Over the last few months I’ve been putting up sermons that I’ve found instructive or particularly good.  This has been a good process, but not everything I listen to can be posted easily due to copyright rules and password protected downloads (did you know that several years of Shepherds conference MP3′s are freely available for download?).

Fortunately there is another site out there doing this task for me which I’ll gladly refer you to instead.  The site is at http://faithbyhearing.wordpress.com.  It has a host of listening resources that cover both a wide range of topics and from what I can see a huge volume of quality resources.

Rather than continuing to post sermons here every week, I commend this site to you and suggest that you subscribe to their RSS feed and pull down the sermons from there.

I will put sermons up under the same category, but I’ll do it less regularly and focus on the best sermons that simply must be listened to.

Load up your MP3 player and enjoy!

A few months ago, I posted on R. C. Sprouls "The Holiness of God", and given this week I'm going to link to it while talking about the Holiness of God, I thought I'd also put his sermon on the Holiness of Christ up here.

In this sermon Sproul takes the transfiguration of Christ in Matthew 17 and examines what we learn about the holiness of Christ from that incident.

Click here to download free from the Sovereign Grace store or use the control below to listen.

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This excellent sermon by C J Mahaney from the New Attitude 2008 conference in April this year is an excellent sermon that is useful in terms of helping think through bot difficulties and spiritual depression (regardless of whether that spiritual depression comes from the trials or difficulties of circumstances or otherwise).

The prime message from this sermon is that we should stop listening to our souls and start talking to our souls.  What that means is that we follow or listen to our feelings far too much and this leads us to self-pity and other self-centred sin.  Instead, we should remind ourselves and tell ourselves of the grace of God, the power and sufficiency of God.

If you are at all subject to following your feelings, you need to listen to this sermon.  If you are not subject to your feelings, check your pulse.

Download it here or listen via the control below.

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This lecture is part four of four continuing Daniel Wallace's lectures on the history of the English Bible covering the period of the RV through to today and asking the question "Why do we have/need so many translations" as well as giving some useful thinking on how to select a Bible translation.

Hopefully you will have found this series as useful as I did and have a solid understanding of the benefits of various translations and a glimpse into the history of Christians of the past who have been put to death for simply wanting to get the Bible into the hands of the people.

Click here to listen (sorry .wma only) or go here to download the Real Audio version

This lecture is part three of four continuing Daniel Wallace’s lectures on the history of the English Bible covering the period of the King James Bible through to the Revised Version.

Click here to listen (sorry .wma only) or go here to download the Real Audio version

This lecture is part two of four continuing Daniel Wallace’s lectures on the history of the English Bible covering the period of the King James Bible.

Click here to listen (sorry .wma only) or go here to download the Real Audio version

It is well worth knowing more about church history that you currently know.  You can never know enough about the history of the church – in history you'll see how great men and women of old worked out their salvation with fear and trembling and the results of this working many centuries later.

For example, the fact that we have a Bible in English at all is something of an extraordinary story of men who put their lives on the line (and often lost their lives) in the face of fierce opposition from the religious elite of the day. 

Over the next few weeks I'm going to post a series of lectures by Daniel Wallace that explore something of the history of the English Bible from the 15th century to modern day.

In this first lecture Dr Wallace explains where it all started – who were the men that had the passion to put the word of God into the hands of the ordinary man, why did they think it was so important and what opposition did they face?

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This is not a single sermon but a series.  I listened to it a couple of weeks ago.

What I liked about this series is that it is a series on evangelism that treats the role of apologetics well.

Carson sees apologetics as a way to engage the people, but emphasises that it is not enough to simply do apologetics, we must get to the message too.

This series has altered the way I view apologetics.  I can now see how it is useful to engage people with apologetics, however, I whole heartedly agree with Dr Carson when we says that we must get to the message of the gospel and not stay in apologetics. 

People don’t get saved by science, people are saved by the gospel

for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes (Rom 1:16)

I thoroughly recommend that you listen to this entire series.  I believe it was given a few years ago at a conference of some sort (not sure of the details).

The sessions are below:

Postmodernism and biblical illiteracy
First Steps toward regrouping
Worldview Evangelism
Apostolic Evangelism of Biblical illiterates
Faith in the cross of Christ

I also shared this with a good friend who is an avid apologist who agreed that this is a good series.

This sermon is part four in a six part series called “Thinking and feeling with God” by John Piper.  The whole series is really good, but I found this sermon particularly good.

The sermon was preached on Fathers day in the US on the 15th of June and with this in mind, it had some really useful content that helped me think about being a better father.

In particular were the three reasons for blessing the Lord – and this was intended for fathers to let their children hear them blessing the Lord in these three ways:

1) Bless the Lord for His sovereignty – that we are dependant on Him for everything we have

2) Bless the Lord for His righteousness – that He rules in spite of mans sin and the dominate place sin has in our world – He will ultimately judge all

3) Bless the Lord for His Mercy – He has saved us and this should be something that impacts us.  We should be moved by the gospel and our children should see this.

This last point is something I’ve often wondered about.  How is it that so many kids grow up in church and then lead wishy washy lives and Christ doesn’t seem to mean anything to them?  I believe it is because we do a poor job of communicating the significance of the work of Christ in our own lives. This is a good sermon.  Recommended.

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