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What About Tithing? Part 2

In this second video, Pastor Jim McClarty addresses some of the common defenses of the tithing position. You can download his book “A Guide to New Covenant Giving” (or listen to it) here.

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What About Tithing? Part 1

Is it necessary to for the New Testament / New Covenant Christian to systematically give at least ten percent of their income to the church in order to receive blessings from God and avoid a curse? That’s the topic that Pastor Jim McClarty addresses in this series of videos. You can download his book “A...

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The Indicative and the Imperative

Christians do good works. But, do those works lead to salvation? Or, are our good works the result of our salvation? That’s the topic of this video from Pastor Jim McClarty.

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What Is the Gospel?

In response to several requests, Pastor Jim McClarty presents an overview of the gospel message, explaining the key concepts and fundamental precepts of salvation in Jesus Christ.

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Thinking About Free Will

Jim McClarty thinks through a few implications of the notion of free will. Here’s the link mentioned at the end of the video.

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How People Get Saved

Pastor Jim McClarty discusses what the Bible actually says about how people are saved. Along the way he contrasts synergism and monergism, points out the power of facts, and reviews some of the pertinent texts concerning salvation.

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Believing in Sovereign Grace

Pastor Jim McClarty explains why he is convinced of, and committed to, the theology of Sovereign Grace — also known as Reformed Theology or Calvinism — and provides a bit of background on how he came to understand and embrace it.

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Why Am I a Calvinist?

Last year I was asked to submit a bit of video explaining how I had come to embrace Reformed Theology to be included in a series of videos by various YouTube Calvinists. I was happy to comply. And recently I found that bit of video on my hard drive, so I decided to throw some...

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Opinions

Several folk have asked that we isolate this portion of a recent lesson in Systematic Theology and present it as a stand-alone video. We’re happy to comply. 🙂

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The Puppet Argument

One of the most popular anti-Reformed arguments out there … the puppet argument.