Author Archives: Jim Mc.

Angels and Demons — New Notes!

We are continuing our study of Systematic Theology and here are the notes for the last three weeks:

Angelology Part 3

Demonology Part 1

Demonology Part 2

I appreciate all the positive feedback.  These appear to be subjects that have piqued the interest of our listeners.  And that’s good.  Anytime God’s word make people sit up and pay attention, that’s a positive thing.  Thanks again.

By Grace Alone — the audio version

Every once in a while, I receive questions about offering “By Grace Alone” as an audio book.  Well, the fact is, we created an audio version of the book several years ago and have offered it as an mp3 CD on the salvationbygrace.org website.

But, since we offer pretty much everything on our website for free, I thought I’d post the audio files here and make them available for anyone who wanted to stream or download them.  This is the whole book, verbatim.

By Grace Alone — Opening and Introduction

By Grace Alone — Chapter One — Total Depravity

By Grace Alone — Chapter Two — Unconditional Election

By Grace Alone — Chapter Three — Limited Atonement

By Grace Alone — Chapter Four — Irresistible Grace

By Grace Alone — Chapter Five — Perseverance of the Saints

Christology Notes – Weeks 12 through 19

Yep. I’m really, really late getting these posted. I am without excuse. I just fell behind. But, now that we’ve wrapped up the Christology series, I wanted to make sure that all the notes were available in the hope that someone finds them helpful in their own studies.

So, here ya’ go!

Christology Weeks 12-14 notes

Christology Week 15 – Jesus Versus Myths

Christology Weeks 15-16 notes – Defending the Resurrection

Christology Weeks 17-18 – Post Resurrection Appearances and the Ascension

Christology Week 19 – The Doctrines of the Death, Burial, Resurrection and Ascension

Defending the Resurrection

For the last few weeks of our midweek Systematic Theology series we’ve been concentrating on the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  This fact of history changes pretty much everything.  If it’s true, then it validates the claims of Christianity.  It it’s a lie, then we are false witnesses, our faith is built on falsehoods, there is no redemption, and we will stand before God with no sacrifice, no advocate, and no hope.  So, it’s a really important subject and we’ve been taking our time looking at the evidence.

The notes for the 12 through 14 are all in a single document, since they are comprised of Bible passages that address the topic of the resurrection.  You can find those notes here:

Christology Weeks 12-14 notes

This week we began by discussing the all-too-common criticism of Christianity that was popularized in the movie Zeitgeist.  The premise of the movie is that the Biblical authors merely borrowed elements of ancient myths in order to construct the Jesus story.  You’ll find the notes for that part of our lesson here:

Jesus Versus Mythology

The balance of the night was devoted to looking at the historic evidences that drive us to the conclusion that Jesus actually did rise from the dead.  The notes I used were culled from an article that resides in the Q&A section of the GCA website.  Here’s the original article:

Proving the Resurrection

And, of course, video of these lessons are all on YouTube, in the SalvationByGraceOrg channel.  Here’s the latest video entry: