Free Grace Baptist Church: Recent Episodes
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Why does understanding who God is matter so deeply to every Christian? In this episode, we explore how the doctrine of God serves as the foundation for everything we believe, trust, and hope in as followers of Christ. 00:07 - Introduction to the doctrine of God 00:42 - The one true religion worships the one true God 02:30 - God-centered living and the Ten Commandments 03:45 - Finding comfort in God's immutable character 05:15 - God's covenants show us His unchanging promises 06:53 - Truth and eternal life through knowing God 08:20 - Salvation as means to enjoying God forever Ask FGBC is a digital ministry providing biblical, pastoral, and confessional answers to real questions submitted by believers, seekers, and those wrestling with assurance. Recorded with Pastor Cameron Porter, Dr Sam Renihan, and Pastor Jim Butler. Recorded April 24, 2025. Submit your own question and see previous topics: https://www.freegrace.ca/ask There is an option to do it anonymously. Videos are available on SermonAudio, Youtube and Facebook. Please like & share on our social media profiles as well to get the word out and distribute further! Church Website: https://www.freegrace.ca
What advice would you give to a young man seeking pastoral ministry? Pastor Cam Porter asks this important question, and the discussion reveals a crucial shift in how we should think about calling to ministry. Chapters: 00:08 - Question: Advice for young men seeking pastoral ministry 00:25 - Problems with "internal call" language 02:45 - Better approach: Aspiration to ministry 04:14 - Subjective vs objective elements in calling Ask FGBC is a digital ministry providing biblical, pastoral, and confessional answers to real questions submitted by believers, seekers, and those wrestling with assurance. Recorded with Pastor Cameron Porter, Dr Sam Renihan, and Pastor Jim Butler. Recorded April 24, 2025. Submit your own question and see previous topics: https://www.freegrace.ca/ask There is an option to do it anonymously. Videos are available on SermonAudio, Youtube and Facebook. Please like & share on our social media profiles as well to get the word out and distribute further! Church Website: https://www.freegrace.ca
Free Grace Baptist Church, Chilliwack, BC Pastor Jim Butler Objections to the Death Penalty (Deuteronomy 5:17) Biblical Objections (Matt 5:38-42, John 8) & Pragmatic Objections
When did you know you were called to preach? This deeply personal question receives honest, practical answers from two pastors who experienced very different paths to ministry - both emphasizing the crucial role of the church's external call working alongside any internal sense of calling. Chapters: 0:07 - Dr. Sam Renihan's gradual call through church service 2:41 - Pastor Jim Butler on internal and external calls working together Ask FGBC is a digital ministry providing biblical, pastoral, and confessional answers to real questions submitted by believers, seekers, and those wrestling with assurance. Recorded with Dr Sam Renihan and Pastor Jim Butler. Recorded April 24, 2025. Submit your own question and see previous topics: https://www.freegrace.ca/ask There is an option to do it anonymously. Videos are available on SermonAudio, Youtube and Facebook. Please like & share on our social media profiles as well to get the word out and distribute further! Church Website: https://www.freegrace.ca
How should Christian men understand their identity and calling in light of Scripture rather than cultural expectations? Our pastors explore the important distinction between being male (objective) and cultural constructs of masculinity, helping viewers understand what the Bible actually teaches about manhood. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction - What is biblical manhood? 00:22 The difference between male and masculine 01:48 Cultural vs. biblical constructs of manhood 03:15 The dominion mandate for all humanity 04:20 Specific male roles: husband, father, church officer 05:45 Decorum and custom vs. biblical commands 07:16 Practical biblical masculinity 08:30 Church culture vs. the gospel 09:54 Historical perspective on imposed masculinity standards Ask FGBC is a digital ministry providing biblical, pastoral, and confessional answers to real questions submitted by believers, seekers, and those wrestling with assurance. Recorded with Pastor Cameron Porter, Dr Sam Renihan, and Pastor Jim Butler. Recorded April 24, 2025. Submit your own question and see previous topics: https://www.freegrace.ca/ask There is an option to do it anonymously. Videos are available on SermonAudio, Youtube and Facebook. Please like & share on our social media profiles as well to get the word out and distribute further! Church Website: https://www.freegrace.ca
How should Christian men understand their identity and calling in light of Scripture rather than cultural expectations? Our pastors explore the important distinction between being male (objective) and cultural constructs of masculinity, helping viewers understand what the Bible actually teaches about manhood. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction - What is biblical manhood? 00:22 The difference between male and masculine 01:48 Cultural vs. biblical constructs of manhood 03:15 The dominion mandate for all humanity 04:20 Specific male roles: husband, father, church officer 05:45 Decorum and custom vs. biblical commands 07:16 Practical biblical masculinity 08:30 Church culture vs. the gospel 09:54 Historical perspective on imposed masculinity standards Ask FGBC is a digital ministry providing biblical, pastoral, and confessional answers to real questions submitted by believers, seekers, and those wrestling with assurance. Recorded with Pastor Cameron Porter, Dr Sam Renihan, and Pastor Jim Butler. Recorded April 24, 2025. Submit your own question and see previous topics: https://www.freegrace.ca/ask There is an option to do it anonymously. Videos are available on SermonAudio, Youtube and Facebook. Please like & share on our social media profiles as well to get the word out and distribute further! Church Website: https://www.freegrace.ca
Expanded Question Do I need to feel a certain depth of sorrow or brokenness to be truly saved? What if I don't cry or feel deep emotional pain—can I still come to Christ? Description Some traditions teach that only intense emotional sorrow qualifies someone to receive Christ. But is that what Scripture teaches? In this episode, Pastor Cam Porter, Pastor Jim Butler, and Dr. Sam Renihan offer biblical and pastoral clarity. They explain why salvation is not about the degree of sorrow you feel but about who you trust. Timestamps 00:00 – Introduction 00:37 – What kind of sorrow is necessary for salvation? 02:45 – Does Scripture require deep misery before conversion? 05:28 – Why some teachings keep people looking at themselves 07:28 – The role of Puritan and revivalist literature 09:16 – Final thoughts and encouragement Ask FGBC is a digital ministry providing biblical, pastoral, and confessional answers to real questions submitted by believers, seekers, and those wrestling with assurance. Recorded with Pastor Cameron Porter, Dr Sam Renihan, and Pastor Jim Butler. Recorded April 24, 2025. Submit your own question and see previous topics: https://www.freegrace.ca/ask There is an option to do it anonymously. Videos are available on SermonAudio, Youtube and Facebook. Please like & share on our social media profiles as well to get the word out and distribute further! Church Website: https://www.freegrace.ca
Was Calvin a fatalist? And does Reformed theology leave people afraid to believe? This episode addresses how some preaching can overstate election and sovereignty to the point of paralyzing faith. But Scripture gives us a better, more biblical picture. Our pastors explore the doctrine of concurrence: how God's eternal decree includes—not excludes—human liberty, responsibility, and the real invitation to trust in Christ. Ask FGBC is a digital ministry providing biblical, pastoral, and confessional answers to real questions submitted by believers, seekers, and those wrestling with assurance. Recorded with Pastor Cameron Porter, Dr Sam Renihan, and Pastor Jim Butler. Recorded April 24, 2025. Submit your question: https://www.freegrace.ca/ask Church Website: https://www.freegrace.ca
Join us for livestreamed services at 11AM & 6PM BST every Sunday. There will also be a Bible study livestreamed at 7:45PM on most Thursdays.
Join us for livestreamed services at 11AM & 6PM BST every Sunday. There will also be a Bible study livestreamed at 7:45PM on most Thursdays.
Join us for livestreamed services at 11AM & 6PM BST every Sunday. There will also be a Bible study livestreamed at 7:45PM on most Thursdays.
Join us for livestreamed services at 11AM & 6PM BST every Sunday. There will also be a Bible study livestreamed at 7:45PM on most Thursdays.
Join us for livestreamed services at 11AM & 6PM BST every Sunday. There will also be a Bible study livestreamed at 7:45PM on most Thursdays.
With Pastor Jim Butler, Pastor Mike Kirkpatrick, and Wim Kerkhoff. Recorded July 4, 2024.Confessing the Faith Conference – April 2024 recordings: https://www.confessingthefaith.ca/2024 Submit your own question and see previous topics: https://www.freegrace.ca/ask-fgbc-anythingThere is an option to do it anonymously. Videos are available on SermonAudio, Youtube and Facebook.Transcripts are available in our blog: https://www.freegrace.ca/blogPlease like & share on our social media profiles as well to get the word out and distribute further!
With Pastor Jim Butler, Pastor Mike Kirkpatrick, and Wim Kerkhoff. Recorded July 4, 2024.Confessing the Faith Conference – April 2024 recordings: https://www.confessingthefaith.ca/2024 Submit your own question and see previous topics: https://www.freegrace.ca/ask-fgbc-anythingThere is an option to do it anonymously. Videos are available on SermonAudio, Youtube and Facebook.Transcripts are available in our blog: https://www.freegrace.ca/blogPlease like & share on our social media profiles as well to get the word out and distribute further!
What is the New Covenant in the Reformed Baptist view? And how does the Reformed Baptist view compare to the dispensationalist view of the New Covenant?With Pastor Jim Butler, Pastor Mike Kirkpatrick, and Wim Kerkhoff. Recorded July 4, 2024.Confessing the Faith Conference – April 2024 recordings: https://www.confessingthefaith.ca/2024 Submit your own question and see previous topics: https://www.freegrace.ca/ask-fgbc-anythingThere is an option to do it anonymously. Videos are available on SermonAudio, Youtube and Facebook.Transcripts are available in our blog: https://www.freegrace.ca/blogPlease like & share on our social media profiles as well to get the word out and distribute further!
Paragraph 1:All saints that are united to Jesus Christ, their head, by his Spirit, and faith, although they are not made thereby one person with him, have fellowship in his graces, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory; and, being united to one another in love, they have communion in each others gifts and graces, and are obliged to the performance of such duties, public and private, in an orderly way, as do conduce to their mutual good, both in the inward and outward man.Paragraph 2:Saints by profession are bound to maintain a holy fellowship and communion in the worship of God, and in performing such other spiritual services as tend to their mutual edification; as also in relieving each other in outward things according to their several abilities, and necessities; which communion, according to the rule of the gospel, though especially to be exercised by them, in the relation wherein they stand, whether in families, or churches, yet, as God offers opportunity, is to be extended to all the household of faith, even all those who in every place call upon the name of the Lord Jesus; nevertheless their communion one with another as saints, does not take away or infringe the title or propriety which each man has in his goods and possessions.
Can you please provide a clear, concise explanation of why we believe in Credo Baptism and not pedo in such a way that it would make sense to a pedo Baptist? (The discussion comes up often and I'd like to just be able to refer this rather than stumble through my own defense) (gear answer to all ages tho)With Pastor Jim Butler, Pastor Mike Kirkpatrick, and Wim Kerkhoff. Recorded July 4, 2024.Confessing the Faith Conference – April 2024 recordings: https://www.confessingthefaith.ca/2024 Submit your own question and see previous topics: https://www.freegrace.ca/ask-fgbc-anythingThere is an option to do it anonymously. Videos are available on SermonAudio, Youtube and Facebook.Transcripts are available in our blog: https://www.freegrace.ca/blogPlease like & share on our social media profiles as well to get the word out and distribute further!
A Reformed Baptist Church in Chilliwack, B.C. Committed to preaching Christ and Him crucified.Pastor Jim Butler.
With Pastor Jim Butler, Pastor Mike Kirkpatrick, and Wim Kerkhoff. Recorded July 4, 2024.Confessing the Faith Conference – April 2024 recordings: https://www.confessingthefaith.ca/2024 Submit your own question and see previous topics: https://www.freegrace.ca/ask-fgbc-anythingThere is an option to do it anonymously. Videos are available on SermonAudio, Youtube and Facebook.Transcripts are available in our blog: https://www.freegrace.ca/blogPlease like & share on our social media profiles as well to get the word out and distribute further!
Should churches observe holy days?Why do Reformed Baptist churches not observe holy days ( holidays) such as Good Friday, Christmas Day, Prayer Day, Thanksgiving Day with a church service ? With Pastor Jim Butler, Pastor Mike Kirkpatrick, and Wim Kerkhoff. Recorded July 4, 2024.Confessing the Faith Conference – April 2024 recordings: https://www.confessingthefaith.ca/2024 Submit your own question and see previous topics: https://www.freegrace.ca/ask-fgbc-anythingThere is an option to do it anonymously. Videos are available on SermonAudio, Youtube and Facebook.Transcripts are available in our blog: https://www.freegrace.ca/blogPlease like & share on our social media profiles as well to get the word out and distribute further!
A Reformed Baptist Church in Chilliwack, B.C. Committed to preaching Christ and Him crucified.Pastor Jim Butler.
A Reformed Baptist Church in Chilliwack, B.C. Committed to preaching Christ and Him crucified.Pastor Jim Butler.
Question #15: The biggest fear I have as a born-again Christian is the fear that my children will not be included in God's grace offering. Growing up Hyper-Calvinist, it was implied that children very rarely can be born again. I know that's not true, but my upbringing makes it hard to rationalize a young person understanding God's grace. How can I, as a parent, not only be a proper steward but also feel confident in my children's belief they are saved?With Dr Richard Barcellos, Dr James Renihan, and Pastor Jim Butler. Recorded April 25, 2024.Confessing the Faith Conference – April 2024 recordings: https://www.confessingthefaith.ca/2024 Submit your own question and see previous topics: https://www.freegrace.ca/ask-fgbc-anythingThere is an option to do it anonymously. Videos are available on SermonAudio, Youtube and Facebook.Transcripts are available in our blog: https://www.freegrace.ca/blogPlease like & share on our social media profiles as well to get the word out and distribute further!
A Reformed Baptist Church in Chilliwack, B.C. Committed to preaching Christ and Him crucified.Pastor Jim Butler.
With Israel very much in the news these days, can you comment on the position of the nation of Israel, with specific reference to the Abrahamic covenant, the land promise, other Old Testament promises in the prophets, the New Covenant, and special promises of national salvation according to Romans 11, and also some inside on the history, pros and cons of replacement theology.With Dr Richard Barcellos, Dr James Renihan, and Pastor Jim Butler. Recorded April 25, 2024.Confessing the Faith Conference – April 2024 recordings: https://www.confessingthefaith.ca/2024 Submit your own question and see previous topics: https://www.freegrace.ca/ask-fgbc-anythingThere is an option to do it anonymously. Videos are available on SermonAudio, Youtube and Facebook.Transcripts are available in our blog: https://www.freegrace.ca/blogPlease like & share on our social media profiles as well to get the word out and distribute further.
Ask FGBC #13: Is there a difference between the temptations that we face and the temptations that out Lord Jesus Christ faced? With Dr Richard Barcellos, Dr James Renihan, and Pastor Jim Butler. Recorded April 25, 2024.Confessing the Faith Conference – April 2024 recordings: https://www.confessingthefaith.ca/2024 Submit your own question and see previous topics: https://www.freegrace.ca/ask-fgbc-anythingThere is an option to do it anonymously. Videos are available on SermonAudio, Youtube and Facebook.Transcripts are available in our blog: https://www.freegrace.ca/blogPlease like & share on our social media profiles as well to get the word out and distribute further.
Question: Can I apply Old Testament promises to my life? Sometimes a verse is meaningful to me, although it seems that I took it out of context (for example Jeremiah 29:11-13). With Dr Richard Barcellos, Dr James Renihan, and Pastor Jim Butler. Recorded April 25, 2024.Confessing the Faith Conference – April 2024 recordings: https://www.confessingthefaith.ca/2024 Submit your own question and see previous topics: https://www.freegrace.ca/ask-fgbc-anythingThere is an option to do it anonymously. Videos are available on SermonAudio, Youtube and Facebook.Transcripts are available in our blog: https://www.freegrace.ca/blogPlease like & share on our social media profiles as well to get the word out and distribute further.
Join us for an enlightening hour as our pastor Cam Porter explores Chapter 25 of the Second London Baptist Confession, focusing on God's timeless design for marriage. This teaching delves into the biblical foundations of matrimony, highlighting its divine purpose and covenant nature. Whether you're married, engaged, or single, you'll gain valuable insights to enrich your understanding of relationships and faith. Don't miss this opportunity to align your view of marriage with Scripture and discover how this 17th-century wisdom speaks powerfully to our modern lives. Listen now and deepen your grasp of God's beautiful plan for marriage!
The Reconnaissance of the Land, Numbers 13.The 10 spies mimic satan in the Garden: "Has God really said ___ ?"Caleb and Joshua: "Let us go up AT ONCE and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it!"
2LCF Chapter 22, Paragraph 1:The light of nature shews that there is a God, who hath lordship and sovereignty over all; is just, good anddoth good unto all; and is therefore to be feared, loved, praised, called upon, trusted in, and served, with all the heartand all the soul, and with all the might. But the acceptable way of worshipping the true God, is instituted by himself,and so limited by his own revealed will, that he may not be worshipped according to the imagination and devices ofmen, nor the suggestions of Satan, under any visible representations, or any other way not prescribed in the HolyScriptures.https://www.grbc.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/The-1689-Baptist-Confession-of-Faith.pdfhttps://www.the1689confession.com/1689/chapter-22
This message was preached at a baptismal service. A link to the full service video may be found below.--https---www.youtube.com-watch--v-IYQhHEALbNI
Transcribed excerpt from Sunday School session on Chapter 3, Of God's Decree, October 24th, 2021. Speaking on God's sovereignty and man's responsibility, from Acts chapter 2. Pastor Jim Butler.-Full recording - https---www.sermonaudio.com-sermoninfo.asp-SID-1024211739213514
10 minute introduction to Covenant Theology from a Reformed Baptist perspective, touching on paedobaptism, eschatology, and dispensationalism. --Clip taken from Sunday School Study of Chapter 7 -Covenant Theology- from the Second London Baptist Confession.--https---www.sermonaudio.com-sermoninfo.asp-SID-142225601066
- The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience to him as their creator, yet they could never have attained the reward of life but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant. - Luke 17-10- Job 35-7,8 ---2. Moreover, man having brought himself under the curse of the law by his fall, it pleased the Lord to make a covenant of grace, wherein he freely offereth unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them faith in him, that they may be saved- and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto eternal life, his Holy Spirit, to make them willing and able to believe. - Genesis 2-17- Galatians 3-10- Romans 3-20, 21- Romans 8-3- Mark 16-15, 16- John 3-16- Ezekiel 36-26, 27- John 6-44, 45- Psalms 110-3 ---3. This covenant is revealed in the gospel- first of all to Adam in the promise of salvation by the seed of the woman, and afterwards by farther steps, until the full discovery thereof was completed in the New Testament- and it is founded in that eternal covenant transaction that was between the Father and the Son about the redemption of the elect- and it is alone by the grace of this covenant that all the posterity of fallen Adam that ever were saved did obtain life and blessed immortality, man being now utterly incapable of acceptance with God upon those terms on which Adam stood in his state of innocency. - Genesis 3-15- Hebrews 1-1- 2 Timothy 1-9- Titus 1-2- Hebrews 11-6, 13- Romans 4-1, 2, -c.- Acts 4-12- John 8-56 -
Excerpt taken from Dec 19, 2021 sermon by pastor Jim Butler on Isaiah 9-6-7, -The Promise of the Coming King-.--Full sermon- https---www.sermonaudio.com-sermoninfo.asp-SID-1219212037465375
What is the Chief End of Man-----The Chief End of Man is to Glorify God and to Enjoy Him Forever.