Classic Sermons

Well I feel a little guilty describing sermons from the living as 'classic', but it is generally an apt description. I was given a heap of old cassette tapes of old sermons about 12 months ago which I've gone to listen to a few times, but couldn't be bothered getting to the tape player. Rather than throw out I'm choosing to digitise.

There is a mixture of tapes from 'St Matthias Tapes' and the Katooomba Christian Convention with talks by Don Carson, Phillip Jensen and John Chapman.

So far I've listened to a few of Phillip's as they were transferring. I was shocked to notice afterwards that these talks on Ephesians were from 1982. Wow. Could have been written for today. That is one benefit of using fewer 'topical' illustrations, I guess. Plus, it really just shows the way that God's word applies to human existence and if we have that large a view of what God does through his word, then it creates a much broader intention to the message. Knowing God changes everything. And knowing this leads to what I want to call 'big' preaching.

Also I love how preaching is truth through personality. One of Chappo's talks at KCC is titled 'God speaks - what do you make of that?' Classic Chappo.