(1) About the CPRC
Welcome to the website of the Covenant Protestant Reformed Church (CPRC),
Ballymena, Northern Ireland! We are a congregation of Reformed believers affiliated with the
Protestant Reformed Churches
in the U.S. and Canada.
We bear a clear and distinctive witness to the biblical and Reformed
faith as summarized in the
Belgic
Confession, the Heidelberg
Catechism and the
Canons of Dordt—our official
creeds. We believe in the glorious doctrine of God's sovereign, unconditional and
particular grace, in the tradition of
Augustine,
Wycliffe and
the Reformers, such as
Luther,
Calvin and Knox.
In our day of apostasy and compromise, we and our children confess God's truth and worship Him according to His Word through
Jesus Christ our Lord. "Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised"
(Ps. 48:1)!
We hold two worship services
on the Lord's Day, various catechism classes and
special lectures, as well as two mid-week Bible
Studies
from September to May. We also deliver speeches in Limerick, S. Wales and
elsewhere.
Visitors are always welcome!
On 30
July 2010, the CPRC ordained Rev.
Martyn McGeown as our missionary to Limerick working with the Limerick
Reformed Fellowship.
We have erected, and are worshipping in, a new church
building at 83 Clarence Street in Ballymena (dedicated 5 August 2010).
(2) About the CPRC Website
The CPRC website presents our Reformed and
ecumenical creeds and a brief summary of
our beliefs on its Faith page. It provides details and maps
of our various meetings in Ballymena (Services)
and our lectures in South Wales (S. Wales) and our
missionary work in Limerick.
Our website contains many written resources on
biblical, theological and church-historical subjects. The CR
News
page has about 200 short pieces. (Contact us if you would like to receive the Covenant
Reformed News free each month by e-mail [or post if in the British
Isles] in English or by
e-mail in Italian or German.) There are about 170 items on the Articles
page, ranging from a few paragraphs to many chapters, on such subjects as
sovereign grace, God's covenant, the apocrypha and the image of God in man. Over three dozen Quotes
cover "free will," lay preaching and the duty of pastors, etc. Almost all
of the 120 or so free Pamphlets can also be
read on-line.
The Audio section has some 1,000 sermons, speeches, interviews, debates, etc., including a special series on
Romans 9, "The Most Avoided Chapter in the
Bible." New additions are being made
weekly. Usually, the "Notes" on the Audio
page contain the Lord's Day CPRC bulletin. Do let us know if you would like to
receive our weekly bulletin free by e-mail. (We also have 4 audio-visual debates—on
Calvinism,
Cessationism, Psalm-singing
and "The
Passion of The Christ"—and over a hundred sermons and lectures which can be watched on-line on our offsite CPRC
YouTube website.)
The Radio
section includes the schedule for upcoming Reformed Witness Hour broadcasts on
Radio North (846 AM or MW) from near Londonderry.
The CPRC is the main distributor for Reformed Free
Publishing Association (RFPA) books in the UK and Europe. Dozens of their
titles and some from other publishers (in total about 120) are for sale on our Books
page. Over 20 of the books can be read on-line.
Sermon tapes, CDs and DVDs (Audio) plus free Pamphlets can also be ordered
on-line.
To
facilitate study of specific subjects, we have created a special Resources
page. From there one may access various pages which draw together
articles, audios, books, Covenant Reformed News, pamphlets,
quotes, etc., that deal with a particular topic (e.g., Assurance,
Calvin,
Calvinism, Cessationism,
Christian Education &
Child-Rearing, Church, Church
Government, Church Office
& Feminism, Civil
Government, Covenant
& Baptism, Creation, Eschatology,
God's Effectual Saving Desire,
Irresistible Grace, Israel,
Justification, Lord's
Day, Marriage, Missions,
Prayer, Psalm-singing, Reformation,
Revivalism, Scripture,
"The
Passion of The Christ," Trinity,
and Uncommon
Grace).
At various places on the CPRC website, there are
links to translations of the Reformed and ecumenical creeds, pamphlets, articles, extracts
from books, quotes, etc. We have about 1,500 articles and creeds in 112 foreign
tongues (from Afrikaans to Zulu)
on our Languages page. The Italian
and Portuguese translations
have grown so much (about 400 items each) that we now have separate
pages for these two languages. If you are able to assist us by
locating on-line any of
the ecumenical creeds (Apostles', Nicene, Chalcedonian
or Athanasian) or the Three Forms of Unity (Belgic
Confession, Heidelberg Catechism or Canons of Dordt) in
any language in which we do not already have them, please contact us. Or perhaps you
are interested in spreading the truth of our Lord Jesus Christ around
the world by translating materials from our website. Are there, for
example, any of our pamphlets that you would love your fellow
countrymen to read in their mother tongue? We post free books to
willing and capable volunteers! Do let us know.
The Search page contains a search engine for
locating material on our expanding website—now
containing some 5,000 pages of text, besides audio files. We also provide Links to various Protestant Reformed
websites, the Limerick Reformed Fellowship and the
British Reformed Fellowship (BRF) which
contains fine
articles and audios.
We greatly appreciate comments and corrections to our
website. What did you find helpful? Any constructive criticisms? We would love to hear from
you. Please feel free to contact us:
Rev.
Angus Stewart
7
Lislunnan Road
Kells,
Ballymena
Co. Antrim
BT42
3NR
Northern
Ireland
pastor@cprc.co.uk
(028)
25 891851
