Welcome to Heritage Sermons
Heritage Sermons is an online repository for the ministry of Strict Baptist ministers. The aim is to preserve the many old recordings of Strict Baptist ministers and disseminate them to another generation. We desire that the Lord’s blessing might yet rest upon the ministry – for the Word will not be without profit before the Lord.
The repository is a work in progress with fresh material being added very regularly. If you have old cassette tapes, reel-to-reel recordings lying around or sermons already digitized which you would like to donate to the project, please do get in touch at heritagesermons@gmail.com.
We have two simple rules for inclusion of sermons in this repository:
- The sermon must have been preached by a minister who was a member of a Gospel Standard listed church OR preached in a Gospel Standard listed chapel.
- We are only publishing the ministry of ministers who have passed away.
Views of the ministers regarding recorded sermons
The Trustees acknowledge that some ministers may not have approved of having their sermons recorded. Nevertheless some sermons of these ministers exist. The reasons for this will be various and open to conjecture. In some cases there may even be conflicting accounts of how the recording came into being. The trustees take the view that the very existence of these sermons is subject to the Lord’s will and that He can make their content profitable to hearers today. We will therefore publish sermons sent to us in good faith that they were recorded with permission, unless direct evidence can be provided to the contrary.
Requests to remove sermons
We have no desire to cause hurt or upset. Where somebody with a legitimate interest in the published sermons asks for them to be removed, we are willing to take their request into consideration. We regard a legitimate interest as being from:
(1) the wife or, in her absence, children and siblings, then other direct descendants;
(2) the church which sanctioned the minister to preach or of which he was a member when the sermon in question was preached;
(3) the church to which the sermon was originally addressed.
We will consider any request to remove a sermon which a hearer believes is contrary to the Gospel Standard articles of faith, or is in contradiction to the Word of God. We do not wish to make any man an ‘offender for a word’, and a man’s ministry must be judged as a whole, but we realise that from time to time fallible men make statements which are not supported by the Word of God and, had they realised this, they would probably have preferred such statements not to have been perpetuated.
Contemporary recordings
Heritage Sermons does not commission or even encourage the recording of contemporary ministry. We only preserve recordings donated by churches or individuals.
Use of the recordings on Heritage Sermons
The trustees do not advocate listening to the sermons on the website to be a substitute for attending upon a living ministry. The trustees believe that all should seek first a living ministry in the physical gathering of ourselves together to hear the word preached (Hebrews 10:25). Where physical gathering is not possible, or as a supplement to regular gathering in the Lord’s house, we hope these recordings may prove to be a blessing to the Lord’s people. The sermons in our collection were recorded in the public worship of God and we would ask for them to be listened to in a way which respects this fact.
In the past the Gospel Standard magazine has warned against the playing of recordings in public worship. We would not quarrel with the warning given.
History
The collection was originally started by the late Jonathan Morgan who collected a vast collection of sermon recordings, obtaining permission at the time from the ministers and chapels involved for the inclusion of these sermons in a lending archive which he then envisaged.
Copyright
We do not wish to infringe copyright in any way. Please contact us if you have an issue with sermons included on this site.
Quality
Many of the recordings included in this collection are over 30 years old. Recording quality is variable. Please bear this in mind when listening to the sermons.
Donations
This project does have hidden costs – both in terms of ongoing digitalisation and the running of this website. If you feel able to contribute financially to this work, please use the contact form to speak to us about this. We hope eventually to set up a facility for direct donations.
Contact
Heritage Sermons
Registered address:
14 Linhay Close
Honiton
EX14 2BJ
Heritage Sermons is a charity registered in England and Wales with the registration number: 1195136
You can contact us here: heritagesermons@gmail.com
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