Saint’s Rest Reformed Church

David sins, comes to agree with God's law about his sin, and receives the good news of the forgiveness of sins. Preached by Timothy Baird

God sends His anointed Savior-King, who delivers the sinful & helpless in the midst of their unbelief. Preached by Timothy Baird

Jesus asks the Father to sanctify us in Himself unto unity in the church to the glory of His redeeming love. Preached by Timothy Baird

Bearing burdens is a lifelong Christian calling. We find our strength in Christ and His bearing of our burdens as we seek to help our Christian neighbors. Preached by Cameron McQueen

Jesus asks the Father to keep His people through the grace and knowledge of Christ and the unity of the church that proceeds from it. Preached by Timothy Baird

Jesus asks His Father to exalt Him as King of the Universe for us and for our salvation. Preached by Timothy Baird

As His final teaching before His betrayal and crucifixion, Jesus clarifies the gospel and His disciples believe. Preached by Timothy Baird

Jesus foretells the pain the disciples will experience at His death and burial, and the untouchable joy they will have in His resurrection, ascension, and coming and ministry of His Spirit.

The Spirit is at work through the proclamation of law and gospel, even in the midst of the irrational and painful hostility it may bring. Even when that hostility comes from within the church. Preached by Timothy Baird

Paul teaches believers in Rome to exercise Christian liberty with wisdom, honoring both freedom and love through pursuing unity and building one another up in the faith. Preached by Cameron McQueen

Jesus prepares His disciples (and us who believe through their word) for their calling—receiving His love through the testimony of the Spirit, loving one another out of the love we receive, and testifying to His love in a world that often hates and rejects it. Preached by Timothy Baird

The Sabbath had become laden with rules and burdened those that were meant to find their rest in God. Jesus, in the healing of a man at the pools of Bathesda, shows how he is our true Sabbath by completion of the law and all its requirements. He offers us rest in him. Preached by Matthew Bertrand

Christians are profoundly needy before God, and Christ meets those needs to the uttermost in all who draw near to the Father in Him—justifying us in His work for us, sanctifying us by His work in us, and one day making us all that He is in His glorified humanity. Preached by Timothy Baird

Jesus gives His infallibly established peace to His disciples and those who believe through their word. Preached by Timothy Baird

Paul exhorts believers to good works through the Gospel. Preached by Cameron McQueen

The Spirit of Christ abides in us, completing God's redemption by grace through faith. Preached by Timothy Baird

To see and know the Son is to see and know the Father. As the Father does His works in the Son, so the Father and Son are working in and through the church. Preached by Timothy Baird

Jesus announces His departure, shows mercy to stumbling saints, and promises them eternal glory. Preached by Timothy Baird

All the malice of men and hell can only serve to display the glory of God's redeeming love. Preached by Timothy Baird

The Son of God came down from heaven to serve us, and He serves us still. Preached by Timothy Baird

The Blessed Man surveys fallen humanity, gives His verdict and His sentence, and comforts those who take refuge in Him with the good news of His return. Preached by Timothy Baird

Teachers who would found the church's confidence before God on things worked in them or done by them are driven by the concerns of this present evil age; while ministers of the gospel are captivated by God's redeeming love—freely bestowed on us in Christ. Preached by Timothy Baird

Love gently restores the weak and generously cares for the needy in the freedom of Christ. Preached by Timothy Baird

Resist fulfilling the desires of the flesh and yield your earthly members to love in the freedom of Christ. Preached by Timothy Baird

The freedom we're given in Christ should be used for the good purpose of adorning the gospel with works of love. Abusing it by turning it into an occasion for the flesh is always destructive. Preached by Timothy Baird

Paul warns the Galatians not to follow the wolves among them to destruction, but to continue in the faith and hope of the Gospel; bearing the fruit of love. Preached by Timothy Baird

Those who rely on the sufficiency of Christ alone are sons of promise, while those who rely on things worked in them or done by them are sons born unto slavery. As those set free by Christ, we are commanded to stand firm in our freedom and reject any lie that would enslave us. Preached by Timothy Baird

Paul reveals the heart behind his rebukes of the Galatians and contrasts the motives and aims of true shepherds and wolves. Preached by Timothy Baird

Christ has redeemed us from under the law—setting us free from slavery unto adoption as sons. It would be crazy to go back. Preached by Timothy Baird

After showing the law's use to drive sinners to Christ, Paul now proclaims the liberty and communion with God and one another the church has in union with Christ through faith. Preached by Timothy Baird

If Christ and His benefits were always an unconditional promise, why was the law given to Israel? Paul continues correcting the Judaizers' bad covenant theology with the Biblical one; showing the first and greatest use of the law—to reveal our need before God and drive us to rest in Christ alone, by faith alone, for all of salvation. Preached by Timothy Baird

Paul continues correcting the Judaizer's bad covenant theology with the biblical one. This time he establishes the unconditional nature of the promise of Christ and His benefits that God made to Abraham—a promise He sealed with an oath and never subsequently added conditions to. Preached by Timothy Baird

Paul speaks to the Galatians with both the voice of the law, and the voice of the gospel, to pull them back from the temptation to rely on things worked in them, or done by them, as part of the foundation of their peace with God. Preached by Timothy Baird

Paul exposes the bad covenant theology of the Judaizers and equips the Galatian churches with the biblical one. Preached by Timothy Baird

Every saving gift God gives comes by hearing "Christ for you" with faith. Preached by Timothy Baird

Sanctification is a promise; not a burden, and certainly not a threat. We are not progressively sanctified by wrestling our flesh into submission and making it holy—we're progressively sanctified by deepening in gospel faith. Preached by Timothy Baird

Paul responds to the lie that the apostolic gospel makes Christ a minister of sin by demonstrating that the false Christ of those who mix law and gospel is the actual minister of sin. Preached by Timothy Baird

The greatest need a person has is to be declared righteous by God. Unrighteous people are declared righteous in the righteousness of Christ alone, received through faith alone. The church stands or falls on the clarity of this fragile doctrine. It must be clarified, proclaimed, and defended at all costs. Preached by Timothy Baird

Distortions of the gospel by those who seek to found our hope on anything in us or done by us must be resolutely opposed—and the unity of the gospel among the brethren is a wonderful gift from God to that end. Preached by Timothy Baird

Christ cleanses us from dead works through the apostolic gospel. Preached by Timothy Baird

How should we handle teachers who go beyond Christ for us, outside of us, as our only foundation for peace with God? Plug your ears and run! Preached by Timothy Baird

The apostles spoke and acted with God's own authority. Their message to the church is God's message to the church—grace and peace from the Father and the Son. Preached by Timothy Baird

Satan's lie of peace with God apart from Christ alone by faith alone is as old as creation itself—a lie he adapts to the church's understanding in every generation. In this application overview of Galatians, Pastor Timothy seeks to comfort any of us whose faith has been disturbed by modern iterations of this ancient lie. He aims to remind us of the unchanging grace of Christ and put us back to rest in His perfect sufficiency for us, outside of us, received through the empty hand of faith alone. Preached by Timothy Baird

The only foundation for peace with God is the person and work of Christ alone appropriated through faith alone. Preached by Timothy Baird

Topical sermon on how baptism signifies and seals our union with Christ and our participation in all His benefits. It's about God's faithfulness to us, not our faithfulness to Him. Preached by Cameron McQueen

Topical sermon on the Lord's Table as a means of grace in the gathered church. A time for comfort and assurance for humble sinner / saints, not anxiety. Preached by Cameron McQueen

Christ's global, church-shaped, commission consists of planting churches in other places as He gives opportunity and associating with like-minded churches. Preached by Timothy Baird

Christ designs and commissions the local church to serve as an outpost of His kingdom in the midst of this fallen world by proclaiming the forgiveness of sins in Christ, baptizing and teaching disciples, and displaying the power of His gospel through love. Preached by Timothy Baird

Christ pursues the sheep of His flock. Those who wander from the fold through stubborn sin with relentless love and mercy, and He calls His local churches to be an expression, and instrument, of that pursuing love through restorative church discipline. Preached by Timothy Baird

Christ fulfills the purpose for which mankind was created by offering perfect worship to the Father—worship which His church, in union with Him, participates in by the Spirit in the weekly gatherings. Preached by Timothy Baird