The BPFC Teaching Ministry
The BPFC Teaching Ministry brings you weekly preaching from Bootle Protestant Free Church in Merseyside. Each Monday we release the latest Sunday sermon — Christ‑centred, Scripture‑focused, and rooted in the historic Reformed faith. Under the banner “For Christ’s Crown and Covenant,” our preaching seeks to exalt Christ, explain the Bible clearly, and strengthen believers in their daily walk. Whether you’re catching up on a missed service, exploring Reformed teaching, or looking for faithful Bible preaching, this podcast provides a steady, pastoral voice grounded in God’s Word.
Episodes
30 episodes
Galatians 6:1–18 — Fulfilling the Law of Christ & Paul’s Benediction
In this full‑chapter sermon from Galatians 6:1–18, Pastor Ian Thompson explores what it means to live a Spirit‑shaped life and to fulfil the law of Christ. Paul closes his letter with deep pastoral concern, calling believers to re...
True Christian Liberty – Galatians 5:13–26
In this sermon from BPFC Teaching Ministry, Pastor Ian Thompson explores Paul’s teaching on true Christian liberty in Galatians 5:13–26. Drawing directly from the text, he shows that liberty in Christ is not the freedom to do as...
For Freedom Christ Has Made Us Free — Galatians 5:1–12
Pastor Ian Thompson teaches Galatians 5:1–12, a powerful passage where the Apostle Paul sounds the alarm against legalism and calls believers to stand firm in the freedom Christ has purchased. This episode explores why “Christ plus anything” de...
Galatians 4:21–31 — The Allegory of Abraham: Children of the Freewoman
In this episode we continue our journey through Paul’s letter to the Galatians, exploring one of the most profound and misunderstood passages in the New Testament — the allegory of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar.Paul pleads with the ...
Galatians 4:12–20 | Paul’s Pastoral Plea to a Wounded Church
Paul’s words in Galatians 4:12–20 reveal one of the most personal and tender moments in all his letters. In this episode, Pastor Ian explores Paul’s pastoral heart — a heart that pleads, remembers, warns, and labours for Christ to be formed in ...
Do Not Return to Bondage — Adopted as Sons and Daughters (Galatians 4)
Pastor Ian Thompson — Bootle Protestant Free ChurchGalatians 4 calls believers to remember who they truly are in Christ: not slaves, not servants, but adopted sons and daughters of the living God. In this sermon, Pastor Ian Thomps...
The Function of the Law – Galatians 3:19–29
Description: In this sermon, Pastor Ian Thompson continues our journey through Paul’s letter to the Galatians, exploring one of the most urgent and clarifying passages in the epistle. Paul asks the foundational question: “Wh...
Receiving the Spirit by Faith — Galatians 3:1–18
In this sermon, Pastor Ian Thompson opens one of the most hard‑hitting sections of Paul’s letter to the Galatians. Galatians 3:1–18 forms the doctrinal heart of the epistle, confronting the church with a choice that still shapes Christian life ...
Paul’s Opposition to Peter — Standing Firm for the Gospel (Galatians 2:11–21)
Pastor Ian ThompsonIn this Teaching Ministry episode, we explore Paul’s public opposition to Peter in Galatians 2:11–21 — not as a personal conflict, but as a courageous defence of the Gospel of grace. Peter’s moment of i...
Galatians 2:1–10 – The Gospel That Cannot Be Compromised
Pastor Ian Thompson continues the Galatians series with a clear and pastoral exposition of Galatians 2:1–10. In this passage Paul travels to Jerusalem “by revelation,” bringing Barnabas and Titus with him, to ensure that the unity of the church...
Paul’s Authority of Divine Origin — Galatians 1:11–24
Pastor Ian Thompson — Bootle Protestant Free ChurchIn Galatians 1:11–24, Paul defends the divine origin of the gospel he preached — a message not received from men, not shaped by tradition, and not adjusted to culture, but given d...
No Other Gospel: Christ Alone (Galatians 1:1–10)
Pastor Ian ThompsonPaul’s opening words to the Galatians carry urgency, clarity, and deep pastoral concern. In this sermon, we begin our new series by exploring why Paul wrote this “rescue letter” — a defence of the true Gospel ag...
Paul’s Broken Heart: Why Galatians Was Written in Tears
Pastor Ian ThompsonGalatians is often treated as a sharp theological argument, but this sermon reveals its deeper heartbeat: the cry of a spiritual father watching his children drift from the gospel he first delivered to them. Dra...
A Call to Fight the Good Fight: Faith, Warfare, and Walking With God
Visiting Speaker: Tom GreigThis week’s BPFC Teaching features a visiting preacher delivering a stirring message on the spiritual fight every believer is called into. Drawing from Exodus 13:17–22 and 1 Timo...
Faithfulness and Remembrance: The Battle of the Somme and Joshua 22
Pastor Ian Thompson reflects on the Battle of the Somme through the lens of Joshua 22:1–5, drawing together themes of loyalty, sacrifice, fraternity, and Protestant faith.On the 1st of July 1916, thousands of young men step...
Peter, Paul, and the God Who Has No Second‑Class Children
Speaker: Pastor Ian ThompsonIn this teaching message, Pastor Ian explores the lives of Peter and Paul — two very different men, two very different personalities, yet one Lord and one gospel. Some believers feel impul...
The New Covenant: Grace, Spirit, and the God Who Makes All Things New
Pastor Ian ThompsonIn this sermon, we reach the final and greatest of God’s covenants — the New Covenant promised by the prophets, fulfilled by Christ, sealed at the cross, confirmed in the resurrection, and poured out at Pentecos...
The Davidic Covenant: Kingship, Collapse, and the Promise Fulfilled in Christ
Pastor Ian Thompson continues our covenant series with a deep exploration of the Davidic Covenant in 2 Samuel 7:8–16 — God’s promise to establish the throne of David forever.In this sermon we trace David’s journey from shep...
The Priestly Covenant: Zeal, Holiness, and the God Who Provides a Mediator
In this sermon, Pastor Ian Thompson continues the covenant series by exploring the often‑forgotten Priestly Covenant made with Phinehas in Numbers 25. Israel stood on the edge of the Promised Land, yet their nearness to blessing did not ...
A Protestant Calling: Witness, Liberty, and the Gospel
Pastor Ian ThompsonIn this sermon, preached to the Orange Institution in April 2026, Pastor Ian reflects on what it truly means to be protestantis — a people who give witness. With Scripture in one hand and history in the...
The Relief of Derry — God’s Providence, Perseverance, and Protestant Witness
Pastor Ian Thompson Bootle Protestant Free Church — BPFC Sermon PodcastThe Relief of Derry (1689) stands as one of the defining moments in the Protestant story — a testimony to God’s providence, steadfast...
Maker of Heaven and Earth — The Nicene Creed and the God Who Creates
In this third episode of our Nicene Creed series, Pastor Ian Thompson continues exploring the Creed’s opening declarations by focusing on the phrase: “Maker of heaven and earth.” Building on the foundation laid in Genesis 1, this sermon ...
We Believe in One God the Father Almighty — The Nicene Creed and Genesis 1
In this second episode of our Nicene Creed series, Pastor Ian Thompson explores the opening declaration of the Creed: “We believe in one God, the Father Almighty.” Rooted in the reading from Genesis 1, this sermon shows how the Bi...
The Nicene Creed: An Introduction to the Foundations of Christian Faith
In this opening message of Series 2, Pastor Ian Thompson introduces the Nicene Creed, the historic confession first established in AD 325 and treasured across the Reformed tradition as a faithful summary of essential Christian belief.
The Malefactor and the Martyr: A Testimony of Grace | Luke 23 & Acts 7 | BPFC Sermons
Pastor Ian Thompson — Bootle Protestant Free ChurchIn this sermon, Pastor Ian Thompson reflects on the transforming power of God’s grace by contrasting two striking biblical figures: the malefactor on the cross in Luke 23 a...