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

Well, the 30th session of the Sovereign Grace Bible Conference has come to a close. It was a most enjoyable week.  Over my years of attending this conference, I have formed friendships and bonds of fellowship that will last for the balance of my lifetime. And their willingness to continue putting me in the pulpit is nothing less than grace, grace, grace.

Here is the audio from my message this year.  I called it “Our God Reigns” in keeping with the theme of this year’s conference.  The sound is passible, but you will hear occasional audio glitches.  Somewhere between the wireless mic and the soundboard, syllables disappeared.  But, nothing that will keep you from understanding what’s being said.

Our God Reigns

And thanks to James Guyo for these two photos:

Messages from the entire conference will be available in the days to come, via the main conference website: Sovereign Grace Bible Conference

Anyone who listens to our podcasts has heard me mention Elder D.J. Ward.  He’s one of the men who ordained me and I openly admit that he, more than anyone, demonstrated to me what it means to be a pastor.  I recently mentioned on a Sunday morning podcast that I had been listening to some old audio of Elder preaching and several folk asked if I would share some of that.

I’m happy to oblige.

The two segments I’m sharing today harken back to January 5, 1992.  It was an evening service at Main Street Baptist Church in Lexington, KY.  That evening there was a baptism and the Lord’s Supper.  The whole recording ran about two hours and had a terrible hum and buzz throughout.  So, I did some digital noise suppression to it in an attempt to make it less annoying.  But, because the noise was so loud, that process also suppressed some fo the ambient noise and congregation response.  Still, the end result if quite listenable.

These segmenets are edited, obviously.  Elder occasionally engaged in long pauses.  I shortened some of them for listenability’s sake.  And I removed some of the references and comments that only fit that occasion and timeframe.  But, the essential message — and the power with which he delivered it — is intact.

On the last occasion that I saw Elder alive, we were gathered in Chattanooga for the annual men’s conference.  Elder taught the preachers during the day, seated in a chair, breathing oxygen from a tank, his voice barely above a whisper.  But sometimes he’d forget himself and start preaching with a surprising vigor.  He moved us to tears.  He cajoled us.  He instructed us.  And he made us laugh, forgetting for the moment that our friend and mutual pastor was in his last days.

After he was done, we gathered downstairs at New Home Baptist Church for a fish dinner.  Not supper, mind you.  Dinner.  Elder always made that distinction.  I was seated at his table.  But, before I sat down, I stopped and kissed his head, saying, “You can throw cancer on the man, strap him to an oxygen machine, and make him sit down, but he’ll still out-preach me on my best day.”  He threw his back and laughed.

But, it’s true.

Enjoy.

Some Comments about Baptism

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