived Communist occupation of Poland >Told millions living under Soviet rule: "Be not afraid" >Called out communism >Helped collapse the Soviet Union >Called out unbridled capitalism and consumerism >Called out declining birth rates >Calls out the modern "culture of death" >Called out the Iraq war >Took a bullet from an assassin and survived >Forgave his own attacker face-to-face >Fiercely defended the traditional family >Spoke 12 languages >Declared a Saint by the Church Pope Saint John Paul II was amazing.

Silly Ghetto music aside... it's great to see a classic preaching clip of Paisley included. He was the UK's leading Protestant for many a decade.

@PaulGolding Respectfully you're wrong Paul. Protestantism built Great Britain and if Britain is to be great again she needs to return to the Bible, not the superstitions of Rome or the East.

I'm a Protestant and agree 100%. If Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants ended the infighting, then the Lord will smile down on us. It has to be done to save Christendom. We unite and survive, or we fall separately.

@WVPitt Glad to hear, Praise God!

@NorthBCPastor The very brief version is that the Lord used his sermon "Sixty Minutes to Go" to awaken my soul in the Fall of 2002 while filing financial aid paperwork at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, OH.

I was converted under the preaching of Ian Paisley.

@grailspear @mrs_k_r_ I perhaps misunderstood you. Were you not implying that Ian Paisleys FP Church acted as independent Presbyerians?

I’m new to Presbyterianism so can someone explain to me how you can have an *independant* *presbyterian* church? Isn’t a key feature of being Presbyterian that you have the presbytery? Without that isn’t it just reformed Congregationalism?

@djmaclean1 @WSeminaryUK Is this material availible online or in a book? Thanks

Enjoyed finishing teaching the history of English Presbyterianism @WSeminaryUK this week. Last of three lectures…. origins, decline (x2) and current recovery. Lots of lessons to learn from the past… and lots of hope for the present!