Sermons
In a column in The Christian Century, Rev. John Buchanan of Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church once observed that it is remarkable that so many people still show up every Sunday with a willingness to sit through another sermon. Few forms of speech have been more derided or caricatured over the years. Yet each week the people come. They are hungry.
Preachers are hungry, too, but an occupational hazard is that you typically hear only your own sermons. But it's inspirational to hear or read the messages of others from time to time. So the Center for Excellence in Preaching provides links to the sermons of others in the hope that reading such messages may bless you even as they stock your homiletical larder with new approaches, illustrations, and ideas.
Someone recently asked a well-known American preacher why he never copyrighted his sermons before putting them onto the Internet. "Because we preachers are all in this together," he replied. "If we can't borrow from and so help each other, then something has gone wrong in the wider community of faith." It is our hope that these sermons will prove to be fonts of spiritual enrichment for you but also, at the same time, fonts of new ideas for your own preaching!
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