Carryduff Free Presbyterian Church

In 1 Thessalonians 3:9–13, the Apostle Paul prays fervently for the young church he was forced to leave behind in Thessalonica. Longing to return and strengthen their faith, he asks God to cause their love to “increase and abound” toward one another and all people. Yet love’s ultimate purpose is revealed in verse 13: that the Lord would “stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness” before God at...

Every year on the 31st of October, countless Christians across the world pause to remember one of the most momentous events in human history — the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. This anniversary is far more than a historical commemoration. It marks the rediscovery of the true Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ — a truth long obscured by man-made traditions, yet preserved by the Word of God....

Date: SUN 7:00pm 26th October 2025 Preacher: Rev. Derek Erwin Bible Reference: 2 Timothy 3:16-17 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

Date: SUN 11:30am 26th October 2025 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: 1 Thessalonians 3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

Date: MON 8:00pm 20th October 2025 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: Isaiah 17:10-11 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the...

Date: SUN 7:00pm 19th October 2025 Preacher: Rev. Gary Goodes Bible Reference: Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Date: SUN 11:30am 19th October 2025 Preacher: Rev. Gary Goodes Bible Reference: 2 Kings 7:2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

Date: SUN 7:00pm 12th October 2025 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: 2 Kings 4:38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.

Date: SUN 11:30am 12th October 2025 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: 1 Thessalonians 3:8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

Date: SUN 7:00pm 5th October 2025 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: Revelation 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

Date: SUN 11:30am 5th October 2025 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: 1 Thessalonians 3:5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

Date: SUN 7:00pm 28th September 2025 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: Isaiah 38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Date: SUN 11:30am 28th September 2025 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: 1 Thessalonians 2:19-20 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? For ye are our glory and joy.

Join with us to hear Marion Getty’s testimony at Carryduff Free Presbyterian Church on Sunday 21st September at 7pm. Marion’s powerful testimony is a heartfelt account of God’s transformative grace. Saved at 13 through the gospel shared by a Filipino choir, Marion’s life was changed by the cleansing power of Jesus’ blood. Despite challenges—a difficult childhood, the loss of her husband at 23, and...

Date: SUN 11:30am 21st September 2025 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: 1 Thessalonians 2:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.

Date: SUN 7:00pm 14th September 2025 Preacher: Rev. Fred Greenfield Bible Reference: 2 Kings 5:10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.

Date: SUN 11:30am 14th September 2025 Preacher: Rev. Fred Greenfield Bible Reference: Hebrews 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

Date: SUN 7:00pm 7th September 2025 Preacher: Rev. Raymond McLernon Bible Reference: Zechariah 1:5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

Date: SUN 11:30am 7th September 2025 Preacher: Rev. Raymond McLernon Bible Reference: Esther 3:6 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.

Date: SUN 7:00pm 31st August 2025 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: Job 33:24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

Date: SUN 11:30am 31st August 2025 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God,...

Date: SUN 7:00pm 24th August 2025 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: 2 Kings 25:28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;

Date: SUN 11:30am 24th August 2025 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: 1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Date: SUN 7:00pm 17th August 2025 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: Amos 8:1-2 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

Date: SUN 11:30am 17th August 2025 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: 1 Thessalonians 2:11-12 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, -- That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.