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Livestream - Baptism: Abigail Stair
Acts 8:26-40 recounts the Spirit-orchestrated encounter between Philip and an Ethiopian eunuch, and this exposition traces three movements: the contact, the communication, and the conversion. The sermon grounds the eunuch's inclusion in the covenant community in the fulfilment of Isaiah 56 and Isaiah 53, showing that the dawn of the Messianic kingdom brings eunuchs and Gentiles near through the substitutionary suffering of the Servant of Yahweh. Baptism is expounded as the outward sign of an inward, sovereign work of grace — not the means of salvation but the visible expression of union with Christ in his death and resurrection — and is administered to Abigail Stair following her public profession of faith. The sermon calls every hearer to ask with the eunuch 'What hinders me?' and to look to Christ alone, the silent, suffering Lamb of God, for everlasting life.
Free Grace Baptist Church - June 26, 2016 PM
Matthew 28:18-20, the Great Commission, grounds the church's mission in the sovereign authority, command, and presence of the risen Lord Jesus Christ. The sermon works through three points: the post-resurrection exaltation of Christ as mediator — established by Philippians 2:5-11, Daniel 7:13-14, and Hebrews 1 — demonstrates that all authority given to the ascended Son pertains specifically to his mediatorial office rather than to any deficiency in his eternal deity. The sovereign command to make disciples of all nations, to baptize in the triune name, and to teach obedience to all Christ has commanded establishes the church's mission and the regulative principle of worship against human traditions. Christians are called to confidence and courage in a hostile world on the basis of Christ's abiding promise — 'lo I am with you always, even to the end of the age' — while unbelievers are confronted with the same authority as the ground of coming judgment and the only sufficient ground of saving grace.
Free Grace Baptist Church - June 5, 2016 AM
Matthew 23:23-24 records Christ's fifth woe against the scribes and Pharisees: meticulous in tithing garden herbs, yet negligent of justice, mercy, and faith — the weightier matters of the law. The sermon situates this condemnation within the biblical pattern of covenantal lawsuit, tracing the same triadic demand through Genesis 18, Deuteronomy 10, Hosea 12, Micah 6, and Zechariah 7, showing that Christ speaks precisely as the prophets before him. The qualification is as important as the condemnation: Jesus does not abolish the minor obligations but subordinates them to the greater, insisting both must be kept. The application presses the congregation to examine whether any diligent religious practice — tithing, doctrinal precision, liturgical scruple — is being used consciously or unconsciously to mask the neglect of love to neighbour and faith toward God, and closes with the reminder that neither the majors nor the minors constitute the ground of salvation, which is grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
Free Grace Baptist Church - May 29, 2016 PM
Hebrews 12:1-2 issues a command to run with endurance the race set before believers, and the preacher works through the incentives the apostle supplies for doing so. The sermon focuses on the cloud of witnesses from Hebrews 11, arguing that their function is not to cheer runners on as spectators but to testify — as witnesses — to the faithfulness of God Most High. By surveying Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Rahab, the judges, David, and others, the sermon presses the congregation to internalize the consistent testimony of God's people through redemptive history and to lay aside every weight and besetting sin in order to persevere to the end.
Free Grace Baptist Church - May 29, 2016 AM
Matthew 23:14–22 presents Jesus pronouncing three woes upon the scribes and Pharisees — condemning their exploitation of widows under a pretense of piety, their missionary zeal that produces converts destined for hell, and their casuistic perversion of the oath. Far from being an anomaly in Christ's ministry, these denunciations stand in the prophetic tradition of Isaiah and serve as a direct warning to the contemporary church: religious appearance, evangelistic fervor, and clever theological reasoning are no evidence of saving grace when divorced from a true and plain understanding of God's word and genuine inner righteousness.
Free Grace Baptist Church - May 22, 2016 PM
Colossians 3:12–14 grounds Christian virtue not in moral effort but in the sovereign grace of God — the elect are holy and beloved not because they were found worthy, but so that they might become so. This sermon works through the identity and character of the new man in Christ, showing that tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering, forbearance, and love are not conditions for election but fruits of it. The believer is called to forgive as Christ has forgiven — casting sin into the depths rather than holding it over others — and to put on love as the bond that holds every other virtue together.
Free Grace Baptist Church - May 15, 2016 PM
Scripture commands parents to teach their children the ways of God — not occasionally, but diligently, formally and informally, from morning to night. Drawing on the biblical warrant from Genesis through the New Testament epistles, this sermon traces the family worship mandate across the whole canon: God's covenantal purpose for Abraham in Genesis 18, the Shema of Deuteronomy 6, the example of Joshua, the assumption of the Psalms, the teaching of the Proverbs, Paul's command in Ephesians 6, and the example of Timothy's mother and grandmother. The elements of family worship are then set out in order: commitment to public worship and the sanctification of the Lord's Day come first, followed by the family altar with its singing, prayer, Scripture reading, and the use of creeds and catechisms as tools for forming children in conceptual, confessional faith.
Free Grace Baptist Church - May 1, 2016 PM
The precious blood of Christ as the sole ground of Christian redemption is the focus of this Lord's Supper meditation drawn from 1 Peter 1:18-19. The sermon first establishes the necessary denial — that redemption cannot come through corruptible things such as silver and gold, idolatrous religion, the ceremonial law, or the aimless traditions of the fathers. It then unfolds the proper assertion, showing that the blood of Christ is called 'precious' because of the high value Peter assigns it, the identity of the one who sheds it (the God-man, Christ Jesus), the manner in which it is shed (the cross death), and what it accomplishes (the definite redemption of guilty sinners). Believers are urged to approach the Lord's Supper with cheerful and examined compliance, knowing they congregate on the Lord's Day not out of mere tradition but because the God-man shed his blood for sinners on Calvary.
Free Grace Baptist Church - April 24, 2016 AM
Matthew 7:13–27 closes the Sermon on the Mount with four pressing contrasts — two gates, two trees, two professions, and two builders — each calling hearers not merely to receive information but to act upon the words of Christ. The reading and exposition press the distinction between nominal profession and true faith: those who cry 'Lord, Lord' and point to their own works are cast away, while those who do the Father's will are shown by the rest of Scripture to be those who believe the gospel. The application is direct — to build on sand is to hear Christ's words and refuse them, and the only safe foundation is faith in what Christ has accomplished.
Free Grace Baptist Church - April 10, 2016 PM
Paul's final personal requests in 2 Timothy 4:9–13 reveal the apostle's heart in his last imprisonment: his longing for Christian fellowship, his grief over Demas's love of the present world, his gracious restoration of John Mark, and his practical wisdom in calling for a cloak and books. The sermon presses hearers to value the assembling of the saints, to guard against worldliness, to refuse to hold grudges against those who have stumbled, and to follow Paul's example of tireless gospel strategizing even in the eleventh hour.
Free Grace Baptist Church - April 10, 2016 AM
Matthew 22:41–46 records the final public controversy between Jesus and the religious leaders, in which Christ turns from defendant to questioner and presses the Pharisees with a two-fold inquiry: whose son is the Messiah, and how does David in the Spirit call him Lord in Psalm 110:1? Working through the Hebrew distinction between Yahweh and Adonai, the sermon demonstrates that David's son is simultaneously David's Lord — the hypostatic union in seed form — and that the Pharisees' silence is itself a figurative fulfillment of the very footstool imagery they could not refute. Believers are called to examine whether their confession that Jesus is both Son of David and Son of God issues in whole-souled love, discipleship, and the ordering of all of life under his Lordship.
Free Grace Baptist Church - March 27, 2016 PM
The Davidic covenant of 2 Samuel 7 is not merely an episode in Israel's history but the foundation upon which the kingship of the Lord Jesus Christ rests. God's refusal to let David build a temple is not a rejection but a reversal: before Israel can build a house for God, God himself will build a house — a dynasty — out of David, culminating in the Son who would construct the true temple of God's dwelling. The sermon traces that promise from its initial revelation to Nathan, through its perpetuity secured against death, sin, and time, to its New Testament fulfillment in Christ's resurrection-enthronement at the Father's right hand and his building of the church. Believers are called to recognize their saving interest in this covenant and to read the Old Testament as the unfolding of the glory, majesty, and beauty of Jesus Christ.
Free Grace Baptist Church - March 20, 2016 PM
Hebrews 4:16 invites believers to approach God in prayer with boldness — not a boldness rooted in the fervency or volume of one's own devotion, but a confidence grounded entirely in the finished priestly work of Christ. The sermon works through five headings in the verse: the simple exhortation to come, the christological basis for that coming (the exaltation and sympathy of the great High Priest), the nature of the boldness required, the object of approach (the throne of grace), and the timely mercy and grace promised there. The application presses believers to use prayer as a God-ordained means of grace, especially in seasons of peculiar weakness, assured that their warrant before God is Christ's doing and dying — not the temperature of their own hearts.
Free Grace Baptist Church - March 20, 2016 AM
Galatians 4:4–5 announces that when the appointed fullness of time arrived, God the Father sent forth his eternal Son — not to become his Son, but as his Son — born of a woman and born under the law. The sermon traces the fourfold structure of the text: the timing of the sending (sovereignly predetermined by God), the fact of the sending (the pre-incarnate Son dispatched from the Father), the condition of the sending (the Son assuming human nature and human legal obligations), and the twofold purpose of the sending (redeeming those under law's condemnation and restoring them to adoptive sonship). Against every religion that offers man a path upward to God, Christianity declares that God came down in the person of the incarnate Son to accomplish what no fallen creature could — perfect obedience to the law's precepts and perfect satisfaction of its penalty — and freely bestows that righteousness on all who believe.
Free Grace Baptist Church - March 6, 2016 PM
First Peter 2:21-25 sets forth both the description and the result of Christ's redemptive suffering, read against the backdrop of Isaiah 53. The sermon argues that substitutionary atonement — not mere moral example — is the primary ground of the Christian's freedom from sin's penalty and power, and of the believer's recovery to the Shepherd and Overseer of souls. The observance of the Lord's Supper frames and punctuates the exposition, pressing the congregation to meditate upon imputation, the active obedience of Christ, and the sovereign efficacious grace by which straying sheep are returned to the fold.
Free Grace Baptist Church - February 21, 2016 PM
1 Timothy 1:15 — 'This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners' — is expounded as a self-contained creedal summary of the gospel. The sermon moves through three structural heads: the introduction to the creed (its truthfulness and trustworthiness), the creed itself (the person of Christ, the doctrine of the Incarnation, and the certainty of his saving work), and the demonstrable confirmation of the creed in the conversion of Paul as chief of sinners. Hearers are called to rest their assurance not in inward evidences but solely in the finished, effectual work of Christ Jesus, and unbelievers are urged to receive the only Savior who saves to the uttermost.
Free Grace Baptist Church - February 14, 2016 PM
The Apostle Paul concludes his most confrontational letter with the fullest Trinitarian benediction in the New Testament — the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 13:14). This sermon works through each phrase of that blessing, showing why Paul orders the persons of the Trinity as Son, Father, and Spirit: it is only by the grace of Christ that believers may enter into the love of the Father and receive the communion of the Spirit. The benediction is not a reward for good behaviour but a word of gospel pronounced upon an entire fractious congregation, demonstrating that the life of the church must be grounded not in moral resolve but in the being and acts of the Triune God.
Free Grace Baptist Church - February 14, 2016 AM
The Apostle Paul's charge to Timothy in 2 Timothy 2:1-2 envisions what this sermon calls 'the long crimson line' — a generational chain of gospel ministry stretching from God's eternal purpose, through the apostles, through faithful ministers, and forward to the next generation until Christ returns. The sermon traces a fivefold pattern: from heaven to Paul to Timothy to faithful men to others who will teach, arguing that this chain is entirely the work of God and not of human initiative. Every member of the church is called to participate — through prayer, identification of gifted men, personal encouragement, and financial support — so that faithful men will be raised up to preach the same pattern of sound words to coming generations.
Free Grace Baptist Church - February 7, 2016 AM
John 20:30-31 contains the Gospel of John's own purpose statement: these things were written that readers might believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing they might have life in his name. The sermon examines two realities arising from this statement — first, that God's revelation is deliberate and purposive, disclosing not everything but precisely what is needed for salvation; second, that this revelation is radically Christ-centered, presenting Jesus as the fulfillment of every Old Testament office (prophet, priest, and king) and the sole source of both present spiritual life and eternal life in the age to come. Hearers are called to move from mere doctrinal apprehension to adoration — from theological affirmation to Thomas's confession, 'My Lord and my God' — and those outside of Christ are warned that rejecting so glorious a Savior is the height of human folly.
Free Grace Baptist Church - January 10, 2016 PM
Philippians 3:1–11 presents a threefold encouragement: a charge to rejoice in Christ, a reminder of the spiritual bankruptcy of all fleshly credentials, and a declaration of the surpassing spiritual wealth found in Christ's righteousness alone. The sermon exposes the Judaizing error of mingling works with justification, showing that Paul's own exemplary religious pedigree counted as rubbish when set against the righteousness received through faith in Christ. Justification gives the believer a title to heaven; sanctification, powered by the resurrection, conforms the believer progressively to Christ's image until glorification completes it. The hearer is called to rejoice as a Kingdom citizen, walking in the righteousness not their own that Christ has secured.
Free Grace Baptist Church - January 3, 2016 PM
Zechariah 3:1–10 presents a courtroom vision in which Joshua the high priest stands filthy before the angel of the Lord while Satan presses his accusation — and the Lord silences the accuser not by Joshua's merit but by sovereign election and justifying grace. This sermon expounds the vision under three headings: the cleansing of Joshua, the charge given to Joshua, and the promise concerning the Branch, demonstrating that the removal of filthy garments and the clothing with rich robes is a prophetic picture of the double imputation at the heart of justification by faith alone. The congregation hears this exposition immediately before observing the Lord's Supper, so that the bread and cup are received in conscious awareness that the shed blood of Christ is the sole ground of the pardon and righteousness the vision portrays.
Free Grace Baptist Church - December 27, 2015 PM
What makes the Bible the word of God, and how should that conviction shape the way believers read and live by it? This expository sermon on 2 Timothy 3:16–17 examines three interconnected questions: what Scripture is, where its authority comes from, and why it is indispensable. Working through Paul's claim that 'all Scripture is God-breathed,' the sermon establishes that this includes both Testaments, defends the unique apostolic authority that underwrites the New Testament writings, and argues that the doctrines of inspiration, infallibility, and inerrancy are inseparable. The sermon closes with a call to imitate the psalmist of Psalm 119—hiding the word in the heart, meditating on its precepts, and rejoicing in its testimonies as in great treasure.
Free Grace Baptist Church - December 20, 2015 PM
The Incarnation was not a divine afterthought but the execution of an eternal, intra-Trinitarian covenant — the Covenant of Redemption — in which the Father, Son, and Spirit purposed before the foundation of the world to save a definite number of elect sinners through the mediatorial work of Christ. Drawing on Hebrews 10:5–10, John's Gospel, Isaiah 53, Romans 5, and Ephesians 1, this study traces the biblical warrant for the Covenant of Redemption under three lines of evidence: the relationship between the Father and the Son, the covenantal language used of that relationship, and its pre-temporal foundation in eternity past. The practical import is that the believer's security, justification, and final glorification rest not on human decision but on that eternal transaction in which Christ voluntarily undertook, as a covenant of works on his own account, to obey perfectly and suffer in the place of the elect — earning by active and passive obedience the righteousness imputed to all who believe.
Free Grace Baptist Church - December 20, 2015 AM
John 18:33–40 presents Christ before Pontius Pilate at the moment when the nature and origin of his kingdom become the central issue. The sermon argues that Christ's kingdom is neither derived from nor threatened by earthly political power, but advances exclusively through the truth he bears witness to, and that his subjects are those who hear and obey his voice. The Incarnation is treated not as a seasonal sentiment but as the entry of the eternal Son into the world for the specific purpose of mediating a kingdom that will never end. Hearers are pressed either to receive the truth as it is in Jesus by faith alone or to reckon honestly with what it means to remain under the wrath of God.
Free Grace Baptist Church - December 13, 2015 AM
Luke 2:1–14 presents the birth of Jesus Christ as a fulfillment of prophetic promise, not a sentimental story. This exposition works through three movements: the natal exposition (vv. 1–7), establishing historical veracity, Davidic lineage, and the theological weight of Bethlehem; the angelic proclamation (vv. 8–12), announcing a gospel of great joy to shepherds as a deliberate divine inversion of human expectation; and the doxological exclamation (vv. 13–14), in which the heavenly host sings glory to the triune God and peace to those for whom the Christ was born. The sermon presses the hearer to receive Christ as the only source of true peace — the one born in Bethlehem to bear the curse of God upon the cross and rise victorious for the salvation of guilty sinners.
Free Grace Baptist Church - December 6, 2015 PM
Galatians 4:4-7 sets forth the fullness of redemptive history in compact form: God the Father sends forth his eternally pre-existent Son, born of a woman and born under the law, to redeem those under the law and to secure for them adoption as sons, sealed by the Spirit of the Son. The sermon traces the covenantal framework Paul employs — the obsolescence of the Old Covenant giving way to the New — and argues that each person of the Trinity is distinctly and necessarily involved in the believer's salvation. Believers are called to marvel at divine initiative in redemption, to resist any addition to the finished work of Christ (as the Judaizers demanded circumcision), and to pursue a robust knowledge of the triune God as the very substance of eternal life.
Free Grace Baptist Church - November 29, 2015 PM
Evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, yet the people of God are called not to despair but to persevere in the things they have learned — above all, the Holy Scriptures. Expounding 2 Timothy 3:13–15, this sermon contrasts the downward trajectory of false teachers with the upward call to Timothy: continued faithfulness grounded in the Word of God, which is able to make one wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. The Old Testament is shown to be thoroughly Christ-centred, pointing to one way of salvation in both testaments — by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. Parents are charged to bring their children under the Scripture from childhood, and all believers are urged to persevere through faithful use of the means God has ordained.
Free Grace Baptist Church - November 22, 2015 AM
The cleansing of the temple in Matthew 21:12–13 is not an isolated act of righteous indignation but a deliberate messianic sign rooted in the prophetic expectation of Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Isaiah, and Jeremiah. Christ enters the temple as the covenant Messiah — prophet, king, and coming priest — fulfilling Old Testament prophecy that the Lord would suddenly come to his temple, purging its corruption and announcing the judgment soon to fall on apostate Israel in AD 70. The sermon draws three ecclesiastical applications: the purity of God's worship is the church's primary obligation, the church must pursue faithfulness over popularity, and both hypocrisy and the commercialization of religion are affronts to the living God. Those outside Christ are warned that the same authority by which he cleansed the temple will one day be exercised in final judgment.
Dr. Steven Lawson - "How Blessed is the Man" - November 8, 2015 PM
Psalm 1 sets two paths before every person who enters the house of God: the way of the righteous and the way of the wicked. This exposition moves through the psalm's four movements — the pronouncement of blessing, the prerequisites for blessing, the picture of blessing, and the prohibition of blessing — arguing that the blessedness declared in verse 1 belongs exclusively to those who have been sovereignly transplanted by the new birth and who are sustained by the inexhaustible streams of divine grace. All the blessings of Psalm 1 are mediated through Christ alone: his active obedience supplies the righteousness imputed to the believer, and his atoning death reconciles the sinner to God. Hearers are called to examine whether they are on the narrow way of the righteous or the broad way of the wicked, and to sink their roots deeper into the Word of God as the primary means of sanctifying grace.
Free Grace Baptist Church - November 1, 2015 PM
Acts 7:44–8:4 presents the Christ of Stephen — the Christ that the proto-martyr sees, preaches, and dies gazing upon. Working through five headings drawn from Stephen's speech and vision, the sermon establishes that Christ is the scope of all Scripture, was foretold by the prophets, is perfect in his righteousness (in nature, conduct, and obedience), was betrayed and murdered by determined divine purpose, and is now risen and exalted as both helper and judge. The sermon is delivered as a Lord's Supper meditation, calling believers to a burning remembrance of Christ's substitutionary death and exaltation, and warning unbelievers that the same exalted Son of Man who is joy to his people is dread to all who reject him.